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The remains,
consisting of only seven bones, were discovered in Fremont,
California, in 2010 and in November were matched to 21-year-old
Elisabeth Martinsson, the Marin Independent Journal reported on
its website.
Marin County Coroner's spokesman said he could not immediately
comment to Reuters on the case.
Martinsson, of Uddevalla, Sweden, had been staying as an
exchange student with a family in Greenbrae, across the San
Francisco Bay from Fremont, when she was reported missing on
Jan. 17, 1982.
Martinsson, who also had been working as a nanny, vanished after
buying a pair of boots in the nearby community of Larkspur and
had not been seen in the more than three decades since.
Some 10 days after her disappearance Henry Lee Coleman, 31, and
Sabrina Ann Johnson, 26, were arrested after they were found in
Oklahoma with the yellow Volkswagen Rabbit that Martinsson had
been driving.
Coleman, who had previously served time in prison for rape, was
convicted of auto theft and sentenced to five years in prison,
according to the Independent Journal.
Investigators were seeking additional tests on the bones and
trying to determine Coleman's whereabouts, the newspaper said.
Martinsson's remains, which were cremated, would be sent back to
family members in Sweden.
(Reporting by Dan Whitcomb; Editing by Bill Trott)
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