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Zenovia Clegg

Case from New York City, NY dated May 30, 1963

Victim Details

Zenovia Clegg

Female

Black / African American

New York City

NY

1963-05-30

62

Zenovia

Clegg

07/13/2026

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Zenovia Clegg, a 62-year-old Black woman, spent the last hours of her life moving through midtown Manhattan with a stranger she had only just met. Late on May 29, 1963, she approached Charles Terry on the street near Sixth Avenue and 43rd Street and asked him to show her the way to her hotel. She was described as small and elderly, walking with a limp and using a cane. He agreed to accompany her, and along the way they stopped for drinks before ending up at the Hotel Woodstock, where they took t ...
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