More than three decades after hunters discovered a set of human skeletal remains near a farm in central Ohio, authorities have identified the bones.
By Emily Mae CzachorMore than three decades after hunters discovered a set of human skeletal remains near a farm in central Ohio, authorities have identified the bones, previously known as John Doe, as former Columbus resident Robert A. Mullins.
For example, the remains were initially believed to belong to an Indigenous person, before further review by anthropologists suggested that they belonged to a woman, with an estimated height between 5 feet, 1 inch and 5 feet, 4 inches. At the time, the attorney general's office said, personnel involved in the investigation surmised that the remains had been in the ground for about three years before they were discovered.
After spotting what authorities described as a significant lead on Nov. 1, 2022 — the 31st anniversary of the discovery — they contacted Mullins' family members and were ultimately able to successfully match their DNA to the samples taken from his remains.statement
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