(KRON) -- A skull found along a canal in Redding, Calif., in 2013 was identified using advanced DNA technology and a family tree DNA database, law enforcement officials announced Monday.

The skull was determined to be remains of Velma Louise Silva Lee, a mother who went missing from her Napa home more than two decades ago, according to the Shasta County Coroner’s Office.

On March 11, 2013, a crew was cleaning up Anderson Cottonwood Irrigation District canal behind a California Department of Fish and Wildlife building in Redding when they found a human skull under blackberry bushes, according to DNASolves.com.

The Shasta County Sheriff's Office wrote, "Forensic anthropologists from California State University, Chico’s Human Identification Lab conducted a nearly complete recovery of the r

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