In this image provided by the Department of Justice National Missing and Unidentified Persons System database shows an undated photo of Marvin Clark. Clark is the oldest missing persons case in the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs) database. He was reported missing in November, 1926. NamUs is looking into the possibility that remains found in 1986 near US 30 may be those of Marvin Clark. (AP Photo/Department of Justice National Missing and Unidentified Persons System)
April 29, 2014 - 11:15 PM
PORTLAND, Ore. - Marvin A. Clark vanished during a short trip to Portland on Halloween weekend 1926, but the search to find out what happened to him may finally be drawing to a close nearly 90 years later.
Clark's disappearance is one of the oldest active missing-person cases in the nation. Investigators know Clark is not alive — he'd be more than 160 years old — but they believe they have his remains.
Now, they need DNA samples from Clark's hard-to-find descendants to close the case.
Clark's name was found in a database of the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System, which provides a central repository of information about missing persons and unidentified decedent records.
The free online system can be searched at findthemissing.org.
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