Posted on 06/09/2026 9:25:55 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A son who was told his ‘missing’ dad had died more than 40 years ago has exhumed the body – and found they buried the WRONG person.
Mark Wells, 52, has spent decades wondering what really happened to his dad, Dale Wayne Wells, who disappeared aged 38 in February 1985. After becoming frustrated at a lack of answers from the authorities, he paid to get his dad’s remains exhumed in the hope that new DNA could help solve the mystery.
But Mark was stunned when the results came back — and revealed the man he buried and mourned as a child was not his dad — and belonged to a complete stranger.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
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Got a search hit, then it was a 404 when I went there.
Dale Wayne Wells in Colfax, California
https://www.addresses.com/4:eJyKVnJx9HFV0lEKd4z0A9OuPj7BSjpKSjpKzvk5aYkVIIYjRAAqHGbqq-seZBKipKNUUpSYV1yal5mfB5KLBQQAAP__4SoTiQ==/
So who did dad vote for last Tuesday?
No, wrong name on the tombstone?
I think “hunting accident” and “dental records” was a cover story for a murder, but hey, I wasn’t there.
https://www.unilad.com/news/us-news/son-digs-dad-not-in-grave-397133-20260609
They put him in witness protection.
The quality assurance department at New York Post is abhorrent. What 10 year old wrote that slop?
Great song from my childhood, for sure.
Not a Democrat.
You could at least ping him....
😁😁😁
Probably happens more often than most realize.
Yep, you can find video of someone taking a hammer and smacking the crap out of a loved one’s coffin. Take a guess why someone would do that.
buck up kid... your daddy abandoned you and pulled a Raymond Reddington. move on...
Why didn't he have the DNA compared to his own DNA? Why his sister's? What this could mean is that this body is indeed his father, but the mother cheated and some other man fathered his sister. This whole situation is weird.
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