COLD CASE INVESTIGATION
The
El Paso
Three
Melissa Alaniz, Age 13
Marjorie Knox, Age 14
Cheryl Vasquez, Age 19
Melissa Alaniz, Age 13
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Missing for 32 years. Possibly the
victims of a serial killer. Nine top investigative and forensics experts from across the world will go looking for them!
Melissa Alaniz, Age 13
Marjorie Knox, Age 14
Cheryl Vasquez, Age 19
The Case...
It was early 1987 and a young girl was reported missing from the northeastern area of El Paso, Texas. There was another young girl reported missing after her. Then another. A total of nine girls came up missing, all young, and all petite.
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At first, two of the victims were discovered and identifies. A short time thereafter, two more were discovered, then another, and another.
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There was a serial killer on the loose.
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A suspect was eventually apprehended, tried, and convicted. The Desert Killer was off the streets!
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Six of the missing girls had been found, unfortunately, murdered. Where were the other three? Air and cadaver dog searches revealed nothing.
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To this day, their whereabouts is unknown, but all are presumed deceased.
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Three families have no answers and no closure and three innocent girls are needing to be returned to their families.
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A team of some of the top investigative and forensic experts from across the world have been assembled and are going in a search for these missing girls.
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Nine experts with experience in cold cases, forensic anthropology, crime scene reconstruction, medico-legal, facial reconstruction, serial killer profiling, victimology, research, death investigation, forensic pathology, and microanthropology.
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Their mission: To find these girls.
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After three decades is it possible?
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They think so!
The Girls
MELISSA ALANIZ
Age 13 when she disappeared.
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Last seen going to a local convenience store to play video games. Never returned home.
MARJORIE KNOX
Age 14 when she disappeared.
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She left a friend's house around 2:30 a.m. to walk home (a fifteen minute walk) and she never arrived home.
CHERYL VASQUEZ
Age 19 when she disappeared.
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Last seen at a Circle K store in El Paso buying cigarettes for a friend. She was seen talking to a male at the store. Was never seen again.
Our Team
STEVEN DAVID
LAMPLEY
Former 21 year career police officer, SVU detective. Negotiating and arresting officer of The Clairemont Killer (serial killer featured on America's Most Wanted). Author of Inside the Mind of a Serial Killer and The Dahmer Book. Hosts of Crime & Forensics in Los Angeles.
KAREN
SMITH
Major case detective conducting 500 death investigations and working 20,000 other cases. Served as the Director of Forensic Education at the CSI Academy of Florida with the University of Florida. Karen owns Bare Bones Consulting, LLC, offering crime scene and cold case analysis, bloodstain pattern analysis & crime scene reconstruction services.
JOSEPH GUIACALONE
Cold case expert formerly the Commander of the NYPD Cold Case Squad. Author of The Criminal Investigative Function: A Guide for New Investigators. Seen regularly on Investigation Discovery, HLN, CNN,
SHERYL McCOLLUM
Founder and Director of the internationally revered Cold Case Investigative Research Institute and has worked on numerous high-profile cold case homicides of Tupac Shakur, Natalie Wood, The Georgia Sharecroppers, and others.
MICHAEL
STREED
Internationally recognized forensic facial imaging and facial reconstruction expert. Author of Creating Digital Faces for Law Enforcement. Michael worked on several high-profile cases including The Baton Rouge Serial Killer and The Fortune Teller Murder in Orange County California.
CARLOS
GUTIERREZ
Founder of the field of Microanthropology. Forensics expert. Professor of Criminology at Chaminade University in Hawaii. Director of True Science which provides the most updated knowledge in the Forensic Science field.
JOSEPH SCOTT MORGAN, M.F.S., F-ABMDI
Distinguished Scholar of Applied Forensics at Jacksonville State University. Board Certified Fellow of the American Board of Medicolegal Death Investigators. Helped establish the national training guidelines for Medicolegal Death Investigators.
EVI
ONTORO, MD
Forensic Pathologist, Forensic Anthropologist, Forensic Radiologist and is the Vice President of the Indo Pacific Association of Law Medicine and Science in Jakarta, Indonesia. She is also the Director of Forensic Medicine and Medico Legal at Sentra Medika Hospital in West Java, Indonesia.