This week, the police said that human remains were found in a woman’s car from 23 years ago, when she and her child went missing in Arkansas.
Adventures With Purpose, a nonprofit working to solve unsolved cold cases across the country, found Samantha Jean Hopper’s car in eight feet of water on Tuesday, according to a statement from the Pope County Sheriff’s Office.
A statement from the sheriff’s office says Samantha was on her way to Little Rock to pick up her daughter Courtney Holt before going to a show. We looked everywhere but couldn’t find Samantha, her child, or her blue Ford Tempo.
A group of good people found the car eight feet below the surface. The police say that the body parts in the car will be taken to the Arkansas State Crime Lab in Little Rock so that DNA tests can be done.
The families of Samantha Hopper and Courtney Holt were told how sorry the Pope County Sheriff’s Office was. They were also thanked for any help they had in solving the 23-year-old case.
The daughter of Hopper, Dezarea Hopper, said on a memorial page that her mother was nine months pregnant when she lost her life. The child of Dezarea was about 2 years old at the time. Dezarea said that finding their bodies was “relieving.”
Adventures With Purpose said in a statement that Samantha and her daughter were now back at home.
