Authorities have positively identified the remains of an Auburn student whose car was found in an Alabama creek — 45 years after he disappeared.
Authorities have positively identified the remains of an Auburn student whose car was found in an Alabama creek 45 years after he disappeared.
On Monday, the Troup County Coroner's Office positively identified remains recovered from a creek in Chambers County as belonging to 22-year-old Kyle Clinkscales, the Troup County Sheriff's Office announced in aThe remains were analyzed by an FBI lab at the request of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, and currently an official report has not been completed or released in relation to the manner of death, the sheriff's department said.
Inside the car, investigators found what they believed were human bones along with identification and credit cards belonging to Clinkscales,On January 27, 1976, Clinkscales left the Moose Club, a bar he worked at in his hometown of LaGrange, Georgia, . He planned to make the 35-mile drive to Auburn University in Alabama, but he never arrived.
Authorities in Troup County have previously said Clinkscales was killed. In 2005, they arrested two people in connection with his disappearance after they said his parents received a call from a man who said he witnessed the disposal of their son's body as a 7-year-old, and it was covered with concrete in a barrel and dumped into a pond, according to news reports.
The two people were accused of making false statements. Pete Skandalakis, who was district attorney at the time, said he made the decision not to indict one of those people. The other pleaded guilty to two counts of making false statements and spent seven years and eight months behind bars.
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