Peter Stickney Anderson, 54, arrived in Manhattan from Philadelphia on May 3, 1991, for a political fundraiser and later spent the evening at the Townhouse Bar on East 58th Street. An acquaintance, Tony Hoyt, put him in a cab toward the Waldorf Astoria, but Anderson changed his mind, said he wanted to go to Penn Station, and was last seen escorted to Lexington Avenue to wait for a cab; it is uncertain whether he ever got into one.

On Sunday afternoon, May 5, a maintenance worker at a westbound Pennsylvania Turnpike rest area in Lancaster County found a nude body wrapped in eight layers of trash bags. The medical examiner determined Anderson died of stab wounds to the abdomen, had other injuries consistent with blunt force trauma, and suffered postmortem mutilation; toxicology showed alcohol. Clothing and personal items recovered from a Chester County rest area helped confirm his identity.

Fingerprints and palm prints recovered from the bags later linked multiple similar cases and, after reprocessing around 1999–2000, matched Richard W. Rogers. Rogers was questioned in 2001 and later convicted in New Jersey for two other murders; court findings described the fingerprint link on the trash bags as strong evidence connecting Rogers to the Pennsylvania disposal, but Anderson’s killing remains a separate homicide for which no conviction is recorded.

Did anyone who knew Anderson in Manhattan that spring of 1991 see him leaving the Townhouse or later on Lexington Avenue?