Angela Maria Wilkerson

Angela Maria Wilkerson, a 22-year-old Black woman, disappeared after being reported missing on January 5, 1987, and what began as a search for one young woman soon folded into something far darker. In Suitland, Maryland, a wooded area near the Bradbury Recreation Center had already become the uneasy center of a widening investigation, a place where the quiet of winter brush kept giving up terrible secrets.

Her body was found in that same wooded stretch, discovered not far from where other ...