PAGE, N.D. (KFGO) — Nearly 55 years later, a body found near railroad tracks outside Page, North Dakota has been positively identified.
William Howard Tate was found dead in 1970. Investigators believe the body had been there for about six weeks and was a possible homicide victim or had fallen off of a train.
Earlier this month, Cass County Coroner’s Office collaborated with Southeast Missouri State University exhumed the remains.
They were able to make a positive identification through an upper denture plate traced to a World War II enlistment record for William Howard Tate.
The county is working on a new headstone for Tate.
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