A Massachusetts teen has been identified as the person found on a Bay State highway.
According to the District Attorney’s Office, on November 28, 1992, skeletal remains were found partially buried in the marsh grass on Route 95 South in Newburyport. An autopsy was conducted, and although no cause of death was declared, the body was determined to be a teenage male. For 32 years the State Police assigned to the Essex District Attorney’s Office and the Newburyport Police attempted to identify the remains. Although investigators developed significant leads, due to the limitations in DNA identification, they were unable to make a positive identification.
Today, the Essex District Attorney’s Office, with the assistance of Othram, a private forensic laboratory in Woodlands, Texas, can positively identify the remains as that of Anthony Angelli Rea. Anthony was born in 1973 and lived part of his childhood in Malden with his mother. He was reported missing from the Harbor School in Newbury in August 1988…