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TIL the oldest active missing person case in the US is over 95 yrs old. 73 yo Marvin Clark, who on HALLOWEEN weekend in 1926 departed his Tigard, OR home to meet his daughter in Portland. A John Doe body was later found between the 2 cities in 1986 but DNA testing in 2018 determined it was not him.

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