On March 9, 1972, eight-year-old Douglas Owens, a Black male child, was found brutally murdered on a rooftop in Harlem, Manhattan. His body bore 38 stab wounds, and his genitals had been mutilated, though not completely severed. Douglas had reportedly been running errands for his mother when he disappeared. His death marked the beginning of a chilling series of attacks that would later be attributed to an unidentified serial killer known by the moniker “Charlie Chop-off.”
The killer,
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