Rebecca H. “Dolly” Davis was a 70-year-old White woman from Elkridge, Maryland, living a quiet life rooted in art and teaching—Bryn Mawr College in her past, painting and study in her orbit, and a reputation that made her seem like the last person who should ever become the center of a nightmare.
On February 16, 1980, the violence came to her own doorstep. In the open air outside her home, she was attacked with a knife, sexually assaulted, and stabbed to death. Afterward, her kille
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