Fishermen find a man's body near a river in 2022, according to Washington police. Now he is identified

Two fishermen were on the Columbia River in Washington state when they discovered a body in 2022, deputies said.

DNA testing identified the remains of Pierre Pearson, 34, of Georgia, the Cowlitz County Sheriff's Office said May 29 in a Facebook post.

Fishermen found Pearson's body on June 2, 2022, near Martin's Bar, a park in Woodland, deputies said.

At the time, the coroner was unable to identify Pearson and he had no identification on him, authorities said.

Fingerprints and facial identification could not be performed at the time due to the body's “level of decomposition,” deputies said.

Deputies then got help from Othram, a laboratory in The Woodlands, Texas, that specializes in forensic genetic genealogy.

Othram identified potential family members and created a family tree.

Pearson's stepmother and father were contacted, which helped authorities obtain his dental records.

He was later identified by a forensic odontologist, a “specially trained dentist” who can help identify human remains for police.

Pearson's family last heard from him in 2021, and he was passing through Portland before his death, deputies said.

That investigation will be closed because deputies said “there is no indication that Pearson died as a result of a crime.”

Woodland is about a 30-mile drive north of Portland, Oregon.

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