Manuel Uel Carrillo was 54 and living in Tulsa when he was found dead in a vacant lot behind the Pit Stop convenience store at 1627 N. Peoria on January 3, 1993. Officers and medical personnel determined he died of severe blunt-force trauma to the head and face; the injuries were described as consistent with repeated, close-range blows rather than a vehicle strike.

Carrillo was reported to have Alzheimer’s disease, a detail investigators note as making him especially vulnerable. The Tulsa Police Department continues to list his killing as an unsolved homicide and asks anyone with information to contact the Cold Case Unit.

Did anyone in north Tulsa in early 1993 see something behind the Pit Stop or know someone who might have been in that area that night?