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Courtesy of Murder Accountability Project Taskforce on murdered and missing women.
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The Unsolved Cases of Missing and Murdered Women

by Kira Leadholm January 6, 2021January 18, 2021

homas Hargrove, a retired investigative journalist, felt something was suspicious as he analyzed Chicago homicide data in late 2014. He identified several eerie patterns among a cluster of fifty-one unsolved female homicides: most of the victims had been sex workers or drug users, ninety-three percent of the murders occurred outdoors or in abandoned buildings, the […]

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