The Alphabet Killer Hunted Down Children With Double-Initial Names

It’s a case that still chills investigators to this day because it began in broad daylight, in front of hundreds of people, and no one stopped. On November 16, 1971, ten-year-old Carmen Colon was last seen running half-dressed down Interstate 490 in upstate New York, waving desperately for help as cars sped by. Two days later, her body was found. It was the first in a series of murders that would paralyze Rochester: three young girls, all with double-initial names, each found in a town starting with the same letter.

Over the next two years, two more girls, 11-year-old Wanda Walkowicz and 11-year-old Michelle Maenza, would vanish under eerily similar circumstances. Each was last seen running a simple errand, each was abducted, and each was later found near a highway. The press dubbed them the “Alphabet Murders,” and for decades police chased hundreds of leads.

Five decades later, investigators are still torn. Was it one killer obsessed with a ritualistic pattern, or three different predators whose crimes just looked the same? Some detectives even believe the initials were coincidence. But if that’s true, the mystery becomes even more haunting. Because it means three innocent children died at random and whoever killed them may have been hiding in plain sight all along.

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