A decades-long North Texas murder case is one step closer to being solved after DNA testing provided crucial information about the victim.

A Houston-area lab managed to identify the name of the victim whose body was pulled from Lake Ray Hubbard in Collin County in 1998, while the search for her killer continues.

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After 27 years of only being depicted in a sketch as “Jane Doe,” Penny Gunn has regained her identity.

Gunn, also known as Penny J. Morris, was 35 years old when her body was discovered in Lake Ray Hubbard on April 2, 1998, at about 4:07 p.m.

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The confirmation came from Houston-area forensic lab Othram, which uses genome sequencing and forensic genetic

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