TAMPA, Fla. ( WFLA ) — A 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.
In a Tuesday press release , Plantation Police explained that in November 1974, a mother and her young daughter were reported missing from their home, just outside of Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The woman’s 1961 Chevrolet Impala was also missing.
While they did not identify the mother and daughter in Tuesday’s press release, those details align with a missing persons alert for Doris Wurst and her daughter, Caren, who were 35 and 3 when they disappeared in November 1974.
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According to police, a year after their disappearance, the case was declared cold. At least nine times since the late 1970s, follow-up investigations were conducted, but the mother and daughter were never found.