A person discovered lifeless by hikers in Arizona 47 years in the past has been recognized after authorities accessed nationwide fingerprint information, the Mohave County Sheriff’s Workplace said.

The sufferer was recognized Tuesday as Luis Alonso Paredes, a citizen of El Salvador.

On Nov. 23, 1976, hikers within the Lake Mead Nationwide Recreation Space discovered stays in a shallow grave of a person shot within the head at shut vary, the sheriff’s workplace stated in a Fb publish. The physique was discovered about six miles east of Katherine Touchdown.

On the time, authorities may solely decide he was a male in his 30s, over 5 toes tall and weighing 140-150 kilos, the sheriff’s workplace defined. Fingerprints taken from the physique didn’t flip up an identification on the time, and with out another leads, the case went dormant.

Within the time since, native regulation enforcement has gained entry to nationwide information, and the sheriff’s workplace restarted the investigation in October by utilizing these information, finally discovering a match for Paredes.

Investigators discovered that Paredes might have been residing within the Las Vegas space on the time of his demise, and in addition discovered that he had probably labored for the Navy and Coast Guard within the San Francisco space.