On a Saturday evening in Wichita, Kansas, the lights of the La' Bride d'Elegance bridal shop should have been off. It was April 11, 1992, and Patricia Smith, a 23-year-old Caucasian female, was working late alongside the shop's owner, 32-year-old Patricia Magers. A bridal consultant who had been married for less than a year, Smith and her boss had kept the shop open past its usual closing time to accommodate a male customer who had arranged to pick up a cummerbund. The simple courtesy would plac
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