(BCN) – The progress of fingerprint technology helped the authorities to determine the remains of a man who was found 43 years ago floating in a channel in the rural Saint -Jokin County.
Edward Donald Raymond, 34, who was apparently relations with the Gulf region, was shot in his right shoulder when his body was found on July 13, 1981 in Bever Slau near Thornton, according to the San Joaakin Sharif office.
Slough is located in an unpaved area in San Joaquin County along the 5th Highway, in the middle of the road between Stockton and SacRamento.
The body was badly decomposed and the man was described as black, with a tattoo on the left arm read “Black is beautiful”, and he was only wearing pants for white swimming with red and blue lines.
Sharif’s office said on Monday that Raymond was recently identified using fingerprint technology. The only information available for him was an arrest in 1976 by the San Francisco Police Administration, where he presented a address in Auckland.
Raymond was born on February 21, 1947, but he also went by Edward Wilson’s pseudonym, born on July 21, 1948, the authorities said.
When the body was found, Sharif’s office said it might be connected with a white or beige Cadillac seen in the previous area. The driver looks like a victim, but an additional vehicle or clothes are not found at the scene.
Sharif’s office hopes that someone will help solve the case.
“We ask for any information that may help us to understand what happened to Edward Raymond and achieve justice for this issue,” Sharif’s office said in a press statement.
Anyone who has information about the case can call an emergency number in (209) 468-4400.
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