Maria Emerita Rosado Nieves, sometimes reported as Marita Rosado Nieves, was an 18-year-old Hispanic/Latina woman who had been living in Manhattan when her life ended in the winter of 1973. For years, her name sat among the unanswered questions of the era, a brief entry in the long ledger of the missing and the dead whose last hours were never publicly stitched into a complete account.
On the afternoon of December 27, 1973, park workers at Jones Beach made a discovery that turned a quiet
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