Yun Lee was a 31-year-old Korean woman whose remains were recovered from the East River off Randalls Island on September 23, 1991. Reports say she had been strangled, her body packed into a trunk and dumped into the river. Identification is reported to have followed when an ex-husband recognized her, but she remained associated with Hart Island’s Potter’s Field in later memorial documentation.

For nearly two years there was no single arrested suspect publicly tied to her death. That changed after a traffic stop on the Southern State Parkway on June 28, 1993, led to the arrest of Joel Rifkin. Investigators later matched his statements and evidence to unsolved recoveries, and Yun Lee appears in listings of victims whose deaths were attributed to Rifkin after his arrest; his prosecutions across multiple jurisdictions included trial convictions and later guilty pleas that covered a series of women who were strangled and disposed of in similar ways.

Are there people who knew Yun Lee or remember her in New York around 1991 who can add details about her life or the circumstances that night?