There was a break in the mystery of the 30 -year -old cold case on Jersey Beach after experts confirmed structural remains on three beaches He belongs to a nineteenth -century boat leader.
The bones of a leg, arm and shrapnel have not resulted from an audience that was discovered on the beaches of Ocean City, Margate and Longport between 1995 and 2013 so far.
The authorities said the remains of 29 -year -old Captain Henry Godl, who died at sea 181 years ago.
The progress in DNA technology first linked the bones to the same person after the cold cases investigators with the state police turned into Genetic genealogy center investigation at Ramabo College in New Jersey last year.
“Our mission was to know who this person was that the bones belong to it,” said Kereen Bender of the IGG Center at the College.
Initially, experts were not sure of the bone age.
“We continued to go back and forth between them, is it historical? Isn’t it historical?” Dr. Anna Dylani, Anthropology of New Jersey, said. “This is very amazing because after all this time, Henry has his name.”
Students at the school have launched in search of genetic relatives and the construction of family trees that revealed the ancestral relations in Connecticut. They also started searching for shipwrecks records. The creative step that really helped them narrow the identity of the person.
“Going to those who have identified this ship, which then led to the captain of the ship,” explained by David Gourney, director of the Rambo IGG Center.
Goodsell was the leader of the Oriental, who was a sailboat that was transporting marble from Connecticut to Philadelphia to Gerard College in 1844. However, on that trip, the East fell off the coast of Brigantein and the entire crew was killed.
Investigators managed to track down Goprymateer Great granddaughter in Maryland. A sample of DNA was provided confirming the identity of the captain.
“As far as we know, this is the oldest case that has been resolved at all with the informative genealogy.”
As of the writing of these lines, the GoodSell family does not want its bones until they remain in the state’s warehouse indefinitely.
