NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — A Gallatin family is one step closer to finding closure after their loved one disappeared 39 years ago, all thanks to the University of North Texas Center for Human Identification.

DNA testing linked a human skull found in 2004 to Alice Mae Sullivan.

20-year-old Tennessee State University sophomore Alice Sullivan was studying business. She was last seen on campus on Aug. 28, 1986.

Her family knew something was wrong when she did not pick her son up from a babysitter. She has been missing for 39 years.

In 2004, a human skull was found along Stokers Lane, about eight minutes away from TSU’s campus.

It was sent away for DNA testing.

“We would do that kind of testing, upload it into CODIS and try to make associations across the United States,” University of Nort

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