Karen Patterson was a 13-year-old Black girl from North Charleston, South Carolina, whose life was stolen in the early hours of October 27, 1985, in an attack that shattered both her family and her neighborhood. She lived in a small tenant house behind a duplex, sharing the home with her parents, Aaron Polite and Fatha Patterson. Their landlord’s son, Joseph Ernest Atkins, lived in one side of the duplex, while his elderly adoptive father, Benjamin Atkins, lived in the other. For months, there
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