Do you know who murdered Wendy Marie Bjurstrom?
Wendy Marie Bjurstrom, a 27-year-old female who was White, was discovered unresponsive in her bed inside apartment #305 at 900 West Bonanza Road—the former Moulin Rouge Hotel address—in Las Vegas. A friend had come by on March 13, 1997, found her, and ran to the manager’s office to summon help. Patrol officers arrived and determined she was deceased, and detectives were called to the scene as foul play was suspected. The Clark County Coroner’s examination later established that Wendy died by strangulation.
The small apartment near the historic hotel became the center of a homicide investigation, with the timeline fixed between the friend’s discovery on March 13 and the case date recorded by police on March 14, 1997. Despite the early determination that her death was the result of intentional violence, investigators did not announce any signs of a struggle loud enough to draw attention from neighbors or passersby that night, and the public record focuses on the autopsy’s finding and the swift escalation to a homicide probe.
No suspect has been identified in the years since, and Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department lists the case with the suspect “unknown.” There have been no publicly reported arrests tied to Wendy’s killing, and the department continues to solicit tips from anyone who might know who was responsible or why she was targeted. Her case remains an open, unsolved homicide in the LVMPD’s cold case files.
