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Girl's Family Searching For Killer 25 Years After Death

Six-year-old Rosie Tapia was abducted through a window of her family’s Salt Lake City home in August 1995. 

She was later found sexually assaulted and drowned in a canal, a murder that's never been solved. On the 25th anniversary of the girl’s death, her family and members of the Utah Cold Case Coalition came together to announce a new initiative in her honor: the Rosie Tapia Identification Project. The coalition’s forensic DNA laboratory will offer free DNA testing and genetic genealogy to identify unidentified bodies found in Utah, Colorado, Idaho, Montana and Wyoming.