From Local 3 News: Skeletal remains found near the Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga earlier this year have been identified as being those of a woma
From Local 3 News: Skeletal remains found near the Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga earlier this year have been identified as being those of a woman from Alpharetta, Georgia.
21-year-old Maury Ange Martinez was reported missing by her family in August of last year, and now they hope someone can tell them what happened to her. “Charismatic, magnetic sparking, fun-loving kind of person,” said Anita Darling, all words to describe Martinez.
Her mother, Anita Darling says she was last seen in Cobb County on Powers Ferry Road on August 21. “I was nine minutes away. I was on the way to pick her up, and she called me and told me she had caught a ride, said Darling.
Darling says the man who picked her up didn’t know Martinez.
“I had a conversation with her about it still seemed strange. I got off the phone with her and felt uneasy about it.”
She says she texted her daughter and got the notification that she read it at 10:00 that night but she never responded.
According to Darling, the man who picked up her daughter earlier that day was not a person of interest.
“She was one of those people that did not meet a stranger, said Darling.
After days went by and she had not heard from her daughter, she reported her missing.
For about nine months, she would be on the search for her child.
Last month, she received the call that her daughter was found in Chattanooga.
“The heartbreak of realizing you just lost your child; my kids are like my everything,” said Darling.
June 3 is Martinez’s 21st birthday, and as a gift to her, darling says they donated her remains to the University of Tennessee.
“She had something in her skeletal structure that they felt that could be studied, and it would be helping up-and-coming medical examiners,” said Darling.
Darling says she and her other two daughters, without a doubt, knew Martinez would love this idea.
Investigators in Cobb, Gwinnett, and Hamilton Counties are working together to find out what happened to Martinez.
