ADDISION, MI (WTVB) – A nearly four decade mystery has been solved thanks to DNA and technology that was not around in the late 1970’s.
It has been confirmed that the remains of a John Doe buried in a pauper’s grave in Georgia in 1979 is a 15-year-old missing from Addison.
Andrew Greer left Addison High School on February 12, 1979 and never returned home.
His whereabouts had been unknown for 39 years. The Lenawee County Sheriff’s Department and Michigan State Police reopened the cold case in 2014 thanks to new technology developments.
The connection between Greer and the unidentified body was made in December by a retired deputy from the Bibb County Sheriff’s Department in Georgia.
As it turns out, Greer was struck and killed by a semi-truck while hitchhiking on I-75 near Macon two days after he his school.
A retired Bibb County deputy never forgot about the case and finally made the connection between the unknown teen and a boy who went missing from Michigan. The body was exhumed from a Macon grave in April, and now DNA testing confirms it is the missing teen. The body is soon expected to be taken home.
