Human Bones in Car Matched to Georgia Man Missing Since 1976

The 1974 Pinto Kyle Clinkscales was driving when he disappeared in 1976 is recovered from a creek in Alabama in December 2021. Maj. Terry "Tj" Wood/Chambers County Sheriff's Department via AP

LAGRANGE, Ga.—Human bones found inside a submerged car near the Georgia-Alabama state line in 2021 have been matched to a college student who had been missing for 47 years, according to a Georgia sheriff.

Kyle Clinkscales, 22, of LaGrange, vanished in January 1976 after leaving the Georgia club where he worked as a bartender to return to school at Auburn University in neighboring Alabama.