Lori Vasquez, 24, was found dismembered and stuffed into a trash container on Belknap Avenue in Yonkers; her remains were discovered on August 31, 1991. The condition and disposal of her body suggested deliberate efforts to conceal and dehumanize the victim, and no immediate witnesses or suspect were reported at the scene.

A later pattern emerged in the region as other women were found discarded in dumpsters and bins. Investigators eventually linked the Yonkers cases to a wider series of killings after leads from sex workers pointed to a man with particular habits and a blue Cadillac. Robert Yale Shulman was arrested in 1996, prosecuted in multiple counties, and in early January 2000 pleaded guilty in Westchester County Supreme Court to the Yonkers murders, admitting he killed Vasquez and disposed of her remains in the Belknap Avenue trash bin. His brother Barry was convicted for helping dispose of remains and received a sentence that peaked at two years.

The guilty pleas in Westchester closed the legal question of who killed Vasquez, though many questions about the victims and the wider pattern remained. Does anyone have information about Lori’s life in Brooklyn or what led her to Yonkers in August 1991?