Helen Patent, a 52-year-old white female from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was found brutally murdered on August 19, 1985. Her body was discovered between stacks of railroad ties in a Frankford Avenue maintenance yard by two transit workers. She was nude from the waist down, with her blouse pulled up to expose her chest. The crime scene was gruesome—she had been sexually assaulted and stabbed repeatedly. While some sources report 47 stab wounds to her head and chest, others cite 19 stab wounds,
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