Lisa Marie Whitney Gibbens was 25 and living in Tuckahoe, New York, when she was killed on July 17, 1990. The case file describes her death as violent and it became a cold case that remained unresolved for years, causing ongoing pain for her family and community.

Later forensic testing of evidence from the 1990 investigation linked a man named Patrick Baxter to Gibbens’s murder and to the deaths of at least two other women in the Yonkers area, establishing a pattern investigators described as a serial killer. Baxter was arrested and tried; the DNA evidence was central to the prosecution and resulted in his conviction for Gibbens’s murder and others.

The conviction brought some measure of legal resolution but could not undo the loss of a young life. If anyone knew Lisa, where she lived, worked, or spent time in 1990, please share information that could add to the record.