Quest for answers: Dental records may help identify skeletal remains found in Jefferson County

JEFFERSON COUNTY (WITI) -- The family of one Milwaukee woman, missing for the past year-and-a-half is waiting for word. Private search crews were getting ready to search for the body of Kelly Dwyer -- when another citizen found a body over the weekend.

Neighbors in the remote area of the Town of Concord near Sullivan say an individual who lives on Inlynd Dr. discovered skeletal remains of what appears to be a white female on Friday evening, May 1st.

The Jefferson County Sheriff's Office guarded the remains throughout the night until the State Crime Lab and other officials could process the scene come daylight Saturday morning.

There is interest in the case of Kelly Dwyer -- who has been missing since October 2013. Milwaukee police say she is believed dead -- and their only person of interest is Kris Zocco. Zocco is in prison on child pornography convictions -- pornography police discovered on Zocco's computer during the Dwyer investigation.

Jefferson County officials say they are waiting for dental records to identify the remains. A massive email went out to dentists in the Milwaukee area -- trying to find out if anyone had updated dental records for Kelly Dwyer. One dentist responded with records. Now, it will be up to further investigation -- to compare those records with the remains -- to further identify who may have been dumped down a remote embankment -- and why.