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COLUMBUS, Ohio - Investigators are trying to determine whether skeletal remains discovered Thursday in a field near a reservoir are that of a woman who has been missing for three weeks, police said. The Franklin County coroner and an anthropologist were dispatched to the scene, said Sgt. Brent Mull, a Columbus police spokesman. It was expected to take several days for investigators to identify the victim, including gender, Mull said. Clothes on the remains were badly decomposed, he said. Police have been investigating the disappearance of Julie Popovich, 20, of suburban Reynoldsburg, who was last seen Aug. 11 at a...

Ohio Woman, 20, Missing More Than a Week Monday, August 22, 2005 A young Ohio woman has disappeared without a trace near the Ohio State University campus in Columbus, according to the Ohio News Network. Julie Popovich, 20, of neighboring Reynoldsburg, disappeared more than ten days ago from an off-campus bar she had visited with friends, the network said. She was last seen at about 1 a.m. on August 11th outside Ledo's Bar (search) on North High Street near the university, getting into a car with a man her friends did not recognize. According to the police report, her friends...