Gina Barone, a 29-year-old White woman, was last seen in Poughkeepsie, New York, on November 29, 1996. Her mother, Patricia Barone, reported her missing in early December 1996, and the case remained unresolved as similar disappearances from the same nightlife corridors accumulated over the following months.

Police later focused on a local man, Kendall Francois, after complaints from people working the streets and an unrelated 1998 assault arrest. In early September 1998 an attack produced an escape, Francois was taken into custody, and a search of his family’s Fulton Avenue home recovered human remains in the attic and crawl space. Barone’s remains were identified among those found; reports place her death in late November 1996 and describe strangulation after being picked up in Poughkeepsie.

Francois became the sole charged suspect in Barone’s killing; he pleaded guilty and received life without parole for the murders he admitted. Did anyone who knew Gina or saw her in late November 1996 have information that could add to the record?