'SNL' writer's missing sister case leads homicide detectives to Joshua Tree months after family's murder claim

Los Angeles police homicide detectives searched the Joshua Tree area of California on Friday for evidence connected to the disappearance of a "Saturday Night Live" writer's sister, months after her family claimed she had been killed.

An LAPD spokesperson confirmed to Fox News Digital that detectives with the Robbery-Homicide Division began searching the area Friday morning, though authorities did not disclose the exact location or what evidence they hoped to find.

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