Tyra Perry was 16 and five months pregnant when she disappeared from Albuquerque late in December 1987. She lived with her mother, Faye, and her grandparents and attended New Futures High School for teenage parents. Perry was last known to be alive on December 28, 1987; accounts differ about her final movements. Some witnesses reported seeing a man force her into a large white vehicle near a store in the 3800 block of East Central Avenue, others said she was seen getting into a truck, and one version identified the vehicle as a white Cadillac linked to the city’s drug and prostitution scene.

On January 2, 1988 a man walking his dog found Perry’s body in the La Cueva campground area of the Sandia Mountains east of Albuquerque. Authorities determined that she and her unborn child had been killed by stab wounds; reports vary between two stab wounds to the back and multiple stab wounds. Investigators explored several theories, including a disputed account about a white Cadillac and a man known to the family and suggestions of jealousy, but no arrest or public identification of a killer had been announced. The Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Office continued to list the case as an unsolved cold case.

Did anyone who knew Tyra or who lived on East Central Avenue in late December 1987 see anything that could help clarify how she disappeared?