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This season of Marginalized Murder we dive into "The Case of the 51 largest active serial murder mystery in the county. Over the course of twenty years at least 51 women were strangled to death in the South and West side of Chicago . I speak with Thomas Hargrove, the founder of the Murder Accountability Project and the creator of the algorithm that cracked this cold case wide open. We also meet some of the victim's family members like Sharon Pritchett, whose beloved sister Gwendolyn Williams ...
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S1E8: This Season In Review (Feat. Michele McPhee)
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Carly and Michele talk about biased reporting practices, the media's responsibility as a political instrument, and how technology can be better integrated in law enforcement. Stay up to date with Carly and Mayhem: https://www.instagram.com/officialcarlyroland/ Engage with MOVE here: https://movechicago.org/ Come see the live podcast recording July …
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Episode 7: Breaking the Cycle Vann’s confessing to strangling women in Illinois points to a profound reality: not only is Hargrove’s algorithm effective at detecting serial murder activity, but it detected two clusters involving the same serial killer… While many unanswered questions in the case of the 51 remain, grassroots activists and organizati…
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Back in 2014, Thomas Hargrove’s algorithm sounded the alarm on a cluster of potential serial murder activity brewing Gary, Indiana. Despite Hargrove’s repeated efforts to share his data, the Hammond Police turned a blind eye until a few months later when the information became a reality. In October of 2014, Darren Deon Vann was arrested for the mur…
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While Reverend Robin Hood and Senator Patricia Van Pelt unite in reducing the DNA backlog, Gerald Hamilton, a retired Chicago Homicide Detective, introduces one of the most chilling cases in the 51… The Washington Park Murders. In 2007, Theresa Bunn and Hazel Marie Lewis’ bodies were found one day apart in Washington Park. They were both strangled …
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Episode 4: Murderers Amongst Us Despite ample DNA found at the scene of Gwendolyn Williams’ murder pointing to a suspect named Gerald Lyons, the District Attorney refuses to prosecute this case, bringing the wheels of justice to a screeching halt. When little is done to eradicate the massive DNA backlog, local community activists and state politici…
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Episode 3: Justice for Gwen? In 2001, Dr. Sharon Pritchett’s life is upended when her oldest sister, Gwendolyn Williams, is found strangled to death behind a 99 cent store. Her murder is seemingly random until Pritchett learns that her sister’s case is a part of a mysterious pattern of 51 murders that has plagued the city of Chicago for the last tw…
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Episode 2 "Seeing the Forest for the Trees" of true crime podcast Marginalized Murder: The Case of The 51, with your host Carly Roland. With the help of Thomas Hargrove, founder of the Murder Accountability Project and creator of the algorithm that sounded the alarm in Chicago, we map out key clues in this complex murder mystery. One of those clues…
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Episode 1: A Serial Killer In Chicago Over the course of twenty years at least 51 women were strangled to death in the South and West sides of Chicago. Their deaths were seemingly unrelated, until 2017, when an algorithm pointed to something much more sinister: serial murder. We begin our investigation and dive down the rabbit hole of potentially t…
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Marginalized Murder: The Case of the 51 - Coming Soon to the Storic Media Network
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This season of Marginalized Murder we dive into "The Case of the 51", the largest active serial murder mystery in the county. Over the course of twenty years at least 51 women were strangled to death in the South and West side of Chicago . I speak with Thomas Hargrove, the founder of the Murder Accountability Project and the creator of the algorith…
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