Shamira Bello was 14 and described as Hispanic when she disappeared from her Bronx neighborhood on July 2, 1988. Her body was found the next day at Rodman’s Neck in Pelham Bay Park. An autopsy concluded she had been sexually abused and killed by repeated blows to the head.

Investigators later tied her death into a series of killings and focused on local businessman and livery-car driver Alejandro Alex Henriquez. Reports say three strands of hair on Shamira’s clothing matched Henriquez, and distinctive red fibers found on her and two other victims were consistent with fibers from a vacuum cleaner in his apartment. Prosecutors relied on this forensic and circumstantial evidence at trial.

On August 28, 1992, Henriquez was convicted of Shamira’s murder along with the killings of Jessica Guzman and Lisa Ann Rodriguez and was sentenced to 75 years to life; he has maintained his innocence. Did anyone who knew Shamira or lived near Rodman’s Neck in 1988 see anything that could still help clarify what happened?