Julie Castillo, 39, was found dead in Phoenix on April 12, 2003. Her decomposed body was concealed under a blanket inside a camper that belonged to Cory Morris and was parked in his aunt and uncle’s backyard. Morris’s uncle discovered the body after noticing a foul odor and flies around the vehicle.

Investigators found a necktie around Castillo’s neck. Morris initially told police she had died of a drug overdose while he was away, then later said she had died accidentally during consensual choking in a sexual encounter. He admitted keeping her body in the camper for about five days. An autopsy listed probable ligature strangulation as the cause of death; decomposition made other trauma difficult to see.

Morris was tried in connection with Castillo’s death along with four other nearby cases. Prosecutors introduced videotaped confessions about all five murders, and in July 2005 a jury convicted Morris of five counts of first-degree murder and recommended death. Did anyone in the Phoenix area know Julie Castillo or have information about her last movements?