Victim of 1961 car wreck finally identified using DNA – WVTM13

Officials say a young hitchhiker who died in a car crash in Alabama in 1961 and was buried in a grave marked UNKNOWN has finally been identified through DNA testing. Killed when a vehicle from which hed accepted a ride crashed and plunged into a river in Bibb County, the hitchhiker didnt have any identification. Community members raised money for his burial, and a tombstone was engraved with the date of the wreck: March 27, 1961. Coroner CW West says a team of genealogists using DNA from the body confirmed the remains to be those of 15-year-old Daniel Paul Danny Armantrout. They've contacted a surviving brother who plans to come to Alabama.

Officials say a young hitchhiker who died in a car crash in Alabama in 1961 and was buried in a grave marked UNKNOWN has finally been identified through DNA testing.

Killed when a vehicle from which hed accepted a ride crashed and plunged into a river in Bibb County, the hitchhiker didnt have any identification.

Community members raised money for his burial, and a tombstone was engraved with the date of the wreck: March 27, 1961.

Coroner CW West says a team of genealogists using DNA from the body confirmed the remains to be those of 15-year-old Daniel Paul Danny Armantrout.

They've contacted a surviving brother who plans to come to Alabama.

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