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Texas DPS highlights the 1987 murder of a Lubbock teenager offering a reward

The Texas Department of Public Safety is offering a $6,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of the person who killed a 13-year-old girl near Lubbock nearly 40 years ago.

The investigation began March 26, 1987, after Veronica Taylor's body was found in a snow-covered field near FM 1729 in eastern Lubbock County, according to a DPS statement.

Taylor, a sixth-grader at Murfee Elementary School, was last seen around 9:30 p.m. the day before her beaten and strangled body was found in a field near FM 1729, about two miles north of US 62/82 became.

Medical investigators believe she suffered blunt force trauma, according to Avalanche-Journal archives.

She was expected to walk 400 feet to a relative's residence in East Lubbock.

The DPS is presenting Taylor's cold case in November as part of its effort to feature one unsolved crime from across the state each month.

Anyone with information in this case is asked to come forward. To be eligible for cash rewards, tipsters MUST provide information to authorities through the Crime Stoppers hotline at 1-800-252-TIPS (8477). All tips are anonymous. Individuals can also submit information through the Texas Rangers Cold Case website or by calling the Missing Persons Hotline at 1-800-346-3243.

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