Punta Gorda: Remains found in car match woman missing for 20 years

Francis Hendricksons, of Punta Gordas,  missing car

Herald-Tribune archive / 2013 / Shannon McFarland

PUNTA GORDA, FL – Remains found in a car pulled from a canal this month are that of a woman who went missing in 1993, authorities said Monday.

Dental records of the remains show that they belong to Frances Hendrickson, who was 64 years old when she went for a drive on June 30, 1993 in her blue Buick station wagon and never returned. (Full Story on Herald Tribune)