Kansas City, Mo. — Fourteen FBI agents spent a second day in Sedgwick County, Kan., on Wednesday searching for the remains of a 16-year-old girl from Independence, Mo.
Jennifer Long has not been seen since the morning of Jan. 22, 1998. She attended her first two classes at Kansas City's East High School that day but left school at 9:30 a.m.
She reportedly was seen getting into a car with Wesley Ira Purkey, a plumber from Leavenworth, Kan., who confessed to killing her and now awaits trial. Purkey, 50, is serving a 32-year sentence in a Kansas prison for the October 1998 beating death of Mary Ruth Bales, 80, in her home in Kansas City, Kan.
The search that began Tuesday south of Wichita, was based on information that has developed in the Long investigation, said FBI spokesman Jeff Lanza.
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