Human remains found in 1976 by hikers in a shallow desert grave near Lake Mohave, just a few miles from the Arizona-Nevada border, have finally been identified. Luis Alonso Paredes, who was originally from El Salvador, was positively identified thanks to national fingerprint records, “which was not an available resource at the time of the initial investigation,” the Mohave County Sheriff’s Office in Arizona said in a Facebook post Tuesday. Authorities at the time created a composite sketch of the victim’s probable likeness and took fingerprints but were unable to match them to anyone. The Mohave County Sheriff’s Office’s Special Investigations Unit began revisiting the case in October 2023. Paredes may have been living or working in the Las Vegas area at the time of his death, according to the sheriff’s office.

Source: CNN December 27, 2023 17:57 UTC