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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. All three victims were girls aged ten or eleven whose surname began with the same letter as that of her first name.
Dozens of commuters see a young girl fleeing a car on the side of the expressway in Rochester, NY, but no one pulls over to help. The community is devastated when her body is discovered just days later, but it’s assumed to be a tragic but isolated incident.
In the early 1970s, a string of murders in Rochester, New York left the community in fear. This documentary delves into the chilling case of The Alphabet Mur...
- 13 min
- Sinister Crime Killers Circus
Dec 10, 2009 · In Rochester, a pre-teen girl is abducted, raped, and murdered. Detective Megan Paige investigates: she works long hours obsessively, and soon she's seeing visions of the dead girl. The FBI profiles the killer as a spontaneous drifter, lucky not to get caught; Megan thinks he's local and a methodical planner.
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- Crime, Mystery, Thriller
- Rob Schmidt
- 2009-12-10
Oct 18, 2023 · The puzzling case of The Alphabet Murders has stumped investigators for more than 50 years. In the early 1970s, three young women were murdered in Rochester, New York but within years, their cases went cold.
- 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 Alphabet Killer is a 2008 thriller-horror film, loosely based on the Alphabet murders that took place in Rochester, New York between 1971 and 1973. Eliza Dushku stars alongside Cary Elwes, Michael Ironside, Bill Moseley and Timothy Hutton.
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Nov 27, 2022 · 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 highway in upstate New York.