Photos of murder victim Michelle Busha are displayed as Faribault County Sheriff Michael Gormley, right, addresses a news conference, Tuesday, March 17, 2015, at the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension in St. Paul, Minn. Listening, left, is BCA assistant Superintendent Drew Evans. (AP Photo/Jim Mone)

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Investigators in Minnesota say they’ve finally identified a woman slain by a state trooper nearly 35 years ago.

The body of 18-year-old Michelle Yvette Busha (boo-SHAY’) was identified over the weekend thanks to DNA testing. Busha has been buried anonymously in Riverside Cemetery in Blue Earth, in southern Minnesota, for the past three decades.

Busha, of Bay City, Texas, was hitchhiking when she was assaulted and slain, with her body dumped in a ravine along Interstate 90 near Blue Earth. She had been strangled.

Robert Leroy Nelson, a Minnesota state trooper at the time, is serving a life sentence in Texas in her death.

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