This location was approximately 12 miles from where Colón had last been seen alive. Two days later, two teenage boys discovered Colón's partially nude body in a gully not far from Interstate 490, and close to the village of Churchville. At least one of these witnesses observed Colón being submissively led back to this vehicle by her abductor. Īpproximately fifty minutes after Colón exited the pharmacy, scores of motorists driving along Interstate 490 observed the child, naked from the waist down, running from a reversing vehicle believed to be a dark-colored Ford Pinto hatchback, frantically waving her arms and shouting in an attempt to flag down a passing vehicle. Colón was reported missing to the Rochester Police Department at 7:50 p.m. I got to go.' She was then observed entering a car parked close to the pharmacy. According to eyewitnesses, Colón entered the pharmacy her grandmother had instructed her to visit on West Main Street, but left the store upon learning the prescription she had been instructed to collect had not been processed, informing the storeowner, Jack Corbin: 'I got to go. on November 16, 1971, a 10-year-old Puerto Rican child named Carmen Colón disappeared while returning home from an errand in Rochester, New York. Each victim had been sexually assaulted and murdered by either manual or ligature strangulation before her body was discarded in or near a town or village near Rochester with a name beginning with the same letter as the victim's name.

Īll three victims were girls aged ten or eleven whose surname began with the same letter as that of her first name. The Alphabet murders (also known as the Double Initial murders) are an unsolved series of child murders which occurred between 19 in Rochester, New York.

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