Remains of missing Idaho woman found nearly a year after disappearance

Twenty-seven-year-old Gwen Brunelle left Boise on June 26, 2023, headed to Fresno, California. She was last seen at a gas station on June 27, in Jordan Valley, Oregon . Her vehicle was found abandoned on June 30, just 0.4 miles from Highway 95 on the Idaho - Oregon border.

After almost a year of searching, Brunelle's family hired a drone company out of Homedale and Aloft Drone Search to grid search nearly 4,000 acres, including areas that were not searched during extensive ground searches, the drone took and looked through tens of thousands of high-resolution images. On April 8, 2024, the Malheur County Sheriff's Office was contacted with the pictures and coordinates to investigate what was believed to be human remains.

Malheur County Sheriff's Deputies searched the location given to them and recovered human remains that were determined by the Oregon State Medical Examiner's Office through dental records to be Gwendolyn Brunelle. Gwen's remains were found about two miles from where her car was found just outside of the original search zone.

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