Jessica Guzman was a 10-year-old Hispanic girl who vanished from the Castle Hill Houses in the Bronx on October 10, 1990. She left home that afternoon to walk a block toward a community center martial arts class and was last seen heading toward Homer Avenue; her older brother later described that as the last clear sighting of her alive.

Neighbors and family searched the neighborhood for days. On October 17, 1990, a Parks Department employee found Jessica’s body in bushes along the Bronx River Parkway, just south of the Bronx Zoo, at about 4:30 p.m. The medical examiner ruled the death a homicide by asphyxiation. Investigators examined whether the killing fit a pattern after other children were found dead in a similar area.

Authorities later focused on Alejandro Alex Henriquez, a Bronx livery cab driver, who was tried and in 1992 found guilty in Bronx Supreme Court and given a sentence that will keep him in prison for life; he has continued to maintain his innocence. The intersection of Castle Hill and Seward avenues has been renamed Jessica Guzman Way and a mural was unveiled nearby.