UNIONTOWN — A forensic anthropologist says his team found no trace of the remains of a Florida girl who Pennsylvania State Police believed might have been buried in southwestern Pennsylvania shortly after she was last seen in Tampa nearly 30 years ago.

Dennis Dirkmaat, a scientist from Mercyhurst University, says cadaver dogs and a team of his students couldn’t find any trace of Jennifer Marteliz, the 7-year-old girl who was last seen walking home from school in Tampa on Nov. 15, 1982.

Police asked Dirkmaat to help them search some property in Fayette County after a woman told them her former neighbor — who had a second home in Tampa — may have buried the girl near his property. The man died in 1992.