CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — A decades-long cold case has come to a close after the Nueces County Medical Examiner’s Office identified a 16-year-old who went missing in 1973.
Officials say Norman Prater was last seen walking with friends in Dallas in January 1973 and was later reported missing. Months later, in July of that same year, an unidentified man was killed in a hit-and-run crash along Highway 35 in Rockport.
For decades, the two cases appeared unrelated. That changed after the case was reexamined with help from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children…