Authorities found and identified the skeletal remains of a Missouri mother in a remote wooded area six months after she mysteriously disappeared.
The identity of Emily Strite, 34, was confirmed through medical and dental records after a Frissell Road homeowner discovered the mother of four’s skeletal remains in a wooded area on Sept. 28, according to the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office .
Authorities said no cause of death has been determined, and the investigation into her disappearance and death remains ongoing — leaving Strite’s family and friends desperate for answers.
“We pray now that we get answers and whoever hurt her is brought to justice,” Amanda Bauman, Strite’s childhood friend, told Fox 2 Now .
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“She literally lit up a room every chance that she got.”
Strite — whose friends say she was in and out of an abusive relationship with the father of her youngest child — was last seen leaving a friend’s house on foot in the De Soto area where she was staying on April 12, according to police .