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It looks as if DNA confirmed that these remains belonged to someone who had female DNA.

If the intelligence about her living in Eastern TN is correct and coming to the US as a child is correct, I wonder whether her parents or family had a connection to Oak Ridge National Laboratory. It's pretty much the only institution in that area that could compel a foreign national to settle...

The murder of Bronx schoolgirl Minerliz Soriano. We were close in age, and she was found in a dumpster two blocks from my childhood home in a busy commercial area. It was a high profile crime at the time, but it's been mostly forgotten at this point. I made a thread for it--hopefully someone...

Minerliz was found 20 years ago today--may she rest in peace, and may her killer(s) be brought to account.

The avenue that was pursued by NYPD was that this was a family-related killing due to a lack of evidence of sexual assault found at the time & questions about the family dynamic. The longer this goes on without resolution, the more it seems to me that perhaps other avenues of inquiry may be...

Yesterday was the 20th anniversary of Minerliz's disappearance. She is not forgotten, but for such a tragic & disturbing case, there is very little indication that there's a push afoot to take a second look at this. Here's hoping that NYPD continues to look at this and find a way to bring her...

As JessR927 noted above, 'Chino' is the Spanish word both for Chinese people *and* Asian people generally. It's used often as a nickname for someone who might have features that might even vaguely approximate Asian. It's not exactly PC, but it's a very common nickname. Given her appearance...

More details about the clothing found would really be helpful here, both for dating her and figuring out possible time of year she was left & what she may have been doing. According to the NAMUS description, she could've been there for as long as 8 years, which would bring us back to 1997. I...

It seems that the clothing the children wore will be the best thing to go on, as someone with a keen eye for fashion history could have a good idea as to what era certain articles belong to. I'm definitely *not* one, but when I looked at the boy's photo (nothing graphic, just the clothed bottom...

That's exactly right--this isn't a loner by any means, even if this person's life has been tumultuous.

There is so much about this that is baffling to me: the choice of target; the timing; the devolution into mass murder; the seeming planning that went into this contrasted with the clear lack of forethought when things went off the rails. I'm curious if ISP or Tinley Park police have looked...

An edited clip is below:

Attached below is a clipping via Newspapers.com of a March 16, 1999 column in the Daily News from Bob Kappstatter. This clipping contains a photo of Minerliz--the only one I've been able to find online. I will continue to scour for any other information available in archives. If anyone has any...

Something that strikes me as relevant to identifying this young woman is the fact that her teeth were completely natural and had no cavities. This could point to a couple of possibilities. One is that she grew up in a place with fluoridated water or at least regular dental care with access to...

For those of you with a Newspaper.com subscription, this is the original Daily News story of her discovery with a photo: Daily News from New York, New York on March 3, 1999 · 117

Yes--this is the area before Peartree Plaza as you're approaching Co-Op from Conner Street. These blocks run roughly parallel to 95 North. There's been a lot of development around there recently, but the specific blocks in question remain pretty desolate and industrial.

I'm curious if a Newspapers.com subscription will help dig up more public information on this case, but this happened at a time when the transition from print to online was occurring and archives for this period aren't quite as well-developed yet as archives from a few years before and after...

I'll flag up two more from NY while I'm at it. Both are Jane Doe cases: 1991: Staten Island Jane Doe - https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/vicap/unidentified-persons/jane-doe-14 - location is 40.582459, -74.084673 -- found in a vacant lot on 9/19/91. Per NAMUS: "She was struck approx 17 times with a...

The first NY Post story sheds some light on the basics of the story, as well as the way in which suspicions of the family--well-founded or otherwise--began: A 13-year-old Bronx girl described by neighbors as sweet and studious was strangled and tossed into a Co-op City Dumpster, police said...

This case is personal to me, as Minerliz was found two blocks from where I grew up in Co-op City and we were close in age. This was a high-profile case at the time, but it seems that the investigation fizzled out quickly due to suspicion of the family...