A person discovered useless by hikers in Arizona 47 years in the past has been recognized after authorities accessed nationwide fingerprint information, the Mohave County Sheriff’s Workplace said.
The sufferer was recognized Tuesday as Luis Alonso Paredes, a citizen of El Salvador.
On Nov. 23, 1976, hikers within the Lake Mead Nationwide Recreation Space discovered stays in a shallow grave of a person shot within the head at shut vary, the sheriff’s workplace mentioned in a Fb put up. The physique was discovered about six miles east of Katherine Touchdown.
On the time, authorities might solely decide he was a male in his 30s, over 5 toes tall and weighing 140-150 kilos, the sheriff’s workplace defined. Fingerprints taken from the physique didn’t flip up an id on the time, and with out some other leads, the case went dormant.
Within the time since, native regulation enforcement has gained entry to nationwide information, and the sheriff’s workplace restarted the investigation in October through the use of these information, in the end discovering a match for Paredes.
Investigators discovered that Paredes might have been dwelling within the Las Vegas space on the time of his loss of life, and likewise discovered that he had presumably labored for the Navy and Coast Guard within the San Francisco space.
The sheriff’s workplace has been unable to contact any relations of Paredes, and asks that anybody with info on him, his household or the case contact the division at 928/753-0753, extension 4288, and that they need to reference “DR# 76-5053.”
