article_snippet.sent: Carol's sister was 17 years old when Carol's sister disappeared without a trace after running away from a juvenile detention center in Texas in October 1980.
article_snippet.sent: For 34 years, Carol's family searched in vain for the troubled teen.
article_snippet.sent: Carol's sister escaped from a Texas juvenile jail in October 1980 after moving from Michigan with Carol's sister mother.
article_snippet.sent: Carol's sister remains have been found and identified after 34 years .
article_snippet.sent: In February, DNA confirmed that the body in Louisiana matched missing Carol's DNA, the Detroit News reports.
article_snippet.sent: Long road: Cole, from Michigan, was eventually found dead in Louisiana.
article_snippet.sent: Perhaps even more remarkable, authorities in Bossier and Carol's family had crossed each other's paths some 30 years ago in a failed attempt to find the teen and identify the body.
article_snippet.sent: A coroner in the early 1980s examined the remains to see whether they matched Carol's description - but A coroner in the early 1980s said they weren't close enough for further investigation.
article_snippet.sent: Carol's remains have been cremated and brought back to Michigan, where Carol family lives.
highlights_snippet.sent: Carole Cole, 17, disappeared in October 1970 after running away from a juvenile jail in Texas .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Carol's sister body was found in January 1981 outside Shreveport, Louisiana - but remained unidentified until this past February .
  