Ericka Leonor Aleman was a six-week-old infant who died on October 8, 1980, in Muleshoe, Bailey County, Texas. The death was not treated as isolated: investigators later determined she was suffocated by her cousin Diana Lumbrera, one of several children Lumbrera killed over a span of years.

Reports say Ericka was buried in Bovina Cemetery, Parmer County, Texas, where her paternal grandmother is also interred. There is no marker at Ericka’s gravesite. The case was part of a wider pattern that eventually led to Lumbrera’s arrest and conviction; forensic and investigative findings concluded the deaths were deliberate rather than natural.

If anyone knew Ericka or remembers the family in Bailey or Parmer County, any information about her life or burial site would be welcomed.