Jade Velasquez was 34 and an Apache woman when her body was found under a palm tree in Phoenix on February 27, 2003. Her death was later determined to be one of five homicides linked by location and circumstance; all five victims were found within a two-block radius in an area where a man living in a camper nearby had been frequenting and hosting women.

Investigators say 24-year-old Cory Morris lived in that camper and lured women there, where drug use and sexual activity occurred before the victims were killed. Morris reportedly confessed to involvement in the deaths and initially tried to claim overdose as the cause, but the deaths were ruled homicides and his admissions and the circumstantial evidence connected him to the killings.

The loss of Velasquez was part of a string of murders that terrorized the community that winter. Does anyone have information about Jade’s life in Phoenix or remember her from that neighborhood?