Six-year-old Cambodian female Volith Long was found dead in a trash dumpster at her Austin, Texas, apartment complex on March 13, 1985. She had been seen earlier that evening between 5 and 7 p.m. playing in the complex; her body was discovered later that night. Investigators determined she had been sexually assaulted and strangled.

The case went cold for years as forensic technology at the time was limited and no suspects were identified. After the Austin Police Department’s cold case unit reopened the investigation, a 2001 tip from a retired schoolteacher prompted re-examination of evidence with updated DNA and fingerprint analysis. That work linked Doeur Seoung, a Cambodian male already serving a life sentence in California for a 1998 double homicide, to Long’s murder.

The identification and later prosecution of Doeur Seoung brought a resolution to the family after more than 15 years. Does anyone have information about Volith’s life in the apartment complex or remembers that neighborhood in 1985?