Police work to correspond to human remains in Anshern County to miss a woman of Pennsylvania – WSOC TV

Anson, NC – A woman from Pennsylvania when he traveled through North Carolina in 2021. Now the police are trying to confirm a positive DNA match between her and human remains, which were found in Anson County in 2022.

Amber Rae Johnston never got on her bus from Winston-Salem to return to Pennsylvania three years ago after a trip to Arizona. Her last known place was in Charlotte, but the investigators say that new evidence of Amber Rae Johnston combines with Anshern County.

In Anson, human remains were discovered in 2022 when building a new middle school. The captain of the Sheriff of the Anshern County Sheriff about the investigative unit Brian Tice told Gina Esposito from Channel 9 that the remains probably belonged to Amber Rae Johnston.

“It is currently not a positive identification – but they said it was a high probability that the Codis hit is a game by South Carolina for Miss Johnston,” said Tice.

Amber Rae Johnston's mother, Sharon Johnston, said the years without her daughter were hard not to know what happened to Amber Rae Johnston. But now she said she has some answers.

“I cried like a baby … although I knew it,” said Sharon Johnston. “It was difficult.

The investigators are still not sure how Amber Rae Johnston ended up in Anson, Tice said. Her phone recently played on a truck stop of US 74 on August 19, 2021 in Union County in Union County. Your phone was deactivated in Charlotte the following day.

On August 22, 2021, trail photos captured a woman in Wadesboro on the forest from the Anshern Highschool Road in Wadesboro, said Tice. The woman was not completely dressed, did not wear shoes and used a temporary walk.

“There were some clothes with the remains, who agreed with what we could see in the video,” said Tice.

In January 2024, the photos were uploaded to the national system for missing and not identified people. Then the investigators said they had established the connection between the remains and Amber Rae Johnston.

“As soon as they put it on Namus, I was flooded with about 100 calls,” said Sharon Johnston. “And it was about in the middle of the night, and I looked and I knew it was my daughter.”

Sharon Johnston said she thinks Amber could travel through Anson to visit an ex-boyfriend who lived in the area of ​​Myrtle Beach. He died in 2023 before Anson County took over. He told the local police that he hadn't heard of Amber Rae Johnston since Arizona.

Sharon Johnston hopes that these developments will advance more information.

“There is someone out there who knows what happened. And she just didn't get there alone,” said Sharon Johnston. “I just have to accept what it is … and try to go forward.”

Now Amber Rae Johnston's family is expecting a final DNA match, in which the DNA corresponds to its daughter and Sharon Johnston. If it is a complete match, Sharon Johnston said that she wanted to bring her daughter's remains back to Pennsylvania to give her a real funeral.

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