On October 17, 1975, 15-year-old white female Mary Coppolla arrived in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, from Pennsylvania alongside 27-year-old Marlene Annabelli. The two had rented a room at the Lauderdale Beach Club for a one-week stay. Nine days later, their bodies were discovered by a motorcyclist in a dump site outside the city. Both victims had been strangled with a rope. The brutal nature of the crime and the location of the bodies bore similarities to a string of unsolved homicides in South Flo
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