Human remains ID'd as those of teen who went missing in 2015

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP)- A crime lab has identified skeletal human remains found in a Little Rock park as those of a teenage woman who had been missing since 2015.

The Arkansas State Crime Lab reported the remains found Tuesday morning in a drainage pipe at Chalamont Park were those of 18-year-old Ebby Steppach.

Little Rock police Officer Steve Moore had said the find results not from a tip but from "gut instinct."

The woman's car was found abandoned at the park on Little Rock's west side days after she went missing on Oct. 24, 2015

There was no statement on what caused her death.