Camille Perniola was 17 when she was stabbed to death in her parents’ home in Queens, New York, on March 18, 1972. She was attacked while she slept; the killing was part of a string of nighttime intrusions and assaults on women in Queens between September 1970 and June 1972.

Police later linked Camille’s murder to a nocturnal prowler identified as Joseph Baldi, a 31-year-old man with documented mental-health commitments, including multiple terms at Creedmoor State Hospital. Baldi had been released from the hospital on January 21, 1972, two months before Camille’s death. Investigators connected Baldi to several other fatal attacks in the series, which included signature mutilation of victims’ brassieres and were treated as sexually motivated.

Baldi was arrested on June 21, 1972; police said the four homicides in the series were solved after his arrest. Does anyone have information about Camille’s life or the neighborhood in Queens at that time that could shed light on what happened that night?