Joan Richburg, a 24-year-old woman from Colonie, New York, disappeared into the holiday crush at Colonie Center on December 23, 1976. She was White. In the bright, ordinary bustle of last-minute shopping, the night carried the kind of invisibility predators count on—crowds that blur faces, parking lots that swallow footsteps, and the quiet assumption that a short walk to the car is nothing more than a routine ending to a winter day.
Investigators later came to believe she was stalked t
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