Marie Welch was 22 and a mother to a five-month-old son when she was last seen in the early morning hours of November 6, 1989, standing at a street corner in her Rochester neighborhood. In the months that followed her disappearance, authorities and the community linked a series of missing and murdered women to a single perpetrator who became known as the Genesee River Killer.

Marie’s body was recovered on January 5, 1990, one of several victims whose remains were found discarded in or near the Genesee River. The suspect in those killings, Arthur Shawcross, was arrested in January 1990; he later confessed to the murders of eleven women in the Rochester area and was convicted and sentenced to 250 years to life. Shawcross died in prison in 2008.

If anyone knew Marie, her routines, or has information about her last day in Rochester, please come forward with what you remember.