Name: Rocio Chila Delpilar Sperry
Case Classification: Endangered Missing
Missing Since: November 15, 1987
Location Last Seen: Colorado Springs, El Paso County, Colorado
Date of Birth: March 29, 1972
Age: 15 years old
Race: White/Hispanic
Gender: Female
Height: 5'4"
Weight: 105 lbs.
Hair Color: Brown
Eye Color: Brown
Nickname/Alias: Unknown
Distinguishing Marks/Features: Unknown
Dentals: Unknown
Fingerprints: Unknown
DNA: Available
Clothing: Blue sweatshirt and white high top sneakers
Jewelry: Unknown
Additional Personal Items: Unknown
Sperry was last seen in Colorado Springs, Colorado on November 15, 1987.
In the summer of 2005, a Colorado Springs detective called the Sperry family and said Robert Charles Browne had confessed to strangling Rocio Sperry in 1987. According to Browne, Sperry walked to a Kwik Stop on Murray Boulevard in Colorado Springs where he worked. She told Browne that her husband had taken her daughter to Florida, and Browne persuaded her to go to the movies with him. Browne admitted he strangled Rocio Sperry with his hands and put her dismembered body in trash bins.
When Sperry's husband and three-four month old daughter returned from their six-day trip, his wife didn't show up to meet them at the airport as expected. She and her white Grand Am were missing. The car was later found by Sperry just blocks from their home. Their missing 19" Sony television was possibly recovered from Browne's ex-wife's home in 2005.
Browne, who already was serving a life sentence for the 1991 murder of 13-year-old Heather Dawn Church, confessed in 2006 to Rocio Sperry's murder. He also claims responsibility for the death of Faye Aline Self , and that of 47 other people across the United States.
Rocio Sperry's body has never been found.
Agency Name: El Paso County Sheriff's Office
Agency Contact Person: N/A
Agency Phone Number: 719-520-7100
Agency E-Mail: N/A
Agency Case Number: 87-33548
NamUs Case Number: MP4617
NamUs
El Paso County Sheriff's Office
The Denver Post
The Rocky Mountain News
Los Angeles Times
Added: 7-28-2006; Last Updated: 01-26-2023 - By: kc
Questions or comments? Please contact appropriate member of the Area Team
** Listed information is from the time of disappearance.
Return Home