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The 41-year-old man from Kamloops was reported missing by his family decades ago after last being spotted in Metro Vancouver.

January 28, 2021 - 1:34 PM KAMLOOPS, B.C. - RCMP say they've identified the remains of a man who went missing more than 50 years ago thanks to DNA profiling technology. Mounties say in a news release the 41-year-old man from Kamloops, B.C., was reported missing by his family in 1967 after last being spotted in Metro Vancouver. In 1972, human remains were discovered on a Saturna Island beach but the body couldn't be identified until the remains were exhumed from a Salt Spring Island grave last September. RCMP say that after a lengthy process performed at a lab, a DNA profile o...

Image Credit: TWITTER/B.C. Coroners Service January 28, 2021 - 11:52 AM B.C. Coroners Service and RCMP have identified the remains of a Kamloops man reported missing nearly 54 years ago. A DNA test was done from the remains of a body initially found on a Saturna Island beach in the Strait of Georgia, according to an RCMP release. Now a successful match has been found and the decades old cold case is solved. The Kamloops man, who was 41 at the time of his disappearance, was last seen in Coquitlam in May 1967. RCMP did not release the man's identity. "According to investigat...