New Jersey remains identified as those of girl missing since 1972

FREEHOLD, N.J. (PIX11) — Skeletal remains found along a waterside New Jersey bike trail in 1988 have now been identified as belonging to a 16-year-old girl missing since 1972, authorities said Monday — though the mystery of how she died persists.

Nancy Carol Fitzgerald sat down with her family for Easter dinner in their Mohr Avenue home in Bloomfield on April 2, 1972, the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office said in a news release. One day later, she disappeared without a trace.