A car containing human remains has been connected to a decade-old missing person case out of Pittsburgh.The car was pulled from the Allegheny River on Sunday. Once the car was ashore, the dive team believed human remains were inside.Murrysville Medic One dive team, the people who found the car Sunday, said the license plate on the car matched the one police believed 78-year-old Bunnie Lee, of Pittsburgh’s East Liberty neighborhood, might have been driving when he was last seen on Nov. 13, 2013.The make of the car, a Mazda, also matched the police description from 2013.Allegheny County police confirmed in a release that remains were found in the vehicle, and that those remains had been taken to the county medical examiner’s office for identification.Officials have not yet confirmed the identity of the remains found in the car, but sources confirmed the connection to Bunnie Lee.Neighbors of Enright Court, where Lee lived for years before his disappearance, told sister station WTAE, that they consider this connection to Lee’s case to be closure. Now, they’re hoping answers will follow.“You just don’t disappear from the face of the Earth, period,” Derrick said.That’s what he understood happened to his neighbor in November 2013.Maria McDaniel said she knew him as Mr. Bunnie.“Him, getting older in age, you know… There were some memory issues. You know, he was up there. We always suspected he just didn’t go away on his own, something happened. You know, I don’t know what happened,” McDaniel said.The news of Sunday’s river search reached Doug Bishop, the founder of United Search Corp, who had previously searched for Lee.“Having been involved with numerous searches for Mr. Lee, I am incredibly relieved there are finally answers to his decade-long disappearance. I would like to commend & highlight Murrysville Medic One Dive Team for their discipline which led to this discovery. We extend our sincerest condolences to the entire Lee family. Our hearts are with them as they navigate this difficult outcome,” Bishop said in a statement.“This is like closure for me, you know what I mean? Because he was almost like an uncle. This community raised me,” Derrick said.“He’s gone. Rest in peace, Mr. Bunnie. But we know. We know now. We just got to know how. Why?” McDaniel said.
A car containing human remains has been connected to a decade-old missing person case out of Pittsburgh.
The car was pulled from the Allegheny River on Sunday. Once the car was ashore, the dive team believed human remains were inside.
Murrysville Medic One dive team, the people who found the car Sunday, said the license plate on the car matched the one police believed 78-year-old Bunnie Lee, of Pittsburgh’s East Liberty neighborhood, might have been driving when he was last seen on Nov. 13, 2013.
The make of the car, a Mazda, also matched the police description from 2013.
Allegheny County police confirmed in a release that remains were found in the vehicle, and that those remains had been taken to the county medical examiner’s office for identification.
Officials have not yet confirmed the identity of the remains found in the car, but sources confirmed the connection to Bunnie Lee.
Neighbors of Enright Court, where Lee lived for years before his disappearance, told sister station WTAE, that they consider this connection to Lee’s case to be closure. Now, they’re hoping answers will follow.
“You just don’t disappear from the face of the Earth, period,” Derrick said.
That’s what he understood happened to his neighbor in November 2013.
Maria McDaniel said she knew him as Mr. Bunnie.
“Him, getting older in age, you know… There were some memory issues. You know, he was up there. We always suspected he just didn’t go away on his own, something happened. You know, I don’t know what happened,” McDaniel said.
The news of Sunday’s river search reached Doug Bishop, the founder of United Search Corp, who had previously searched for Lee.
“Having been involved with numerous searches for Mr. Lee, I am incredibly relieved there are finally answers to his decade-long disappearance. I would like to commend & highlight Murrysville Medic One Dive Team for their discipline which led to this discovery. We extend our sincerest condolences to the entire Lee family. Our hearts are with them as they navigate this difficult outcome,” Bishop said in a statement.
“This is like closure for me, you know what I mean? Because he was almost like an uncle. This community raised me,” Derrick said.
“He’s gone. Rest in peace, Mr. Bunnie. But we know. We know now. We just got to know how. Why?” McDaniel said.
