LAPHAM JUNCTION, Wis. – Homicide is suspected uh the death of a Kenosha man who disappeared in 1977 and whose decomposed remains were found in 1978. Sheriff Duane Waldera said that forensic genealogy identified the remains recently as those of Dennis R. McConn, who disappeared 40-plus years ago at age 29. The remains were found back then by a logging crew in a wooded tract off County Road O in remote eastern Jackson County, about 100 yards south of Keys Road east of the intersection with Fish Creek Road. The disappearance of McConn had become the subject of a state DNA Doe Project, which produced new evidence the confirmed suspicions about homicide, Waldera said. The site where the remains were found is 12 miles off Interstate 94 between Sparta and Black River Falls, about four hours from Kenosha.
