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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Rachel Dobkin

Police used DNA to identify boy more than 50 years after his body was found. What happened to him remains a mystery

Police used advanced DNA testing to identify a murdered Pennsylvania boy more than 50 years after his body was found in Virginia, but the events leading up to his death remain a mystery.

In June 1972, a little boy was found dead in Massey Creek under the Old Colchester Road Bridge in Lorton, Virginia. An autopsy revealed he had died of blunt force trauma but he was not able to be identified until now.

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