What happened to Kyle Clinkscales? Officials identify remains of Auburn student reported missing 47 years ago
Skeletal remaining parts of the then 22-year-old Kyle Clinkscales were tracked down inside a vehicle in Alabama, very nearly 50 years after his vanishing. Kyle Clinkscales was most recently seen the evening of January 27, 1976, in LaGrange, Georgia.
Kyle was wanting to drive back to school in Alabama in his 1974 Passage Pinto. Be that as it may, the then 22-year-old won’t ever show up. His remaining parts were as of late found in a stream in Alabama. Police recuperated the vehicle in 2021 on December 7, alongside the skeletal remaining parts.
Upon additional examination, specialists distinguished the remaining parts to be of Kyle Clinkscales’. In spite of the recognizable proof, a few unanswered inquiries connected with the case and encompassing Kyle’s demise actually remain.
Kyle Clinkscales was most recently seen in 1974, and his remaining parts were in the end found in 2021 from a rivulet in Chambers Province, Alabama. Specialists recuperated the remaining parts in his vehicle alongside a few individual things. The skeletal remaining parts were then shipped off the GBI Investigative laboratory for additional assessment.
Close to 12 months after the revelation, the remaining parts were distinguished as those of the missing understudy.
“It was dependably a big secret in Troup Region. Ideally presently getting that affirmation can basically carry that conclusion and those inquiries to what loved ones are still out there that knew Kyle.”
GBI is as yet attempting to figure out what prompted Kyle Clinkscales’ passing. Notwithstanding, specialists accept that specific parts of the wrongdoing could stay unsettled. Sgt. Smith further added,
“Because of the time that it’s been and it was in the water, we may not be aware.”
In 2006, a news source revealed that a man guaranteed that Kyle Clinkscales was shot to death, nonetheless, it was subsequently found that the man’s story has changed a few times. Consequently, he wasn’t viewed as a tenable observer. No crime charges were squeezed against him. In the wake of finding the vehicle in 2021,
“We’re happy today. For quite a long time we’ve searched for this young fellow and searched for this vehicle. We’ve depleted lakes. We’ve looked here and looked there. It generally turned out with nothing.”Police are feeling better that essentially the family could finally accept reality for what it is
Group Region Sheriff James Woodruff said,
BREAKING: Car and human bones with ID of missing college student found after 45 years. Pulled from creek in Alabama. Then 22 yo Kyle Clinkscales disappeared after leaving work in La Grange, GA driving home to Auburn, AL in Jan. 1976
— Steve Gehlbach (@SteveGWSB) December 8, 2021
“It was consistently her (Kyle’s departed mother) trust that he would return home. It was dependably our expectation that we would find him for her before she died.”
The Sheriff’s office wrote in a Facebook post,
The Kyle Clinkscales case has been a secret for quite a long time. Back in 1981, a man professed to be Kyle and referenced that he lost his memory in an auto collision. The vehicle was found in 2021, following a 24-hour dig around Company Province. Police truth be told addressed two male people named Jimmy Baron Jones and Beam Hyde. Nonetheless, nothing strong at any point came up. Beam denied knowing Kyle also.
Afterward, in 2005, Jones was arrested for offering numerous misleading expressions yet wasn’t accused of homicide. Specialists have communicated alleviation subsequent to finding something connected with the case.