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Virginia Velez (15)

Died: November 23, 1999 

Virginia was a freshman at Southview high school, her boyfriend was a senior. Two days after her 15th birthday, he strangled her with shoelaces. He and a friend of his put her body in a plastic trash container and went to a nearby wooded area. They then doused her body with alcohol and set her body on fire. He was convicted of aggravated murder and sentenced to 20 years- life. 

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