Cops: Body exhumed from pauper's grave likely missing girl
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Pennsylvania State Police say DNA tests show that a body exhumed from a pauper's grave last fall is almost certainly that of a 13-year-old Pittsburgh girl last seen in 1967.
The badly decomposed body was found in a landfill in Salem Township, Westmoreland County in September 1967, not long after Teala Patricia Thompson was last seen.
Authorities weren't able to identify the body so it was buried in a grave for unclaimed remains. But last October, a cold-case investigator got permission to have the remains exhumed. Shortly after that was publicized, Thompson's family came forward and gave DNA samples.
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DNA tests received this week show it's 47.5 billion times more likely the remains are related to the Thompsons than not.
Trooper Stephen Limani says police now have a homicide investigation.