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Marjorie Knox vanished on February 14, 1987, while visiting friends and attending a Valentine’s Day event at Veterans Park in El Paso, Texas. The 14-year-old from Chaparral, New Mexico, of White and Asian (Thai) descent was last seen with people who were familiar to her. She was wearing a purple shirt and blue jeans and may have bleached her hair blond; there were reports she might have been pregnant. Marjorie enjoyed horses and sports and rode the same school bus as another victim, Desiree Wheatley.

Her disappearance is linked by authorities to a string of 1987 El Paso cases attributed to David Leonard Wood, the so-called Desert Killer. Wood, born in 1957, had prior convictions for sexual assaults, was paroled in January 1987, and later was arrested in October 1987. He was convicted of kidnapping and rape in 1988 and of capital murder for six killings in 1993. Six victims were recovered buried in shallow desert graves; three, including Marjorie Knox, were never located. Authorities presume Marjorie was murdered, but her case remains officially classified as a disappearance and her remains have not been found.

Does anyone have memories of Marjorie, the Valentine’s Day gathering at Veterans Park, or sightings in El Paso or Chaparral around February 14, 1987?