Unidentified Skull Positively Matched to Woman Who Disappeared 39 Years Ago

Continued follow up on a missing persons investigation led to a piece of closure for the family of 20-year-old TSU student and mother, Alice Mae Sullivan, 39 years after she went missing.

Sullivan failed to pick up her 3-year-old son from a babysitter's house on August 28, 1986, after she attended class that morning. She was reported missing the next day by her parents.

Through the assistance of forensic scientists at the University of North Texas Center for Human Identification, Sullivan was matched to an unidentified skull last Wednesday. The skull was located by a contractor building homes on Stokers Lane in North Nashville on February 20, 2004. There were no signs of trauma to the skull.

Unfortunately, after a thorough search of the area in 2004 by MNPD officers, the Medical Examiner's Office and the state anthropologist, that was the only piece of Sullivan's remains located. The investigation into her death is continuing.