A new witness and a sketch artist may yield a new lead in the 1995 murder of 6-year-old Rosie Tapia, according to the Utah Cold Case Coalition.
The nonprofit group Wednesday released a sketch of a young man, based on the recollections of a neighbor at the Hartland Apartments, 1616 W. Snow Queen Place (1675 South) in Salt Lake City’s Glendale neighborhood, where Tapia and her family lived.
Rosie was abducted from the apartment on Aug. 13, 1995. She was raped and murdered, and her body found the same morning a few blocks away in a canal off the Jordan River near 1900 South and 1600 West.