RAMSEY, Minn. — The Midwest Medical Examiner’s Office in Ramsey is in the middle of an investigation into a nearly 60-year-old missing person case that could soon be solved.

Human remains were discovered in a car that was recently found at the bottom of the Mississippi River in Sartell, Minnesota.

Investigators say the car was registered to Roy Benn, who went missing in 1967 and was never found.

The human remains were recently sent to the Midwest Medical Examiner’s Office in Ramsey for testing.

“Receiving a cold case like this from the 1960s, that is significant. That is something that is a rarity for us,” director Shane Sheets says.

Like every other case they work on, Sheets says their first step is to try to identify the body through fingerprints.

"Finger printing with skeletonized

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