A woman found dead four years ago is no longer anonymous, Nashville police announced.
Ashley Fuller, 19, of Columbia, has been identified as the person whose body was found in an abandoned home on Highway 70 South on Thanksgiving Day 2020, police said in a news release Thursday.
Her identity remained a mystery for nearly three years until the Tennessee Bureau of Investigations created a forensic rendering of her face and wrist tattoo: a semicolon with a heart in place of a period.
A family member saw the rendering and contacted the Nashville Police Department’s Cold Case Unit. Police positively identified Fuller using her dental records.
No foul play is suspected in Fuller’s death, but the coroner’s office will conduct an investigation to determine her official cause of death, the news release said. Police initially believed she died of an accidental drug overdose, according to a 2023 news release.
Fuller is the third cold case victim identified in recent months.
Earlier this month, police identified Donald Elden Verhalen as the man who died in 1993 after suffering a severe head injury after falling. In July, a murder victim pulled from the Cumberland River 26 years ago was identified as Diane Minor.
This article originally appeared on Nashville Tennessean: Columbia teen identified as woman found dead on Thanksgiving Day 2020
