This Tragic Death on Kahala Beach Remains a Mystery

Can DNA identify this man found dead just a year ago?

Natasha M
Cold Case CAS Project 2021–22
17 min readOct 30, 2021

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Composite of Galveston John Doe by forensic artist Lois Gibson (DNAsolves)

On May 10, 2020, a busy mother’s day weekend in Galveston Texas, the body of a man would wash up on Kahala beach. After initial attempts to identify the man failed, and he did not match any local missing person reports, Othram Inc., a DNA company in Texas, took on the case. Through…

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Natasha M
Cold Case CAS Project 2021–22

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