Evansdale Abduction: Burial Planned for Elizabeth Collins an 'Unbearable Step' But Part of Healing Process

One of the two Evansdale cousins that were abducted and found murdered six months later will be laid to rest next month.

Heather Collins posted on her Facebook page that her 8-year-old daughter Elizabeth Collins will be buried at a service at 11 a.m. on May 4 at Waterloo Memorial Park Cemetery, KWWL-TV reports.

"We feel that everyone in the community has given us such much support and has taken her as part of their child," Collins wrote on Facebook, according to KWWL. "We want everyone to have that chance to do the last unbearable step in putting her body in the ground.

"This will just (be) one more step in the healing process, not that this will be any easier but we know with family and friends we get thru this step," she added.

Elizabeth Collins' funeral was on Dec. 13.

She and her cousin Lyric Cook-Morrissey, 10, went missing while riding their bikes near Meyers Lake in Evansdale on Friday, July 13, 2012. Hunters found the girls' bodies at Seven Bridges Park in Bremer County on Wednesday, December 5, 2012.

Authorities say they consider the case a homicide but haven't released the cause of death following the autopsy. Investigators continue to look for those responsible, and there is a $150,000 reward out for information leading to their arrest and prosecution. 

No burial plans have been announced for Lyric, whose funeral was in late December.