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Jacob Shteyman

Breakthrough in mystery of 40-year-old set of bones

Police made a craniofacial reconstruction of a man whose bones were found on Kangaroo Island in 1983 (HANDOUT/AUSTRALIAN FEDERAL POLICE)

The riddle of a set of bones found in roadside scrub 40 years ago appears to have been solved after police used genealogical data from ancestry websites to track down the man's family.

Two schoolboys located skeletal remains in roadside scrub along the Playford Highway on Kangaroo Island in January 1983. 

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