The Alphabet Murders In Rochester, New York

The Alphabet Murders commonly referred to as the double initial murders are an unsolved series of child murders that took place between 1971 and 1973 in Rochester, New York. There were three victims in all ranging from age ten to eleven and their surnames began with the same letter of that as their first. Every victim had been sexually assaulted and murdered, by strangulation before their bodies were discarded in or near town by Rockchester with a name beginning with the same letter as the victims.

Carmen Colon was the first Alphabet Murder Victim in 1971 age 10. The afternoon of her mysterious disappearance, Her mom sent her to the local drug store to pick up a prescription, after speaking with the pharmacist, Colon stepped outside to wait for the medication. She wasn’t even far from home but she didn’t return home. Later her family called the police they searched the neighborhood but couldn’t find her, until two days later two teenagers spotted a body near the Rochester suburb of Chili. Months later the police ran into a dead end and Billboards around the Rochester area begged for information about her death, putting up a 6,000 dollar reward for any information but the case still went unsolved.

Wanda Walkowicz was 11 years old, her mother sent her to the supermarket to pick up groceries for dinner on April 2, 1973. After she bought the groceries, she vanished. A day later police found her body at the bottom of a highway embankment in Rochester. These two murders looked the same, both Walkowicz and Colon had been strangled and raped. Police searched for the suspects, people started sending reports of a sighting of Walkowicz getting into a brown vehicle after leaving the