DNA testing has confirmed a human foot bone found near Fish Lake in May belongs to a fisherman who went missing at the lake in 1997.

The bone and the shoe in which it was found belong to David White, a 44-year-old man from Washington City, Washington County, the Sevier County Sheriff's Office announced Tuesday.

White had planned to go fishing on the lake with his friends in late August 1997, a news release from the sheriff's office says, and when those plans fell through, White went fishing anyway. White's empty boat was later found skimming across the lake, along with a shoe and a hat floating in the water, leading investigators to believe he had fallen in.

A search and rescue team spent days looking for White but was unable to find him. On May 16 of this year, a man was walking his do

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