The remains were discovered by chance witnesses.
In the US, a person’s identity was successfully established using a bone recovered from a beach. According to the New York Post, the remains belong to Walter Carl Kinney, a former banker from Santa Rosa who went missing in August 1999. In June 2022, a family searching for seashells at Salmon Creek Beach in California found a human bone embedded in the sand. To their astonishment, prosthetic implants were still attached to it. The identity of the limb’s owner remained unconfirmed for nearly four years. The police sought assistance from a non-profit organization specializing in forensic genealogy. In March 2026, experts determined the leg belonged to Kinney. This isn’t the first instance of recovering parts of his remains: back in 1999, shortly following his disappearance, another of his legs, complete with an orthopedic insole still inside its boot, was found on a nearby beach. Kinney’s identity was initially determined in 2003 using X-rays supplied by his daughter. In spite of this successful identification, the precise sequence of events leading to Walter Carl Kinney’s disappearance remains unexplained. Previously, we reported on the death of an elephant in India following a photoshoot involving pink paint.
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