Rosie Hill was 20 when her body was found on August 16, 1982, in a wooded area near a hog pen off County Road 326 in Florida. Authorities determined she had been strangled or suffocated. Witnesses reported seeing her leave a bar with a man matching Samuel Little’s description, but investigators at the time lacked enough evidence to charge anyone.

Samuel Little later confessed to strangling Hill and dumping her body. Little was arrested in December 1982 in Mississippi for separate violent crimes and was arrested again the following year in connection with another Alachua County murder but acquitted. Decades later, while serving multiple life sentences for other killings, he told investigators details about Hill’s murder that officials say only the perpetrator would have known. No new charges were pursued in Hill’s case because Little was already serving life sentences and faced another indictment in Texas.

Hill’s mother, Minnie Hill, described Rosie as a young single mother with a beautiful personality and said learning the truth brought both grief and some closure. Did anyone who knew Rosie in 1982 or who was in that area around County Road 326 have memories to share?