A 17-year-old is strangled on a rooftop just six blocks from where she lived in Brooklyn, New York. On a Wednesday morning in October 1971, 17-year-old Theresa Rose Rodger left her Brooklyn home with four dollars in her pocket. The young Caucasian female told her mother, Rosalie, she was going to buy a blouse and then look for a part-time waitressing job in Bay Ridge. It was the last time her mother would see her alive. A little over 24 hours later, on October 20, 1971, an elevator repairman discovered her body on the rooftop of the Gowanus Housing Authority project at 198 Bond Street, a mere
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