Nearly ten years after a 15-year-old girl was kidnapped and murdered while walking to school police have released new details of her killers.Los Angeles detectives released composite sketches on Friday of two possible suspects in Brenda Sierra's abduction on the morning of October 18 2002 while walking to Schurr High School.
Her body was found a day later near the Valley of Enchantment at Crestline but an arrest was never made despite a $150,000 reward offered for information leading to her killer.
Investigators grappled for clues at the time of her death while limited by police's belief her abductors were members of a gang.
Both Miss Sierra and her family were believed to be without gang involvement or relation by police, while participation in the case from other gang members initially remained cold.
'But with the passage of time, some of the gang members have been killed, locked up or disassociated themselves from the gang and there have been more tips,' Homicide Lt. Dave Coleman of the L.A. County Sheriff's Department told the Los Angeles Times.
'Also, we now have new ways of looking at fingerprints and DNA,' he said.
With the sketches of the unidentified men, police also released a photo of another named George Barraza, who's been sought as a person of interest in the case since 2009. Read More
