A disappearance that haunted a small Oregon town for two decades has finally been resolved after a skeleton washed ashore hundreds of miles away was formally identified. Clarence Edwin 'Ed' Asher, a former mayor of Fossil, Oregon, vanished during a fishing trip in Tillamook Bay in early September 2006. He was 72 years old at the time and was later presumed to have drowned after an extensive search failed to locate him.
Nearly 20 years later, advances in forensic genealogy have confirmed that skeletal remains found in Washington state belonged to Asher, finally closing a long-running missing persons case.
