Pamela Wisher was a young, wealthy "society girl" and resident of New York City. The discovery of her headless corpse in the Humboldt Kill initiated the events of Reliquary. Wisher was about five feet six inches tall, blonde, blue-eyed and beautiful. She was a former debutante from a rich family and was called a "trust funder", although she did volunteer in a hospice for AIDS patients. She was dating a young aristocrat, the Viscount Adair. Some time after her death, Pamela's mother arranged for a "vest pocket" park on East 53rd St. to be named Pamela Wisher Park.