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Mother hopes Utah police find killer in child’s 1995 murder

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A Utah mother has spoken out days after the 24th anniversary of her child’s death saying she still hopes to look her daughter’s killer in the face one day, a report said.

The girl's body was discovered hours later floating in a canal off the Jordan River, authorities said. The killer was never found.

Her mother, Lewine Tapia struggled to travel to the cemetery this year because of unknown injuries in a recent fall, but she wants the chance to face the unknown killer before she dies, officials said.

"I want to be able to look at that person and ask him face to face why he did it," Tapia said.