Pearl Weiss

In the early morning hours of April 9, 1959, the city of Baltimore was once again gripped by fear as the body of 38-year-old Pearl Weiss, an African American woman, was discovered in an alleyway. Her life had been brutally taken; she had been strangled, the visible bruises on her neck and the bloodied state of her fingers a silent testament to the fierce struggle she had put up against her attacker. Adding a strange and unsettling detail to the scene, her shoes were missing, a possible signature ...