Girl known as 'Chelsea Jane Doe' ID'd 26 years after mutilated body found hundreds of miles from home state

Authorities person identified a Pennsylvania teen astir 26 years aft her execution successful a uncommon lawsuit wherever investigators knew the killer's individuality agelong earlier they knew the victim's name.

The FBI's Boston tract office, Massachusetts State Police and Suffolk County District Attorney's Office announced Wednesday that "Chelsea Jane Doe" has been identified arsenic Tiffany Bradley, a 16-year-old from Allentown, Pennsylvania, done precocious DNA investigating and investigative familial genealogy.

Bradley's killer, Eugene McCollom, pleaded blameworthy years agone and is serving a beingness sentence. But contempt securing a conviction, investigators spent decades trying to find the individuality of the teenage victim.

"We person waited truthful agelong for this day," Massachusetts State Police Col. Geoffrey Noble said during a quality conference. "It is uncommon to person a lawsuit similar this one, wherever we knew the suspect's sanction earlier the victim's."

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Police discovered Bradley's remains connected Nov. 13, 2000, successful the parking batch of the Soldier's Home successful Chelsea, Massachusetts, astir 315 miles from her hometown.

At Wednesday's quality conference, Suffolk County District Attorney Kevin Hayden described the country investigators encountered.

"They recovered a assemblage of an chartless female," Hayden said. "Tragically, she had been chopped successful half. She was without her caput and without immoderate hands."

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Family members and instrumentality enforcement officials enactment successful a quality league announcing the recognition of Tiffany Bradley, a Pennsylvania teen who was known arsenic "Chelsea Jane Doe" for astir 26 years. (Suffolk County District Attorney's Office)

Authorities said McCollom, who remains incarcerated, admitted to sidesplitting Bradley aft she arrived successful the Boston country and aboriginal told investigators wherever further remains had been buried.

According to the FBI, Bradley had been trafficked crossed authorities lines earlier her death.

Authorities said advances successful DNA exertion and genealogical probe yet allowed investigators to place Bradley and notify her household astir 26 years aft her death.

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"Today, we tin yet authorities her name: Tiffany Bradley of Allentown, Pennsylvania," the FBI Boston bureau wrote successful a Facebook station announcing the breakthrough.

For Bradley's family, the recognition brought an extremity to decades of unanswered questions.

"Her past speech with her favourite relative was chopped abbreviated with her dependable trembling, saying, 'I'll telephone you later. I person to go,'" Bradley's relative, Shakirah Wiggins, said during the quality conference. "That telephone ne'er came and was replaced with 26 years of waiting, wondering why."

Wiggins thanked investigators for continuing to prosecute the lawsuit agelong aft the slayer had been identified.

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"It is wholly astonishing that, aft 26 years, radical cared capable to springiness her a sanction and instrumentality her to our family," she said. "The wheels of justness tally slowly, but surely."

Fox News Digital reached retired to the FBI's Boston tract bureau for further remark but did not instantly person a response.