Mia Smith

In the spring of 1994, the Royal Towers Apartments in Kansas City, a building that should have been a place of safety and community, became the scene of a chilling discovery. On March 30th, the body of 29-year-old Mia Smith, a female resident, was found strangled in a sixth-floor stairway. Her violent death cast a shadow of fear over the other tenants and added to a string of mysterious deaths that had been occurring within the building.

Investigators quickly turned their attention to a f ...

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