In November, detectives found human remains in woodland which appeared to have been there for a significant amount of time.
Now they have revealed two new clues in their investigation to identify the body.
DNA evidence had already identified that the remains are of a man who would have been aged over 54 at the time of death.
Now police say the man is likely to have been wearing a green Pringle jumper and said he’d had extensive dental work done.
Officers are making another appeal for information in the hope the discoveries will help them identify the body.
The search site is near to where Peter Moore, who murdered four men for sexual gratification in 1995 , left the body of his youngest victim.
Moore – who is serving a whole life sentence but still maintains his innocence – was a respectable businessman by day and a psychopathic sexual predator by night.
He was dubbed “the man in black” after committing a series of violent sexual assaults on men for over 40, culminating in the murder of four men in the space of three months in 1995.
However, detailing the latest developments, officers revealed fibres found at the scene came from a dark green Pringle jumper produced between 2000 and 2004. Moore was jailed in 1996.
Police were alerted to the body near Cerrigydrudion, Conwy, during the Wales Rally GB last November after a spectator discovered a human skull.
The forensic search and examination of the forest took five weeks and forensic anthropologists and biologists took samples and evidence from the undergrowth to try to date the remains.
Dr John Rosie said specialist dental work was done on the crown between 1980 and 2000 and the highly distinctive nature of the work could lead to identification.
He said: “He’d not been dentally aware in his earlier life and he’d lost all of his 12 posterior molars and one upper premolar so he went to great lengths to have some extensive dental treatment done of very high quality.”
North Wales Police have appealed to dentists all over the UK in the hope one recognises their own dental work and is subsequently able to identify the man, the Daily Post reported .
Tests on the skeleton and skull have produced a DNA profile and police have identified the body to be a man between 5”8 and 5”11 and likely to be over 54 years old at the time of death.
Enquiries with the national DNA database and with the UK Missing Person Bureau have proved to be negative in matching the DNA profile and detectives are progressing familial DNA research in an effort to identify the male.
It is also known from analysis of the skull that the person had suffered trauma to the head and police are currently treating the death as suspicious.
Recently retired Detective Sergeant Dewi Harding Jones said: “This is significant progress as we now can determine that it is likely that the body has been left at that location after the year 2000.
“We have to find out who this person is before we can investigate what happened to him and why. Hopefully we can identify the person and give the victim’s family some answers to this mystery.”
see-http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/detectives-reveal-new-clues-case-11436639
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