Cornelia Crilley was a 23-year-old white woman who had just begun settling into a new life on Manhattan’s Upper East Side when the ordinary rhythms of a move-in day gave way to something far darker. In June 1971, she had been hauling boxes and arranging a brand-new apartment at 427 East 83rd Street, the kind of place that should have smelled of cardboard and fresh paint. Instead, when the people who expected to hear from her couldn’t reach her and police forced their way inside, they walked
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