Who's the woman found in July 1997?

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) - The model of a murder victim's face, created from skeletal remains, is the focus of renewed hope for solving another cold case in Kent County.

The Kent Metro Cold Case Team unveiled a clay facial reconstruction of a woman's remains found in 1997 at a roadside park along M-21.

Investigators believe the body was there for at least a year, concealed in waist-high vegetation. They don't know how the woman died but have treated it as a homicide.

Still trying to identify her, investigators say the woman was black, stood between 5-foot-2 and 5-8, was in her 20s and had suffered a broken nose at some point, though it was healed.

Within a year of the body being found, dental records and sketches of what the woman was believed to look like, and later DNA data, was checked nationwide without success.

Now, Michigan State Police Trooper Sarah Krebs has created a clay model that was featured in the news conference, built on the victim's actual skull.

In the past eight years, she has done several models and was able to get three identifications.

Investigators are asking for the public's help in identifying the woman. The Metro Cold Case team investigator Dan Scalici can be contacted at (616) 632-6192.