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Topic: cold case

A scientist examines a sample under a microscope in a laboratory

Wednesday, 7/15, 06:58 AM

A teenager killed in a 1978 Riverside crash is identified 48 years later

For nearly half a century, one of four teenagers killed in a 1978 car crash in Riverside remained a nameless case file.
This week, the county's coroner's bureau said forensic genetic genealogy had finally given him back his identity: Mark Alan Smith, 18.

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