The body of a girl who was mutilated, decapitated and dumped in a Massachusetts parking lot over 25 years ago has finally been identified as a missing teen from more than 300 miles away.
Since Nov. 13, 2000, when police found her dismembered corpse behind a healthcare facility called the Soldiers’ Home in Chelsea, the mysterious victim was only known as “Chelsea Jane Doe.”
But state and federal investigators announced Wednesday that the remains have been linked to a missing teenager from Allentown, Pennsylvania named Tiffany Bradley using DNA and gene analysis.
“Tiffany was trafficked across state lines, decapitated, dismembered and dumped in the back of a parking lot,” the Boston FBI field office wrote on Facebook.
“Even though her killer is behind bars, investigators have worked tirelessly to determine who she was, where she came from, and who might still be searching for her.”
Eugene McCollom is currently serving a life sentence for her murder, according to CBS.
He killed her in his room at a Boston-area YMCA in November 2000, according to investigators.
The last time Bradley’s family heard from her was right before she was killed during a chilling phone call. She sounded terrified and had to cut off the call, her heartbroken cousin Shakirah Wiggins said.
“Her last conversation with her favorite cousin was cut short with her voice trembling, saying, ‘I’ll call you later. I have to go,’” Wiggins recalled.
“That call never came and was replaced with 26 years of waiting, wondering why.”
McCollom was convicted in 2005, but told investigators that Bradley’s head and body parts were at Nahant Beach, roughly 35 minutes north of Boston.
But the case remained cold when her body parts were nowhere to be found.
“We have waited so long for this day,” Massachusetts State Police Col. Geoffrey Noble said at a press conference.
“It is rare to have a case like this one, where we knew the suspect’s name before the victim’s.”
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