Four years after a family looking for shells on a Sonoma County beach instead found a human bone, officials have identified the remains with help from DNA experts at a genealogy nonprofit.
The John Doe was identified as Walter Karl Kinney, a 59-year-old former banker and Santa Rosa resident who disappeared in 1999, the DNA Doe Project said Thursday.
The bone was found in June 2022 on Salmon Creek Beach, but the case went cold as investigators found no more remains or leads…