GREAT FALLS, S.C. (AP) - The remains found in South Carolina’s Fairfield County last year are those of a man reported missing in 2019, authorities confirmed Tuesday.
A hunter discovered human remains in the woods near Peay Ridge in October, the Fairfield County Sheriff’s Office said.
A state forensics team was called in and used DNA to identify the remains as Kirk Hall, WIS-TV reported.
Hall was reported missing in September 2019. He had last been seen walking toward Peay Ridge Road.
Officials are still working to determine how Hall died, but they believe he died of natural causes, the sheriff’s office said.
Sheriff Will Montgomery expressed his “deepest sympathy and condolences” to Hall’s family.
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