2010 article for review:
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She was wearing a red halter top, blue jeans with a side zipper, blue underwear and one black shoe. She was about 5 feet tall, weighed 125 pounds and her fingernails were partially coated with purple nail polish. A case of CDs was found near her body.
We've done everything we absolutely could have to try and identify this person.
--Christen Eggers, investigator
"We looked at those CDs to see if there were any fingerprints on it and there were," Thompson said. The prints led police to a local woman who said the CDs belonged to her and that she had last seen them in her vehicle.
She said she had no idea who the dead woman was, but that her boyfriend had access to her vehicle on the day the body was found, Thompson said, recounting what the woman told police.
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No one has come forward to identify the young woman whose body was found more than eight years ago behind a strip mall in Tempe, Arizona.
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2019 article:
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While investigating the scene on East University Drive, authorities found a CD not far from Tempe Girl’s body. The CD had clear fingerprints on it, and investigators were able to trace the fingerprints back to a woman living in Phoenix. When they found her alive, they had more questions — especially when her boyfriend claimed he had seen Tempe Girl the night before.
The woman’s boyfriend, who remains unnamed, claimed that he picked up Tempe Girl at 32nd and Greenway Road the following night. She was hitchhiking to Tempe and was trying to buy some concert tickets. He said she spoke primarily in Spanish and asked if he could help her procure drugs. He obliged.
The man picked up another passenger, a drug dealer who sold Tempe Girl cocaine. Soon after she ingested the drug, she had a negative reaction and began convulsing in the back seat.
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On April 27, 2002, a store employee found the body of a woman. Who was Tempe Girl?
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