SALT LAKE CITY (KSL.com) — Salt Lake City police are seeking information from the public that they hope will help them solve the 30-year-old abduction and murder of 6-year-old Rosie Tapia.
On Aug. 13, 1995, someone abducted the young girl from her ground-level bedroom window at the old Hartland Apartments, 1616 W. Snow Queen Place (1675 South), took her across the street to the banks of the nearby Jordan River surplus canal, sexually assaulted her, and then murdered her.
Despite numerous pleas over the years from Rosie’s mother, police, and the Utah Cold Case Coalition for help solving the three-decades-old case, no one has ever been arrested and no charges have been filed.
Now, Salt Lake City police are hoping a break in the case might come by identifying and speaking with two teen His