Alan Livingston: Remains of man who went missing in 1983 found in Alabama river, killer may go unpunished
GADSDEN, ALABAMA: The skeletal remains found inside the brown 1980 Ford Bronco under the Coosa river in January 2022 have been confirmed to belong to a Rainbow City man, Alan Douglas Livingston, who has been missing since 1983. "Never seen anything like it!" detective Sgt Eric Phillips stated while confirming that Livingston was last seen driving a brown 1980 Ford Bronco.
About two months after Livingston went missing, a 71-year-old hitchhiker named William Roth Jr was arrested in Arkansas for a Clarksville, Texas murder. He was sentenced to life in prison. In 2012, he was moved to a nursing home owing to deteriorating health and has remained there ever since. Roth was alleged to have killed Livingston as well but never gave a satisfactory explanation about what happened. He may never face charges in Livingston's death, reported ABC 7.