Found body ends five-month search for missing Aurora woman

Durst and George

AURORA | A body found last week near East Yale Avenue and South Chambers Road is that of 21-year-old Tiffany Durst, who had been missing since police found her boyfriend slain at the couple’s Aurora apartment last year. 

Neither police nor the Arapahoe County coroner’s office released further details about Durst’s death on Monday. 

Police found the body Thursday night and as of Monday morning, the coroner’s office said investigators had not yet been able to positively identify the body. 

Channel 7 in Denver reported that the body was badly decomposed. 

Durst was last seen just a few days before police found Terence Scott George, 22, dead Nov. 22 inside Durst’s apartment in the 12200 block of East Kepner Place.

In the days and weeks after police found George’s body, they pleaded with the public for information about Durst, saying they were worried about the young woman’s safety. 

In January, police found Durst’s car in northeast Denver, about 13 miles northwest of where police later found her body. 

The area where police found Durst’s body is about five miles southeast from her apartment, which is near East Mississippi Avenue and South Peoria Street.