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Iris Sanchez

Case from New York City, NY dated May 10, 1992

Victim Details

Iris Sanchez

Female

Hispanic / Latino

New York City

NY

1992-05-10

25

Iris

Sanchez

07/28/2026

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Iris Sanchez was a 25-year-old Latina woman from New York City who vanished on Mother’s Day weekend, May 10, 1992. Friends and family remembered her as lively and warm, someone who loved to dance, even as she struggled with addiction and drifted into street-level sex work to survive. Then, without warning, she stopped showing up. In a city where disappearances could blur into background noise—especially when the missing person lived on the margins—her absence stretched from days into weeks ...
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