A skull found on the banks of the Delaware River in Pennsylvania has been identified thanks to new technology as belonging to a man believed to have been murdered along with his girlfriend almost 40 years ago.
Richard Thomas Alt, 31, was last seen by his parents on Christmas Eve in 1984, with the skull found in 1986, and now Bucks County district attorney’s office said detectives and a private forensic DNA laboratory identified it as belonging to the missing man.
The skull was found on the banks of the Delaware River in Morrisville by a fisherman, a year after his girlfriend's body was discovered in the river on the New Jersey side.
