Victoria Lyn Turpin, 32, was found in the fall of 2003 in a shallow grave in the backyard of a Denver home. Her remains were recovered alongside those of 27-year-old Annaletia Maria Gonzales. Investigators tied both killings to Richard Paul White, who had once lived at that property with a girlfriend.

White told investigators he had held Turpin captive in the home’s basement, where she was tortured and then strangled with a belt. After his arrest in September 2003 for the shooting death of a former roommate, he confessed to five murders dating back to 1998 and said he had buried victims in multiple locations across Colorado.

White pleaded guilty to first-degree murder in Turpin’s and Gonzales’s deaths as part of a deal to avoid the death penalty. In November 2004 he was sentenced to two consecutive life terms for those killings and received additional prison time for sexual assaults on three other women; he also assisted investigators in locating other remains.

Did anyone who knew Victoria Lyn Turpin notice her missing or have information about her whereabouts before the fall of 2003?