The Less Dead: How America Allows Certain Women to Disappear

The Less Dead: How America Allows Certain Women to Disappear

In the summer of 2004, six women were found dead along an eighteen-block stretch of Prospect Avenue in Kansas City, Missouri. Their killer, Terry Blair, had been paroled months earlier, released into the same corridor where he had committed his first murder in 1982, under supervision so inadequate it amounted to institutional abandonment. The Less Dead is the definitive account of how Blair killed, how he was caught, and, most urge...