A skull found in Alaska in 1997 along the Porcupine River belongs to a man who went there to hunt in the 1970s.
On Thursday, Alaska State Troopers announced the man’s name was Gary Frank Sotherden.On July 23, 1997, Alaska State Troopers in Fairbanks received a report from a hunter that they had found a human skull along the Porcupine River around 8 miles from the Canadian border. Troopers responded to the area but could not locate the rest of the remains. The skull was collected and sent to the State Medical Examiner’s Office as unidentified human remains.
Officials contacted a relative who gave them a DNA sample, and the person said the man was dropped off in the area where his remains were found at some point in the early to mid-1970s for a hunting trip. “The living relative was notified of the DNA match on December 27, 2022, and the family was placed in contact with the SMEO to arrange for the return of Gary’s remains,” the news release said.visitors every encounter with the animals is different.
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