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Cops ID Body Found on Queen's Estate

17-year-old Latvian immigrant Alisa Dmitrijeva was found by dogwalker

By Polly Davis Doig, Newser Staff

Posted Jan 8, 2012 12:51 PM CST

(Newser) – Police in England have identified the body of a girl found last week on the grounds of Queen Elizabeth's behemoth Sandringham estate, reports People. The victim is 17-year-old Alisa Dmitrijeva, a Latvian immigrant last seen getting into a green Lexus with two male friends in August. She was reported missing by her grandmother nearly a week later. "We are still trying to establish any activity which took place on or around the site during the time frame of the end of August to the end of September 2011," says a detective.

Alisa's family declined to comment, except for her grandmother, who told People via an interpreter: "There have been so many days, wondering where she is, and what has happened, I don't know what to think any more. One day you have someone in your life, the next you don't. Then it feels like they are never there." Alisa's body was found a few miles from the royal residence on the 31-square-mile estate. The case has been classified as a murder.

This is a 1978 file photo of Britain's Queen Elizabeth's Sandringham House in eastern England. (AP Photo/PA, File)

Queen Elizabeth II leaves a Christmas Service at St. Mary's church on the grounds of Sandringham Estate, Sunday, Dec. 25, 2011. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

Police attend the scene Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2012 following the discovery of human remains on the Queen's Sandringham estate, in Norfolk, England. (AP Photo/ Ian Nicholson/PA)

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