PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — 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.
