Family of missing teen murdered 45 years ago thought she was alive and 'happy'

Evelyn Colon, left in a computer generated image, went missing from home in 1976 and her family thought she had gone away to live with her boyfriend

‘We were told she had moved on and was happy in a new life’, said Evelyn’s nephew, Luis Colon Jr. ‘He told our family that if Evelyn needed anything, she’d contact them.’But Evelyn never did make contact, and despite years of hoping she would, her family now know why. Their dreams of Evelyn being surrounded by children of her own were shattered whenEvelyn pictured as a young teenager at home

Speaking to metro.co.uk, Luis, 37, has told how his family is heartbroken, and never once imagined their beloved Evelyn had been killed all those years ago. ‘She will be 15 forever, it has devastated our whole family. I never had chance to meet her, but I’ve always felt like we’ve had a connection.’ ‘I did the DNA test in late 2015, early 2016. I used to think about her a lot at Christmas, and I thought it’d be amazing to upload my DNA, hoping that she may do the same one day too.After more than four years of waiting, Luis’s search came to a tragic end when he was contacted by Pennsylvania police in March, saying that his DNA profile was a 99.9% match to that of the remains of a teenage girl, murdered in 1976, and known only as ‘Beth Doe’.

Luis added: ‘At the time, when I did the DNA test, I never thought something bad might have happened to her. And at the time, police did not even know who she was.‘I have been able to get answers, but we are saddened that the answer turned out to be that she was murdered.Evelyn’s family set up a

Terrible though you'd think any decent family would have still searched for her. Facebook been around 10 years after all

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