Sunday, friends and family will finally get the chance to say goodbye to Whitney Copley. After 14 months, Copley’s remains were found last weekend.
“My gut told me there’s nobody else missing in this area. This has gone on for so long. I just knew in my gut it was her, ” Whitney Copley’s sister Teresa told LEX18.
Last weekend, when human remains were found near the area where Whitney went missing 14 months ago, loved ones knew they had finally found their family’s missing piece.
“At least we know now where she’s at and that she’s not out in the cold. We don’t have to worry if she’s alive and hurt, ” said Whitney’s sister Sarah.
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Many questions still remain unanswered about what happened to Whitney. The night she disappeared, her family says she was on her way to a party and she never came home. Preliminary autopsy reports show no trauma to Whitney’s remains, but her family knows something had to have happened.
“She would not walk up into the woods that far all by herself at 4 o’clock in the morning. There had to be somebody with her, ” said Teresa Copley.
They hope they’ll eventually get those answers, but for now, the family is happy to have Whitney back.
“That’s what we did from day one. We promised that we would find her. We would make sure that her daughters knew what happened and we’d bring her home, and that’s what we’re going to do, ” Teresa said.
The family will hold a public memorial for Whitney on Sunday. They want people to remember her as a loving, caring mother and friend.
“She was a person that would give you the shirt off her back if you needed it, no matter what. I’ll always remember her for that. She was so kind funny and loving to everyone she met, ” said Whitney’s sister Sarah.
The memorial for Whitney starts at three o’clock at the H.E. Pruitt Memorial Chapel in Jamestown.
