Remains found by hunters in Blount County nearly 20 years ago have been identified as Patrick Grayson Spann from Mississippi. He was an inmate who walked away from the Hinds County Detention Facility in 1998 and lived under an alias.

Patrick Grayson Spann escaped from the Hinds County detention facility in Mississippi, took a dead man's name and had two daughters in Blountsville.

Unidentified remains discovered by hunters in Blount County almost 20 years ago have officially been identified as Patrick Grayson Spann from Mississippi.

A body that was discovered in Alabama nearly 20 years ago was identified as an escaped inmate who had been using a fake name, officials said. The body was originally discovered by hunters in October 2005 in woods near Garden City, Blount County District Attorney Pamela Casey said in a Feb. 11 news release shared with McClatchy News.