Brenda L. Whiteside was 20 when she vanished after a night out in Poughkeepsie on July 20, 1992. She and her cousin Angelina Hopkins were seen leaving the Blue Note Tavern with a man in a pickup truck; neither woman called home or was seen again. Witness efforts and family inquiries helped focus attention on a local man identified as Nathaniel White, who had prior contacts with area law enforcement.

Authorities questioned White in early August 1992 and, after interviews and testing that included a polygraph, investigators say he admitted beating Whiteside and Hopkins to death and disposing of their bodies. On August 4, 1992, searchers found both cousins in woods near an abandoned farmhouse off Harriman Drive in Goshen; cause of death for each was reported as severe blunt trauma to the face and head.

The discovery shifted the case from missing persons to homicide and became part of a series of violent deaths investigators linked in the region. If anyone knew Brenda, Angelina, their last movements that night, or saw a pickup truck in Poughkeepsie on July 20, 1992, please come forward with information.