HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- For more than three decades, the identity of a woman found dead in a wooded area of north Houston remained a mystery. Known only as a Jane Doe, her story had no name, until now.

Thanks to the efforts of a Houston-based nonprofit specializing in forensic genetic genealogy, the woman has been identified as Joann Zamora, a mother of six who vanished in 1992.

Her daughter, Spencer Graham, was just two years old when her mother disappeared. For most of her life, she lived with the story that Joann had simply run away.

"The story we got growing up was that she just left. She couldn't be a mom anymore," Spencer said. "We weren't living with her at the time. Her boyfriend called us after she was supposed to see us for Easter, 1992 and said she just took off with his ca

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