In the summer of 2000, the St. Louis area was gripped by a tragedy that would take years to fully unravel. On the morning of July 31, the body of Mary E. Shields, a 61-year-old African-American woman from East St. Louis, Illinois, was discovered in a desolate patch of weeds behind a factory building. The industrial area, located near 20th Street and Piggott Avenue, was largely deserted, which contributed to a delay in finding her. The initial investigation into her death immediately pointed towa ...
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