WWI soldier identified after 2 decades of anonymity, thanks to forensics

A forensic scientist, Jay Silverstein, had reopened the case in honor of the 100-year anniversary of World War I.

A forensics team was finally able to verify the identity of an unknown WWI soldier, so he could finally be sent home and buried, one hundred years later.

Cross referencing military maps clarified which regiments were around the location of the bodies, so the team could continue narrowing down the list of possibilities, as perThe soldier’s uniform provided additional clues, though not a name, most notably two buttons that correlated to his Washington State National Guard membership and a medal for his service in Mexico in 1916.

One profile matched, Pfc Charles McAllister, as he also had a unique dental structure that had been duly noted.After collecting a mitochondrial DNA sample from a great-niece and a nuclear Y-chromosome DNA sample from a male relative, the forensic team found that the maternal and paternal genes matched the unidentified soldier’s DNA.

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