Joan Diver, 45, left for a run on the Clarence–Newstead bike path on the morning of September 29, 2006, and failed to return to pick up her youngest child from daycare. Searchers and volunteers looked along the route; her vehicle was seen near a Salt Road parking area and later located along the path. Volunteers found her body on October 1, 2006, in a wooded area off the trail in Newstead. An autopsy determined she died from strangulation and blunt force trauma to the head, and the death was treated as a homicide.

Investigators examined the scene and Diver’s car for trace evidence. A tiny droplet on the vehicle’s ignition switch yielded DNA that linked the killing to a series of attacks on Western New York paths and running routes attributed to the so-called Bike Path Rapist. On January 15, 2007, Altemio C. Sanchez was arrested after a traffic stop and identified by authorities as the prime suspect in Diver’s killing; he was charged in multiple murders, later pleading guilty to second-degree murder counts and admitting to strangling victims. Does anyone have information about Diver’s usual running times or anyone who might have seen her on September 29, 2006?