Columbia, Mo. (AP) -- Human remains found in a Columbia landfill in September have been confirmed to be those of a woman missing for more than 13 years.
Television station KOMU reports that DNA results taken from the remains came back Friday to positively identify the remains as those of 24-year-old Megan Shultz, who disappeared in 2006.
Authorities began digging in the 107-acre landfill earlier this year after Shultz's former husband, 37-year-old Keith Alan Comfort, allegedly walked into a police station in Lake Geneva, Wisconson, on Aug. 4 and confessed to killing her and putting the body in a trash bin.
Comfort had originally claimed that he had last seen Shultz leaving their home on foot.
The Columbia Police Department said Columbia Solid Waste Utility staff members used annual topography to narrow down the search area to a 14-acre section that was in use in 2006. Operating records were used to further narrow down those 14 acres to a 3-to-4-acre area most likely in use in August 2006.
Comfort is charged with second-degree murder in the case.
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