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Dotsie Blackburn

Case from Rochester, NY dated Mar 18, 1988

Victim Details

Dotsie Blackburn

Female

White / Caucasian

Rochester

NY

1988-03-18

27

Dotsie

Blackburn

07/17/2026

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On March 18, 1988, Dotsie Blackburn vanished from Rochester, New York, and the worry that followed her home life and street life quickly turned into something colder. Blackburn, a 27-year-old white woman, was reported missing by her sister that same day, but the place she would be found was nowhere near the routines of the city—Salmon Creek along Route 31, at the edge of the Genesee River Gorge, where late-winter ice was breaking and the water carried silt and debris. When hunters spotted what ...
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  • Dorothy Marie “Dotsie” Blackburn (1960-1988) - Find a Grave
  • Dorothy Blackburn - Biography - IMDb
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