FBI Investigating Cold Case Involving Local Teenager
BEAVER COUNTY (KDKA) -- A local cold case is getting new life. The FBI is looking for new evidence that may help solve the murder of a local teenager.
FBI agents are heading back to Ohio in an effort to uncover evidence in the murder of Sarah Boehm.
Boehm was 14 years old when she disappeared in July of 1994. She was last seen leaving her home in Rochester, Beaver County, late at night.
Hunters discovered her remains five months later in Portage County, Ohio, not far from the remains of 17-year-old Kathryn Menendez, who went missing one month after Boehm did.
"Who would have taken her, and who would have done it, you know?" Shirley Bible, a family friend, said. "Everybody kept thinking she was still alive."
Menendez had been strangled.
The FBI says they have no evidence linking the two murders. But they're heading back to the scene next Friday; this time, with a trained "evidence response team" in hopes they'll find new evidence that will help them crack the case.
Officials with the FBI say the cases are too much alike to be coincidental. Both girls were found in the same forest, unclothed. Authorities say they're not giving up until the case is closed.
The FBI has notified both families about the search that will be taking place next Friday.
If you have any information on these cases, you're being asked to contact the FBI Pittsburgh and Cleveland offices.
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