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Case Description
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On November 11, 1989, Frances “Franny” Brown, a 22-year-old White female from Rochester, New York, slipped out of view in a city already bracing for the next bad headline. In the Lyell Avenue area—known at the time for street-level sex work—she was last seen alive that night, and then she was simply gone. Within days, her body was found down in the Genesee River Gorge, a place that could feel hidden in plain sight: close enough to the city’s traffic and lights to be familiar, yet seclu ...Read More
Victim Details

Franny Brown

Female

White / Caucasian

Rochester

NY

1989-11-11

22

Franny

Brown

01/10/2026