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SF police give update in Kevin Collins case

Haight Ashbury house that was searched in connection with Kevin Collins case.
Mike Koozmin/The S.F. Examiner
The San Francisco Police Department searched a house in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury neighborhood in connection with the Kevin Collins case. Collins was a 10-year-old who went missing in 1984.

The San Francisco Police Department on Wednesday provided an update on the investigation into the high-profile disappearance of 10-year-old Kevin Collins in 1984.

The department hed a news conference with Police Chief Greg Suhr at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday in which they named Dan Therrien as the main person of interest in the case. They also revealed that Therrien, who went by a number of aliases, was wanted in a kidnapping case involving teens in Canada and a 1981 case of lewd act with a child at Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco.

Police searched a home near San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district last week in connection with the decades-old cold case. Therrien lived in the house at the time that Collins disappeared.

Police said a preliminary review of bones discovered at the home indicated they were from an animal.

Kevin's disappearance garnered national attention. His photo appeared on milk cartons and the cover of Newsweek.

S.F. Examiner staff writers contributed to this report.

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