Mark Wells has spent decades trying to uncover what exactly happened to his missing father (Picture: SWNS) For years, Mark Wells believed that he’d been tasked with trying to solve the mystery of how his father died. Instead, he ended up uncovering a different mystery altogether. The Californian paid for DNA testing on remains that had been buried as his father, Dale Wayne Wells, hoping modern science might succeed where decades of investigation…
The man hoped to finally learn the truth about the fate of his father, who disappeared in 1985. Instead, a DNA study showed that a completely different person was buried in the missing man's grave.