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Content warning. This episode contains discussion of murder, violence against women, rape, and misogyny.

This wasn't like her. 28-year-old Rizanne Quinn was dedicated to her job.

She worked in the Bronx as a teacher in New York City St. Joseph School for the Deaf.

She was the sort of teacher who'd bring breakfast in for her kids because some of them got up too

early to eat at home. She would often stay after school too, doing what she could to help out her

students. Even when she wasn't at the school, she seemed to remain focused on her work.

She was attending night classes at Hunter College in an already completed half-her work

for a master's degree in teaching children with hearing loss.

It seemed very much like she wanted to dedicate the rest of her life to educating those with hearing

disabilities. Perhaps part of the reason why she felt such a passion for the work is that she

herself knew what it was like to be isolated for being different. When she was a teenager,

she'd suffered from polio and spent much time in the hospital. Even now she walked with a bit of a

limp. A woman like that wouldn't miss work without a good reason, and yet she did not show up at

the school on January 2nd, 1973, the first day of classes after the holiday break. She didn't even

bother to call to explain why. She didn't come to St. Joseph the next day either, so the school

decided to send someone over to her apartment to try to figure out what was going on.

The superintendent of the building, a mediocre gizmo, agreed to open up Roseanne's room.

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