Thirty-six days after Jalajhia Finklea vanished from her home in New Bedford on the eve of her 18th birthday, authorities on Wednesday announced they found what is presumed to be her body in Florida.
Finklea, a bubbly member of the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe, with a triangle-shaped scar on her cheek and a passion for songwriting, was last seen Oct. 20, entering a car rented by 38-year-old Luis Zaragoza. Her sudden and strange disappearance, which occurred as a pregnant Finklea was in the middle of a two-day medical procedure, prompted alarm among her loved ones and triggered a search that spanned at least a dozen states.
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