Skeletal remains found in a Colorado Springs storm sewer have been “positively identified through DNA,” police said.
In March, workers clearing sewer lines found “what they believed to be some bones” in the 2100 block of Cheyenne Canyon Road, the Colorado Springs Police Department said in a news release.
Workers called police, and the department’s homicide unit and the El Paso County Coroner’s Office investigated the discovery.
A “forensic bust” of facial features was cast as part of the investigation. Homicide Detective Derek Graham connected the image to a missing-person case from July 1996.
The work led investigators to positively identify the remains last month as those of Thomas “Richard” Saulsbury of Colorado Springs. He was 49 at the time he disappeared.
The cause and manner of Saulsbury’s death have not been determined, the release said. Kieran Nicholson, The Denver Post
