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Cynthia Longo

Case from Hornell, NY dated Dec 31, 1926

Victim Details

Cynthia Longo

Female

White / Caucasian

Hornell

NY

1926-12-31

22

Cynthia

Longo

07/06/2026

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Cynthia Longo, 22, a White female from an Italian immigrant family, arrived in Hornell, New York, with the kind of quiet anonymity a rooming house can provide—until danger began circling her life in plain sight. In early September 1926, she told authorities she had been attacked in a car along the Howard–Kanona Highway near Hornell, escaping only by leaping out while a hat was pressed over her mouth to smother her cries. It wasn’t the first time she’d said she’d had to jump from a movi ...
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  • Elmira Murder Series: The poisoning of Cynthia Longo, 1926. Part 1 ...
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    Has anyone else been thinking about the role of the unnamed male visitor who gave Cynthia the cream ... ...Read More
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