MASON, Ohio -- Police in the Cincinnati area say the skeletal remains of a man found more than two years ago are of a Russian immigrant who hadn't been seen in years.
Police Lt. Jeff Braley, a detective in suburban Hamilton Township, says authorities were able to identify the man through a DNA match with a sister in Moscow.
Tree trimmers found the body in a roofless concrete building in May 2007. Police believe the man was killed by blunt force.
Authorities identified him as Aleksandr Alferov, a Russian citizen who was in the United States legally and lived in Cincinnati. They say the last report they have of anyone seeing him alive was in 2001, when he was 32.
Braley says investigators plan more interviews.
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