Marilyn Gonzalez was 26 when she disappeared from her Waterbury, Connecticut home on May 15, 2003. A mother of two daughters, ages seven and eleven at the time, her absence left a long unanswered void for her family as central Connecticut coped with several disappearances that year.

In 2007, a hunter found skeletal remains of three women behind a New Britain strip mall. Investigators returned to that wooded dumping ground in April 2015 and recovered four more sets of remains, one later identified as Marilyn Gonzalez in June 2015. Authorities concluded the site—described by the killer as his garden—contained the remains of seven people who vanished in 2003.

The investigation focused on William Devin Howell, a transient who had been in the area in 2003 and who was already serving a 15-year term for the manslaughter of one of the victims. DNA from Howell’s van linked him to several victims; he was later charged in connection with these killings and ultimately pleaded guilty to six counts of murder. In November 2017 Howell received six consecutive life sentences.

Did anyone in the area know Marilyn’s routines or remember seeing her in the spring of 2003?