Karen Jefferson was a 21-year-old woman from Queens, New York. In the early hours of March 19, 1984, the case broke open in a grim, disjointed way—first with a body discovered inside a parked U-Haul truck. The truck was determined to be stolen, and the man inside was identified as Ira Adams, shot to death. What looked like one killing quickly felt like the beginning of something larger.
During the initial response, police found a note that pointed them a few blocks away. When officers w
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