What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?

[Rev. Rye]

In the 1970s, there were two sets of serial murders called the Alphabet murders, one in New York, the other in California. The gimmick? Each victim had their first and last names start with the same letter. In New York, the alliteration extended to their home towns. In both cases, one of the victims was named Carmen Colon.

And I Am Trying To Think This Was All Only A Matter of Chance.

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To be fair, the New York Carmen Colon was an 10-year old girl, and the California Carmen Colon was a 22-year-old sex worker. And it's a common enough name that Google Search revealed that at least 15 women in Cook County alone have that name. So, it probably was.

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The California Alphabet Killer, was caught and identified as Joseph Naso, and despite a hunch that the cases were connected, Naso was cleared of the New York Alphabet Murders through DNA evidence, so the New York Alphabet killer remains at large, at least as long as it isn't Ken Bianchi.