TedMac
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"We coming up on the anniversary of this case. Take a look - if you know anything at all call the Sheriff's Office Major Crimes Unit at 305-289-2410...
The bones of a young woman were found on Grassy Key in December of 1976. In 2004, they were finally identified as 15 year old Stephanie Sempell, last seen alive in March of 1976 by her mother, Dorothy Appel of Boca Raton, Florida...
Then, in 1997, Kim Quinn of New York, the sister of a Boca Raton girl missing since 1976, began looking into the status of her sisters case. Her younger sister, Stephanie Sempell, was a chronic runaway who was last seen in March of 1976. At the time of her disappearance, she told her mother she was going to the Keys with friends. She never returned. The family says they reported her missing, but for some unknown reason, there is no record of that report. Because there was apparently no official report that she was missing, her name and description was never entered into any database where a comparison with this case would have been possible.
When the sister began making inquiries, she discovered that because there was no official missing persons report in existence, her missing sister was not in the nationwide missing child database. As a result of Quinns inquiries, Sempell was finally entered into the database. Eventually, the NCMEC matched that missing person report with the Keys case from 1976 as a possible hit. Using DNA from Sempells mother, analysis indicated a match. That, along with a description of Sempell, which closely matched the bones, convinced detectives they had finally identified the bones found on Grassy Key..."
https://www.facebook.com/floridakey...QruDIE92WOQIQEJqpDWPLuku7-32qc4uNIHm8qvC_7xvw
"We coming up on the anniversary of this case. Take a look - if you know anything at all call the Sheriff's Office Major Crimes Unit at 305-289-2410...
The bones of a young woman were found on Grassy Key in December of 1976. In 2004, they were finally identified as 15 year old Stephanie Sempell, last seen alive in March of 1976 by her mother, Dorothy Appel of Boca Raton, Florida...
Then, in 1997, Kim Quinn of New York, the sister of a Boca Raton girl missing since 1976, began looking into the status of her sisters case. Her younger sister, Stephanie Sempell, was a chronic runaway who was last seen in March of 1976. At the time of her disappearance, she told her mother she was going to the Keys with friends. She never returned. The family says they reported her missing, but for some unknown reason, there is no record of that report. Because there was apparently no official report that she was missing, her name and description was never entered into any database where a comparison with this case would have been possible.
When the sister began making inquiries, she discovered that because there was no official missing persons report in existence, her missing sister was not in the nationwide missing child database. As a result of Quinns inquiries, Sempell was finally entered into the database. Eventually, the NCMEC matched that missing person report with the Keys case from 1976 as a possible hit. Using DNA from Sempells mother, analysis indicated a match. That, along with a description of Sempell, which closely matched the bones, convinced detectives they had finally identified the bones found on Grassy Key..."
