Remains found in Troy, NY identified as woman missing since 2013

Police successful Troy, N.Y. announced Thursday that skeletal remains recovered adjacent a pond past period beryllium to a pistillate who went missing successful 2013.

She was identified done DNA investigating arsenic Amanda King, a Bethlehem nonmigratory who went missing from Glenville successful October 2013 astatine the property of 27. She would person turned 38 this week.

King’s skeleton was recovered buried astatine the Burden Pond Preserve connected Oct. 20, officials said. No origin of decease has been released.

King disappeared soon aft leaving Conifer Park, an addiction attraction halfway successful Glenville. She had been ordered by a tribunal to person attraction for heroin addiction. The halfway told her father, Arthur King, she had checked retired against their recommendations and near with different person. Investigators inactive don’t cognize who she near the installation with.

Multiple unconfirmed sightings were reported successful November 2013 earlier the way went acold astir Thanksgiving.

Troy Assistant Chief of Police Steven Barker said authorities successful Troy and Albany, on with New York State Police, “are present actively investigating the circumstances surrounding Amanda’s disappearance, decease and her remains being located successful the country wherever they were discovered,” the Times-Union reported.