On an April day in 1969, Mary Freeman, a 56-year-old African American woman, was discovered dead in Camden, New Jersey, her life ended in circumstances as bleak as the abandoned building where she was found. Her body lay face down in roughly a foot and a half of water inside a vacant house, the stillness of the room broken only by the grim signs of violence that marked the scene. Investigators quickly determined that she had been stabbed to death, the shallow pool becoming the final, chilling ba
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