Episode 95: Case Update: Irene Vasquez and Cindi Estrada

For more than 30 years, they were nameless. One was called Bitter Creek Betty. The other, Sheridan County/I-90 Jane Doe. Both were found murdered on opposite ends of Wyoming in 1992. Both were young. And both were forgotten by the world—until DNA gave them back their names. Now we know who they were: Irene Vasquez and Cindi Arleen Estrada. This episode is the story of how they were finally identified, what connects them, and what justice looks like when the man responsible dies before ever standing trial. They were silenced for decades. But now, we say their names. 📖 Featuring an original poem written in her honor, read by Ginger Strand. Ginger Strand is the author of one novel and three books of narrative nonfiction, as well as many magazine features. Her book Killer on the Road: Violence and the American Interstate, tells the entwined stories of the American interstate highway system and the serial killers who haunted it, looking at how America became more mobile and more violent at the same time. ➡️ Help bring attention to missing and unidentified women—subscribe and share this episode. 📍 Find us on Instagram & Facebook. 📚 Get Aimee’s book, Doe, now available via University of Akron Press, Bookshop.org, and Amazon. 📰 For more women-centered true crime content, subscribe to Aimee’s newsletter, GIRLHUNT.