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Teresa Giles

Case from Fort Lauderdale, FL dated Dec 18, 1984

Victim Details

Teresa Giles

Female

Fort Lauderdale

FL

1984-12-18

22

Teresa

Giles

07/30/2026

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Theresa Giles was a 22-year-old Black woman whose life ended violently in Fort Lauderdale on December 18, 1984. Her name is also rendered as Teresa Giles in some accounts. She was killed during a period when women and girls in northwest Fort Lauderdale were being sexually assaulted and murdered under strikingly similar circumstances. Although publicly available accounts provide few details about Giles's personal life or the precise location where she was found, investigators concluded that she h ...
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