The dentals did not match but they submitted Lyle's DNA and DNA from all of my immediate family just in case. Fourteen years is a long time and sometimes things can get mixed up, so better safe than sorry. There still is a chance with the DNA but the appendectomy scar is what tells me it cannot be. I don't think my brother's scar would have shrunk to 2.5 inches even losing 100 lbs. The eye color, eyebrows, bone structure with 100 lbs off my brother and Lyle's looks he could be a family member on that alone. The note with the block writing my brother left and Lyle's writing plus my brother's being a book worm, the boots, belt, etc. . . definitely had me taken aback. It took me ten years after Lyle had been found and all the publicity associated with him before someone told me to take a look at him. There is even a poster of my brother hanging in the Sheriff's Office that is handling Lyle's case. For families that have the resources and the skills to do internet searches you find one person after another that seems to fit. So much time has passed you don't know whether to look for a living person or at skeletal remains. I'm still waiting on DNA but at this point I do not think it is Patrick any longer. His family may not have typing skills or the know how to conduct an internet search and may just wait until they are notified he was found. I am actually searching for two people. I have a cousin who disappeared and was presumed murdered in 1978. Patty Gaye Hogue Tolivar from Modesto California. I discovered her when I was doing geneology. No one has been looking for her because everyone thinks she is dead. If the DNA comes back or does not come back as my brother than I am sure Lyle has family who are waiting just like my family has been for word. Off the record, Lyle may not be of Indian ancestry - he could pass for my brother and I am German, English and Black Dutch. He looks Black Dutch to me (that is the dark haired, dark complexion Dutchmen). I will upload some links with my brother's info for anyone interested as well as my cousins.