Lorraine Orvieto was a 28-year-old White woman from Long Island who disappeared in the days after Christmas 1991. Investigators later linked her death to Joel Rifkin, who encountered her on December 26, 1991, in the Bay Shore area. Rifkin strangled her in his vehicle, sealed her body inside a 55-gallon oil drum, and dumped the drum into Coney Island Creek in Brooklyn.

Remains matching that description were recovered from Coney Island Creek on July 11, 1992, but the body was not identified at the time. Orvieto’s family filed a missing-person report after that recovery, and her identity remained unknown until July 4, 1993, when Rifkin’s admissions helped authorities make the connection. Rifkin later acknowledged killing Orvieto as part of a guilty plea covering multiple slayings and received lengthy prison terms.