Gaston County Police use DNA to identify victim of 1979 homicide as missing Charlotte man
GASTON COUNTY, N.C. (FOX 46 CHARLOTTE) – A murder target whose physique was discovered in Gaston County over 45 many years ago has been determined as a missing Charlotte man, in accordance to the Gaston County Law enforcement Department.
Police reported officers responded to a contact of a physique identified on October 6, 1979. The person experienced been still left in a wooded region off of Horseshoe Bend Beach Highway in northeastern Gaston County.
Investigators established the overall body experienced been put there for some time right before being identified.
Law enforcement explained there was no identification or any way to establish who the individual was. Detectives reported the individual was considered to be a gentleman concerning 30 to 60 years aged.
In 2020, the Gaston County Police Department’s Criminal Investigation Device reviewed the scenario and worked with the National Lacking and Unidentified Human being Technique to procedure DNA from the skeletal stays collected in 1979.
NamUs then made use of the Charlotte Institute of Forensic Anthropology and Used Science at the College of South Charlotte to generate a DNA profile and artist rendition of the man.
Through the DNA profile, authorities identified the person as James Harold Smith of Charlotte. Detectives spoke with Smith’s loved ones and established he was of Lumbee Indian descent.
Detectives also identified that the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Law enforcement Department experienced taken a missing person’s report for Smith in 2014.
He was 33-yrs-aged at the time of his disappearance and was past witnessed leaving a court docket listening to in Charlotte, the report stated.
The investigation into the homicide is nevertheless ongoing.
Any one with details about Smith’s death or disappearance is requested to contact Gaston County Law enforcement Detective Dalton at 704-866-3320 or Crimestoppers at 704-861-8000.
A reward of up to $1,000 is obtainable to everyone who offers data main to the identification and arrest of the suspect or suspects in the case.
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