More than 12 years since a skull was discovered in Mendocino County, advanced DNA testing has revealed that the remains belonged to a Napa woman, officials said.

In March 2013, brush cutting workers found the skull among blackberry bushes while working in Redding, near the the Anderson-Cottonwood Irrigation District Canal and the Locust Street Bridge, according to the Shasta County Sheriff’s Office. Redding police, sheriff’s deputies and forensic anthropologists from California State University Chico’s human identification lab responded and searched the surrounding area for days, locating most of the person’s remains, several items of clothing and some personal items.

The county coroner’s office determined the skeletal remains belonged to a white woman likely between 4-foot, 10-inches to

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