THE ALPHABET MURDERS The Alphabet Murders are an unsolved series of child murders which occurred between 1971 and 1973 in Rochester, New York. The first victim was ten year-old Carmen Colón. Carmen was a Puerto Rican child who was reported missing after running an errand to a pharmacy for her grandmother. She was last seen getting into a car. Two days later her body was found twelve miles away in Churchville. She had been raped and strangled. There was evidence of horrendous injuries on the murdered child - including a fractured skull. It transpired that some people had seen a partially clothed Carmen Colón trying to flag down motorists along Interstate 490 the day she vanished. One eyewitness said a man (who was obviously the killer) calmly got out and led her back to his car. When this incident came to light there was a lot of public anger that not a single motorist had stopped and attempted to help the child. Those driving past obviously had no idea that the child had bee...