Remains Found on California Beach in 2022 Identified as Banker Missing Since 1999

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