Their brother was missing for 44 years, then FBI and California police knocked on the door

A Long Beach police detective and two FBI agents showed up at Roxanne Jones' door in late September and told her she was a familial match with a bo...

December 24, 2022
7:20 AM

A Long Beach police detective and two FBI agents showed up at Roxanne Jones' door in late September and told her she was a familial match with a boy's body that for 44 years law enforcement only knew as 'John Doe 1978.' It would be a sibling, they said, and showed her a photo. The 63-year-old San Bernardino County resident immediately solved the decades-old mystery — her younger brother, Kenneth Nevada Williams. Kenny. On Wednesday, Dec. 14, Long Beach police named the 15-year-old as the 1978 victim, which was determined by using genealogy technology.

Nathaniel Percy