A Doggerel for Dead Whores

Cleveland homicide had access to their profiling apparatus as early as September eighty-eight, but we didn't start looking for similarities until ninety-three. You all have the same information in front of you. By then, seventeen women had turned up as dead bodies found. Fifteen in vacant lots on the East Side. All but two were black females between fourteen and forty-one. More than half were found nude. Twelve had been beaten severely in the face and head. Nearly all had drug problems or a...