Virginia Voskerichain

Virginia Voskerichian, 20, a woman of Armenian descent, was living in Queens while excelling as an honor student at Barnard College. On the evening of March 8, 1977, she made the familiar trip home from Manhattan, stepping off the subway in Forest Hills and heading down the quiet streets toward her family’s address nearby.

As she walked along Dartmouth Street in the Forest Hills Gardens area, a man came toward her from the opposite direction and closed the distance like an ordinary pas ...