Genise Wilder, 22, was found stabbed to death near a factory area on Kellum Place in Hempstead, New York, on June 27, 1989. Her clothing was in disarray. Originally from Roosevelt, she had a history of arrests related to sex work.

Investigators noted similarities between Wilder’s killing and a string of murders of women with similar backgrounds in Nassau County around that time. Allen Gormely, later arrested in November 1990 for two Queens murders, drew scrutiny because he disposed of those victims in plastic garbage bags—a detail reported as similar to other local cases—but Gormely was never charged in Wilder’s death for lack of sufficient evidence. Wilder’s murder remains unsolved.

Did anyone in Hempstead or Roosevelt know Genise or see her in June 1989?