Brenda L. Whiteside

Brenda L. Whiteside, a 20-year-old Black woman, vanished on July 20, 1992, after what began as an ordinary night out in the Hudson Valley. She and her cousin, Angelina Hopkins, were in Poughkeepsie when they crossed paths with a man who seemed like just another face in a crowded bar scene. Witness accounts later placed the two cousins leaving the Blue Note Tavern with him in his pickup truck, and after that, the trail went quiet—no calls home, no sightings, only the uneasy sense that something ...