Wanda Lee Walkowicz was an 11-year-old white girl who disappeared on the early evening of April 2, 1973, after leaving home on Rochester’s east side to buy groceries for her mother. She reached the corner store and then vanished on the short walk back. At about 10:15 a.m. on April 3, a New York State Trooper found her body at a rest area off State Route 104 in Webster, near the Irondequoit Bay Bridge. Investigators determined she had been raped and strangled.

Her killing was widely discussed alongside two other regional child murders later labeled in media coverage as the Alphabet Murders and the Double Initial Murders, though authorities have said the cases have not been officially linked. Decades of tips and periodic reexaminations of preserved evidence have not produced an arrest. Over the years various names and theories have been raised in reporting, including Kenneth Bianchi and Joseph Naso, but reported testing and inquiries have not led to charges in Wanda’s case.

Does anyone have information about Wanda, her movements on April 2, 1973, or contacts who may not have come forward?