Missing woman found dead 6 months after she disappeared

Emily Strite, 33, has not been seen since April, when she disappeared from Imperial, a suburb of St. Louis, Missouri, near De Soto, the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release. According to the sheriff’s office, officers found Strite in a wooded area in De Soto after receiving a report from the property owner of human skeletal remains found.

Regional Medical Examiner investigators compared medical and dental records and determined the remains belonged to Strite, the sheriff’s office said. Strite’s cause of death is undetermined and investigators are working to determine how her body ended up where it was found, a news release said.

Here’s what you should know about Strite’s disappearance.

Emily Strite’s mother had not spoken to her since April 12th

Charlyn McClain, Strite’s mother, told NBC’s Dateline that she hasn’t spoken to her daughter since April 12. Strite had been driving to a friend’s house in De Soto after traveling across the Missouri border to Cahokia, Illinois, to visit her children at their father’s home, McClain said.