On a summer evening in Madison, Wisconsin, the lives of a young couple were tragically cut short in a senseless act of hatred. Twenty-three-year-old Toni Lynn Schwenn, a white female, and her boyfriend, Alphonse Manning Jr., a 23-year-old Black male, were in the parking lot of the East Towne Mall on August 7, 1977, when they were targeted and fatally shot. Their interracial relationship was the sole motive for their murders, a fact that would later come to light with the confession of a serial k
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