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The Alphabet murders (also known as the Double Initial murders) are an unsolved series of child murders which occurred between 1971 and 1973 in Rochester, New York. [1] All three victims were girls aged ten or eleven whose surname began with the same letter as that of her first name.
Nov 27, 2022 · The Chilling Story Of The Alphabet Murders That Targeted Girls With Double Initials. In the early 1970s, the Alphabet Murderer stalked Rochester, New York, killing girls who had the same first and last initial – and these horrific crimes remain unsolved to this day. On the afternoon of November 16, 1971, a young girl ran down the side of a ...
Nov 18, 2023 · 15. One of the chief suspects in New York's Alphabet Murders has been released after serving more than 30 years in prison, Newsweek has learned. The 76-year-old man had been serving a sentence of ...
Oct 18, 2023 · The Chilling Alphabet Murders Still Haunt Police 50 Years Later. In the early 1970s, three young girls were grabbed in broad daylight mere blocks from their homes in upstate New York. By Grace Jidoun Oct 18, 2023, 3:46 PM ET. Billboards were put up In an attempt to locating the killer of a ten-year-old Rochester girl, Carmen Colon.
- From 1971 to 1973, Carmen Colón, Wanda Walkowicz, and Michelle Maenza were each separately abducted, strangled, sexually assaulted, and dumped in b...
- Carmen Colon was a 10-year-old Puerto Rican girl who spoke little English and lived with her grandparents in Rochester. She often ran errands in th...
- Wanda Walkowicz was 11 years old at the time of her death. Rita DeCann told the Democrat & Chronicle that her older sister was a tomboy with red ha...
- Months after Wanda went missing, on Nov. 28 1973, 11-year-old Michelle went to her school nurse's office in tears on the Monday after Thanksgiving....
The U.S. Sun: The Name Killer – Chilling mystery of The Alphabet Murders where three little girls were abducted, raped & killed ‘because of their NAMES,’ by Aliki Kraterou. Democrat and Chronicle (Rochester, NY): New Clues Checked in Slaying by Gerald Goldberg via newspapers.com.
By Kyle Carmean. Between 1971 and 1973, a spree of murders haunted the town of Rochester, New York. All three victims were girls aged 10-11. All three girls had been raped prior to being strangled and then dumped near a freeway. The peculiar thing about this case was the fact that all three victims’ first and last names begin with the same ...
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Feb 19, 2024 · Crime Junkie is investigating the sickening murders of three schoolgirls, Carmen Colon, Michele Maenza, and Wanda Walkowicz, by an unknown killer in the area around Rochester, New York. The killings became known as the Alphabet Murders or the Double Initial Murders because the girls all had the same initials for their first and last names.
