Darlene Trippi was 32 when she was last seen on December 15, 1989, near her home on Jones Park in Rochester, New York. Her disappearance was reported the next day amid a string of murders targeting women in the area.

Her body was found in early January 1990 in a small, icy creek along Redman Road in rural Clarkson. Investigators determined she had been strangled, a detail that matched the pattern of a serial killer terrorizing Monroe County. Arthur Shawcross was arrested in early January 1990 and, after interrogation, confessed to 11 murders including Trippi’s. He said he had picked her up, driven to an isolated spot, choked her after a sexual encounter went badly, and then dumped her body; he led authorities to her location and to another previously undiscovered victim.

Shawcross went to trial in November 1990, pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity, and was convicted of 11 murders. Does anyone have memories or information about Trippi’s life in Rochester or the circumstances of her disappearance?