MISSISSIPPI COUNTY, Ark. – Authorities have identified remains in a decades-long cold case out of northeast Arkansas.
Officials with the office of Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin said remains found on the banks of the Mississippi River in Mississippi County in June 1990 have been identified as Charles Benjamin Rhoades.
Authorities were unable to identify his remains at the time, but with the assistance of DNA testing, Griffin said the Arkansas State Crime Lab and his office’s recently opened cold case unit were able to identify the remains.
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“After the Arkansas State Crime Lab sent DNA samples to Othram Labs, Othram ran the sample through a genealogy database and received a potential family match,” Griffin said. “My Cold Case Unit contacted Rhoades’s daughter, who confirmed that her father was missing and gave the special agent permission to collect a sample of her DNA. On September 25, the DNA test kit was collected, and on October 29, Othram Labs contacted the Cold Case Unit to confirm that the skeletal remains were a positive match for Rhoades. My agents immediately notified the Mississippi County Sheriff’s Office and the family.”…