Barbara Jacobs was a 31-year-old White woman from New York City who disappeared on the night of July 13, 1991. That evening she got into a car in Manhattan driven by Joel Rifkin and was taken to his home in East Meadow. After she fell asleep, Rifkin attacked her with a table leg and strangled her. Her body was wrapped in plastic, placed in a cardboard box, and left in the Hudson River.

Jacobs’ body was recovered on July 14, 1991, waterlogged and decomposing; in the initial confusion her death was attributed to a drug overdose and she was buried in Potter’s Field unidentified. On June 28, 1993, a traffic stop led police to discover a decomposing body in Rifkin’s vehicle, an investigation that produced confessions tying Jacobs to a series of killings. Rifkin was convicted on nine counts of second-degree murder and sentenced to 203 years to life, with Jacobs listed among his confirmed victims.

Does anyone have memories of Barbara from New York City in 1991 or information about her last day that could add detail to her story?