The Tragic Story Of Reyna Marroquin's Murder

Murder Files Unsealed · Sep 7, 2026 · 35m · transcript

In 1999, the mummified remains of a pregnant woman were discovered inside a sealed barrel at a residence in Long Island. Investigations revealed the victim was Reyna Marroquin, an immigrant from El Salvador who had been missing for three decades. Forensic evidence and an recovered address book linked the crime to her former employer, Howard Elkins, with whom she was having an affair. After Marroquin informed Elkins' wife of her pregnancy, she was murdered and hidden in the drum beneath his home. When police confronted Elkins decades later, he committed suicide before a warrant for his DNA…