Mary C. Robinson was 22 when she was last seen in Rochester, New York, on June 10, 1976. At the time she had been through personal turmoil: still legally married but separated after her husband left her for her sister, and she had recently moved from waitressing into sex work. Her last known contact was a phone call to her husband and sister at 1:30 a.m. on June 10. That night she was wearing a black dress with red trim, a black vest with red trim, white open-toed shoes, and carrying a white vinyl purse.

The case took a dramatic turn in February 1979 when Leonard Lipsky, then in custody in Provo, Utah, confessed to a social worker and probation officer that he had strangled Robinson in his Rochester apartment and disposed of her body in a gully about three hours south of the city. After police reopened the investigation, Lipsky’s former girlfriend gave officers Robinson’s purse, identification, and footwear that she said she had removed from his apartment in 1976. Lipsky was convicted of second-degree murder in February 1980, but that verdict was overturned in April 1980; it was reinstated on appeal in December 1981 and overturned again in July 1984.

Does anyone have information about Mary Robinson’s last known movements in Rochester or the area south of the city mentioned in Lipsky’s statement?