A Maine father who has been searching for his daughter since 1986 was left heartbroken after a psychic helped him dig up human remains, but the body parts belonged to someone else.
Richard “Dick” Moreau discovered the remains Saturday in Jay, about 70 miles outside Portland, behind a bowling alley.
‘[The psychic] had a very strong feeling that there was something up there,” he said WMUR. “But she wasn’t sure what it was. Then after about ten minutes she turned around and came downstairs and said, “Dick, you need to come up now!”
He hoped to find the body of his 17-year-old daughter Kim Moreau, who had been missing since May 1986 after leaving her Jewell Street home. She was only supposed to be gone for an hour, but never came back.
The bones found this weekend were located just a block and up the hill from the family’s home, according to WMUR.
Richard “Dick” Moreau discovered the remains Saturday in Jay, about 70 miles outside Portland, behind a bowling alley after using a psychic to help find them
He hoped to find the body of his 17-year-old daughter Kim Moreau, who had been missing since May 1986, after she left her home. She would only be gone for an hour
Maine State Police exhumed the bones and took them to the chief medical examiner’s office for identification, where they learned the skeleton was that of a man.
“It’s a disappointment in some ways,” the father said. “But we have to remember it and look at it from our point of view. We are one of the families with a missing loved one. We will have a family that will now have closure.
“So it’s not us, but one of these times it has to be.”
Around the same time Kim went missing, Harold Simpson, a 28-year-old from Livermore Falls, also disappeared. The bones found on Saturday have not yet been identified.
Moreau isn’t done with the area yet, as he plans to ask police to come back with search dogs to see if there are another set of remains.
The bones found this weekend were just a stone’s throw from the family’s home
“It’s a disappointment in some ways,” the father said. “But we have to remember it and look at it from our point of view. We are one of the families with a missing loved one. We will have a family that will now have closure. So it’s not us, but one of these times it has to be’
He still hopes that one day he can bring his daughter home and give her a “proper burial.”
“All we want is to bring Kim home,” he told the newspaper. “Let me take down all these posters so my family and I can finally get some relief.”
According to state police data, 35 people are currently missing in Maine, including Kim and Simpson.