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Each bore an 8 feet (2.4В m) high picture of the child alongside the headline: Do You Know Who Killed Carmen ColГіn? Free use of these billboards was given for one month by the Rochester Outdoor Advertising Company. In early 1972, five large billboards-each measuring 30-feet-by-12-feet-were erected alongside major Rochester expressways. One of the five billboards erected alongside Rochester expressways following the murder of Carmen ColГіn, appealing for public information relating to her murder Although police interrogated several suspects in the months following ColГіn's murder, all were cleared of involvement, and by December 21, the number of investigators assigned to the case on a full-time basis was decreased to three. Numerous local businesses and residents added private donations to the reward fund, gradually leading the sum to exceed $6,000. Two New York newspapers, the Times Union and the Democrat and Chronicle, initially offered a combined reward of $2,500 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of her murderer, and all information each publication received was relayed to police. Д«oth the murder of ColГіn and the fact no individual who had observed the child attempting to flee from her abductor alongside Interstate 490 had attempted to offer her any assistance generated intense public outrage. Furthermore, her body had been extensively scratched by fingernails. ДЄn autopsy revealed that, in addition to having been raped, the child had suffered a fracture to her skull and one of her vertebrae before she had been manually strangled to death. Her coat was discovered in a culvert some three hundred feet from her body her trousers were only discovered on November 30, close to the service road near where numerous motorists had observed her attempting to escape her abductor.

This location was approximately 12 miles from where ColГіn had last been seen alive. Two days later, two teenage boys discovered ColГіn's partially nude body in a gully not far from Interstate 490, and close to the village of Churchville. At least one of these witnesses observed ColГіn being submissively led back to this vehicle by her abductor. ДЄpproximately fifty minutes after ColГіn exited the pharmacy, scores of motorists driving along Interstate 490 observed the child, naked from the waist down, running from a reversing vehicle believed to be a dark-colored Ford Pinto hatchback, frantically waving her arms and shouting in an attempt to flag down a passing vehicle. ColГіn was reported missing to the Rochester Police Department at 7:50В p.m.

I got to go.' She was then observed entering a car parked close to the pharmacy. According to eyewitnesses, ColГіn entered the pharmacy her grandmother had instructed her to visit on West Main Street, but left the store upon learning the prescription she had been instructed to collect had not been processed, informing the storeowner, Jack Corbin: 'I got to go. on Novema 10-year-old Puerto Rican child named Carmen ColГіn disappeared while returning home from an errand in Rochester, New York.

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