Dorothy Waterstreet

In the winter of 1958, the city of Amsterdam, New York, was shaken by a brutal crime that would linger in the community's memory for decades. On the evening of January 21st, 46-year-old Dorothy Waterstreet was walking home from church, just a block and a half from the safety of her own doorstep. Tragically, she would never complete that short journey. Her body was later discovered in a vacant lot, the victim of a savage beating. The wife of a local undertaker, her violent death sent ripples of f ...

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