Mary Catherine Williams, a 31-year-old White woman, had come to New York City chasing a brighter story for herself, but the city’s edges closed in—drugs, the streets, and a dangerous late-night economy that made people vanish without headlines. In the fall of 1992, she was last traced to Queens, and after October 2 she simply stopped turning up, the kind of absence that spreads quietly at first—missed plans, unanswered calls, then the growing dread that something irreversible has happened.
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