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Remains of Arkansas teen who disappeared in 2015 found in a park pipe

The teen disappeared in 2015. 

LITTLE ROCK, Ar. — Police in Arkansas have found the skeletal remains of a young woman whose disappearance had fallen into the cold-case file.

Human remains were found deep inside a pipe in a park where the car of Ebby Steppach was found after she went missing in October 2015, the Little Rock Police Department said Wednesday.

She was 18 at the time.

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In the initial investigation, cadaver dogs searched the park for three days and "didn't locate any kind of scent that would lead us to believe that Miss Steppach was in that area," investigator Hudson said a news conference Wednesday.

Steppach spoke to her brother by phone shortly before she disappeared. Her brother told police she sounded confused and disoriented, saying she was lost and didn't know where she was or whom she was with, according to ABC Little Rock affiliate KATV.

In a Facebook group dedicated to the search for Steppach, her family released a statement Wednesday saying the remains have been identified as the missing teen.

"Ebby's story over the past 30+ months has touched many lives," the statement reads. "Many have seen the beauty in her eyes that revealed a deep passion and care for others."

Read the full story at ABCnews.com.