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Sonyia Marie Campos was 27 and a mother when she disappeared from Grand Rapids, Michigan. Her family last saw her on September 4, 1996. Seventeen days later, on September 21, a jogger found her body in a secluded wooded area near Butterworth and O'Brien on the city’s southwest side.

Her remains were badly decomposed, and investigators could not determine a definitive cause of death; identification was made by distinctive unicorn and rose tattoos. Sonyia’s death was one of at least thirteen unsolved murders of women in and around Grand Rapids between 1994 and 1997, a series that left the community and her family seeking answers for decades.

In August 2022 a man was arrested in connection with one of the other 1990s victims after DNA linked him to that crime. Investigators have not publicly named him as a suspect in Sonyia’s case, though agencies are reportedly exploring possible connections. Does anyone have information about Sonyia’s movements in early September 1996 or about the wooded area near Butterworth and O’Brien?