STAMFORD -- As soon as 21-year-old Marie Andree Joseph was reported missing in December 1990, her family immediately suspected the worst.

Less than a year after the woman disappeared, a bullet-riddled skull attached to three vertebrae was found next to a Glenbrook business where the father of the woman's two children worked.

Police at the time figured vermin -- possibly a raccoon -- dragged the skull from a shallow grave and was stopped by a chain-link fence from moving it into a heap of 1,000 wooden loading pallets in a neighboring property. Police commissioned a nationally recognized forensic scientist to create a clay reconstruction of the skull -- presenting a best guess of what the face of the victim would have looked like -- and detectives presented it to stunned members of Joseph's family in Brooklyn, N.Y.

Using new DNA analysis technology, police determined last year that it was Joseph's skull and for the first time since the discovery, police are now publicly identifying Joseph as a murder victim and have closed her missing person's case.

The investigation into Joseph's murder remains active and police are asking for the public's help in solving the case. Police say they have a "person of interest" in the case, but since it's an ongoing investigation, they will not release their identity.

"The investigation is ongoing and has been resuscitated as a cold case," said Wayne "Mac" Macuirzynski, a detective with the Stamford Police Department's Special Victiim's Unit. "We are proceeding with it and we are finding additional information."

Following the discovery of the skull in August 1991, police focused their investigation on the father of Joseph's two children, Andre Lubin. Lubin, who was 40 at the time of Joseph's disappearance, adamantly denies any involvement with Joseph's murder and has never been charged.

The skull was found by workers near what was then Interprocess Inc., at 45 Research Drive, after brush was cleared from the area. At the time, Lubin worked in the shipping department and performed light building maintenance at Interprocess.

During an interview this week with The Advocate, the Haitian born Lubin, now 61, of Bridgeport, said after the skull was discovered his apartment was searched and police were following him all over town.

Lubin, who currently works as a Greenwich school bus driver, denied any involvement in Joseph's disappearance and has consistently told police and her family that she abandoned him and his two daughters and ran off to Canada.

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DNA revives 1991 mystery