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Disturbing details emerge in death of N.O. East grandmother

Police said kayakers found Stokes' skull along the outskirts of Irish Bayou in October.

NEW ORLEANS -- Friday, disturbing details came to light in the death of a woman missing since October, putting to close a family's desperate search for their loved one.

According to The New Orleans Advocate, a skull found by kayakers on the outskirts of the Irish Bayou on Oct. 24 was confirmed to belong to Jean Stokes, a 76-year-old grandmother from New Orleans East.

Police made the announcement Wednesday, but did not release any information about where the body was found or the condition it was in.

Her car was found a day earlier after Stokes had been reported missing for two weeks, about a ten-minute drive from where her body was found.

Sources told the Advocate two holes were found in Stokes skull that they believe were caused by bullets.

For months, Stokes family pleaded for more information about her disappearance, searching numerous places in New Orleans East to find her.

"It's hard on us, it's so very hard on us," daughter Darlene Veal told Eyewitness News in November. "My family is broken. I hurt every day, I cry everyday. I have a hole in my heart."

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