Family members of Kenneth Nevada Williams had searched social media and, at one point, hired a detective to try to find him.
A Long Beach police detective and two FBI agents showed up at Roxanne Jones’ door in late September and told her she was a familial match with a boy’s body that for 44 years law enforcement only knew as “John Doe 1978.”The 63-year-old San Bernardino County resident immediately solved the decades-old mystery — her younger brother, Kenneth Nevada Williams.as the 1978 victim, which was determined by using genealogy technology.
Williams had run away from his La Puente home multiple times, Jones said, but not because he was upset with his family. So the last time Williams ran away, in 1978, Jones and others in the family that included another older sister of his and a younger half-brother and half-sister thought he had maybe found a happy place and started a new life.Their father, who would die of cancer in 2010, hired a detective to try and find his son. In recent years, the siblings looked on social media to see if maybe he’d surface there, possibly with a different name.
Using investigative genealogy technology, Long Beach police detectives have identified the victim in a 1978 cold case as Kenneth Nevada Williams, 15, of La Puente. Williams’ body was found on Division Street near Corona Avenue in Belmont Shore on June 3, 1978. Jones isn’t sure what lead the investigators to her door, but she has a strong hunch: She and her half-sister both filed DNA samples with ancestry databases.
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