Heriberto Morales, a 50-year-old Hispanic/Latino man, was killed in New York City on December 22, 1981, inside his apartment at 1035 Haven Avenue. The night began in the glow of the season: a Christmas party, the easy drift afterward back to familiar rooms, the small domestic details that make a holiday feel safe. Later, the apartment would be left fire-damaged, and Morales would be found shot to death.
In the weeks that followed, investigators began to see a grim pattern forming across t
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