Alice Mae Sullivan has been missing since August 1986, when she vanished while attending Tennessee State University
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- Alice Mae Sullivan, a Tennessee State University student and a mother, was reported missing in 1986 after she failed to pick up her toddler son from a babysitter’s home
- In 2004, a contractor came across an unidentified skull on Stokers Lane in North Nashville
- Police announced on Oct. 13 that forensic scientists determined the skull was a match for Sullivan
Authorities are still investigating the death of a Tennessee State University (TSU) student and mother whose remains were recently identified after she was reported missing in 1986.
In a Monday, Oct. 13, news release, the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department (MNPD) said that a skull discovered by a contractor who was building homes on Stokers Lane in North Nashville on Feb. 20, 2004, matched the missing woman, Alice Mae Sullivan.
At the time of her disappearance, Sullivan, then 20 years old, did not pick up her 3-year-old son from a babysitter’s house on Aug. 28, 1986, after her morning class, the MNPD said. Her parents reported their daughter missing the following day…