PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Maine State Police say additional DNA testing has been necessary to identify the remains of a woman found in a freezer at a Lewiston storage unit.
Spokesman Steve McCausland said Friday the work will continue into next week. He said DNA comparisons being examined by the state police crime lab have been complicated because of the condition of the remains, so additional testing was needed.
Police believe the remains discovered a week ago were those of Kitty Wardwell. The storage unit was rented by her boyfriend Frank Julian, who died Oct. 1 at the age of 80. Wardwell has been missing for 28 years.
Julian had told investigators he last saw the 29-year-old Wardwell after an argument in 1983, when he dropped her off at a motel in Salem, N.H.
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- Moore Self Storage is shown Monday, Oct. 24, 2011, in Lewiston. State authorities are planning an autopsy on human remains found in a unit at the storage facility last week that may be those of a Holden, Maine, woman who vanished in 1983.
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