By Shelby Sebens PORTLAND Ore. (Reuters) - Forensic experts are close to finding out if a skeleton found with gunshot damage to the skull belongs to an Oregon marshal whose 1926 disappearance remains one of the country's oldest unsolved missing persons cases, officials said on Wednesday. Oregon officials are seeking DNA samples from potential relatives of Marvin Clark, a former Linnton town marshal who disappeared from Tigard, Oregon, when he went to see his physician in Portland and never returned. Oregon forensic anthropologist Nici Vance said some DNA test results were already pending on the skeleton, found in 1986 in Linnton - now a neighborhood in Portland - with wire-rimmed eyeglasses similar to those worn by the marshal. If the remains turn out to be Clark's, it will close the second oldest missing persons case in the country, according to Todd Matthews, spokesman for the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs). Read More http://ift.tt/1fuyLZw
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