The remains of the man known as 'Mr. X' were found smoldering and wrapped in a sheet in 1975.
The cold case of a man known as 'Mr. X' has seen a significant breakthrough after nearly half a century, South Carolina police said Monday.The Greenville County Sheriff credits a true crime podcast — ' Murder , Etc.' — for drawing attention to the case, which dates back to 1975 when the remains of 'Mr. X' were found by a hunter in the South Carolina city.
' covered his case in a live episode in 2020. Investigators from the sheriff's office worked with the county coroner's office that same year to exhume the body from where it had been buried, and sent some of the remains to the National Unidentified and Missing Persons System for DNA testing. A DNA profile was created for the victim in that database.
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