An anonymous tip has sparked a new search for a 14-year-old Massachusetts girl who disappeared 23 years ago, according to reports.
Melanie Melanson vanished in October 1989 after partying with high school friend in some woods on the outskirts of Woburn, some 25 minutes north of Boston.
Investigators believed she was killed, but a body was never found and no suspects were named.
Sources told FoxNews.com that an anonymous New Hampshire man recently told a private investigator working for the missing girl’s family that her remains might be in Middlesex Fells Reservation in nearby Stoneham.
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The man claimed some teens who were partying with Melanson the night she disappeared were later spotted at the 2,500-acre state park, Fox reported.
The tipster was said to be an old friend of some of the teens.
The investigator, Michael Garrigan, who has been searching for the girl since 1991, said volunteers and cadaver dogs were set to search a section of the park on Saturday, Fox Newsreported.
The Middlesex County district attorney’s office said the Woburn Police Department would help with the search.
“We’re hopeful that we can find Melanie and give her the proper burial that she deserves,” Jessica Pastore, a DA spokeswoman, told Fox News.
According to Melanson’s family, Melanie was last seen with two boys around her age in a wooded hangout popular with local teens sometime before dawn on Oct. 28, 1989.
The two boys were questioned by police, but they were never charged.
In 2009, the district attorney announced a $5,000 reward for information that might help solve the case.
Melanson, a high school freshman, was just five days shy of her 15th birthday when she disappeared.
