DALLAS (WJW) — For more than 50 years, one Texas family never knew what happened to their teenage son. He simply never came home.
Now thanks to a big breakthrough, the oldest missing persons case in Texas (according to the FOX affiliate in Dallas) has been solved — two cases in fact have been solved.
A detective with the Dallas Police Department, Ryan Dalby, was recently looking over the disappearance of 16-year-old Norman Prater, who was reported missing by his family back in January 1973, when he made a connection to a seemingly unrelated hit-and-run that occurred six months later.
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In July of that year, a male died in a crash on Highway 35 in Rock Port, where the driver fled the scene. Police were never able identify the victim…