Police in Macon, Georgia, finally identified the body of Dymun Dupree, a transgender woman who was killed in 2016.

According to The Macon Telegraph, Dupree was last seen leaving her home around midnight on April 2, 2016. Her cousin, Victoria Clark, called the police four days later to report that Dupree was missing.

About a week later, Warner Robins Police Department sent out a news release asking for any tips about Dupree, who was last known to be wearing khaki pants, a black shirt and black boots.

A gardener mowing a lawn off the side of a Georgia highway discovered the 26-year-old's body on May 12. He called 911 when he saw Dupree's skull. Dupree's head was reportedly separated from her body, according to 13WMAZ News.

In January 2017, police had still not found Dupree or identified the body, so they went through a list of missing persons. Police visited the home of Dupree's mother and took a DNA sample to test it against the body.

Macon police sent the cheek swab to the Center for Human Identification at the University of North Texas, where they eventually tied it to the body that was found.

Dupree’s mother, Frankie Allen, told The Macon Telegraph her daughter loved to sing gospel music and drink Coca-Cola.

Dymun Dupree went missing in Warner Robins, Georgia (USA) on 2 Apr 2016.

A human skull was found with gunshot wounds on 12 May 2016, but was not identified by DNA testing as hers until September 2019. #SayHerName
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“It’s just hard when you don’t know what to think. I just want to know what happened to my son. It has been a burden to bear but you just got to pray to the Lord he will lighten your burden,” Allen told The Macon Telegraph in a May 2018 interview.

Allen said she saw her daughter about a week before she disappeared and the last words they said to each other were, "I love you."

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