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More than 22 years after murder of 6-year-old Rosie Tapia, family asks public for help

Private investigators say they have identified three persons of interest, but need public’s help to put the pieces together.<br>

(Steve Griffin | The Salt Lake Tribune) Lewine Tapia talks about her daughter, Rosa Tapia's murder over 22 years ago, as a coalition of family, attorneys, businesses and residents unit to ask the community to solve the murder. The group held a news conference at the apartment complex where Tapia was taken in Salt Lake City Monday November 20, 2017. Tapia was 6 years old when she disappeared from her home at the Hartland Apartments at 1616 Snow Queen Place in Salt Lake City in the early hours of Aug. 13, 1995. Rosie was taken from a bedroom of the family apartment, raped and murdered. Her body was found a few hours later in a nearby canal. Rosie's killer has never been arrested.