text: Human remains have been found in the search for a missing college freshman who vanished while home for spring break last month. Anjelica 'AJ' Hadsell, 18, has been missing since March 2, when she was on a break from Longwood University in Farmville, Virginia and home in Norfolk. The remains were found outside a residence in Franklin on Thursday morning, police said. Franklin is around 40 miles from Norfolk. The body has been sent to the Chief Medical Examiner's Office to be identified and to determine the cause of death. The FBI is now involved in the investigation, police said. Missing: AJ Hadsell has been missing since March 2 and on Thursday, police announced they had found remains 40 miles from her home. They have been sent to the medical examiner's office for identification . It comes after police focused their search on a pond near Carrsville last week after receiving a tip that her cell phone may be below its surface. Her stepdad Wesley Hadsell was arrested for breaking into a home; he says he was looking for AJ . Two days after the Hadsell vanished, police received a tip that she had been seen on the Virginia Commonwealth University campus, two hours away from where she was last seen by her family. Investigators have previously said there is no evidence of foul play, but her family and friends have said she wouldn't disappear on purpose. Earlier this week, her grandmother, Katherine Hadsell, blasted authorities for seemingly 'doing nothing' to bring the teenager home. And in a twist, Hadsell's stepfather was caught allegedly breaking into a home two weeks after Anjelica's disappearance, an act his mother Katherine says was out of fatherly concern. She told ABC News her son Wesley had heard his stepdaughter could be inside the home. 'As any father would, if you hear that your daughter may or may not be in a house or being held or some of her belongings or at a location, any father is going to try and find out,' she said. He was arrested on March 21 after being interrogated by police for more than 15 hours. Hadsell, 36, had not been named a suspect and has insisted he does not know where AJ is. He faces charges of obstructing justice, possessing ammunition and breaking and entering. Search: Last week, authorities searched a nearby pond near Carrsville (pictured) after receiving a tip that her cellphone might be below the surface. Carrseville is just six miles from where the remains were found . Fears: The 18-year-old freshman vanished while home on spring break from Longwood University . But Hadsell, who had been working in nearby Franklin, around the time of the disappearance, said he was only thinking about his daughter. 'I couldn't sit a minute away from where my daughter may have been,' he told WAVY.com. While searching the property for around 15 minutes, he claims that he discovered her jacket. 'I was just trying to make the evidence come to light,' he said. 'It's not like I had the jacket, I didn't plant the jacket, I didn't know anything about that. It was the fact of the overwhelming information that led me there.' The stepfather has aroused local suspicions because he has a lengthy felony criminal record. In 2005, his ex-wife went missing for several days and he was reportedly arrested after allegedly kidnapping her and driving her across multiple states. Concern: Her grandmother Katherine Hadsell said earlier this week that she did not think police were doing enough to find the teenager. She argued that her son, Wesley Hadsell, had been arrested unfairly . Charges of rape, kidnapping, assault and domestic violence were later dropped. He also served 54 months in prison for a bank robbery in Fredericksburg, Virginia, according to WTKR - but he insists that he is now a changed man. And in another twist, Jennifer Busby, AJ's mother, said she received texts from her daughter's phone shortly after he disappearance but was not convinced she was actually messaging the girl. AJ is described as standing at 5 feet 6 inches tall and weighing 120 pounds.
target: Anjelica 'AJ' Hadsell, 18, has been missing since March 2, when she was home in Norfolk while on spring break from Longwood University .
  Remains were found in Franklin, 40 miles from Norfolk, on Thursday and they are being taken to the medical examiner's office for identification .
  Her stepdad Wesley Hadsell was arrested after breaking into a home two weeks after her disappearance and claims he was looking for AJ .
  He has insisted that he doesn't know where she is .