The Welcome to Grusam, your horrific true crime podcast. I am Meg and my sweet baby Connie is going to tell us about Maury Travis.

Yeah, we're back on Meg and I my webcam had been broken so we hadn't gotten to see each other we were just kind of like

podcasting it to each other we were just podcasting to each other without seeing it makes a difference

when I can see you and talk to you.

The sweet baby face of yours.

I just love it.

So excited.

Okay, so from July of 2000 to May of 2002, St. Louis had a serial killer stalking their streets.

But authorities were reluctant to draw attention to the murders.

All of the victims were black women who were suffering from addiction or working as sex workers.

There was barely a mention of the crimes that were being committed.

Police had DNA that linked six of the women together

from seaman samples that were collected.

But when they ran the DNA through Kodes,

no matches were found.

It seemed like these women were destined to be forgotten instead of having justice

due to their socioeconomic status. And this is something that we've seen before.

Monsters prey on the vulnerable because they feel like these victims are somehow less than because of their lifestyle.

Unfortunately, there is that stigma that someone who lives a high-risk lifestyle is somehow responsible for what happens to them when they encounter monsters like this.

I mean the nickname the police had for this person committing these crimes was the street

walker strangler.

Ew. Yeah, that's what I said.

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