PITTSYLVANIA COUNTY, Va. (WDBJ) - When the Office of the Commonwealth Medical Examiner finds unidentified and unidentifiable remains, it turns to the FBI to try to figure out to whom the remains belong.

The Commonwealth of Virginia has more than 300 cases of unidentified remains that date back to the 1940s. Lara Newell is the coordinator of the long-term missing, so she is in charge of the effort to figure out who a skeleton belongs to when it is found somewhere in the state.

One example is a Hispanic man found by hunters in Pittsylvania County on December 26, 2005. By the time the hunters found him, his clothing had disintegrated. There were plants growing through his bones. There was no skin or hair left. Despite that, a skeleton can yield enough information to create a facial approxim

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