On a late April day in 1969, Shirley Brittingham, a 32-year-old woman who was several months pregnant, moved through a Camden, New Jersey, already strained by poverty and rising crime. She was known within her circle as someone trying to keep her life on track in a city that felt increasingly unsafe, but whatever plans she made for that spring were interrupted in a way no one in her family or neighborhood could have imagined. When she disappeared, there was no immediate front-page alarm, just an
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