The B.C. Coroners Service has confirmed the identity of a man whose remains were found near Valemount in 2014.
He is Richard Olson, aged 47, of Valemount.
Olson went missing in 2007, and despite extensive searches could not be located. In 2014, human remains were located near Valemount; however, more advanced DNA analysis was required before they could be identified.
An initiative by the Service's identification and disaster response unit to profile difficult unidentified remains cases, involving the International Commission on Missing Persons, produced a DNA profile which was compared with DNA extracted from personal belongings and matched to Olson.
The Service continues to investigate this death.
