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For 43 years, she was known simply as Jane Doe #40.

A bleak, impersonal moniker utterly lacking in humanity.

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But no more.

On Thursday, San Francisco homicide detectives announced they have finally identified Judy Gifford who was murdered in 1976.

The New Jersey girl was just 14 and thousands of miles from home.

According to cops, on Oct. 1, 1976, a dog walker discovered her body after spotting a hand protruding from the sand at Lake Merced in San Francisco.

Detectives believed the victim was a young Asian female who carried distinctive jewelry.

It was later determined the teen vanished in Frisco around the same time as the 1976 murder.

“(Gifford’s siblings) always knew they had a sister,” said Det. Jeffrey Greco, of the New Jersey State Police. “They never knew what happened to her.”