On March 9, 1972, Douglas Owens, an 8-year-old Black boy, vanished into the ordinary rhythm of Harlem in Manhattan, New York—one of those neighborhood days where a child can be just a few blocks away and still slip beyond reach. Before long, the city would deliver him back in the cruelest way: his body was discovered on a building rooftop.
The violence done to him was extreme. Accounts of the scene describe dozens of knife wounds—reported as 38 separate stabs—and an added layer of
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