A mom found a jawbone in her son’s rock collection. 22 years later, genealogy researchers ID’d the remains of a US Marine

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A mom found a jawbone in her son’s rock collection. 22 years later, genealogy researchers ID’d the remains of a US Marine

By Ashley R. Williams, CNN (CNN) — More than 20 years after a mother found a human jawbone hidden in her son’s rock collection, genetic genealogy experts have unraveled the discovery and identified the partial remains of a US Marine Corps captain. Adding to the decades-long mystery was that 30-year-old Capt. Everett Leland Yager, who died in a military training exercise in July 1951 over Riverside County, California, was previously thought to ha…