TASMANIA Police have circulated a facial impression of a young woman whose remains were found in a notorious New South Wales forest in the hope that someone might recognise her.
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Police hope that the black and white image of the woman now known as Angel will spark someone's memory and reveal the identity of remains found last year.
The skeletal remains were found in the notorious Belanglo State Forest in southern New South Wales a year ago.
Trail-bike riders found a human skull and what looked like leg bones near a log at Daly's Waterhole in the forest - the same one where Ivan Milat murdered seven backpackers in the 1990s.
Nearby was a T-shirt emblazoned with the word ``Angelic'' in pink text, surrounded by a rose, heart and wings. It is believed that she was between 13 and 25 when she died.
Since the discovery on August 29, 2010, her identity remains a mystery, police having exhausted their inquiries after running into a series of dead ends.
So for the first time, the NSW Homicide Squad has turned to facial approximation technology in the hopes of solving the mystery.
It enlisted the help of Dr Susan Hayes, a facial anthropologist from the University of Western Australia.
After being flown to Sydney in August, Dr Hayes measured Angel's skull and then used computer graphics to simulate how her face is likely to have looked.
The black and white image depicts a pretty young woman with wide eyes.
``It's an approximation,'' Dr Hayes said. ``The main thing is that when you recognise someone you get a feeling that you know them.
``If someone who seems this image and discounted it because it's not exact, that would be really unfortunate.''
Dr Hayes, who usually works with archaeological remains, said it was different to work with a skull of someone who lived recently.
``You are so aware that there are people out there who are her friends or family. There is always sadness with someone who is that young.''
The discovery of Angel's remains last year sparked renewed concerns from people living near Belanglo who feared that Milat had dumped other possible victims in the forest.
Homicide Squad Detective Superintendent Mick Willing said police had no specific information that would suggest any links between Angel and the Belanglo murders.
