Rosa Maria Casio was 24 and from Addison, Texas when she vanished during a visit to her sister in Juárez in August 1987. On August 17 she had crossed into El Paso to buy postage stamps and was planning to enroll in college. She worked as a waitress and topless dancer and was described by family as private and appearing happy during the visit. She was last seen at the Cabaret Club on Montana Avenue in El Paso with a man who matched the description of David Leonard Wood.

Casio’s green 1974 Ford Gran Torino was found abandoned in Central El Paso the day after she disappeared. Her remains were recovered on September 4, 1987 in a shallow grave northeast of El Paso alongside Karen Baker. Clothing at the burial matched what she had been wearing when last seen, and fiber evidence from her clothing matched fibers found in a vacuum cleaner bag from Wood’s former residence.

David Leonard Wood, a 30-year-old at the time with a long record of sexual offenses, was arrested and later convicted in connection with a string of murders that included Casio. The prosecution relied in part on jailhouse informants who said Wood confessed and on the forensic links described above. Does anyone have firsthand knowledge of Casio’s movements in El Paso in August 1987 or new information about this case?