The search for a missing Nashville woman came to a tragic end after police confirmed her body was found inside a home under construction.
Metro Nashville Police said DNA analysis has identified the body found in a Wilson County home on Sept. 12 as 23-year-old Blanca Guadalupe Berrios Orellana.
“Please help locate Blanca Guadalupe Berrios Orellana, 23, of Antioch. She said she was going to Murfreesboro to help family on Aug. 18 and was reported missing on Aug. 21,” Metro Nashville Police announced in an X-Alert on Sept. 3. “She is 5 feet 2 inches tall and weighs 120 pounds. Have you seen her? Please call 615-862-8600.”
Police said Berrios-Orellana was reported missing by her mother on Aug. 21 and was on her way to Murfreesboro to visit family but never arrived.
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Metro Nashville Police say a body found in a Wilson County home has been identified as Blanca Guadalupe Berrios Orellana. (X/@MNPDNashville)
“Some days you think they took her away, and other days you really don't think about it,” said Berrios Orellana's mother, Ines Berrios. He told WKRN Through a translator.
Berrios added that her daughter's car was found parked at her stepfather's house, but the family has not been able to contact him.
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Metro Nashville Police have confirmed that a set of remains found in an under-construction home in Lebanon earlier this month have been identified as those of a missing woman. (WKRN)
WKRN reported that on September 12, investigators responded to a tip to a home in Lebanon where a neighbor had reported seeing Berrios Orellana working a few weeks before her disappearance.
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Berrios-Orellana also reportedly worked as a cleaner, according to information obtained by WKRN, but authorities have not said why they went to the building where her body was found.
Authorities did not say whether they believed foul play was involved in her death. No further information was immediately available.
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Police say the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI) is leading the multi-agency investigation into her death.
Fox News Digital has reached out to the TBI and Metro Nashville Police Department for more information.
