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At Construction Site, The Search Resumes For Remains Of 7-Year-Old Girl Missing 50 Years
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On Sept. 2, 1961, 7-year-old Ramona Price went missing as she walked to school in Santa Barbara. The case has never been solved. Investigators came across information four years ago that led to "the 101 Freeway's Winchester Canyon Road overcrossing, a structure that was being built at around the time Ramona vanished," according to the L.A. Times.
"The tearing down of the Winchester overcrossing for new construction allows a rare opportunity to search the area with so-called cadaver dogs trained to detect human bodies, even after being buried for many years," a police spokesman said Tuesday.
Information about a possible suspect will be disclosed Wednesday morning when Santa Barbara's police chief, Cam Sanchez, holds a press conference at the site.
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