Ruth Burke, 43, a White woman, died in New York City, New York, on April 1, 1965, in a case that later became tied—through public reporting—to a grim pattern of violence attributed to Herbert Arnold. In the version of events repeated in later write-ups, Ruth and her daughter, Carol, were attacked in their home, the kind of close-quarters crime that leaves a neighborhood feeling suddenly unsafe: familiar hallways turned into crime scenes, ordinary routines interrupted by sirens and whispered
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