Pennsylvania authorities have finally identified the remains of a girl found hidden in brush under a plastic tarp in 1973. Officials used genealogy to identify the girl, who was discovered by game wardens in Lebanon County. The girl's body had been exhumed from Mount Lebanon Cemetery in 2016 in an effort to identify her.
Officials have positively identified the remains of a girl whose body was found hidden in brush under a plastic tarp in 1973, Pennsylvania authorities said this week, according toTwo game wardens found the decomposed remains of a young girl in a wooded area of Lebanon County on Oct. 10, 1973, approximately 47 miles from Brenneman's home in York County, Lacey said. Officials have spent the last 50 years attempting to identify the girl, Lacey said.
Brenneman was last seen"after she left for school and never returned home," Lacey said. Officials are looking into whether she made it to school that day. "Just because we identified her today that doesn't end our investigation," Keck said."We're going to do our best and put our best foot forward here to come to a conclusion."
Lacey declined to say whether there is a person of interest in the case and couldn't say for sure whether it was a homicide, as that is still"pending" with the coroner's office.
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