James Sylve, a 1-year-old Black boy from Kenner, Louisiana, vanished into the kind of silence that makes an entire community hold its breath. In mid-May 1998, he was in the care of his stepfather, Eric Dawon Matthews, after violence had already torn through the family�s life. Two days before James was found, his mother, Lashann Sylve Matthews, was discovered dead in the family�s trailer home in Hammond, Louisiana, bound and gagged, with indications she had been choked. When Matthews and the chil
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