Michelle Maenza (November 28, 1961 - November 26, 1973)
Michelle Maenza (November 28, 1961 - November 26, 1973) Michelle passed away just two days before her 12th birthday. She went missing in Rochester, New York, after she had left her home and headed towards a local shopping center, in order to retrieve her mother's purse which had been left there. Sadly, her body was discovered two days later in a ditch in the nearby town of Macedon. She had been sexually assaulted and strangled. One child who knew Michelle said that she had seen a vehicle speeding around the corner of the road leading away from the plaza that Michelle had been walking to, and that she thought she saw Michelle sitting in the passenger seat of the vehicle. However, the girl did not get a good look at the driver. It has long been believed that Michelle was killed by the same person who also murdered two other young girls in the Rochester area during the early 1970s. The three cases are known as the "Alphabet Murders", due to the fact that all three girls...