Abducted, Raped, Killed: 53 Years On, Chilling ‘Alphabet Murders’ Remain Unsolved

The 'Alphabet Murders' from seventies of last century still remains unsolved as investigators zeroed in on several suspects but couldn’t land a shred of evidence that would link them to the killings.

File photo of police examining the area where the body of ten-year-old Carmen Colon was found against a rock in the Monroe County town of Riga, a Rochester suburb.

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There are crimes, and then there are crimes that make you shiver in horror even after half a century. The Alphabet Murders of Rochester, New York, from the seventies of the last century is one such case that has remained in public memory and continues to stir raw emotions. To get a sense of how and where it all started, we have to trawl back to an evening of November 16, 1971. The drone of engines on the freeway — Interstate 490 on the outskirts of Rochester, New York — possibly