On May 31, 2004, Lottie Mae Thompson, 31, a Black woman, was found slain inside her Syracuse apartment, the violence leaving little doubt it was a deliberate killing rather than an accident or sudden illness. The discovery set off an urgent police response on the city�s West Side, in and around the West Onondaga Street building where the attack occurred, and it would soon become clear investigators were staring at something bigger than a single, isolated death.
Behind the headlines was a
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