Christa's date of disappearance is given as September 20, 1991, and the place as Staten Island, New York. However, the last time anyone actually saw her was about a week before September 20, with her mother, Christine Belusko, at the Mount Airy Lodge in Mount Pocono, PA. Christine's remains were found in a patch of weeds off the roadside across from the South Beach Psychiatric Center in South Beach, a neighborhood of the New York City borough of Staten Island, just after dawn on September 20. She'd been handcuffed and struck 17 times with a hammer and strangled, and the hammer was found under her body, which had been set on fire. The hammer was inscribed with the name "Loyd L". There was no sign of the baby at the scene.