FITCHBURG, Mass. (AP) — Remains found in a Boston park more than 20 years ago have finally been identified as a missing Fitchburg woman.
A woman was killed and buried at the Stony Brook Reservation in the city’s Hyde Park neighborhood in 1994.
WCVB-TV reports that DNA samples helped police solve the case and identify the woman as 37-year-old Milagros Alvarado.
Alvarado’s family in December gave DNA samples to the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System at the University of North Texas’ Center for Human Identification. They got a match two months later.
Cynthia DeJesus, Alvarado’s daughter who was 2 years old when her mother disappeared, says she’s “elated.”
Boston cold case Detective Bill Doogan says he’s working with other investigators to find out who killed Alvarado.
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