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Gwen Lukes

Case from Brookville, NY dated Sep 13, 1985

Victim Details

Gwen Lukes

Female

Black / African American

Brookville

NY

1985-09-13

26

Gwen

Lukes

07/27/2026

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Gwendolyn “Gwen” Lukes, a 26-year-old Black woman, disappeared into the gray seam between night and morning on Long Island, and the next time the public record finds her, it is in the stillness of a cemetery in Upper Brookville. On September 13, 1985, her body was discovered there, and the cause was strangulation. In the Hempstead area where she was known to work, she had lived for years in the blunt realities of street-level survival, moving through a world where strangers came and went and ...
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