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New Mexico State Police have found at least four sets of human …

Officials ID adult from Cochiti Lake

Updated: Thursday, 02 Jul 2009, 11:27 AM MDT
Published : Thursday, 02 Jul 2009, 11:27 AM MDT

    ALBUQUERQUE (AP) - A man whose body was found with those of three children in a car submerged in a New Mexico lake was tentatively identified as Richard Robert Sanchez of Albuquerque, who disappeared in August 2001 with his three young sons.

    A spokeswoman for the state Office of the Medical Investigator, Amy Boule, said the OMI was releasing a presumptive identification of Sanchez based on the circumstances and the fact the car was his.

    She said no dental records were located for Sanchez. The OMI sent samples to a lab for DNA testing, but Boule said results are not expected for months.

    The children's remains were identified last month as those of Sanchez's sons.

    Authorities say the father took the boys for a custody visit and never returned.

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