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Severed leg found on beach helps solve 27-year-old mystery

Summary by Wonderwall.com
A bone discovered by a family searching for seashells on a Northern California beach has helped solve one of Sonoma County’s most unusual cold cases, linking remains found decades apart to the same missing man. Authorities confirmed that a severed leg found on a Sonoma County beach in 2022 belonged to Walter Karl Kinney, a former banker from Santa Rosa who disappeared in 1999. The identification, announced in March 2026, closed a decades-long my…
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Wonderwall.com broke the news in on Wednesday, April 1, 2026.
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