On June 4, 2008, Aretha Martin, 36, a Black woman from Buffalo, New York, became the victim in a homicide case that investigators would ultimately list as unsolved. The killing was tied to the Walden Avenue corridor in Buffalo’s 14211 zip code, a detail that has remained one of the few consistently repeated reference points in public summaries of the case.
In the days that followed, the case was categorized simply and starkly: murder, with the cause not publicly specified and no suspec
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