Arthur King sits with a photo of his oldest daughter, Amanda King, who went missing in October 2013.

Amanda King was reported missing in Glenville in 2013. Troy Police say her remains were found in Burden Pond Preserve.

Arthur King speaks to the Times Union about his missing daughter Amanda King in November 2018 at his home in Albany.

Amanda King

Amanda King

Amanda King went missing in October 2013.

Amanda King was last seen in October 2013.

A week before Thanksgiving, Arthur King received news he had long feared: A body found in Troy was Amanda, his daughter, who’d been missing for 11 years.

“You perform hypnosis on yourself, a little magical thinking,” Arthur said this week, ahead of Amanda’s Tuesday funeral. “You hold out hope that she’s alive and living a good life somewhere. You make up these stories to get you through the day, but in the back of your mind, you know what reality is — that she’s gone and not coming back. But it still comes as a shock when you get the news.”

When Arthur last saw his daughter, she was 27 years old and addicted to heroin.

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Arthur picked Amanda up that day at what seemed to be an Albany drug........

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