Cold Case Solved? New Suspect Revealed 22 Years After Savage Killing of 13-Year-Old Girl

The family of 13-year-old Minerliz “Minnie” Soriano has waited 22 years for what took place on Monday, when an arrest was finally made in her cold case.

Minnie went missing on Feb. 24, 1999. A very responsible and diligent young woman, Minnie usually picked up her 7-year-old sister Nadia from school and the two would make the 30-minute journey home together, according to Medium.

When Nadia arrived home by herself, her family knew something was wrong. They searched the area and alerted the police, but they were assured over and over again that Minnie was probably just hanging out with friends — though her family knew that wasn’t like her.

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Three days later, a homeless man found the teen’s body in a dumpster behind a store. She’d been strangled and stuffed into plastic trash bags.

For 22 years, her killer went free — but that whole time, her death haunted now-retired NYPD detective Malcolm Reiman, who was involved with the case since it began.

“There was DNA present on the victim, and it was an unknown donor, which means the person is not identified,” he told CBS2. “He’s not in any known database.”