TX - Sheila Finch, 10, Waco, 17 October 1989

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89-59396 Sheila Finch Age 10

On October 17, 1989, Sheila Finch was reported missing. She was last known to of been at the Dutton Avenue Grocery Store located at South 26th Street and Dutton Ave. in Waco, where she had gone to use a pay phone. Her body was located on October 19, 1989, in an area close to Lake Waco. Sheila died from multiple stab wounds. If you know anything about this case, we would like to talk to you. (Photo available)

Cold Cases 1980 - 1989

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Article published 28 September 2022:

"It’ll be 33 years this October since 10-year-old Sheila Renae Finch was found murdered in Speegleville Park near Lake Waco.

Her body was found fully clothed at the edge of the water. Beneath that clothing were multiple stab wounds.
“She’s found ... just dead and she’s wearing the same clothing that she was wearing when she left grandma’s house,” said Detective Michael Alston with the Waco Police Department.

But who killed her? That’s the question Waco police are still trying to figure out more than three decades after her brutal murder. But perhaps, recent DNA testing will soon help crack this cold case...

Two days before Finch’s body was found, she was seen leaving her grandmother’s house at 2812 Ross Ave. Around 8:30 a.m., clothed in a long sleeve red sweat suit top and red pants, she hopped on her pink and white bike and trekked less than half a mile to the corner grocery store that once sat on Dutton Avenue and South 26th Street.

On the call, Finch’s uncle told his niece to call back in a few minutes because Aunt Trina had stepped out for a little bit.
“So she waited there at the grocery store at the payphone outside,” Alston said. “Then called back and the aunt agreed to come pick her up.”

She didn't know it then, but that was the last time anyone would hear from Finch.

Finch set off on her bike back to her grandmother’s house – only, she never made it back, Alston said.

“So about a 20 minute or so timeframe [since the call], the aunt was at the grandmother’s house,” he said. “Sheila wasn’t there. She never showed back up to the house.”

GONE COLD | '10-year-old girl who's snatched up' over 30 years ago in Waco, case remains unsolved

"If anybody knows anything about it, if they know who the killer is, if they had a conversation with a killer and they admitted to it... I'd like to talk to them."

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