Body discovered in Kentucky lake identified 24 years later as FBI fugitive
ABC News
State police announced that after more than two decades of investigating they have positively identified the body that was found in Lake Barkley.
More than two decades after fishermen found the body of a man wrapped in heavy tire chains and anchored with a hydraulic jack in a Kentucky lake, police said they have positively identified the body.
However, they say they are still searching for clues as to who killed Roger Dale Parham, a fugitive from the FBI, and how his body was left at Lake Barkley.
Kentucky State Police said they were able to use advanced genealogy DNA testing to identify Parham after previous attempts were unsuccessful.
Parham, who was 52 at the time of his disappearance, was on the lam from authorities in Arkansas after he was arrested and charged with rape in November 1998, according to the FBI. He was released on bond and failed to show up for a court date in March 1999, investigators said.
