RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) Modern DNA testing has helped law-enforcement identify the remains of a Johnston County woman who disappeared in Virginia nearly 20 years ago, officials said Friday.

Angie Faye Toler left North Carolina in 1992 to move to Richmond, Va., and live with a boyfriend. The boyfriend returned to Smithfield, but Toler was never seen again. Her body was found near railroad tracks in November of that year. With no identification and no relatives around, her case was listed as an unidentified deceased.

Nona Best, supervisor of the N.C. Center for Missing Persons, attended an academy of the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System, or NamUs, last November. During a presentation by the VA Medical Examiner's Office, she noticed a picture that looked familiar. Best approached the instructor after his presentation and asked to see the picture again.

"Once I saw the picture up close I knew it was her," Best said. "She looked just like herself and her sister."

When Best returned to her office in Raleigh, she contacted the family and Lara A. Frame, an investigator with the chief medical examiner's office in Virginia. DNA from Toler's mother and sister was sent to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to compare with the unidentified body.

On Tuesday, Best was advised by Frame that the DNA was a positive match.

Best and Princeton Police Chief Tyrone Sutton informed Toler's sister, Cora Prince, and her mother, Deloris Sherod.

"The Lord answers prayers. I prayed I would find out what happen to her before I left this earth. I'm at peace now," Sherod said.

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DNA testing identifies NC woman missing since 1992