We may not yet know who she is, but we know who she isn’t — thanks to a national DNA database.

Lawrence County Coroner Kurt Hofmann said Thursday the DNA from a woman whose body was found stuffed in a rural well more than 30 years ago has been submitted to The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs) database in hopes of matching her DNA with another sample in the system. The hope is that somehow modern technology can be used to identify the body and give a name to a woman who died so many years ago. Right now, she only has a number: She is NamUs case 6259.

Hofmann said thus far, DNA has ruled out some possibilities. Her DNA match has precluded her from being several other missing women.

“We know she’s not Ellen Akers of Florida; we know she’s not Christi Booth of Texas or Laura Flink of Washington,” Hofmann said.

Hofmann said the woman’s skull has been sent to the Franklin County Coroner’s Office for possible clay reconstruction, which may also help identify the woman.

Hofmann said this case has cost the county nothing. The Boyd County, Ky., coroner’s office, which helped with the exhumation and allowed the use of its morgue, didn’t charge for its services.Hofmann said he did but Coroner Mark Hammond and his deputy dinner. The other entities have worked for free as well.

“If anyone wants to submit DNA to NamUs for this or any other case, all they have to do is get on the website and they (NamUs) will send a kit (to collect the specimen) and do it for free,” Coroner’s Assistant Bill Nenni said.

In June of last year, the county coroner’s office exhumed the remains of the woman who had been buried in an unmarked grave off Homeless Road in the early 1980s, the county’s only unidentified missing person. The woman’s body, which had been weighted down with a concrete block and thrown in a well near Dobbstown, was found by children playing in the area.

At the time she was found, the body was so decomposed that authorities could not determine if it was male or female, much less identify who it was. That was in 1981, before DNA matching was commonplace and databases created. Authorities theorized the body could have been put there as early as 1979.