June Cicero, a 34-year-old white woman from Rochester, New York, disappeared on December 17, 1989, during a period when a string of killings along the river and nearby back roads had the city on edge. Known on the street and described in the investigation as a missing prostitute, she was found on January 2, 1990, by a helicopter crew scanning woods and waterways west of Rochester. The crew spotted what looked like a naked body lying on ice near a bridge; reports said she had been mutilated after death and cut so severely she was described as practically sawn in half.

Investigators also saw a man on the bridge beside a small van who then sped off; the vehicle’s registration led them to Arthur Shawcross. When questioned, Shawcross initially cooperated, admitted a prior manslaughter conviction and no driver’s license, and later, after being confronted about jewelry given to his girlfriend Clara Neal that police said belonged to Cicero, admitted to most of the murders and led police to other bodies. He eventually confessed in a nearly 80-page statement.

Did anyone who knew June on the streets in late 1989 notice her going missing or see her near the river that winter?