Alonda Tart was a 23-year-old African American woman who died of strangulation on March 14, 1995, in Chicago’s Englewood neighborhood. Her killing is listed among a series of murders of vulnerable women between December 1994 and June 1995 attributed to Hubert Geralds Jr., who targeted women often struggling with drug addiction or engaged in sex work and used drugs, particularly crack cocaine, to lure them into private settings.

Geralds was arrested in June 1995 after his sister found a decomposed victim in a trash can near her home and reported him. He confessed to multiple murders, including Tart’s, and was charged in six deaths, though later review showed one of those killings had been committed by someone else. At trial his defense raised his low IQ and claims of mental illness; the prosecution presented evidence describing calculated actions and violent tendencies.

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