Just over two decades after a woman's body was discovered in a sleeping bag wrapped in a carpet along a southeastern Utah highway, officials revealed Wednesday they finally know who she is. 
 
 The Garfield County Sheriff's Office announced the woman known as the "Maidenwater victim" has been identified as Lena Reyes-Geddes, who resided in Ohio. 
 
 Reyes-Geddes' body was found in southeastern Utah near Lake Powell on April 20, 1998, by a passing motorist. 
 
 Officials said she had a fatal gunshot wound to the head. Her body was found covered with plastic bags, wrapped in duct tape, tied with a rope and placed inside a sleeping bag before being wrapped in carpet. 
 
 Reyes-Geddes was 37-years-old the last time she was seen alive, according to the Charley Project, which compiles information about missing persons. She was supposed to travel in April 1998 to Dallas and then to Laredo, Texas, but it was never clear if she ever arrived there, according to the group. 
 
 Her husband reported her missing to police six months after she left to travel to Texas, according to the Charley Project. 
 
 "The Garfield County Sheriff's Office is very grateful to give our victim a name and peace to her family," the sheriff's office said. "We are also grateful for the State Bureau of Investigation for their help." 
 
 UTAH OFFICIALS REVIVING 1998 COLD CASE THAT MAY BE TIED TO COLORADO SERIAL KILLER 
 
 Last month, agents from the Utah State Bureau of Investigation asked the public to help identify the victim and provide any tips that could lead authorities to her murderer. 
 
 Investigators had considered that Reyes-Geddes may have been a victim of serial killer Scott Kimball, who is currently serving a 70-year prison sentence in Colorado. Kimball is believed to have killed about 25 people, but has previously denied involvement in other cold-case killings. 
 
 But in a statement to FOX13, the Garfield County Sheriff's Office said that the suspect in Reyes-Geddes' murder died by suicide in Nevada in the early 2000s. 
 
 The Utah Department of Public Safety said additional details will be announced at a press conference at 4 p.m. ET on Thursday. 
 
 Fox News' Kathleen Joyce contributed to this report. ||||| GARFIELD COUNTY, Utah — Officials with the Utah State Bureau of Investigation have made major breakthroughs in a 20-year-old cold case. 
 
 A woman was found wrapped in a sleeping bag near Ticaboo, Utah in 1998. She had suffered a fatal gunshot wound to the head. 
 
 On Wednesday, the Garfield County Sheriff’s Office identified her as Lena Reyes-Geddes, who resided in Youngstown, Ohio. 
 
 Reyes-Geddes, who was originally from Mexico, had been living in Ohio for two years before she was murdered. 
 
 Authorities were able to positively identify the body earlier this month after receiving DNA samples from two family members who live in Mexico. 
 
 The identification comes after the cold case was renewed in October and authorities put out a new plea for information, along with photos from the crime scene. 
 
 While a suspect in the murder has not been named, the sheriff’s office indicates they know that person’s identity. 
 
 “The suspect of this murder committed suicide in Nevada in the early 2000’s,” a statement from the Sheriff’s Office said. 
 
 The sheriff’s office said they are grateful to the State Bureau of Investigation, which is part of the Department of Public Safety, for their help in the case. 
 
 “The Garfield County Sheriff’s Office is very grateful to give our victim a name and peace to her family,” a post stated. 
 
 The Department of Public Safety announced they will be releasing more details in the case Thursday at 2 p.m. at a press conference. ||||| When Lina Reyes-Geddes left her home in Ohio on a chilly April morning in 1998, she got in her car and started a long drive to Texas to see her family. 
 
 She never made it there. 
 
 Two days after leaving, she should have arrived in Dallas. No one heard from her. Six days later, panic set in among her relatives. This wasn’t like her to just vanish. Why wasn’t she there yet? What was the holdup? Was she still coming? 
 
 Twelve days later, a passerby driving through southern Utah spotted a slender package sitting on the side of the road and called the sheriff. When detectives peeled back the wrapping, they found Reyes-Geddes’ body. Except they didn’t know it was her body. 
 
 They didn’t have any I.D. They didn’t know how she got there. They had no one coming forward to claim her. They had few leads on who could’ve killed her and even fewer pieces of evidence to base those on. 
 
 But now — after reviving the cold case this fall and asking the public for tips — officers say they were finally able to positively identify Reyes-Geddes and offer the small amount of closure that remained in naming her. 
 
 “The Garfield County Sheriff's Office is very grateful to give our victim a name and peace to her family,” the office wrote in a Facebook post announcing the victim’s identification Wednesday. 
 
 The sheriff’s office did not return requests for comment and the State Bureau of Investigation, which led the investigation, declined to talk about the case ahead of a news conference scheduled for Thursday. 
 
 It’s unclear how detectives made the connection to Reyes-Geddes or how she ended up in Utah, a ways west from her destination. The statement released Wednesday said that the suspect in her murder died by suicide in Nevada in the early 2000s. It does not name the person. 
 
 When the Utah Department of Public Safety announced the new push in the case last month, officers said the only person of interest was convicted serial killer Scott Kimball. He is currently serving a 70-year sentence in a Colorado prison after confessing to four murders committed between 2003 and 2004. It is believed that he killed as many 25 people across the West. 
 
 But detectives are no longer tying him to Reyes-Geddes’ death. 
 
 Her body was discovered on April 20, 1998, about 38 miles north of Lake Powell near Maidenwater Spring. She was wrapped in a blue sleeping bag, a few garbage bags and a play mat for kids patterned with roads and houses. She was taped up and tied in with several pieces of rope in intricate knots, according to the original investigation report, obtained by The Salt Lake Tribune through a public records request. 
 
 “The ends of the thumbs and all the fingers had been cut off at a right angle,” the report states, further complicating any efforts to identify her. 
 
 The Garfield County Sheriff’s Office released the cause of her death Wednesday, saying Reyes-Geddes died after being shot in the head. She was 37 years old.
– Some two decades ago, a passing motorist found the remains of a woman near Lake Powell in southeastern Utah. She had been killed with a gunshot to the head, and her body was wrapped in duct tape, tied with rope, and put inside of a sleeping bag that was wrapped in a carpet. Unable to identify the woman, authorities called her the “Maidenwater victim.” On Wednesday, the Garfield County Sheriff’s Office announced that it had identified the woman as Lena Reyes-Geddes of Youngstown, Ohio, FOX reports. Reyes-Geddes was originally from Mexico and authorities were able to identify her body using DNA samples from relatives in that country, per KSTU. Authorities renewed their investigation into the case in October. Reyes-Geddes, 37, had been driving from Ohio to Texas in April of 1998 to visit family, according to the Salt Lake Tribune. Twelve days after she started her drive, her body was discovered near Maidenwater Spring. Her fingers and thumbs had been cut off at right angles, according to police documents obtained by the Tribune. Police have not disclosed how they made the connection between the Maidenwater victim and Reyes-Geddes. For a time, they reportedly thought that serial killer Scott Kimball, currently serving 70 years in a Colorado prison, was tied to Reyes-Geddes’ death. However, they no longer believe that to be the case and say that they have identified a suspect, who they say died by suicide in Nevada in the early 2000s. They have not named that person.