A retired Ashley County Sheriff’s Deputy recently travel to Michigan to deliver a death certificate and a military memorial flag to the mother of a recently identified  man, who died in an Ashley County accident in 1989.

In 2009, Guy Hughes submitted DNA and fingerprints into the national law enforcement database, from an accident victim who died on HWY 52 between Hamburg and Crossett on May 24, 1989.

When he was officially listed as a missing person in Michigan in late 2016, his mother and sister provided DNA.

In December, the search identified the deceased as Charles Raymond Cornell, 33.

Cornell was a member of the US Army until 1979.

In 1986, his parents went to visit him,  in Battle Creek, Michigan, finding he had left his apartment, with no forwarding information.

The 1989 ACSO accident report shows that Cornell was standing 2 foot inside the westbound lane with his back to traffic, when he was struck by a tractor-trailer.

Thanks to use dedication, and updated technological processes, the Cornell family finally has closure.

Video courtesy of WWMT.com.   Background information courtesy of AshleyCountyLedger.com

 

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