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Dana Hill

Case from Washington, DC dated Dec 01, 1997

Victim Details

Dana Hill

Female

Black / African American

Washington

DC

1997-12-01

34

Dana

Hill

07/04/2026

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In the winter of 1997, a chilling discovery added to the growing fear that gripped the Petworth neighborhood of Washington, D.C. On the first of December, the body of 34-year-old Dana Hill, a Black woman who had grown up on the once-quiet Princeton Place, was found. Her life had been taken by strangulation, and she was left in a vacant building in the 300 block of Florida Avenue NE, another victim in a string of slayings that had been terrorizing the community.

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