Laverne Moye, 22, was found dead in July 1972 in a wooded stretch by a creek along Maine Avenue near Peninsula Boulevard in Rockville Centre. Investigators determined she had been strangled and that her body had been thrown from the Peninsula Boulevard bridge. Reports linked her to St. Albans, Queens; she was described as a mother of two and separated from her husband.

Her killing echoed another Nassau County murder from 1972 in the same corridor of roads, bridges, and shadowed water, a similarity that long kept the case under suspicion of a linked attacker. Decades later, Richard Cottingham admitted in Nassau County Court on December 5, 2022, that he strangled Moye and disposed of her body from the Rockville Centre bridge. Cottingham was not prosecuted for her killing as part of a plea agreement that granted immunity for several additional Nassau County murders he admitted to while already serving life sentences.

Anyone who knew Laverne Moye, where she spent time, or who has information about that stretch of Peninsula Boulevard in 1972 is asked to come forward.