Police announced on Friday that skeletal remains found at a Queens construction site about two years ago have been recognised as belonging to a lady who has been missing for ten years.
On September 18, 2020, during an excavation at 80-97 Cypress Avenue in Glendale, the remains of Stevie Bates, a 28-year-old woman, were discovered wrapped in a blanket.
The excavation site is close to at least seven more cemeteries in addition to being directly across the street from Mt. Judah Cemetery.
Bates, an Occupy Wall Street protester, went missing while travelling cross-country at the age of 19, and her disappearance was first reported in April 2012.
On April 27 of that year, while waiting for a Greyhound bus in Pittsburgh, she borrowed a phone and called her mother, Vivian.
Bates informed her Yonkers-based mother that she would be arriving in New York City the next morning at 5:40 a.m.
The 5-foot-6, 120-pound kid with dyed blond dreads was captured on surveillance video boarding a bus in Pittsburgh that was headed to Philadelphia for the first time.
Bates’ mother declined to offer any comments on the unfortunate development when contacted by phone early on Saturday morning.
According to the police, the city’s medical examiner informed them on Friday that Bates had been identified.
The reason of Bates’ death has not yet been determined, and authorities are still looking into the matter.
