Anna Lopez, 33, a Latina woman from the Bronx, disappeared on Memorial Day 1992 after working along Atlantic Avenue in Queens. She crossed paths with a man later identified as Joel Rifkin, who drove her to a nearby residential street and strangled her inside his car. Her body was carried out of the city and discarded along Interstate 84 near Brewster in Putnam County; a passing motorist found her the next day. Investigators noted a missing earring among items related to her death, a detail later linked to Rifkin’s habit of keeping souvenirs from victims.

The case remained unsolved until June 28, 1993, when a traffic stop and subsequent arrest of Rifkin on Long Island led detectives to connect him to multiple killings. Authorities tied Anna Lopez’s death to him through his admissions and evidence developed during the broader investigation. Rifkin was prosecuted and convicted of multiple counts of second-degree murder and given a sentence amounting to life in prison.

If anyone knew Anna, where she worked, or saw her along Atlantic Avenue on Memorial Day 1992, please come forward with information.