Missouri sheriff: Human remains could be ID'd within days

     (AP) – An eastern Missouri sheriff says skeletal remains he

believes to be those of a Missouri lobbyist’s wife missing since 2014 could be

identified within days.

     Ste. Genevieve County Sheriff Gary Stolzer told The Associated Press on

Thursday he’s “99 percent” certain the remains discovered Tuesday night on Lynn

Messer’s sprawling property are those of Messer.

     He says clothing found with the remains matched Messer’s apparel, and the

remains showed evidence that the person had had hip surgery, as Messer did.

     Messer was 52 in July 2014 when she went missing from a 250-acre family farm

near Bloomsdale, in eastern Missouri.

     Stolzer says a key to the investigation will be a pathologist’s determination

of what caused the death.

     Messer’s husband, Kerry Messer, is a Jefferson City lobbyist.

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