The Alphabet murders | |
|---|---|
 Carmen Colón (left), Wanda Walkowicz (center) and Michelle Maenza (right) | |
| Other names | The Double Initial murders |
| Details | |
| Victims | 3 |
Span of crimes | November 16, 1971 – November 26, 1973 |
| Country | United States |
| State(s) | New York |
Date apprehended | Unapprehended |
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.[1]
All three victims were girls aged ten or eleven whose surname began with the same letter as that of her first name. Each victim had been sexually assaulted and murdered by either manual or ligature strangulation[2] 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.[3][4][5]
- ^ Unsolved Child Murders: Eighteen American Cases, 1956–1998 ISBN 978-1-476-67000-3 pp. 34-43
- ^ Alphabet Killer: The True Story of the Double Initial Murders ISBN 978-0-811-70632-2 p. 98
- ^ "Double Initial Murders: One Killer?". Rochester, New York. WHEC-TV. February 22, 2019. Archived from the original on December 28, 2019. Retrieved December 28, 2019.
- ^ Unsolved Child Murders: Eighteen American Cases, 1956–1998 ISBN 978-1-476-67000-3 p. 34
- ^ Serial Murderers and Their Victims ISBN 978-0-495-60081-7 p. 458