Introduction: Cornelia* June Enright was born on December 19, 1950 to Raymond and Alice Enright in Schenectady, NY. Raymond Basil Enright was born on February 20, 1915 in Schenectady, NY, and Alice Shaw was born on June 30, 1918 (also in Schenectady). The couple were married on May 16, 1936 and went on to have three children together: John (b. 1937), Robert (b. 1943), and Cornelia. Mr. Enright was drafted into WWII on April 17, 1943 (he enlisted on October 16, 1940), and in the early part of his marriage was employed at Gloversville Knitting Company. *I did see Connie’s name listed s ‘Constance’ in one source, but that is incorrect.

During her time at Linton High School in Schenectady, Connie majored in Business Education and during her sophomore year was an alternate for the student council, and during her senior year she was an intern for the guidance counselor’s office. A former classmate described her as ‘a ball of energy’ that always made a point of going out of her way to say hello, despite them only being casual acquaintances and having no classes together. Enright graduated in 1968, and a few weeks before she disappeared in April 1969 got a full-time job at the Almart’s Discount Store, which (at the time) was located on Central Avenue in Colonie. At the time she disappeared Connie was nineteen, and she wore her strawberry blonde hair short, had blue eyes, stood at 5’2″ tall and weighed 115 pounds.

April 24, 1969: Raymond and Alice last heard from Cornelia around 9:30 PM on April 24, 1969, when she left with the family car to meet up ‘a girlfriend with whom she worked with’ in nearby Rotterdam for a bite to eat. She arrived at Lum’s Restaurant at 9:30 and according to her friend, the two ate and chatted then eventually went their separate ways in the parking lot; she was last seen driving away from the establishment at 11:00 PM.

The Day After: upon realizing their daughter never returned home the prior evening, the next morning at around 8 AM Cornelia’s father called the Schenectady Police Department and filed a police report. Later that same day the Enright family vehicle was found on State Street near Friendly’s Ice Cream Shop; it was locked, and the keys were missing. Her purse was also nowhere to be found. In the days following Connie’s disappearance, her parents searched her bedroom, top to bottom, but found nothing to be missing. It’s also worth mentioning that the day she disappeared was ‘the day before payday,’ and that she only had around ten to fifteen dollars on her.

Connie’s parents felt their daughter didn’t leave ‘of her own choice,’ and her disappearance was the ‘result of foul play.‘ After very little movement on her case, in 1980 Mr. and Mrs. Enright filed paperwork to have Connie declared ‘legally dead,‘ and said in their petition that in the eleven years since she disappeared, they have unsuccessfully continued searching for her; it went on to say that their efforts included a trip to Newport, Rhode Island after they received a tip that a young woman matching her description was seen at a local store. Unfortunately, the trip was uneventful, but they left some pictures of her behind at the market (just in case). Cornelia’s parents also said she ‘had never run away before’ and that prior to her disappearing they: ‘had no fights or disagreements. To the best of our knowledge, she had no secret boyfriends and none of her friends turned up missing.’

The Enright’s said that from the ‘knowledge of our daughter,’ based on the ‘circumstances surrounding’ her disappearance, that ‘it is our opinion that our daughter is now deceased.’ The petition, which had been prepared by the couples’ attorney Cristine Ciofi of the Schenectady law firm of Higgins, Roberts, Beyerl & Coan, PC Law Firm Profile requested that Connie be declared dead and that her estate (which consisted of personal property with a value not exceeding $400) be settled.

Ray and Alice said Connie was a ‘considerate and thoughtful daughter. If she knew she would be out later than 11 PM she would called home and appraised us of the fact.’ They also said their efforts to find her also included a letter to the Social Security Administration in Baltimore as well as multiple conversations with her co-workers, friends, and acquaintances. They also added ‘we further believe that were she alive today, she would have sent us knowledge of the fact.’ The petition to have Connie declared legally deceased was based on a law which provides that a person who is absent for ‘a continuous period of five years who has not been seen or heard from after diligent search and whose absence is not satisfactory explained, shall he presumed  have died ‘five years after such unexplained absence commenced.’ Their request was approved and Raymond Enright was declared the executive of his daughter’s estate.

Ted Bundy?: at the end of 1968, Ted left Seattle behind and enrolled at Temple University in Philadelphia, PA, and it was also around this time that he was dumped by his first love, Diane Edwards; reports pointed towards him being in a ‘defeated state of mind,’ and that he was lonely and detached. In early 1969, he briefly relocated to the East Coast and slip-flopped between staying at his grandparents’ house in Roxborough and his aunt’s apartment in Lafayette Hill. He was mostly active in his studies at Temple until early March, when (typical Ted)… he stopped going to class after he got into a minor car accident and hurt his ankle.

After Ted found out about being illegitimate, he used some of his ‘leftover money’ (whatever that is) from when he sold his first VW bug in 1968 and went on a trip to New-York City (supposedly he a friend from school had lent him a car). While there he spent his time exploring ‘flesh-shops and accessing the most explicit forms of pornography’ before he returned to Philadelphia (then eventually Washington).

Also around this time Bundy frequented Ocean City, New Jersey, where his grandparents owned a home on 26^th Street (he spent a good amount of time there as a child). Where he isn’t officially linked to the murders, he is heavily suspected of being responsible for the murders of Susan Davis and Elizabeth Perry, two coeds from Monticello Women’s Junior College in Godfrey, Illinois that were were brutally stabbed to death on Memorial Day weekend in 1969. Ted would hint in later interviews that he committed his first abduction and murder in Ocean City, in the ‘early summer or spring’ of 1969.

It is worth mentioning that Connie’s car keys were never located, meaning they (most likely) were at some time in the possession of her abductor; Ted’s future girlfriend Liz Kloepfer stated after his first arrest she went snooping around his room at the Rogers Boarding House and she found a bowl full of miscellaneous keys that didn’t belong to him. Cornelia also disappeared at night in a parking lot, which are similar circumstances to many of Bundy’s confirmed victims (Carol DaRonch, Georgann Hawkins, Brenda Ball, Caryn Campbell, Denise Naslund, etc…). Schenectady is also only a few hours away from both Philadelphia and NYC, which puts him fairly near to Connie at the time she disappeared, and we all know Ted had no problem driving hundreds of miles at a time to hunt for his perfect victim. Additionally, we all know that he targeted girls that fit Enright’s physical description, age, personality and socioeconomic background.

Lemuel Warren Smith: one plausible suspect for the abduction of Cornelia Enright is Lemuel Warren Smith, a convicted rapist and serial killer that operated around the general Albany area that is perhaps best known for being the first person in US history to kill an on duty female corrections officer. While serving out his life sentences at the Green Haven Correctional Facility, Smith murdered  thirty-one-year-old Donna Payant; her body was found in a landfill after it was discarded in the prison’s trash.

In April 1969, Smith was a free man living in the Capital District of New York following a 1959 conviction for kidnapping and attempted murder in Baltimore, where he served nearly ten years of a twenty-year sentence before he was paroled in May 1968. He largely stayed in the Albany area during this time until he was rearrested on May 20, 1969 when he kidnapped and sexually assaulted two women in a single day. This time Smith was sentenced to four to fifteen years but was paroled again in October 1976 (shortly before he began the murder spree for which he is best known for). He was caught for the final time on August 19, 1977 after he kidnapped and raped eighteen-year-old Marianne Maggio; thankfully when he forced her to drive towards Albany afterwards, LE stopped their vehicle and took Smith into custody (without incident). As of 2024, Smith remains incarcerated at the Wende Correctional Facility in New York, and where he confessed to his earlier murders, he has consistently maintained his innocence regarding the death of Donna Payant, claiming he was framed by other prison guards’ (a theory that Payant’s own son has called to be reinvestigated).

Robert Garrow: one individual from a Schenectady Facebook group (where I posted asking if anyone remembered Connie) suggested that I look into Robert Garrow, but when I did I got the impression he was more of a pervert and (eventually) spree-killer so I don’t think he would have anything to do with Enright’s disappearance (more importently, he was only active in 1973). In April 1969, Garrow was a free man living in the general Syracuse area and had been released from prison for ‘good behavior’ the previous year after serving only six years of a twenty-year sentence for a 1961 rape conviction. Information regarding his day-to-day activities between 1968 and 1973 is sparse, although it has been confirmed that he worked as a mechanic for a bakery in Syracuse around this time. Investigators have suspected him of being responsible for several cold cases during his five years of freedom, including the 1959 murder of Ruth Whitman, who lived close to him at the time she was killed.

Arthur Shawcross: a name that came up only once in my research is serial killer Arthur John Shawcross, who oddly enough had two separate ‘rounds’ of murders as well as two different types of victims: in 1972 he went away for killing two children under the age of ten in Watertown, NY, and after serving only a fraction of his sentence he was released early on ‘good behavior,’ where he went onto kill eleven sex workers in Rochester. In April 1969, Shawcross was involved in some ‘lower-level’ criminal activity (IE not murder), specifically an arson attack at the Knowlton Brothers Paper Mill. Following this and other incidents involving burglary and arson, he was sentenced to a five-year prison term, of which he served only twenty-two months and he was paroled in October 1971; additionally, some records indicate he was honorably discharged from the US Army around April 1969. I could find no link between him and Cornelia Enright (personally, I don’t think she fit into wither of his demographic of victims).

Frosty Austin: right as I was about to hit the ‘publish’ button, I came across one final piece of information regarding the disappearance of Connie Enright… and at the risk of being dramatic, its something that I find incredibly eerie (I actually sat up in bed and said, ‘oh my gosh, oh my gosh’ a bunch of times until my husband finally asked ‘what?’). There was a unhoused woman in Modesto, CA that (even in her ‘advanced age’) looked incredibly similar to a young Connie, and where I’m not normally someone that puts much effort into ‘solving’ missing persons cases (I will never pretend I know more than law enforcement), this made me actually stop and pay attention.

‘Frosty Austin’ is the alias of an unidentified woman that passed away in a Modesto, California nursing home on October 6, 2018, and despite exhaustive efforts by detectives and the FBI, her true identity remains a mystery. Ms. Austin lived in the Stockton, California area for over thirty years and claimed her maiden name was O’Malley. At the time of her death, she was estimated to be around sixty-seven-years old, 5’6″ tall (Connie waas only 5’2”), and approximately 214 pounds; she had strawberry blonde hair and blue eyes.

Authorities and those that were aquainted with her believe Austin may have been a ‘con-woman’ or fraudster that used multiple assumed identities and told conflicting stories about her past. Her case is listed in the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System as case #UP58456, and ‘armchair detectives’ on social media platforms like Websleuths and Reddit have attempted to link her to multiple missing womens cases (although no match has ever been confirmed).  

Conclusion: Connie’s father Raymond Basil Enright passed away at the age of eighty-two on November 5, 1997, and at the time of his death he had been married to Alice for sixty-one years. According to his obituary, he was born and educated in Schenectady and was employed with General Electric for thirty-seven years: he started his career as an electrician in the main plant and by the time he retired had worked his way up to being a ‘mechanic analyst’ at the Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory. Mr. Enright was also a member of the GE Quarter Century Club and was part of the flock at the Faith Baptist Church in Schenectady.

Alice June Enright was ninety-four when she entered into eternal rest on January 31, 2013 in Schenectady, NY. According to her obituary, Mrs. Enright was a member of the Faith Baptist Church in Rexford and was a volunteer with their food pantry for many years. She loved seeing movies at the local theater, going out to eat with her loved ones, and gardening; she was also a great cook and enjoyed hosting holidays at her home with her family and friends. Alice looked forward to traveling and visiting with her son Robert that lived in Florida.

Connie’s brother Robert died at the age of eighty-seven on July 26, 2023 in Niceville, FL. Per his obituary, he graduated from Mount Pleasant High School in 1961 and entered the Air Force  shortly after in August 1961, where he served his country for twenty-eight-years as a Weapons Mechanic; he was also involved in the Chemical Warfare unit with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. Robert retired as a Senior Master Sergeant and was stationed in several location to include Plattsburgh, NY, Japan, North Carolina, Korea, Thailand (twice) Louisiana, England, Arizona, Virginia, and Florida. He took several classes at Okaloosa-Walton Junior College (which is now Northwest Florida State College) and briefly attended the Senior Non-Commissioned Officer Academy; after he retired from the military, he worked maintenance at the Rocky Bayou Baptist Church for seventeen years, where he also served as a Deacon and was involved in multiple organizations (including Faithful Men, Men’s Retreat Committee, Men’s Breakfast, Benevolence, and Choir). He also loved bowling, running, fishing in his kayak with his buddies, camping, gospel music, and Jesus. John B. Enright died at the age of eighty-six on June 14, 2024 in Schenectady, New York.

As of April 2026, no trace of Cornelia Enright has never been recovered, and in the years following her disappearance, every member of her immediate family has passed away. It could be that for whatever reason, she just decided to up and leave her existing life behind for a new one… but we’ll probably never know the full story.

Works Cited:
charleyproject.org/case/cornelia-june-enright
DeCamilla, Jane. (April 24, 2025). ’56 Years Later, Still No Answers in Disappearance of Schenectady Woman.’ Taken April 20, 2026 from cbs6albany.com
reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/v8qprv/link_between_ted_bundy_cornelia_j_enright_and/
Sommers, Ashleigh. (October 10, 2025). Taken April 20, 2026 from /ashmysteries.com
troopers.ny.gov/missing-enright-cornelia-june Taken on April 20, 2026.
websleuths.com/threads/ny-cornelia-connie-enright-18-rotterdam-24-april-1969.340318/