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Human remains discovered last month were identified as a woman with intellectual disabilities who walked away from a nearby group home over two years ago, officials said.
Listen to this article RENSSELAER â A Go Fund Me account has been set up on the Bill Prater Memorial Fund Facebook page to help his family with the cost of cremation. Prater, who went missing during a floating trip with friends on the Iroquois River last summer, was found in February by a pair of coyote hunters northeast of Rensselaer. His remains were later identified by doctors at the Human Identification Center in Indianapolis last week. Prater is an only child. The Go Fund Me account was created to help his mother with funeral arrangements and other necessary expenses since there is...
Listen to this article RENSSELAER â For nearly a year, the Help Find Bill Prater Facebook page sought information on the disappearance of the Rensselaer native who went missing last July during a floating trip on the Iroquois River. So when skeletal remains were found Feb. 27, approximately five miles northeast of Rensselaer, family and friends expressed concern on Facebook that Prater had finally been found. Their assumptions were proven correct after dental records obtained from two area dentists by the Human Identification Center in Indianapolis confirmed that the remains were Pra...