Identified! SC - Aiken Co, Skeletal Remains in Burnettown, Oct 2019 - Devante Williams

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Dec. 5, 2019

AIKEN, SC (WRDW/WAGT) -- Aiken County Coroner Darryl Ables says his office is trying to get DNA from human remains found in late October.

Ables says those remains were located in the Burnettown. Police there say a hunter located them.

Human remains found by hunter in Burnettown, officials say

In October, a hunter found a series of bones and alerted Burnettown authorities. The coroner’s office was called in to assist with the investigation.

A forensic anthropologist identified the bones as human, and the skeletal remains have since been sent to a lab to see if a DNA profile can be obtained, Ables said.

Human remains found in Burnettown under investigation

 

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FEB 6, 2020
Skeletal remains found in 2019 identified as missing Clearwater man
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The Aiken County Coroner’s Office reported the discovery of skeleton remains in Burnettown in October 2019 after hunters found the remains and notified the Burnettown Police Department, Coroner Daryl Ables said.

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Those skeletal remains have been positively identified as those of 24-year-old Devante A. Williams of Clearwater who was reported missing in January of 2019, Ables reported.

Williams was identified by a DNA profile that was obtained from one of the skeleton bones, that profile was later compared to a profile from his mother that confirmed his identification.

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Devante's thread:

SC - SC - Devante Arian Williams, 23, North Augusta, Aiken County, 18 Jan 2019