Death of James Conklin
- Year
- 1994
- Where
- Utah
- Source
- Wikipedia
- Evidence
- 1
James Howard Conklin (b. 1950 - last seen May, 1988) was an American man whose body was found in 1994 in rural southern Utah. His body remained unidentified for thirty years until the Othram genetics lab identified the subject, whose last known whereabouts were in Arizona in 1988.
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