Indigenous women hopeful after a woman who disappeared in 1983 is identified through DNA evidence [Video]

PHOENIX – Lori Long Chase went missing in July 1983 when she was just 17 years old.

Phoenix Police investigated the case thoroughly, but it took over 40 years for her family to get answers.

Memory Dawn Long Chase says if there is one thing she could say to her sister Lori, it’s this, “I never forgot you.”

And because she never forgot and never stopped searching for answers, she’s now able to lay her beloved older sister to rest.

“I remember that I loved her,” Memory said.

Although she was only five years old when her sister Lori went missing in 1983, she has many fond memories of her, including the time her older sister bought her a Snow White and the Seven Dwarves book with the money from her first job.

“It had the original storyboards and the original concept drawings and the original character drawings and just the whole process and I loved it,” she said. “I …