Monica Hunter

Monica Hunter, 31, a Black woman from Brooklyn, New York, died on July 30, 2000. The problem with telling her story two and a half decades later is that the public trail goes quiet almost immediately. In widely accessible online records and reporting, there is no consistently documented account of what happened in her final hours, where she was last seen, how she was found, or what the first responding officers believed they were walking into when they arrived.

Because those core facts ar ...