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DNA technology ends a 35-year search, identifying remains found in Indiana as Michael Benjamin Davis from South Carolina.

COLUMBIA, S.C. — A South Carolina family finally has some feeling of closure after spending nearly 35 years wondering what happened to their loved one.

Michael Benjamin Davis was born in Richland County in 1965.

After growing up in Columbia, Davis moved with his family to Canada, then spent time in California and eventually joined a traveling carnival somewhere in the Midwest.

By 1988, his family had lost track of his whereabouts. Then, in 1993, children playing in a farmer’s field near Greenwood, Indiana, discovered what were later determined to be human bones. Fast forward over 30 years, and that field is now a golf course. DNA technology has revealed that the bones found by those children belong to Michael Benjamin Davis.

Michael Vogen is with Othram, a company that uses a first-of-its-kind DNA system to help law enforcement solve cold cases.

“We look at hundreds of thousands …

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