TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — The decades-long mystery surrounding the disappearance of a Florida mother and her 3-year-old child is believed to have been solved after skeletal remains were unearthed in a canal on Sunday, according to police.
Sunshine State Sonar, an organization that conducts searches for missing person cases in South Florida, said the remains belonged to Doris Wurst, 35, and her 3-year-old daughter, Caren.
The two vanished from their home at 13411 NW 2nd Street in Plantation on Nov. 12, 1974. The mother’s 1961 Chevrolet Impala was also nowhere to be found, the Plantation Police Department said .
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According to police, the next of kin have been notified of the likelihood that the remains of their loved ones have been located. Police are still waiting for DNA and dental records.
The mother and daughter’s disappearance became a cold case in 1975, with follow-up investigations occurring in 1977, 1988, 1992, 1994, 2010, 2013, 2014, 2017, and 2018; however, results came back negative and the two were never found.