
Exclusive: A 13-year-old girl's murder over two decades ago haunted NYPD detectives. Here's how they finally cracked open the cold case
CNN
The NYPD's Bronx Homicide Squad began to reexamine the 1999 death of Minerliz Soriano in February 2018 and granted CNN rare access to their efforts. What emerged was a case that showed how science and old-fashioned detective work could provide justice for the "sweet" 13-year-old girl who wrote poems in her journals about love, rainbows and the stars.
Her body was found in a Bronx, New York, dumpster days after she went missing, prompting an exhaustive investigation that went cold but was reignited nearly four years ago.
"It's been an open festering wound," Soriano said, as he recalled the years he spent with his younger cousin, braiding her hair and playing together, and the times he walked her to elementary school. "Minnie," as she was known, was like a sister to him.

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