Human remains found in a Florida field after anonymous tip off are believed to belong to an aspiring pharmacist, 40, who vanished in 2010 - and police have long suspected two men who she met volunteering
- Police uncovered human remains in Miami Gardens, Florida on Wednesday in the search for missing 40-year-old Lynda Meier
- Meier, who was a pharmacy school graduate, vanished in 2010 after she was last seen leaving her apartment
- The remains were found in a field near where a home was being constructed
- Private investigator hired by Meier's family said authorities believe it's her body
- Two men, one who she met volunteering, were questioned at the time but have never been charged over her disappearance
Human remains uncovered in a Florida field following an anonymous tip off are believed to belong to an aspiring pharmacist who vanished eight years ago.
Police found the remains in a field in Miami Gardens late Wednesday as part of their investigation into Lynda Meier's 2010 disappearance.
It is not yet clear if the remains belong to the 40-year-old missing woman.
The remains were found about three feet underground near a home that is currently being built.
Police found the remains in a field in Miami Gardens late Wednesday as part of their investigation into Lynda Meier's (pictured above) 2010 disappearance
A private investigator hired by Meier's family told the Sun Sentinel that authorities believe it is her body.
Investigator Paul Smerechniak said the woman's mother Phylis Meier received a call from detectives about the development in the case.
Meier's mother is said to 'ecstatic' about the news her daughter's remains have been found.
'Obviously it's bittersweet,' Smerechniak said. 'Her death is something everybody has accepted for a long time. She's just overjoyed that in her lifetime she was found.'
Authorities received an anonymous tip off about the search location, the Miami Herald reports.
Police have been searching the wooded area around the property in the 3900 block of Northwest 215th Street in Miami Gardens all week since receiving the tip from a source.
The body was discovered at around 5pm Wednesday in the woods between a construction site and a wooden home.
Meier was last seen on surveillance video leaving her home in Hallandale Beach in June 2010.
It is not yet clear if the remains found in the field belong to the 40-year-old missing woman
Meier was last seen on surveillance video leaving her home in Hallandale Beach in June 2010. Her Cadillac Escalade was found abandoned a week later in a parking lot 10 miles away
Meier, who had graduated from Nova Southeastern University pharmacy school, was due to pick up her mother for a doctor's appointment but she failed to show up.
Her red Cadillac Escalade was found abandoned a week later in a parking lot less than 10 miles away.
Police questioned two ex-felons who have long been considered persons of interest but were never charged.
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The two men, Antwan Kennedy and Dallas King, were caught on surveillance using Meier's ATM card at two banks the same day she vanished.
Meier met Kennedy when he was just 13 years old, while she was working as a young volunteer in Miami's Overtown. He later went on to play football at Bucknell University, but they stayed in touch.
Kennedy was also the last person to talk to Meier over the phone before she disappeared.
The remains were found about three feet underground near a home that is currently being built
His friend King was later caught trying to use Meier's credit cards after she went missing.
Both men were persons of interest in the case but neither was arrested nor charged.
King is now in prison serving life for an armed robbery with a deadly weapon.
Kennedy has been in and out of jail since Meier's disappearance due to probation violations dating back to a 2007 arrest of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
In February 2014 he was sentenced to between six months and five years in jail for breaching parole by lying about a crash report.
Authorities have previously searched a block of land in Miami Gardens back in 2011.
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