Missing person investigators identify man killed by train 10 years ago

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Missing person investigators identify man killed by train 10 years ago
http://www.pe.com/localnews/inland/stories/PE_News_Local_S_found30.4a2dcfa.html
By PAUL LAROCCO
The Press-Enterprise

He was hit by a train nearly a decade ago, found on tracks just west of Sierra Avenue in Fontana.

No one knew why he was there, what he had been doing and -- most importantly -- who he was.

San Bernardino County coroner's investigators would assign him the tag "John Doe 32-99." Without identification or a match for his fingerprints, answers stopped there, on Dec. 26, 1999.

 

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But this week, the push by coroner's unidentified persons coordinator David Van Norman to match every body with a name paid off. A DNA match identified the man as Richard Gale Jensen, 57, a Fontana resident who had been reported missing the same month.

After 9½ years, his family in Menifee has been notified of his death.

Initially, no one could find a fingerprint match for John Doe 32-99. Authorities later found that Jensen's thumbprint was on file with the Department of Motor Vehicles. That would have generated a quick confirmation of his ID, but there was no way to search for it without knowing his name.

http://www.pe.com/localnews/inland/stories/PE_News_Local_S_found30.4a2dcfa.html

 

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At least his family now knows what happened to him.