A skeleton found alongside a pair of cowboy boots three years ago has been identified as a British man who has been missing for over two decades, and local police are now investigating the unsolved case as a possible homicide.
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The remains were discovered alongside the boots by a site worker at a scrapyard in the seaside town of St. Osyth in southeast England's Essex county on April 25, 2019. After years of "extensive investigations," Essex Police announced Tuesday that they have identified the deceased as William "Bill" Long, who lived in the nearby town of Jaywick and would now be in his 70s.
The scrapyard in St. Osyth, U.K., where a body was found in April 2019. Officers investigating recently identified the man as William ‘Bill’ Long.Investigators believe Long was last seen or thought to be alive between March 1999 and March 2000, and had a girlfriend who moved to Australia at around that time."We're keeping an open mind as to what happened to Bill and how he came to be where he was found," Hughes said.
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