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Melissa Badillo was 23 when she disappeared from her Fort Worth, Texas, home in September 1994. Days later her nude body was found in a wooded area; she had been strangled. Her infant daughter Angela was five months old at the time and was later raised by Melissa’s sister, Sylvia Sanchez, who did not tell the child the full truth about her mother’s fate until years later.

The case sat cold for more than a decade. In 2010 a cold case detective, Tom O’Brien, noted similarities between Badillo’s killing and other unsolved cases linked to Juan Segundo, a convicted serial killer on death row. Fingernail scrapings from Badillo’s autopsy that had never been tested were finally analyzed and produced a DNA match to Segundo. Segundo had been a neighbor and was the older brother of Badillo’s best friend. Authorities have not confirmed whether he will be tried for Badillo’s murder.

Does anyone have memories of Melissa, her family, or the neighborhood in Fort Worth from 1994 that could add context to the case?