Claudette Janiel

On September 4, 2004, Claudette Juniel, a 31-year-old woman from Kansas City, Missouri, was found dead in a way that suggested someone wanted her to disappear rather than simply be discovered. Her remains were located in a vacant lot near 27th Street and Olive, a forgotten pocket of ground where brush and debris could hide what no one wanted to face.

The lead that brought officers there wasn’t luck. That evening, an anonymous caller phoned 911 and described “two more bodies,” direc ...