Identified! PA - James Gibson, 39, Susquehanna Township, Feb 1998

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• James Gibson, 39, Susquehanna Township, missing since February 1998

Gibson was last seen wearing a dark blue or green and yellow Green Bay Packers baseball hat, a green jacket with zipper front, blue jeans.

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The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)

 

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Bumping for James, now missing over 23 years

 

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Body found in Susquehanna River in 1998 identified as missing Harrisburg man

Decades after a fisherman discovered a man dead in the Susquehanna River, the body has finally been identified.

local21news.com

The man has been identified as James Gibson, who had previously been reported missing from Harrisburg, according to a news release form the coroner. The body was found on April 18, 1998, in the Turkey Point area of the River in Manor Township, Lancaster County.

 

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In September of 2023, the coroner’s office began coordinating with the DNA Doe Project, a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping identify unidentified decedents using forensic genealogy. One tooth was needed from the unidentified man for DNA, which was provided by the coroner’s office to the DNA Doe Project.

By November of 2023, there was a potential candidate who had gone missing from Harrisburg, PA in 1998.

In March of this year, the DNA Doe Project revealed that the genetic profile of the unidentified man had a familial match to the DNA provided by the family of James Gibson. Dental charts also matched up between the John Doe and Gibson.

The Lancaster County Coroner's Office has officially determined that the dental comparisons alongside the genetic profile support that the man retrieved from the Susquehanna River on April 18, 1998, was James Gibson, from Harrisburg.

Cold case solved: Missing Harrisburg man identified as body pulled from Susquehanna River in 1998

The coroner's office has determined that James Gibson, reported missing on Feb. 4, 1998, was the identity of the body pulled from the Susquehanna River.

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