AUSTIN (February 24, 2010)—State investigators released a facial reconstruction and drawing Wednesday of a woman whose body was found dumped along a Texas highway more than a decade ago and whose identity has never been determined.

The Texas Rangers’ Unsolved Crimes Investigative Program and the Department of Public Safety’s Missing Persons Clearinghouse are renewing efforts to identify the woman whom authorities have named “Amethyst Doe” because of two rings recovered with the body that resemble an amethyst, which is February’s birthstone.

A worker who was mowing in August 1999 near Business I-40 just off exit 141 near the Panhandle town of McLean found the remains.

The woman had been dead for about a week.

Foul play was never ruled out in her death.

“It is possible the woman is actually from a state in the direct vicinity around Texas,” said Texas Ranger Chief Tony Leal.

“Identifying her could help us ascertain how she died and perhaps bring closure or provide answers for loved ones.”

Investigators have run her fingerprints and DNA through state and national databases without success and hope now to locate a living relative in order to establish her identity.

The reconstruction shows her at a younger age and lighter weight while the drawings depict her as older and heavier.

The woman was white, weighed 130 to 150 pounds and was 5-foot-2 to 5-foot-8.

She was between 33 and 45 when she died.

When she died, she was wearing a dark-blue tank top, blue denim shorts and Reebok tennis shoes that were in poor condition and had inserts.

She also had a small mouth with severe tooth and oral bone loss, numerous fillings and tooth decay.

She was missing her four lower front teeth.

She was large-breasted and may have bee pregnant during her lifetime.

She had a deformed right leg and foot and her right let was shorter than her left.

The right ankle was fused with a screw.

She also had a healed left shoulder fracture.

Investigators are asking anyone with a relative who has been missing since 1999 or before, or who has information related to the investigation to contact Texas Ranger Jay Foster at (940) 937-3122 or the DPS Missing Persons Clearinghouse at (800) 346-3243.