"Remains belong to Dracut woman missing since 2006" by Dan Adams | Globe Correspondent, August 28, 2013
When Helena Fells of Dracut disappeared in November 2006, her sister immediately suspected the worst. Fells’s car was found near the Merrimack River in Lowell, and police dogs tracked her scent to its banks.
Their mother, with whom Fells was close, had recently died of ovarian cancer. Work was not going well, and her relationship was falling apart. And that August, Fells had attempted to kill herself, but her family saved her.
But despite a near-certain belief Fells was dead, Linda Morrissette spent seven years searching for her younger sister, who was 49 when she vanished....
On Wednesday, the years of searching and wondering came to an end.
Essex District Attorney Jonathan W. Blodgett’s office announced that remains found in the Merrimack River in 2011 had been DNA tested and were 99.99 percent likely to belong to Fells....
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