MONTEREY, Calif. (KION-TV) — Monterey police and DA’s office announced Thursday that the lower half of a human leg discovered on December 30, 2010 on a beach in Monterey, received a DNA test concluding that the leg does not match any missing person’s report from that time.
They said that after DNA samples were received by the California Department of Justice’s MUPS DNA database (Missing and Unidentified Persons Section), they couldn’t find any DNA match. They say that the leg, intact below the knee, seems to have been in the ocean for several weeks.
The departments did announce, however, that “the initial results of the FGG testing have identified the leg as belonging to a Southeast Asian male (Vietnamese, Cambodian, or Laotian). A forensic anthropologist has tentatively identified the male’s age as being between 20-50 years old.”…