When Washington tree planters stumbled upon a human skull four years ago, it ultimately led to some closure for a decades-long mystery.
The skull found near Lake Merrill in Cougar has been identified as belonging to Anthony Matthew Croy, a 21-year-old who went missing from Portland, Oregon, in 1995, the Cowlitz County Sheriff’s Office said in a Sept. 4 Facebook post.
After the tree planters discovered the skull on April 26, 2021, detectives with the sheriff’s department collected it, deputies said…