Tip, DNA lead authorities to identity of man whose body was found on Revere Beach two years ago

A man who told his family he was "going off the grid" and that they "would not see [him] again" has been identified through DNA evidence as the man whose partial remains were found on Revere Beach in 2014, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.

Because the man's death is not considered suspicious, the DA's office is not identifying him, except to say he was 31 and living in Cambridge at the time of his disappearance - but with ties to Oklahoma.

The DA's office adds he warned his family of his impending disappearance in a letter in 2013.

When his remains were found on the beach on April 30, 2014, he was wearing 30-inch-waist jeans with a black, braided leather belt and:

He was also wearing boxer shorts bearing an image resembling a Volkswagen Bug with a surfboard on its rooftop.

In 2015, a tipster contacted State Police to suggest the man might have been somebody who disappeared on Oct. 30, 2013. Armed with that information, the DA's office says, State Troopers were able to track down a Tulsa, OK, man who might have been his father, through a national missing-person database. The man provided a DNA sample that proved a familial match to DNA from the body in the beach, the DA's office says.

In a statement, DA Dan Conley says:

With their years of waiting and wondering at an end, I hope this man's loved ones can take some comfort knowing that their son and brother is at peace. I'm grateful to the State troopers, the NamUs personnel, and especially the Good Samaritan tipster involved in this investigation who helped bring answers to this young man's family.