A skeleton found nearly 40 years ago on the side of a highway has finally been identified as a Rhode Island man who had “frictions” with another man after he started dating his ex-girlfriend, prosecutors said Tuesday.
The body of Keith Olson was positively identified after his body was found on April 8, 1985, by a motorist traveling along Interstate 195 in Fairhaven, Massachusetts, according to the Bristol County District Attorney’s Office.
The 27-year-old resident of Cranston, Rhode Island, was reported missing in 1981.
Authorities were unable to determine who the skeleton belonged to at the time, but were able to rule the man’s death a homicide, the district attorney’s office said, according to masslive.com.
Advanced DNA testing eventually led to a crack in the case, prosecutors said.
No suspects have been identified in Olson’s death, but prosecutors said he had been dating a woman at the time of his disappearance, which had caused a “disagreement” between him and his ex-boyfriend.
Two men escorted Olson from her Cranston apartment around the time she disappeared, a witness previously told investigators, the outlet reported.
Keith Olson of Cranston, Rhode Island, disappeared in 1981.
The woman’s ex-boyfriend, identified as North Providence resident John Broccoli, made “confidential statements” to the woman Olson saw on the day she disappeared, indicating she may have been involved, prosecutors also reportedly said.
Broccoli, also known as Michael Corleone, died in 2019 at the age of 63.
“Police have reasonable grounds to believe that the crime was committed by at least two people and believe that there are individuals who can provide information useful in solving this crime,” District Attorney Thomas Quinn’s office wrote in a news release.
Olson’s body was found four years after she was reported missing, but was not identified until 2023.
Olson’s loved ones said in a statement to WCVB that her loss “has been the most horrific experience our family has ever faced.”
“Ignorance and longing for him to come home has long been a great destruction,” they said.
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