A New Jersey man who was fatally struck by a car in 1993 — the same week his girlfriend was murdered — has been identified as the suspect wanted for her killing.

Authorities made the new bombshell connection to 31-year-old Wilmane Nicolas of Elizabeth when a New Jersey State Police forensic anthropologist entered fingerprints of unidentified bodies into a national database, the Union County Prosecutor’s Office said Wednesday.

Thirty-one-year old Magalie Francois of Linden was found stabbed to death with blunt trauma to her head on Monroe Avenue in Elizabeth on Oct. 30, 1993 — and police sought Nicolas as the suspect in the homicide case.

A warrant for Nicolas’ arrest was issued in January 1994, and he was placed on the Union County Sheriff’s Office’s Most Wanted List, officials said.

But two days before Francois’ body was found, an unidentified man — now identified as Nicolas — was struck and killed by a car in the area of Route 1&9 and East Grand Street in Elizabeth.

The man did not have any identification on him at the time of the fatal incident and despite efforts of investigators to confirm who he was, his identity remained unknown until now, according to officials.

The fingerprints of the crash victim were submitted to the New Jersey State Police in 1993 and were again submitted in 2006 to the FBI, but neither submission produced a match.

New Jersey State Police forensic anthropologist Donna Fontana recently entered the fingerprints of a series of unidentified bodies in the National Institute of Justice’s National Missing and Unidentified Person System database and a match came back to Nicolas, officials said.

The revelation was made through a joint investigation involving the Elizabeth Police Department, the Union County Prosecutor’s Office’s Homicide Task Force, the Union County Medical Examiner’s Office, and Fontana, officials said.