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Janice Berryman was a 36-year-old woman from Kansas City, Missouri. She was Black. On October 28, 1989, she was found dead in Gillham Park in midtown Kansas City, turning one more ordinary autumn day into the kind of day that makes a neighborhood hold its breath.

By then, fear had already been building around the park. Over the span of months, women had been turning up strangled in or near Gillham Park, and the pattern was hard to ignore: bodies left in the same general terrain, the same ...Read More

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Victim Details

Janice Berryman

Female

Black / African American

Kansas City

MO

1989-10-28

36

Janice

Berryman

04/14/2026