Deborah Dudley, a 23-year-old Black woman, was one of six women abducted and held captive in Gary Heidnik’s Philadelphia basement between November 1986 and March 1987.

Dudley was killed when Heidnik decided to punish her by filling the pit with water and using live wires to electrocute her; another captive, Josefina Rivera, was forced to carry out the act. Dudley was one of two women who did not survive; the other victim, Sandra Lindsay, died of starvation, torture, and an untreated fever. Heidnik was arrested on March 24, 1987, charged with multiple offenses including two counts of first-degree murder, convicted in 1988, and later executed in 1999.

Are there details about Dudley’s life or the captives’ whereabouts before the abductions that anyone can share?