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Nancie Walker, who was slain in Chicago in 2003.
To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning .”
–Isaiah 61:3
Ashes. She disappeared like ashes upon a menacing swirling wind. Her name was Nancie Carolyn Walker. It was on an unseasonably warm overcast day in January, 18 years ago, that she vanished at least for seven weeks, until they found her.
These are among the words that I and my journalism students at Roosevelt University wrote about the 51 mostly Black women murdered in Chicago over 18 years and identified by the Murder Accountability Project as having perished at the hands of at least one serial killer.