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Nov 17, 2008 2:45 pm US/Central

Remains ID'd As Woman Missing From DFW Airport

Death Of 70-Year-Old Ruled A Homicide

DALLAS (AP) ― The death of an elderly woman with Alzheimer's disease whose skeletal remains were recently identified following her 2001 disappearance from Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport has been ruled a homicide, police said Monday.



Lewisville police Capt. Kevin Deaver said the Tarrant County medical examiner ruled 70-year-old Margie Dabney's death was caused by blunt force trauma to the head.



Police said Monday that remains found near Lewisville Lake were identified Friday as Dabney. Deaver said the remains were identified by DNA.  DNA obtained from one of Dabney's daughters matched DNA extracted from the skeletal remains.



The lake is about 15 miles north of the airport.



The skeletal remains were found in November of 2007, but it wasn't until some of Dabney's personal belongings turned up in an adjacent field in October that police determined the remains might be hers.



The California woman disappeared while she and her husband were changing planes at the Dallas-area airport. She was traveling with her wheelchair-bound husband, Joe Dabney. Deaver said her disappearance was still being investigated.



The couple was traveling from Indianapolis to Bakersfield, Calif., where they were to move into a new home.

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