Authorities are planning to exhume an unidentified body in Walker County, Georgia, this week to determine if it matches the DNA of a 19-year-old Ohio coll(ege student missing for nearly 55 years.
The Georgia sheriff's department reopened the case in January in hopes that new technology could solve the mystery of the remains found in the woods in 1953 and later buried in the city of LaFayette's cemetery. The remains turned up about a month after the disappearance of Ronald Tammen, a student at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, last seen in his dorm room.
The exhumation will be done Friday. Authorities from Georgia and Ohio are expected to attend.
The DNA extracted from the remains will be compared to Tammens' siblings.
(The Associated Press)
Thursday, February 7, 2008
Georgia authorities to exhume 'cold-case' remains
