Elizabeth “Bessie” Hutson was a 28-year-old Hispanic woman living in Washington, D.C., whose ordinary evening routine turned into the most terrifying moment of her life and the end of it. On March 23, 1993, she took her dogs out for a walk in the Mount Pleasant neighborhood, following an alley that ran parallel to Park Road NW at the far western edge of the community, between 19th Street and Rock Creek Park. The alley was the kind of quiet cut-through that residents used without thinking twi
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