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suitable for everyone listener discretion is advised dc had never had a serial killing before.

And so it wasn't something, not that you ever get used to it,

but it wasn't something they were familiar with.

And so if there's a body found here and then, you know, a few weeks later,

there's a body found here and some months later,

and they don't connect it until the fourth one or so,

then it sort of spirals and people take notice.

And then they said, oh, Houston, we've got a problem here.

These deaths may be connected.

And I'm not sure why that is.

Maybe because, you know, there were different detectives assigned to each of the cases.

Maybe because, you know, one of the bodies or so was found

across the district line in Maryland, and they didn't communicate, Maryland and D.C. Or again,

maybe it's because there were so many homicides in the city and six little black girls from

not the best parts of town, you know, did anyone really care outside of their families?

The homicide detectives termed the cases, the little girl cases. This child was laying on the side of the road.

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