Wilson Perez was 19 when his body was found in Harlow Park near Northwest 19th Street and Meridian Avenue in Oklahoma City in September 2017. Authorities determined he had been brutally beaten and strangled. Early in the inquiry investigators learned Perez had arranged to meet a friend and a woman at the park the night he was killed, but no immediate suspects were identified and the case went cold.

In 2022 a witness sent a letter alleging that a man named Bryan Trochez confessed to the killing and that threats had kept the witness silent for years. The letter claims Trochez and a woman, identified as Stacey Juarez, lured Perez to the park; the witness alleges Juarez held Perez’s hands over his mouth while Trochez used a shovel against his neck until he died. The witness said Perez and Trochez were involved with the same girl. The letter also says Perez’s phone records were not analyzed early on.

Following that lead investigators located and arrested Bryan Trochez in Texas and Stacey Juarez in Missouri; both were charged in connection with Perez’s murder. Did anyone who knew Wilson or his circle around September 2017 see or hear anything that might help clarify what happened?