The Kansas Bureau of Investigation and the Anderson County Sheriff’s office have positively identified human remains found near Garnett, in a cold case dating back 52 years. In April of 1973 the decomposing remains of an unidentified male were located three miles southeast of Garnett. During the autopsy in 1973 the coroner ruled the man’s manner of death a homicide due to signs of trauma. It was determined the man was around 20 years old and believed to have brown hair and a slender build. Over the years many attempts were made to identify the remains and learn what happened to the man. Last year, using DNA technology not available in 1973, a forensic test was done in an attempt to uncover living family members. This year, the KBI and Anderson County Sheriff’s office located the man’s siblings and conducted interviews and collected DNA samples from them. The unidentified man from 1973 was identified as Jimmy Allen Dollison, who went missing in late 1972, when he was 16 years old. He was reported missing, but the family never learned what happened to Jimmy.
The KBI and Anderson County Sheriff’s office continue to investigate the circumstances leading to Dollison’s death. If you have any information about the disappearance or murder of Jimmy Dollison, you are asked to call the KBI or the Anderson County Sheriff’s office.
