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Memorial Day in 1992 began like any other late-spring day in New York, but it ended with Anna Lopez, 33, a Latina woman from the Bronx, gone without a word to her family. As the day wore on, she crossed paths with a stranger while working along Atlantic Avenue in Queens, and the last ordinary moments of her life slipped away into the traffic and streetlight glow.

Police later learned that the man who approached her was Joel Rifkin. After driving to a nearby residential street, he strangl ...
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  • For a Grieving Mother, Freshened Tears - The New York Times
  • Who Were Serial Killer Joel Rifkin's Victims? - Oxygen
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