Forensic Investigative Genetic Genealogy identifies skeletal remains found at Sandy Point as Gippsland farmer and World War One veteran who drowned in Waratah Bay in 1928. The identification has been confirmed by the coroner.
VIFM chief molecular biologist Dr Dadna Hartman said it was “a big milestone”.
“We still have in my office the whiteboard with the family tree,” she said. “It sends shivers down my spine when I remember my colleague Fiona Leahy turning to me and saying, ‘I think I know who it is’.”
