Remains Found in Remote Arizona Desert in 1992 Identified as Missing Teen Girl, Police Say

PHOENIX—Police in Arizona have determined that decomposed remains found in August 1992 in a remote desert area outside Phoenix were those of a missing 15-year-old, Melody Harrison. The Apache Junction Police Department announced Thursday that advancements in DNA testing helped them make the discovery 31 years after Harrison’s disappearance in June 1992. Police said in a news release that the case soon went cold after the remains were found, and for decades the remains were known only as “Apache Junction Jane Doe,” who they believed was between 16 and 18 at the time of her death. The case was later entered into a database maintained by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and Unidentified Persons System....