The video may be viewed at the link below. hosted by the Centreville Press news team. of the Centreville Press, contributed independently to the impressive detective work and confirming research that eventually led to the identification of this mystery young person.Ī local news conference and public announcement took place via a Zoom Conference call on Monday, November 1 at 2:00 p.m. Bibb County Sheriff Jody Wade, and the original 1961 news reporter Jim Oakley Jr. The genetic research team worked directly with Bibb County Coroner C.W. The initial announcement of the identification was made on Octoon a Gray Hughes Youtube program. The forensic DNA and geneaology research was funded by the Gray Hughes Investigates organization and public donations. Colleen Fitzpatrick, Allison Peacock, and Misty Gillis of Identifinders International based in Fountain Valley, CA. The organization that conducted the research included forensic genealogist Dr. His surviving biological sibling has been identified and contacted by the team that did the exhaustive research. His mother was Virginia Leocadie Berner, born in 1921 in New Jersey and died in 2011 in Florida. His father was Alfred Valentine Armantrout who died in 1973 in Georgia. Now, more than sixty years after his death, the unknown hitchhiker and automobile accident victim has been identified as Daniel Paul “Danny” Armantrout, born Decemin Miami, FL. The Centreville and Bibb County community embraced this “story of a lost child” over the years as many people and public officials paid for the funeral, never closed the file, and have worked to resolve the long standing mystery of his identity. Oakley kept the story alive over the years with follow-up news stories, missing person flyers he published, and by providing information to law enforcement agencies and news organizations in efforts to solve his identity and locate family. Oakley, Jr., a young reporter at the time and a member of the Oakley family with long ties to the Centreville Press publication. The original story was covered in 1961 by James W.

The Centreville Press has followed this story over six decades. The identification of this unknown person is a 60 year old Bibb County, Alabama mystery and is now said to represent the oldest case from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children ever solved by forensic genealogy. A team of DNA forensic science and genealogical experts has identified the unknown 15 year old boy who died in a car crash near River Bend in early 1961.

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