BENTONVILLE -- Detectives with the Benton County sheriff's office have an order to exhume the remains of a "John Doe" from a 1981 cold case.
Shannon Jenkins, a spokeswoman for the sheriff's office, said the remains will be sent to the state Crime Laboratory to try to get a DNA sample.
The body of "John Doe" was found in a field between Garfield and Gateway.
Jenkins said if a DNA sample can be obtained it will be sent to Parabon NanoLabs in hopes of obtaining information to identify the man. The business offers a phenotyping service, which produces a descriptive profile of the source of any human DNA sample, including pigmentation, face morphology and other forensically relevant traits, according to the Reston, Va.-based company's website.
Metro on 10/08/2019