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Hazel Lewis

Case from Chicago, IL dated Nov 14, 2007

Victim Details

Hazel Lewis

March 15, 2023

Female

African-American / Black

Chicago

IL

2007-11-14

52

Hazel Lewis

Hazel

Lewis

07/28/2026


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Hazel Lewis, aged 52, was found dead on November 14, 2007, in a burning trash bin behind an elementary school in the Washington Park neighborhood on Chicago’s South Side. Her body showed signs of strangulation, and the manner of her death was strikingly similar to that of another woman, Theresa Bunn, who was found just two days earlier in the same area. Both women were stripped, strangled, and set on fire, raising suspicions of a potential link between their cases.

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  • Portraits of Life: Hazel Lewis - Unforgotten51
  • Family remembers 2nd victim as giving - Chicago Tribune
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