Dental records help ID bones found in Peoria

Authorities have identified human remains found last week as a woman who’s been missing for nearly two years.

The bones were found by hikers in northern Peoria . Wednesday, Peoria police announced dental records helped identify the skeletal remains as those of 54-year-old Deborah Delaney, who disappeared from her home in April 2011.

According to police, Delaney’s late husband William was suspected in her disappearance and likely her murder. He was a retired paramedic and firefighter who had worked in Rim Rock and Sun City.

But William Delaney was never charged with a crime. Police say he fatally shot himself in the head near Flagstaff last May.