Case closed on Kyle Clinkscales’ disappearance with few answers [Video]

TROUP COUNTY, Ga. – It is a heartbreaking ending to one of the oldest missing persons cases on the books in Georgia. This week, the Troup County Sheriff’s Office announced that tests on the recently discovered remains of Kyle Clinkscales cannot say how he died or even if he was murdered.

Was it a car accident or something more sinister? Kyle Clinkscales remains, and the evidence found in his submerged Ford Pinto in 2021, can reveal no more. So, the questions about how he died will continue unanswered for now.

It seemed miraculous in January 2021, that Clinkscales’ car was found submerged in an Alabama creek 45 years after he disappeared on his way back to Auburn University from his home in Troup County.

Bones found in the Ford Pinto matched his family’s DNA last year. It was Kyle. The next step was determining his cause of death. As FOX 5 reported in 2023, it …