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A Lee Enterprises, Incorporated newspaper. Majority shareholder: David Hoffmann, Hoffmann Media Group.

More to Gary Roth than bones under a Salt Creek bridge

• By ALGIS J. LAUKAITIS / Lincoln Journal Star
• May 16, 2010
• May 16, 2010
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A man living under the Salt Creek bridge where Gary Roth's remains were found talks about the man who he knew only as "Smiley" and remembers as being friendly. (ERIC GREGORY / Lincoln Journal Star)

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A flower basket hangs from a bridge railing where Gary Roth's remains were discovered in March. (ERIC GREGORY / /Lincoln Journal Star)

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A man living under the bridge where Gary Roth's remains were found said this gallon jar of dill pickles on an I beam under the bridge were Roth's. (ERIC GREGORY / Lincoln Journal Star)

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A 2004 mugshot image of Gary Roth

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By ALGIS J. LAUKAITIS / Lincoln Journal Star

Every kid had a nickname in Gary Roth's old neighborhood in Omaha.

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A man living under the Salt Creek bridge where Gary Roth's remains were found talks about the man who he knew only as "Smiley" and remembers as being friendly. (ERIC GREGORY / Lincoln Journal Star)

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A man living under the bridge where Gary Roth's remains were found said this gallon jar of dill pickles on an I beam under the bridge were Roth's. (ERIC GREGORY / Lincoln Journal Star)

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