Authorities say human remains found in the woods by a hunter 27 years ago have been identified as a New Hampshire man who had gone missing five years earlier. The case dates back to June of 1991, when 78-year-old Benjamin Adams left his home in Canaan to go for a walk and never returned, the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office…
Authorities say human remains found in the woods by a hunter 27 years ago have been identified as a New Hampshire man who had gone missing five years earlier.
Search efforts for Adams after his disappearance were unsuccessful, authorities said. Over five years later, in November of 1996, a hunter found skeletal remains in a wooded area of Hanover, several towns away from Canaan. A subsequent search of the area turned up additional human bones. Due the proximity to Adams' last known location, investigators suspected that the remains might be his.
Recently, the attorney general's office said forensic investigators with the chief medical examiner's office, the University of New Hampshire's forensic anthropology lab and state police decided to reexamine the Adams case using modern DNA testing technology. They obtained a DNA sample from Adams' son, and sent that and some of the skeletal remains found in 1996 to a private lab for DNA comparison testing.
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