Patricia Patty Ives was a 25-year-old woman from Rochester, New York who vanished on September 29, 1989. Her body was found in late October by a boy retrieving a ball beneath a heap of debris and cardboard near a YMCA close to the Genesee River gorge. Reports say she was dressed in dark clothing and her body was decomposing when discovered; authorities treated the death as part of a series in which women were killed quickly—often by asphyxia or strangulation—and left where brush, trash, or terrain concealed them.

Investigators noted her pimp openly grieved and was not considered a viable suspect. In early January 1990 Arthur Shawcross, a parolee with a prior history of killing, was arrested and later led police to bodies of other missing women; Ives’s death was folded into the larger prosecution. Shawcross was tried in 1990 and found guilty on ten counts of second-degree murder, receiving consecutive terms totaling 250 years, and later pleaded guilty in a separate Wayne County case.

Did anyone who knew Patty or who was in that river corridor in 1989 notice anything unusual that autumn?