On October 24, 1997, four-year-old Rosa Marie Camacho, known as Rosita, was last seen in Hartford, Connecticut, leaving a grocery store with her mother, Rosa Delgado, after a trip for diapers and milk. That afternoon the mother had been seen speaking with Rosita’s father and ex-boyfriend, Julio Camacho, on a Parkville street corner before they went into the store. Rosita was about three feet tall, 38 pounds, with light brown hair and brown eyes, primarily spoke Spanish, and was wearing a black jacket and blue pants.

Rosa Delgado’s body was found in November 1997 in Columbia Lake in western New Jersey; her remains were missing the head and hands and were identified two years later. Her death was ruled a homicide. Extensive searches of the lake turned up no trace of Rosita. Investigators focused on Julio Camacho, then a Hartford police officer; searches of his car and home uncovered books about serial killers, a handmade hatchet, a wire garrote, and signs the car trunk had been altered, but he was never charged due to insufficient evidence. The case remains open and the FBI is offering up to $50,000 for information leading to Rosita’s recovery or to an arrest and prosecution.

Did anyone in Hartford or Parkville remember seeing Rosa or her mother that afternoon, or have information about movements toward or from Columbia Lake in late October 1997?