In the winter of 1977, Beverly Wortmann, a 24-year-old reporter for the Jackson County Sentinel-Tribune, was living in Kansas City, Missouri. On the evening of December 7th, she told her roommate she was stepping out to buy some cigarettes. She returned to her apartment, but she was not alone. A man had followed her, slipping into her residence to commit a brutal and senseless act of violence.
Inside her own home, Wortmann was savagely attacked, being stabbed nineteen times before her thr
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