Officials in in Wisconsin said DNA evidence has solved a more than 65-year-old cold case involving missing 7-year-old Michigan boy Markku Jutila, born as Chester Breiney.
The Ozaukee County Sheriff’s Office in Port Washington on Lake Michigan’s western shore reported a child’s skeleton was found in a culvert on Oct. 4, 1959, in the city of Mequon, nearly 20 miles north of Milwaukee.
At the time of the discovery, the victim was estimated to be anywhere from 6 to 8 years old, sheriff’s office investigators posted in a release on Facebook.
During the investigation, detectives learned the Houghton County Sheriff’s Department , nearly 300 miles north in Michigan, was conducting an investigation on a missing child named Markku Jutila.
At the time, Houghton County deputies were working with the Chicago Police Department after family members of William Jutila and Hilja Jutila became suspicious of the whereabouts of their adopted child, authorities reported.