Preliminary DNA evidence indicates human remains found behind an abandoned middle school are those of missing Philadelphia woman Kada Scott, law enforcement sources said late Sunday.

Philadelphia police on Saturday said they had “ recovered human remains believed to be ” those of the 23-year-old who vanished two weeks ago, but were awaiting a medical examiner’s confirmation of the person’s identity, Philadelphia Police Department deputy commissioner John Stanford told reporters at a press conference. He said they had been in contact with her family.

Investigators acting on a “very specific” anonymous tip had returned to a previously searched area and found the remains buried in a shallow grave in woods behind an abandoned school in the city’s Germantown neighborhood, Stanford said. Th

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