On the night of December 10, 1977, 33-year-old Karen P. Braunbeck Dodrill, a white female from Newark, Ohio, was celebrating her birthday at Forker's Café on Union Street. She had been born on the same date in 1944, and the evening out at the neighborhood bar was meant to mark that milestone quietly with friends. Public records and cemetery listings later recorded how that date, which should have been a simple celebration, would instead be remembered as both her birthday and the day her life en
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