Della Mae Liggens

Death by Force

Della Mae Liggens, 69, a Black woman, was found stabbed to death inside her Milwaukee home on July 19, 1979, a summer day that began like any other on the city’s North Side and ended with the sudden stillness that follows violence. The scene offered few answers, only the grim certainty that someone had entered her residence and taken her life, the first strike in a string of home murders that would rattle Milwaukee through the following spring.

As detectives compared notes from subsequ ...Read More

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