Murder of George Seitz
George Clarence Seitz (December 12, 1894 – December 10, 1976) was an American World War I veteran murdered on December 10, 1976, in the New York City neighborhood of Jamaica. Police recovered his remains 43 years later, and arrested his alleged murderer in 2021. Disappearance. The victim was a World War I veteran who went by "Clarence". He was reported missing after going for a haircut. At the time, Seitz was 81 years old. Investigation. There were no leads and the investigation was placed in the cold cases file, abandoned for decades. However, in early 2019, a  woman in her 50s informed the police that as an 11-year-old girl, she had seen her mother's companion dismember and bury a body. The police used dogs to scour the property where she had lived at the time, and found human remains, but were unable to identify the victim. Only the pelvis and part of the torso were found. Identification of victim. Using material from the remains, investigators generated a genetic profile. Two years later, still unable to identify Steitz as the victim, the FBI were called upon, as well as an external forensic genealogy laboratory, Othram  Detectives were then able to find close relatives and identified Seitz through DNA samples. Arrest of suspect. Investigators identified the man mentioned by the informant as Martin Motta. He and his brother had owned the barbershop where Seitz visited when he disappeared, located only a few city blocks from Seitz' home He was arrested, arraigned, and indicted by a grand jury, in November 2021.