Positive identification has now been made of the remains of a man found off the Jolliff Bridge Road northwest of Centralia five years ago.
Clinton County Coroner Phillip Moss says a forensic anthropologist at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville has been able to positively identify the remains as those of James Romines of Centralia through DNA evidence and dental records.
Moss says the cause of Romines’death will remain undetermined since there was no evidence of any foul play in the skelatol remains that were examined.
A skull and more than 30 human bones were originally located in March 2021 off of Jolliff Bridge Road near Linn Street by a sheriff’s department employee looking for antlers. They had remain unidentified until now.
Romines had disappeared from the yard of his home in the 200 block of North Lincoln in Centralia on April 23rd, 2014 without any evidence found on what happened to him.
