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Sandra Jean French

Case from Poughkeepsie, NY dated Jun 03, 1998

Victim Details

Sandra Jean French

Female

Poughkeepsie

NY

1998-06

51

Sandra

Jean French

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Sandra Jean French, a 51-year-old woman, was described as White. In June 1998, she vanished from Dutchess County after being reported missing on June 12 from Dover, New York, a short drive from the streets of Poughkeepsie where she was last believed to have been. Her car soon turned up abandoned in Poughkeepsie, left only a few blocks from a quiet green house on Fulton Avenue—close enough to feel like a taunt, yet not enough to prove what had happened to her.

By then, a pattern had alr ...
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