SEARCY, Ark. — On Thursday, April 11, the Arkansas Crime Lab confirmed through dental records that the remains found on the Riverview School property were that of 26-year-old Larry Don Madden.
“The crime lab has the bones so it’s up to them to decide cause of death or anything like that,” Sergeant Todd Dewitt with the Searcy Police Department said. “Anybody wants closure for a loved one that’s been missing like that, so you treat it as if it was yourself. Would you want closure? I know I would.”
According to the Searcy Police Department, officers were contacted in reference to human remains being found on the Riverview High School campus. The remains were located in a wooded area just off of Moore Street south of the school’s building.
Madden was reported missing in 1999 out of Lake Charles, Louisiana. He was in the Searcy area working and staying with a friend at the time his disappeared.
This case is under investigation.