FOG BLOG NB NEWS LOG: REMAINS FINALLY IDENTIFIED AS THAT OF MONCTON NATIVE...CHERYL PYNE IN DEC.

A MONCTON WOMAN WHO WENT MISSING THEN FINALLY FOUND OUT SHE WAS MURDERED, CHERYL PYNE , HER REMAINS , FOUND IN SAINT JOHN IN 2012 HAVE JUST BEEN IDENTIFIED AS HERS JUST A MATTER OF WEEKS AGO.....Trudy Welner is relieved — and frustrated — that her sister's remains have finally been identified.

"It has been very frustrating," Welner said of the 16-year wait between when her sister was reported missing in 2004 and identified this month.

Cheryl Pyne disappeared in August 2004, and although her body was not found, a man was convicted of manslaughter in her death in 2009.

Welner said her family had "moved on" and become resigned to never knowing where her body was.

Unbeknownst to them, her remains were actually discovered in Saint John in 2012. But they weren't identified until recently.

RCMP spokesperson Const. Hans Ouellette said new developments in DNA technology allowed samples collected from a family member to be used to match a sample in the National Missing Persons DNA Program...Ouellette said it was the first time the RCMP in New Brunswick used the national databank to successfully identify remains through the use of familial DNA.

He said a sample was collected from a family member last month and sent for comparison.

Welner said the wait has been "horrific and unbearable at times."

"I'm frustrated with the system, but at the same time, we can only try to grieve and move on with what we have. We can only hope that ... this would have happened sooner when they had her, but we can't continue to be upset about things that we can't change or do anything about."

She said her family is "trying our best to have closure under the circumstances."

In 2009, when 38-year-old David Joseph Ouellette was convicted of manslaughter in Pyne's death, the court heard that Pyne was dropped off at Ouellette's apartment on the night of June 30, 2004. She collapsed in Ouellette's bathroom while doing drugs and he apparently tried to revive her.