The body of a homicide victim discovered in a San Joaquin County orchard several decades ago has finally been identified, though the man’s killer remains a mystery, the Sheriff’s Office said.
In April 1982, a farmer in the area of French Camp and Jack Tone roads northeast of Manteca discovered the remains of an unidentified homicide victim in his almond orchard, the Sheriff’s Office said in a statement Wednesday.
For more than four decades, investigators with the San Joaquin County Sheriff’s Office worked to uncover his identity, even releasing images of the tattoos found on his body, as recently as last year…