Gwinnett Investigators ID 20 Year Old Skeletal Remains: Report

GWINNETT COUNTY, GA — Twenty-year-old skeletal remains have been identified through DNA, reported WSB-TV.

They were first discovered in Gwinnett County in a storm basin along Craig Drive in Lawrenceville in 2003. The Gwinnett County Medical Examiner’s office has identified them as Gordon Rexrode who was born Nov. 2, 1932.

The county medical examiner Carol Terry said he reached out to non-profit DNA Doe Project, which identifies unknown remains using genetic genealogy, for assistance with the case, reported WXIA.

The man’s younger brother, Gerald Rexrode, said his brother was homeless but would stay in touch with family.

"When he stopped calling we began to wonder,” he told WXIA. “And after, you know, him not contacting us for a couple of years, then I took it upon myself and my brother and I went looking for him.”

A missing person report was filed in 1998, reported WAGA-TV, but that information was never connected to the remains found in 2003. He disappeared from public records in 2002.