On January 5, 1982, Jenny Soo Chin, a woman of Asian descent and former bookkeeper for Candor Diamond Corporation, was abducted after visiting the company’s comptroller, Margaret Barbera, at Barbera’s home in Ridgewood, Queens. Witnesses saw a ski‑mask‑clad assailant force Chin into her station wagon and drive away. Her car was found abandoned nine days later, stained with blood and containing a spent .22 caliber cartridge casing; Chin’s body has never been recovered.

Investigators linked Chin’s disappearance to the company’s CEO, Irwin Margolies, who was under investigation for $5.7 million in fraud. Margolies and his lawyer allegedly hired hitman Donald Nash to kill Chin and Barbera because both women were expected to testify. Forensic testing later matched the cartridge casing from Chin’s car to the weapon used in an April 12, 1982 rooftop attack that killed Barbera and three others.

Nash was arrested and later convicted, and Margolies received a lengthy sentence for ordering the murders. Chin’s remains have not been found, leaving the case without the final closure a family would want. Did anyone in Ridgewood or the surrounding neighborhoods notice anything unusual about Chin’s movements in early January 1982?