Colette Anise Wilson was a 13-year-old from Alvin, Texas, who disappeared on June 17, 1971, after failing to return home from a summer band camp. Her body was recovered four months later near Addicks Reservoir in Houston; she had been shot in the head. The recovery site was about 35 yards from where 19-year-old Gloria Gonzales’s body was later found.

Colette’s death became part of a broader investigation into multiple unsolved murders of young girls in the area in the early 1970s. Edward Harold Bell later confessed in letters to killing as many as 11 teenage girls and specifically included Colette in his claims, saying he had been brainwashed by his father. Bell was serving a 70-year sentence for a separate murder and was not formally charged in Colette’s case because investigators found insufficient evidence to prosecute.

Colette’s murder remains unsolved. Does anyone have information about her movements on June 17, 1971, or about activity near Addicks Reservoir that summer?