Skeletal remains found at home in Illinois identified as those of woman missing since 2008

Authorities accidental skeletal remains recovered astatine a location successful Springfield person been identified arsenic those of a pistillate who vanished successful 2008

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- Skeletal remains recovered astatine a location successful Springfield person been identified arsenic those of a pistillate who vanished successful 2008, authorities said.

Sangamon County Coroner Jim Allmon said a post-mortem introspection that included a forensic pathologist and an anthropologist identified the remains arsenic those of Michelle Renee “Shelly” Bianco of Springfield.

An authoritative origin and mode of decease was inactive pending, Allmon said Tuesday.

Sangamon County Sheriff Jack Campbell said the lawsuit is present a decease probe and investigators are "interviewing anybody and everybody connected to the case,” The (Springfield) State Journal-Register reported.

Bianco's skeletal remains were recovered Monday astatine a location successful Springfield 1 time aft constabulary were called to the residence astir “personal items” recovered successful a crawl space. Campbell said Tuesday those items included a purse with documents with Bianco’s sanction connected them.

Bianco was past seen connected April 5, 2008, successful the Springfield area. She and her relative were walking erstwhile a antheral driving a achromatic Pontiac offered Bianco a thrust home, constabulary said. Bianco was 43 astatine the time, Campbell said.

The relative told constabulary the antheral called Bianco by her name. A missing persons study was filed for Bianco 3 days aft she disappeared. She would beryllium 59 if she was inactive alive.