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Police Narrow Profile of Human Remains Found on Queen’s Estate

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GETTY W 010312 Sandringham?  SQUARESPACE CACHEVERSION=1325693193256Indigo/Getty Images(LONDON) — British police are re-examining local missing persons cases, including the disappearances last year of two young women, as they expand their investigation into the human remains discovered Sunday on the grounds of the vacation retreat where Queen Elizabeth and the royal family had spent the holidays.

A post-mortem examination conducted Tuesday found that the remains are those of a white female between the ages of 15 and 23.  Detectives from Norfolk Police say they expect to have a DNA profile of the victim by Wednesday evening.

Police are now reopening lines of inquiry into missing persons cases that had gone cold in hopes of finding potential links to the body.

The body was discovered around 4 p.m. Sunday by a dog walker at Sandringham Estate, a 20,000-acre public property northeast of London that includes the Queen’s residence.

Police have classified the case as a murder investigation, saying it is “highly unlikely” the death was the result of natural death or accidental injury.

The missing persons cases said to be reopened include the disappearances of Alisa Dmitrijeva, 17, from Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, and Vitalija Baliutaviciene, 29, from Peterborough, both of whom vanished in August.

The family of 17-year-old Dmitrijeva, who disappeared from a small town just down the road from Sandringham, said, however, that police have already told them the body is not Dmitrijeva.

“We’ve spoken to her grandmother this morning and her grandmother is claiming that she’s been told by police already that they do not believe that this body is their child,” Duncan Larcombe, ABC News contributor and royal editor for the U.K.’s Sun newspaper, said Wednesday on Good Morning America.

Dmitrijeva was last seen on August, according to the U.K.’s Daily Mail.  A family member reported her missing seven days later and police have offered a reward for information on her whereabouts.

A Lithuanian man has been charged with the kidnap and murder of 29-year-old Baliutaviciene, who disappeared from her home Aug. 12, but her body was never discovered.

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