SEVIERVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — Skeletal remains found in December were identified as a man who was last seen in September 2021 according to the Sevier County Sheriff’s Office.

September 7, 2021, was the last time 25-year-old Dylan Kenneth Wayne LaFollette was seen. Hunters found his skeletal remains in a wooded area off of Indian Warpath Road on Dec. 5, 2022, near where he was last seen the sheriff’s office said.

According to police, an examination of the remains by an anthropologist at the Knox County Regional Forensic Center positively identified the remains as LaFollette.

Police say that multiple searches were conducted, and K-9s and drones were deployed in the area where LaFollette was last seen after he was reported missing, but he wasn’t found at that time.

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