Shirley Ellis

Death by Force

White / Caucasian age 23. On the rainy Sunday evening of November 29, 1987, Shirley Anne Ellis left her family's home in Newark's Brookmont Farms carrying a Thanksgiving platter meant for an AIDS patient at Wilmington Hospital. She chose to hitchhike along U.S. Route 40 to make the trip, a stretch of highway she knew from an earlier, now-abandoned period in her life. Not long after she set out, passersby discovered her by the roadside: partially unclothed, hands and feet bound with tape, legs ...Read More

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