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Jean Reyner

Case from New York City, NY dated May 15, 1980

Victim Details

Jean Reyner

Female

White / Caucasian

New York City

NY

1980-05-15

25

Jean

Reyner

07/27/2026

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Jean Reyner was a 25-year-old female whose life ended on May 15, 1980, inside Manhattan’s Seville Hotel, where a fire drew emergency responders into a room that had been turned into a crime scene. What they found was evidence of a deliberate attempt to erase traces of what happened there: her body had been attacked and mutilated, and the blaze appeared to have been set afterward, as if the person responsible wanted heat and smoke to swallow the clues they’d left behind.

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