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Crews Search Parks For 1989 Missing Brockton Teen

AVON (WBZ) ― It has been nearly two decades since she disappeared but there is new hope in the search for a missing 16-year-old girl.

Jennifer Fay went missing from her Brockton home in 1989 but her body was never found.

On Saturday, dozens of searchers tried to help the family find closure.

Deep in the woods in Avon team teams with dogs were digging, searching and sniffing during an emotional mission 18 years in the making.

"They (have been) trying to find my daughter for so long so I can bring her home and put this to some sort of rest," said Fay's mother, Dottie MacLean. "It's been too long, far too long."

It was 1989 when MacLean last saw her daughter. Fay had been babysitting when she went to a party down the street and disappeared.

"I live it everyday when I walk by her picture.  It's really hard being here," said Fay's sister Yvette Churchill.

It's agonizing for her family because they could only sit and wait as dozens of people searched through a field park in Avon.

Thanks to the Molly Bish Foundation, several private investigators are donating their time to reopen the case.

"We have some good intelligence that this was one of the areas she frequenting as a teenager," said private investigator Phil White.

They also searched a pond with a cadaver dog. They went over it once and will do it again before coming back in the fall when the water goes down

But breathing new life into the cold case brings new pain for her younger sister.

"I just want it to be over," Churchill said. "I want them to find her and end it and put it to rest. It's been too long."

This is the fourth search in the past three years for Fay. But investigators say they won't stop looking until they find her body. 

Her picture is on the National website for Missing and Exploited Children, along with an enhanced version to show what she would look like now.

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