Oregon State Police investigators have combed through 180 tips so far in their effort to identify the remains of a young girl found in December in the woods near a rest area in Lincoln County.
Detectives have ruled out matches with 61 missing children nationally, agency officials said Thursday.
A DNA analysis is still pending and will yield key details about the child, such as eye and hair color, race and ethnicity, as well as whether she had any genetic conditions. She was dressed, but investigators have declined to say what clothing she was wearing.
Investigators believe the child was between 6 1/2 and 10 years old and stood between 3-foot-10 and 4-foot-6. She had long black or dark brown hair.
The highway is a major thoroughfare from the northern Willamette Valley to the Oregon coast. An estimated 8,000 vehicles pass by the rest stop each day, according to the Oregon Department of Transportation.
