Many political candidates pitch themselves as outsiders.

Morris, 30, of Barre, Vermont, had been shot at least six times in the head. “When you’re looking at a finger that’s been in the ground since 1969, the epidermal layer of skin is gone. When I did it myself, I knew what I was looking at.”The attorney general's Cold Case Unit had been trying to identify the remains for years. They told investigators Morris had been released from the Vermont State Prison on May 9, 1969, and spent time in Boston the following month and in Glastonbury, Connecticut, that July. “It definitely gave our Cold Case Unit at the attorney general’s office help in their investigation and hopefully solving this someday.”The Cold Case Unit was created in 2009.