Remains found washed up on Jersey shore identified as missing 19th-century boat captain

Undergraduate students at the Ramapo College of New Jersey were able to link the three bones to the same person - Captain Henry Goodsell. - (Ramapo College of New Jersey)

A decades-old cold case at the Jersey Shore has been cracked after experts confirmed that skeletal remains found on three beaches belong to a 19th-century ship captain.

Undergraduate student researchers at Ramapo College of New Jersey used advanced DNA technology to determine that bones from a leg, arm and fragments of a cranium all belonged to Captain Henry Goodsell - who died at sea 181 years ago at age 29.