Virginia Voskerichian was 20 and an honor student at Barnard College when she was shot dead while walking home in Forest Hills on the evening of March 8, 1977. She stepped off the Manhattan subway, walked down Dartmouth Street toward her family’s nearby address, and was approached by a man who drew a .44-caliber revolver and fired once, the bullet striking her in the face and killing her almost instantly. A witness saw the shooter run off and pass another man as if nothing had happened; a patrol car responding after a radio call raced to the scene.

Ballistics later linked the bullet that killed Virginia to a gun used in an earlier killing, tying her death to a pattern of city shootings. That investigation culminated in the arrest of David Berkowitz on August 10, 1977; he was charged in the Son of Sam shootings, found competent for trial, pleaded guilty, and on June 12, 1978 received consecutive 25-years-to-life sentences for six murders plus additional time for related crimes. Virginia’s death is one of the murders attributed to that series.

If anyone knew Virginia, saw her that night, or has information about her last walk home, please share what you know.