Major update in case of missing 14-year-old after human remains are found in a coal mine by relic hunters

HUMAN remains found in a coal mine have been identified as teen who has been missing for more than 50 years.

Joan Marie Dymond was 14-years-old when she disappeared from a park in June of 1969.

Police searched for her for years but she was never found.

In November 2012, bones were found in the grounds of a former coal-mining operation in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, by people digging for relics in a trash-filled pit in the ground, police said in a press release on Wednesday.

However, cops were unable to identify them at the time and only found they belonged to "a female, estimated to be in her mid-teens to early 20's, who died of suspicious or 'foul play' circumstances."

The remains were labeled Jane "Newport" Doe for a decade until a recent breakthrough in DNA testing.

Detectives reopened the case and submitted the victim's DNA to undergo genetic genealogy testing.

They got a hit on family members related to Dymond and confirmed that the remains belonged to the missing teen.

Finally, after half a century, her family has received closure regarding Dymond's disappearance.

Pennsylvania Police is asking for the public's help to find her killer.

"We never stopped pursuing answers, and this investigation remains very active," the commanding officer of Pennsylvania State Police Troop P, Captain Patrick Dougherty, said in the press release.

"After 53 years, the family of Joan Marie Dymond very much deserves closure. We will do everything in our power to see that they have it."