Missing person case closed after 28 years as police identify remains

After nearly 29 years, police in Illinois found and identified a body as belonging to Steven Asplund, who was reported missing by his fiancée in January 1994.

"After hanging out for a while, Asplund left in his black Ford Mustang and was never seen again."

In November 2021, Detective Mike Griffin searched a national database for unidentified remains along the Mississippi River in the general area that were recovered between 1994 and 1996. As it turns out, a body had been found in March 1994 by dock workers, but the body's condition led authorities to be unable to identify it at the time, police said.