Anna Marie Steffen, a 28-year-old white woman from Rochester, New York, vanished into the summer of 1988, her life last traced to July 9. Weeks later, when a grim discovery surfaced along the Genesee River corridor, there was little left that could speak for her—remains so altered by time and exposure that even determining precisely how she died was difficult, and recognition was not immediate.
Investigators faced a cruel problem: the river and gorge that bordered Rochester could conce
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