The DNA Doe Project identified the remains found by a family on Salmon Creek Beach in Sonoma County in 2022, the sheriff’s office announced Thursday. According to the DNA Doe Project, on June 17, 2022, a family was looking for seashells on the beach when they found a long bone sticking out of t he sand. Authorities said further examination revealed the bone was possibly a tibia, and no other remains were found. The sheriff’s office brought the case to the DNA Doe Project, according to officials. Experts then worked to identify John and Jane Does, and a profile was developed for what they determined was a man. Shortly after, officials said they zeroed in on a family that moved from the East Coast to San Diego. Looking for descendants, the project indicates they came across 59-year-old Walter Karl Kinney. Kinney was born in San Diego and later moved to Santa Rosa, not far from Salmon Creek State Beach, according to the DNA Doe Project. Authorities report team members later found an article about human remains that had washed ashore in 1999 and learned a woman had contacted authorities in 2003 regarding her missing father, Kinney. That’s when the DNA Doe Project said crews used X-ray records to confirm the remains belonged to Kinney. They said they presented the lead to the sheriff’s office, confirming the bone found on the beach was, indeed, Kinney’s. The project added Kinney was a former banker who lived in Santa Rosa. His daughter described him as “smart, sensitive, almost to fault”. ...read more read less