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In 1980s Los Angeles, as the city reeled amid the crack cocaine epidemic and gang warfare, the bodies of Black women were repeatedly found stashed in alleyways.Sources:Grim Sleeper - WikipediaThe Case of Lonnie David Franklin | The Grim Sleeper - YouTube'Grim Sleeper': Convicted serial killer found dead in prison cell - CNN

Hey ghouls and gals! I'm bringing you some Urban Legends!Sources:http://bernd.wechner.info/Hitchhiking/vanish.htmlhttp://anitasnotebook.com/2016/10/the-vanishing-hitchhiker-an-eerie-and-mysterious-urban-legend.htmlhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_legend

From April 1971 to September 1972 six young African-American girls were abducted from their neighborhoods in Washington, DC and murdered.

On November 19, 2011, Jaleayah Davis left home to spend an evening out not knowing it would end in tragedySources:https://talkmurder.com/jaleayah-davis/https://www.investigationdiscovery.com/crimefeed/id-shows/still-a-mystery/still-a-mystery-mile-marker-181-jaleayah-davis

The highway passes though some phenomenal scenery and some desolate expanses of Outback, and it seems like just any other secluded remote road. Yet, this strip of road has accrued quite a sinister reputation for the large number of accidents and mysterious disappearances that have occurredSources:https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/dcaae156ad974b0ebfdc72afa763e8eahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flinders_Highway,_Queenslandhttps://mysteriousuniverse.org/2018/08/mysterious-vanishings-on-australias-highway-of-death/

On November 4, 2018, Tamla Horsford was discovered dead in the backyard of the Cumming, Georgia, home where she had been attending a slumber party with other "football moms" the night before.Sources:https://criminaldiscoursepodcast.com/tamla-horsford/https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/tamla-horsford-death-georgia-1026889/https://themurdersquad.com/episodes/what-happened-to-tamla-horsford/

Preying on vulnerable individuals, Anthony Sowell, notoriously nicknamed the Cleveland Strangler, was ultimately behind the murders of 11 Black women.*TRIGGER WARNING*SEXUAL ASSAULTDRUG USESources:https://zora.medium.com/when-a-black-woman-disappears-who-is-trying-to-find-her-1113bb087790https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0207742https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/anthony-sowells-home-of-horror/

Preying on vulnerable individuals, Anthony Sowell, notoriously nicknamed the Cleveland Strangler, was ultimately behind the murders of 11 Black women.***TRIGGER WARNING***SEXUAL ASSAULTDRUG USESources:https://zora.medium.com/when-a-black-woman-disappears-who-is-trying-to-find-her-1113bb087790https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0207742https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/anthony-sowells-home-of-horror/