Thirty years ago John Doe was buried in this spot. Who is he?
Investigators from the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office and the Regional Medical Examiner gathered in Friedens Cemetery to exhume the body of a John Doe in hopes that DNA testing will identify the man found in the Mississippi River 30 years ago.
Robert Cohen
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Crews last week exhumed his body and took DNA samples they will compare with others in a national database that did not exist at the time of his death.
