Authorities in Pennsylvania have identified a set of human remains as those of a Wilkes-Barre teenage girl who went missing more than 50 years ago, state police said.
In an Oct. 4 press release, Pennsylvania State Police said the remains were discovered in Luzerne County on Nov. 17, 2012, by people digging for relics in a trash-filled depression in the area of a former coal-mining operation in Newport Township.
They were determined to be those of “a female, estimate to be in her mid-teens to early 20’s,” the release said.
Now, more than a half-century later, the remains have been identified as Joan Marie Dymond, who was 14 years old when she disappeared from Andover Street Park on June 25, 1969….