Who Is Tempe Girl?
3 min readJun 1, 2019
On April 27, 2002, an employee of a shopping center on East University Drive in Tempe, Arizona, was having a fairly ordinary morning. At 5:40 a.m., the employee was coming in to work when they stumbled upon the body of a young woman.
The victim, likely of Hispanic or Native American descent, was a teenager who had died within 24 hours. She was fully-clothed and had no obvious wounds or injuries. With little to work from…
