A woman struck and killed by two vehicles 27 years ago in Huntington Beach has been identified, officials announced Thursday morning.The Orange County Sheriff's Department Coroner's Division confirmed the woman's identify as 26-year-old Andrea Kuiper of Fairfax, Virginia.Authorities said Andrea Kuiper was struck by two vehicles as she was crossing Pacific Coast Highway on April 1, 1990. For 27 years, no one knew who she was, and her family was never told of her death. Not that most of them aren't, this was just particularly tragic because she was just crossing the street in Huntington Beach," Kelly Keyes, supervising deputy coroner said.Investigators said the woman didn't have any identification on her. "They believed she was from Virginia, although someone said possibly from Newport in Virginia, which wasn't entirely accurate, and that she said she was adopted," Keyes explained.Andrea Kuiper's information was provided to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children at the time of her death, officials said. "It was one of those once in a career type moments to know that Andrea was Andrea," Keyes described.After Andrea Kuiper was identified on May 4, investigators worked to locate her parents to tell them about the discovery. “We are thankful to know what happened to our daughter after all these years,” Andrea’s father, Richard Kuiper, said in a statement. “Andrea was loved and respected. She was beautiful. But she was manic depressive, and therefore we had been through quite an adventure.” 
 
 All the family has always wanted, Richard Kuiper said, was to see Andrea driving up to their Virginia home in a “car full of beautiful children and say, ‘Hi, it’s me.’” 
 
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– On the night of April 1, 1990, a woman crossing the street in Huntington Beach was hit by one car, then a second, and died at the scene. For 27 years, police have tried to figure out who she was—and now she's finally been identified. Andrea Kuiper of Fairfax, Va., an artist who suffered from manic depression, started using drugs, and moved to California. Two months before her death at age 26 that night in 1990, a friend called her family to say she was safe, and they never heard news of her again. They never filed a missing persons report. Now they have answers, and in a statement, her father says they "are thankful to know what happened to our daughter after all these years. Andrea was loved and respected. She was beautiful. But she was manic depressive, and therefore we had been through quite an adventure." Authorities, thinking she could be a teenager, submitted her data to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, and her story was featured on TV's Unsolved Mysteries. In 2010, the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs) was created, and authorities added her information to that. But none of those measures led to an identification. Then, this year, the FBI worked with NamUs to closely examine fingerprints, and found a match for the unidentified victim: fingerprints given by Andrea Kuiper when she applied for a job with the Department of Agriculture three years before her death, ABC 7 reports. Authorities are happy to have given the former Jane Doe her identity back, but it's a tragic end for her family; per the Los Angeles Times, Kuiper's dad says they always hoped she'd drive up in a "car full of beautiful children and say, ‘Hi, it’s me.'"