The Ellicott Creek Bike Path follows Ellicott Creek in the Town of Amherst in

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State near the

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, and flows under

Interstate 990 Interstate 990 (I-990) is an auxiliary Interstate Highway located entirely within the town of Amherst in Erie County, New York, in the United States. It runs in a roughly north–south direction for through the southwestern and central pa ...

before leaving Amherst by crossing

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(Niagara Falls Boulevard) to enter the

Town of Tonawanda Tonawanda (formally the Town of Tonawanda) is a town in Erie County, New York, United States. As of the 2020 census, the town had a population of 72,636. The town is at the north border of the county and is the northern inner ring suburb of B ...

Ellicott Creek Park Ellicott Creek Park is a park in Erie County, in the U.S. state of New York. The park is in the Town of Tonawanda, northeast of Buffalo, New York. The park lies between Tonawanda Creek and Ellicott Creek. Access is free and it is open to the pu ...

. The Bike Path runs along

Ellicott Creek Ellicott Creek is a stream in Western New York, United States. It is a tributary of Tonawanda Creek, which in turn flows into the Niagara River. Course Ellicott Creek originates in southwest corner of Genesee County, just northeast of Darien L ...

, a

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that is a

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Tonawanda Creek Tonawanda Creek is a small tributary of the Niagara River in Western New York, United States. After rising in Wyoming County, the stream flows through Genesee County before forming part of the boundary between Erie County and Niagara County. ...

, which in turn flows into the

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Site of murder of Linda Yalem

In 1990, the Ellicott Creek Bike Path was the last known location where

(UB) Sophomore Linda Yalem was alive. Yalem studied communications at UB and was training for the

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when she was raped and killed by Altemio Sanchez on September 29, 1990 while on a run on the Ellicott Creek Bike Path near UB. Her body was found near the Bike Path.

References

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