Human remains that were found — twice— on Bay Area beaches have been identified as those of a California banker who disappeared in 1999.
The man was identified as 59-year-old Walter Karl Kinney, a former banker who lived in Santa Rosa, according to a news release by the nonprofit DNA Doe Project. Kinney disappeared in 1999 and on June 17, 2022, a family looking for sea shells on Salmon Creek State Beach came across a bone sticking out of the sand. It was later determined to be a human tibia.
A search of the area did not yield more human remains and it was unknown to whom it belonged…