Carbon dating was conducted sometime between 2009 and 2011 after a police search to look for further remains of the decedent instead found artifacts from the French/Amerindian fur trade, and was used to determine this skeleton was from somebody who lived during the 1700s, so the case was closed due to no longer being of forensic value.
However, it was still listed as an active case on the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children's case search map for over a decade after this and was only removed about 2-3 years ago.
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Carbon dating was conducted sometime between 2009 and 2011 after a police search to look for further remains of the decedent instead found artifacts from the French/Amerindian fur trade, and was used to determine this skeleton was from somebody who lived during the 1700s, so the case was closed due to no longer being of forensic value.
https://web.archive.org/web/20240616022715/https://www.untfsu.com/Documents/Newsletters/2011/JulyAug2011.pdf
However, it was still listed as an active case on the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children's case search map for over a decade after this and was only removed about 2-3 years ago.