Nicole Townsend

Nicole Townsend was a 32-year-old African-American woman whose killing became one of the cases tied to Chicago serial killer Andre Crawford. Townsend was killed during the second week of August 1998 on Chicago's South Side. On August 13, a real estate appraiser entered an abandoned building at 5223 South Marshfield Avenue and discovered her body in a second-floor attic. Her remains had been there long enough to become severely decomposed and partially skeletonized, and she had been partly covere ...