Remains found in California ID’d as 13-year-old NYC girl who vanished 50 years ago

Source: New York Post

Human remains found in a California river have been identified as being a 13-year-old New York girl who vanished 50 years ago. The partial skeletal remains were first discovered in a riverbed off a highway in Watsonville almost exactly 30 years ago, but the case ran after initial DNA testing only showed they were of a female. But more advanced testing has now confirmed the body was Laura O’Malley, a 13-year-old Queens girl who was reported missing in August 1975, the Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s Office announced this week.