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Gary Addison Taylor | Murderpedia, the encyclopedia of murderers In 1976, a 25-year-old New Yorker named Gary Sotherden embarked on a hunting trip in the remote Porcupine River area of northeastern Alaska. He was supposed to return the following spring, but he never showed up — and his family has been looking for him ever since. For years, the only traces of Sotherden were his glasses and wallet, which lay abandoned near one of his campsites. Then, in 1997, a hunter reported a human skull found in the area where Sotherden disappeared —  but while troopers were able to determine that the deceased had likely been mauled by a bear, they could not definitely confirm who the person had been. ⁠ ⁠ For decades, the mystery persisted — until 2022, when investigators extracted DNA from the skull and used genealogy websites to link the skull's DNA to Sotherden's living relatives. "We've been working on it for 45 years, and it's nice that things came to a conclusion," Sot...