Sad news this morning.

The body that was found Monday afternoon has now been positively identified as that of Stacey Nicole English, the Atlanta woman who has been missing since December 26th.

Details…

According to WXIA-TV, Tony English, the father of the missing Buckhead resident, told 11Alive News he received a 7:15am phone call this morning (January 25, 2012) from the Fulton County Medical Examiners office, confirming that a body found in southeast Atlanta Monday evening is that of his missing daughter.

The Fulton County Medical Examiner finished the initial phase of an autopsy on the body Tuesday night, but did not confirm that the remains belonged to English until Wednesday.

According to family, English received updated dental X-rays two days before she went missing. There was a delay in obtaining those new dental records when her family could temporarily not locate her medical cards and her purse.

Cindy and Kevin Jamison, English’s mother and stepfather, talked to 11Alive News from their Jonesboro home Tuesday evening.

Cindy Jamison said the hardest part was watching the speculation on television.

You look at the news and you see the picture of our daughter and they’re talking about this body that was found, but they’re already making the association.

It really tugs at us a lot harder.

Now the family can finally put their daughter to rest with a proper burial but there are still no answers to the events which lead to her death.? The Medical Examiner’s office said that further tests are needed revealed the cause of death.

Meanwhile, Robert Kirk, the last person reported to have seen Stacey alive hit facebook about an hour after her body was found to proclaim a “fresh start”…

Something in the milk ain’t clean…

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R.I.P. Stacey Nicole English I hope and pray that the truth is soon revealed about the events that lead to her untimely death.

My deepest condolences to the family and friends of Stacey English.