Fifteen-year-old Rocio Sperry disappeared from Colorado Springs in November 1987 while her husband, Joseph Sperry, was in Florida with their infant daughter. When Joseph returned six days later, their apartment was in disarray with broken glass and blood; the couple’s new television and car were missing. The car turned up about a week later in a parking lot, having been driven more than 300 miles. Rocio had been born in Cuba and spent time in foster care before marrying Joseph; she was last seen wearing a blue sweatsuit and white high-top sneakers.

For eighteen years the case remained unsolved amid competing theories about whether she left voluntarily or had been harmed. In 2006 Robert Charles Browne, already serving a life term for an unrelated 1991 murder, confessed to taking Rocio to the movies, strangling her, placing her body in a trash bin, and stealing her wedding ring, television and car. Browne later pleaded guilty to first-degree murder, but Rocio’s body has never been recovered.

Anyone who knew Rocio, where she worked or spent time in Colorado Springs in 1987, or has information about her disappearance is asked to come forward.