Identified! MO - Butler Co., Remains of man & dog w/ TX tag, Aug'14 - Justin Allen

'Authorities are using dental records to determine if the body found Monday afternoon in a wooded area behind Poplar Bluff Junior High School is that of a Texas man.'

'Because of the body's advanced state of decomposition, authorities were unable to make an identification based on the ID found with the man's body. A dead dog also was found with it.'

The dog, which was tethered, had a TX rabies tag and microchip. Police seem to have worked out an identity but have a problem:

'Investigators, he said, also have located who "we believe to be his father. He is adopted, so no DNA can be obtained [from family members].'

Because of the advanced decomposition, COD was inconclusive, but police say there were no signs of foul play.

http://www.semissourian.com/story/2109649.html

From August 2014:

http://fox2now.com/2014/08/15/texas-man-found-dead-in-southeast-missouri/

[T]he Butler County coroner and Poplar Bluff police identified the man Thursday as Justin R. Allen, of Arlington, Texas. His decomposed remains were found Monday in a patch of woods behind Poplar Bluff Junior High School.

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