British police have IDed the body that was found at Queen Elizabeth’s Sandringham Estate. The body was identified as 17-year-old Alisa Dmitrijeva, who was reported as missing. It is still unknown how long the girl’s body was laying in the area. The teenaged girl has been missing since August. Read more after the jump.
British police investigating the murder of a young woman, whose body was discovered on Queen Elizabeth II’s Sandringham Estate last week, formally identified the victim as 17-year-old Alisa Dmitrijeva.
The Latvian teenager’s body, which may have lain undiscovered for months, was found last Sunday by a dog walker in the tiny village of Anmer, near to the royal residence in the east of England.
Norfolk Constabulary said that Dmitrijeva was reported missing from her home in the town of Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, about 25 miles (40 kilometers) away from Sandringham, in August.
Initial DNA samples from the body proved inconclusive, but detectives said they managed to make the identification by comparing detail from her palm with records held, which were then further verified by DNA from her femur.Norfolk Police Detective Chief Inspector Jes Fry said, “I shall now be liaising with officers from Cambridgeshire who have been working on trying to locate Alisa in recent months as a missing person. The information they provide will give me and the team an extra focus to the inquiry.”
“We would like to identify people who may have worked in that area or were involved in organizing or running any specific events that may have taken place,” he added.In a statement, Dmitrijeva’s family said, “We are devastated by the news of Alisa’s death. We wish to grieve in private.”
Various members of the royal family spent Christmas and the New Year’s holidays at Sandringham, with the queen and her husband, Prince Philip, reportedly still in residence at the time of the grim discovery.
