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On an autumn day in Kalamazoo, Michigan, the life of a promising young woman was brutally cut short. Gloria Denise Steele, a 19-year-old Black female, was a student at Western Michigan University, balancing her studies with the responsibilities of motherhood to her young child. On October 30, 1974, after attending a class and a job interview, she returned to her apartment at the Stadium Drive Apartments, a place that would tragically become the scene of her untimely death.

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Victim Details

Gloria Steele

Female

Black / African American

Kalamazoo

MI

1974-10-30

19

Gloria

Steele

12/21/2025