Human remains found in 1995 in a Santa Cruz riverbed have been identified as those of a 13-year-old New York City girl who had been missing since 1975.

Skeletal remains found in Santa Cruz County in the 1990s have been identified as a New York teen who had been missing since 1975, authorities said this week. The partial remains of a girl now known to be 13-year-old Laura O’Malley were originally found in a riverbed off Highway 129 near Watsonville on March 22,