For two years, it's been a mystery - who is the man whose body washed ashore along Kahala Drive in Galveston? Where did he come from? Scientists are about to get his DNA profile - a development that could finally give police the answers they're looking for.
GALVESTON, Texas -- When a body washed ashore on the west end of Galveston Island, police put out a sketch asking: do you know this man? That was two years ago. Today, his face is still a mystery. But now, forensic genealogists say: they"Uh, yes," stammered the man calling."I want to report a body on Kahala Beach in Galveston, Texas.""I don't know," replied the woman, who said she was calling from her beach house.
But perhaps the most telling detail of all were the men's size 11 Under Armour slides strapped to the man's hands.The autopsy later revealed the man had indeed drowned. He was 5'5" tall, likely in his twenties, but who was he? Investigators waited for a call from someone who might be looking for this man. But no such call came in. Months passed, then two years. The case went cold. Then, the phone finally rang.It was a scientist from Othram, the private genetic testing lab in The Woodlands, saying they could build a DNA profile for this John Doe - and do it fairly quickly. Once the profile was built, forensic genealogists would start working to track down his family.DNAsolves.
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