Once the various discoveries were found to be from the same person and the remains were shown to be consistent with an anthropological analysis of a missing person, further work led to a positive identification. A legal identification was made on multiple grounds including parental identification of the clothing, condition of the skeleton, stature, fused cervical vertebrae, various aging criteria, radiographic morphology of the skull, pattern of the mastoid sinus, and meningeal artery and suture morphology. The mastoid sinus and endocranial arterial patterns may be particularly useful for identifications when antemortem radiographic studies are limited to lateral cranial vault studies. 1 table, 4 figures, and 15 references (Author abstract modified)