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Geneaology helps HCSO identify skeletal remains
Genetic testing has allowed the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office to identify two people whose skeletal remains were discovered separately more than 30 years ago.
www.suncoastnews.com
In the second case, representatives of Othram Inc., a forensic genealogy company in The Woodlands, Texas, identified the body as that of Richard Paul Sargent, who was 45 years old at the time of death. Othram also provided the name of a distant family member in Massachusetts. Sargent was a Vietnam veteran, and the American Red Cross arranged to have Sargent’s remains shipped to a local funeral home in Massachusetts.