Tolila Brown, a 36-year-old Black woman, was found dead in New York City in November 1981, her life ending in a forgotten shack near Crotona Park in the Bronx. She was discovered on the floor bound, a ligature drawn tight at her throat, her body left partially clothed as if the scene itself had been staged to erase her dignity along with her breath.
Investigators determined she had been strangled with a scarf that had been cinched using a chisel as a twisting tool, a cruel mechanical lev
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