Remains found on beach ID'd as missing Mass. mom

SWAMPSCOTT, Mass. -- Remains discovered last week on a beach north of Boston have been identified as a Massachusetts mother missing since November, reports CBS Boston.

Jaimee Mendez, 25, of Swampscott, vanished Nov. 6 after calling friends and saying she was with a man in Lynn and wanted to leave. When her friends arrived, she was gone. Swampscott and Lynn are adjoining suburbs of Boston.

"She said, 'Listen, I'm on this street I'm with this guy, he's making me really nervous, I want to get out of here,'" her sister, Alyssa Mendez, told CBS Boston. "[Her friend] went to go pick up her up, she never showed, and her phone was off. That's the last anyone ever heard of her."

Family told CBS Boston the man she said she was with was a known Level 3 sex offender.

Mendez is the mother of a five-year-old autistic son who she wouldn't leave, family said. Search crews combed the area for weeks after her disappearance, using dive teams and a helicopter.

Police investigated several clues, including the missing woman's jacket, cellphone, phone charger and ID found in an industrial area, family told the station. Mendez' sneakers, men's clothing and a part of a rug were also discovered in a dumpster outside a drugstore in Lynn, according to family.

Then, a person walking a dog along the beach in Swampscott Wednesday discovered human remains near two lobster traps, reports the station. Dental records were used to confirm they matched Mendez.

Investigators are now working to determine how she died.

"We are relieved for Jaimee's family that she has been located and identified," Essex County district attorney Jonathan Blodgett said in a statement. "We will continue to work diligently to determine the circumstances of her death. Our thoughts are with the Mendez family during this difficult time."