Skeletal remains found by kayakers last weekend on an island in the Allegheny River in Forest County have been identified as a Warren man.

In a news release issued by the Forest County coroner’s office on Thursday, Coroner Norman J. Wimer identified the remains found on Saturday as those of Christopher Troy Smith, 51.

“When I issued my news release this past Sunday, I asked that anyone who knows of anyone missing in the area to please contact the coroner’s office,” Wimer said. “I received two leads on Monday — one from a woman who said her son had been missing since January from Warren.

“After speaking to her, I thought it was a good lead and she gave me information on a dentist Smith had last seen. I subpoenaed his records and took the remains along with dental records to a Forensic Anthropologist at Mercyhurst College in Erie … who performed a forensic review. … It was a perfect identifiable match.”