The true identities of two young girls, sisters, found abandoned on the wet floor of a public restroom in Southern California in 1989 have finally been revealed, though the hunt for their mother’s long lost murderer continues.

The nearly 36-year-old mystery began on Dec. 12, 1989, when a nude female was found stabbed to death in a desert area along Old Temple Road, approximately 50 miles south of Las Vegas, the Mohave County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release.

“It appeared that she had been killed at the scene where she was found,” MCSO investigators said. “All attempts to identify the victim or suspects in the case proved unsuccessful at that time.”

Detectives were, however, able to obtain a DNA profile from the woman’s remains that was entered into the Combined DNA Index System (

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