Remains found in western Indiana in 1998 identified as those of long-missing man, police say

Authorities say skeletal remains found near a western Indiana highway overpass more than a quarter-century ago have been identified as those of an Indiana man who vanished in 1997. Indiana State Poilce said Wednesday the remains are those of Mitchell Preston, an Anderson man who was 47 when he was last seen in that central Indiana city in August 1997. A state highway worker found the remains in January 1998 near an Interstate 70 overpass in Vigo County, but efforts over the intervening years to identify them proved unsuccessful. Preston's remains were finally identified after some of them were submitted to a company that specializes in forensic genetic genealogy.