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Margaret Peggy Reiley, 30, was last seen on August 16, 1992, leaving a Syracuse bar in the company of Philip Whaley. She did not tell her teenage daughter or her live-in boyfriend she was leaving, and her clothing and identification were left behind at her apartment. A few days later her blue ten-speed bicycle was recovered from a storage shed at Whaley’s mother’s home in Pulaski, about 40 miles from Syracuse.

Whaley’s accounts changed: he first said they parted after leaving the bar and Reiley rode off on her bicycle, then later said she asked to be dropped near her home to meet a drug dealer. Friends and family said Reiley was not a drug user. A drop of Reiley’s blood was found in Whaley’s trailer. Whaley was convicted of Reiley’s murder and of the earlier disappearance of Josephine Chatraw, and he later admitted to killing Reiley while calling it accidental. Reiley’s body has never been found; investigators believe her remains may have been disposed of in a landfill.

Anyone who knew Peggy, saw her in August 1992, or has information about the Pulaski area storage locations or landfills is asked to come forward.