The parents of a teenager who went missing 27 years ago returned to Northern California Wednesday to collect the remains of their daughter who was murdered at the hands of 'Speed Freak Killer' Wesley Shermantine.

Almost three decades have passed since Paula Wheeler's last saw her daughter Chevy alive.

On Wednesday night, Wheeler showed KTVU a photo of Chevy that will  be placed near the urn containing her daughter's remains back in their family home in Tennessee.

Wheeler's family and friends gathered in a Stockton motel in preparation for a private memorial on Thursday. The long-suffering mother said she never thought she'd get her daughter's remains back.

"It feels great," explained Paula Wheeler. "It feels like giving birth to her all over again."

Chevy was just 16 when she disappeared on October 16th ,1985. Paula Wheeler dropped her off at school, but Chevy cut class.

She was last seen leaving her school with Wesley Shermantine, then 19-years-old, in his red pickup truck.

"I really want to get her for skipping school and then i'm just going to love her to pieces," said Wheeler.

Shermatine was eventually convicted of Chevy's murder. He and his friend Loren Herzog have been linked to many other homicides the pair allegedly committed during a meth-fueled spree during the 1980s and 1990s that led to them being termed the 'Speed Freak Killers.'      

His recent  revelations led investigators to unearth Chevy's remains in Calaveras County.

Chevy's father Raymond Wheeler said Shermantine's recent apology for not letting the victims families know sooner where the remains were rang hollow.

"He just happened to be an extra rotten low down dirty dog," said Raymond Wheeler. 

Asked if she had anything to say to Shermantine now, Paula Wheeler responded bluntly: "Rest in hell. That's all I got to say to him."

Raymond Wheeler said he looked for his daughter for years after her disappearance. Returning to the region they once called home to retrieve her remains has brought him peace.

When asked what he would say to her if she were still alive, he simply said, " I love you sweetheart. I really do."

Chevy's family and friends said they have found comfort in knowing that she is with her family again.