Current:Home > InvestMan's body believed to have gone over Niagara Falls identified more than 30 years later -Pinnacle Profit Strategies
Man's body believed to have gone over Niagara Falls identified more than 30 years later
View
Date:2025-04-12 19:00:26
A person's badly decomposed body that washed up on a Lake Ontario shore after it presumably went over Niagara Falls has been identified more than three decades later, officials in New York announced this week.
According to the Oswego County Sheriff's Office, remains found on April 8, 1992 near what is now the Novelis Plant belonged to Vincent C. Stack of Buffalo, who disappeared in Niagara Falls State Park around Dec. 4, 1990.
Oswego County, north of Syracuse, borders Lake Ontario and is more than 100 miles east of Niagara Falls.
According to the medical examiner’s office, an autopsy determined the person died between six months and five years prior to the discovery of his body 34 years ago, the agency announced Tuesday in a Facebook post.
"At the time, efforts to identify the remains by comparing them to missing person cases were unsuccessful," the sheriff's office wrote.
Sixteen years later, in 2008, a DNA profile of the remains was uploaded to the CODIS database but, officials said, no leads were generated until recently.
Renewed efforts and a familiar DNA match to Vincent Stack
In April 2022, during renewed efforts to identify the remains, the sheriff's office and the Niagara Regional Police Service in Ontario began comparing the death investigation with unsolved cases in Canada.
At that time, police Detective Constable Sara Mummery assisted with obtaining a new DNA sample from the remains for further comparison in the Lake Ontario area in both Canada and the United States.
In February, the new DNA sample was found to be a familial match to DNA collected from Stack's family.
39 days later:Glasses found during search for missing teen Sebastian Rogers, police unsure of connection
Body likely went over falls and traveled 145 miles across Lake Ontario
Over the next year and four months after Stack's went missing, officials said, his remains would have traveled some 15 miles to the mouth of the river, and then more than 130 miles across Lake Ontario before being discovered on the shore outside the city of Oswego.
Anyone with information about the case is asked to contact the sheriff's office.
Natalie Neysa Alund is a senior reporter for USA TODAY. Reach her at nalund@usatoday.com and follow her on X @nataliealund.
veryGood! (28)
Related
- Rolling Loud 2024: Lineup, how to stream the world's largest hip hop music festival
- Police arrest three suspects in killing of man on Bronx subway car
- Restrictive abortion laws disproportionately impact Black women in GOP-led states, new Democratic memo notes
- Monica Lewinsky stars in fierce Reformation campaign to encourage voting: See the photos
- Megan Fox's ex Brian Austin Green tells Machine Gun Kelly to 'grow up'
- Tennessee House advances bill to ban reappointing lawmakers booted for behavior
- New York City medical school students to receive free tuition moving forward thanks to historic donation
- King Charles and Queen Camilla React to Unexpected Death of Thomas Kingston at 45
- Could your smelly farts help science?
- Brielle Biermann Engaged to Baseball Player Billy Seidl
Ranking
- Trump invites nearly all federal workers to quit now, get paid through September
- Don Henley is asked at Hotel California lyrics trial about the time a naked teen overdosed at his home in 1980
- Brielle Biermann Engaged to Baseball Player Billy Seidl
- Notable numbers capture the wild weather hitting much of the US this week
- Could Bill Belichick, Robert Kraft reunite? Maybe in Pro Football Hall of Fame's 2026 class
- SZA, Doja Cat songs now also being removed on TikTok
- President Joe Biden makes surprise appearance on 'Late Night with Seth Meyers' for show's 10th anniversary
- In search of Powerball 2/26/24 winning numbers? Past winners offer clues to jackpot
Recommendation
Woman dies after Singapore family of 3 gets into accident in Taiwan
Former MLB Pitcher José DeLeón Dead at 63
'Top Gun' actor Barry Tubb sues Paramount for using his image in 'Top Gun: Maverick'
Blogger Laura Merritt Walker's 3-Year-Old Son Callahan Honored in Celebration of Life After His Death
'Squid Game' without subtitles? Duolingo, Netflix encourage fans to learn Korean
Review: Dazzling 'Shogun' is the genuine TV epic you've been waiting for
Is Reba McEntire Leaving The Voice? She Says...
Noise pollution may be harming your health. See which US cities have the most.