The remains of a 16-year-old girl who went missing in Florida in 2004 have been recovered from an Ormond Beach, Florida, trailer park, the Volusia County Sheriff’s Office announced Thursday.

Official identification of the remains is pending, but investigators believe them to belong to Autumn McClure.

The remains were found Wednesday in a plot that housed the trailer in which Autumn was staying when she went missing, the VCSO said in a post on X.

Autumn disappeared on May 10, 2004, from her grandmother’s residence in Ormond Beach. Early in the investigation, the girl contacted her grandmother to say she would return there once she turned 18, the sheriff’s office said.

Autumn was staying with a co-worker, Jessica Freeman, and Ms. Freeman’s boyfriend, Brian Donley, who was 31 at the time and died in 2022.

In 2004, the couple told investigators that Autumn stayed with them only a short time and that they didn’t know where she went.

Chris Miller, a tipster connected to the pair, contacted the sheriff’s office in 2021 and said Donley was responsible for the death of a teenage girl buried in Volusia County.

In exchange for immunity, Ms. Freeman told detectives in 2022 that she and Mr. Donley were sexually involved with Autumn.

Ms. Freeman also claimed to have seen Donley choke Autumn to death and that the man threatened her with the same if she told anyone, Volusia County Sheriff Mike Chitwood said at a press conference.

• Brad Matthews can be reached at bmatthews@washingtontimes.com.