Rhonda Tucker, a 21-year-old Black woman from Brooklyn, New York, was found dead in late September 1999 inside her apartment in the Sumner Houses, a public housing complex in Bedford-Stuyvesant. She was discovered naked and strangled, with a ligature left around her neck, the kind of grim signature that made the scene feel less like an isolated tragedy and more like the work of someone who had done this before.
In the weeks leading up to Tucker’s death, investigators were already rattl
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