Mary Healey Giaccone, 29, vanished from the streets of Poughkeepsie, New York, with her last day alive most often placed in February 1997 but without a precise date. Her family reported her missing in November 1997 when they could not reach her to notify her of another family death. Around that time investigators were noting a pattern of women disappearing from the same downtown corridors.

Police interest focused on Kendall Francois, a Poughkeepsie resident whom sex workers had described as violent and prone to choking. On September 1, 1998, after a woman escaped an assault and contacted detectives, officers searched Francois’s family home at 99 Fulton Avenue and recovered multiple bodies concealed in the house. Mary Healey Giaccone was identified among the victims; investigators concluded she had been killed and kept there. Francois was arrested, later pleaded guilty, and received life without parole; reports describe strangulation as the method used. Mary was buried in Beacon, Dutchess County.