Bones Found in Canadian Forest ID’d as Northeast Ohio Man Who Went Missing in 1973
This episode details the remarkable identification of Eric "Ricky" Singer, an Ohio man who vanished in 1973 while on a solo bicycle journey toward Canada. After his skeletal remains lay unidentified in Algonquin Provincial Park for over four decades, investigators finally solved the case in 2025 using investigative genetic genealogy. The account describes Singer as a free-spirited youth of the Vietnam era whose disappearance left his family in a state of agonizing uncertainty for fifty years. By matching DNA with distant relatives, modern forensic science provided his surviving sisters with…
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