Authorities Identify Woman’s Skeletal Remains Through Online DNA Database

Posted by admin on Nov 19, 2012

Nearly 12 years after a woman’s skeletal remains were discovered in a Homestead tunnel, and three years after officials buried them in a North Strabane cemetery, authorities used an online DNA database to finally solve the mystery of the unidentified bones.

Amanda Sue Myers, 22, died sometime in 2000. Family members last saw her that year in January at her daughter’s first birthday party; police found her bones 10 months later by train tracks in a fenced-off tunnel near McClure Street.

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