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James Homer Wright, a 19-year-old member of the Pit River Tribe, disappeared in 1988. His remains were found along the Sacramento River nearly two years later.
TEXAS, USA — A pair of recognizable shoes and advances in DNA technology helped investigators identify a California teenager whose remains went unidentified for 36 years after he disappeared in 1988.
James Homer Wright, a 19-year-old member of the Pit River Tribe, disappeared from Redding, California, on Nov. 23, 1988. He left a family member's home on his bicycle, saying he was going to a nearby gas station, but never returned.
Nearly two years later, on Oct. 20, 1990, a crew collecting garbage and debris along the Sacramento River discovered partial skeletal rema...
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