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The DNA program hoping to solve Australia's most baffling missing persons cases

Dr Jodie Ward is heading up a specialist team to test sets of unidentified human remains, some of which are decades old. (ABC News: Shaun Kingma)

On a mid-Autumn day in 1977, a member of the public called police to the wide salt and sand flats of False Bay, 27 kilometres north of Whyalla, South Australia.

A human skull had been found. 

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