EL CAJON, Calif. (FOX 5/KUSI) -- The El Cajon Police Department on Monday released the identity of a woman whose body was found in a ravine in El Cajon in 1998.

Over 27 years later, she has been identified as Alicia Ledezma Sanchez, the El Cajon Police Department (ECPD) said in a news release Monday.

On Aug. 13, 1998, the body of a female partially decomposed and believed to be deceased up to six weeks was found in the ravine covered in heavy shrubbery in the 1300 block of Avocado Avenue, according to law enforcement.

Authorities on scene were not able to identify the victim.

Then in 2003, the El Cajon Police's Cold Homicide Unit reexamined the death case, retrieving the victim's skull and sending it to a forensic artist who completed a forensic sculpture, according to authorities.

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