Barbie doll left on tot-girl's grave offers clue in rape, murder of 6-year-old girl

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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🗓️ 6 March 2019

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Whoever left a vintage Barbie doll on the grave of a little girl raped and murdered in 1995 may have provided a key piece of evidence to solve the cold case: DNA. Utah investigators are asking for public help in identifying the person who placed the doll on the grave of Rosie Tapia, who was just six when she died. “Two possible persons of interest in the case have been identified who had some fixation with Barbies,” the Utah Cold Case Coalition said in a news release. “But before a costly analysis is performed on the DNA, the coalition is asking whether someone knows who placed the doll on Rosie’s grave.” She was abducted from the bedroom of her Salt Lake City home. Her remains were discovered “several hours later in a canal off the Jordan River.” Nancy Grace looks at the investigation with Cold Case Research Institute Director Sheryl McCollum, Atlanta criminal lawyer Darryl Cohen, psycho analyst Dr Bethany Marshall, and reporter John Lemley.

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1:14.4	I'm hoping the Lord will let me live until we find the person who took my daughter.
1:20.6	Rosie Topio was six years old when she was kidnapped and sexually assaulted.
1:24.8	Her body was found several hours later in a canal off the Jordan River.
1:29.2	A few days after Rosie's passing, there was items that were left on her grave site.
1:38.5	So I just gathered them up and took them home.
1:41.1	One of those items was a Barbie doll coalition members say they have reasons to believe this
1:46.2	may be a valuable clue but did not share what those were.
1:49.5	It's a sweetheart's Barbie that was manufactured in 1994.
1:54.6	They did say that two possible persons of interest have been identified who had some fixation with
2:00.1	Barbies. Who left a vintage Barbie doll on a six-year-old little girl's grave, an unsolved attack
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