Della Mae Liggens

Della Mae Liggens was a 69-year-old Black/African American woman whose life ended violently in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on July 19, 1979. She was stabbed to death inside the city during what would later be recognized as the beginning of a series of killings attributed to David Allen Van Dyke. Liggens is identified in accounts of the case as Van Dyke's first known murder victim, although the connection to him was not established until investigators began tying together a succession of similar killin ...

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