Grace Hill, a 65-year-old Black woman from Atlanta, was the last known victim in a terrifying burst of attacks that shook some of the city’s poorest neighborhoods in the spring of 1986. By the time she was found on April 9 in her apartment at the Herndon Homes housing project just west of downtown, police were already confronting the possibility that the killings of elderly women in the same area were not isolated crimes at all, but part of a pattern. Hill’s death came after other older wome
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