Vicente Herrera-Rosas

Vicente Herrera-Rosas, a Hispanic / Latino man from Phoenix, is remembered in public records today not through detailed news accounts, but as a name in cold-case rolls, listed simply as a homicide victim whose killing remains unsolved. In those databases he is recorded as having died by murder, with the Phoenix Police Department noted as the investigating agency, placing his case among the city’s unresolved violent deaths.

Instead of a narrative rich with personal detail, the trace of ...