Carol Burke was a 13-year-old White girl who died in New York City during a violent April 1965 attack that also took the life of her mother, Ruth Burke. Later accounts describe the killings as a home invasion that ended in gunfire, with Carol sexually assaulted before she was murdered, leaving a crime that felt both brutally personal and chillingly casual, as if the offender had moved through the apartment with a single-minded purpose.
In the wake of the deaths, the name most often tied
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