The murders started on a hot July afternoon in southeast Michigan in 1967. It was a time of freedom and a place of freedom near the campus of Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti, Michigan.

Nineteen-year-old Mary Teresa Fleszar, a student at EMU, decided to take a walk. It was a warm summer evening in July.

Mary bid farewell to her roommate and strolled off down the street.

Twenty-eight days later, Mary's heavily decomposed and mutilated body would be discovered near an abandoned farmhouse in Superior Township just north of Ypsilanti.

Mary would mark the beginning of a two-year killing spree that would leave more than six young women savagely murdered, their families lives forever altered, and a town with a black shadow that would not lift for many years if it ever did at all.

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