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5 Investigates has learned that remains found in Hyde Park in a 1994 homicide have been identified as a missing Fitchburg woman.Watch reportFor 22 years, she was known only as Jane Doe, a woman found murdered and buried in Hyde Park in 1994.Now, with the help of a DNA match, she has a name: Millie.“She was a big, beautiful woman with a big gold heart,” describes her daughter Cynthia DeJesus. "I've never had her in my life before, so it's nice to have her now," says daughter.DeJesus was just two when her mother, Milagros Alvarado, known as Millie, disappeared. She was 37 years old, and last seen walking in Fitchburg in June 1994.She and her family never knew what happened to her, but always held out hope that they would get answers.In December, with the help of Fitchburg police, Cynthia and her family gave a DNA samples to NAMEUS, the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System at the University of North Texas’ Center for Human Identification.Two months later, they got a match.“We were elated,” DeJesus said.The match came thanks to the work of Boston Cold Case Detectives Bill Doogan and Jack Cronin. The detectives were determined to solve a Jane Doe case: a woman murdered and left buried at the Stony Brook Reservation in Hyde Park in 1994.As Five Investigates first reported in 2014, they exhumed her body and sent DNA from her teeth to the University of North Texas Lab. They had been hoping for some sort of hit from the national database. After a year and a half, because of Cynthia’s sample, they got the news.“It’s a big deal. She has been unidentified for 22 years,” Detective Doogan said.“I’m very happy with them they did a great job they never gave up and I am proud of them for that,” DeJesus said.But Doogan says their work has just begun. He’ll be working with a team of investigators from Boston police, Fitchburg police, Massachusetts State police, the Suffolk County and Worcester County District Attorney’s offices now on the case.“The main question is who killed her What led up to it? How did it happen? Where did it happen?” Doogan says.DeJesus says she wants to bring her mother’s remains to be closer to her family in Fitchburg. And she hopes that police will be able to get more answers. “To get them of the street and get justice for my mom.” DeJesus says, “I would love to sit in front of them and let them know why did they do this to someone so beautiful?”