Human remains found on California beach in 2022 identified as missing man

DNA testing confirmed bones found on Salmon Creek beach belonged to Walter Karl Kinney, a man last seen in 1999 Human remains discovered in the summer of 2022 on a beach in California recently were identified as those of a former banker who disappeared in 1999. The DNA Doe Project (DDP) on Thursday announced that bones found on Salmon Creek state beach in northern California in June 2022 – by a family searching for seashells – belonged to 59-year-old Walter Karl Kinney, a former banker who li...

By Maya Yang

Missing banker’s remains ID’d — again — after beach discovery in decades-old unsolved mystery

DNA Doe Project identified human remains found on Salmon Creek Beach as Walter Kinney, a man missing since 1999, in a rare double-identification case.

Remains of a banker missing since 1999 are found on a California beach – for the second time

Some of Walter Karl Kinney’s body parts were found washed up on a beach in 1999 and again in 2022

By Andrea Cavallier