Marginalized Murder

Episode 7: Breaking the Cycle

Vann’s confessing to strangling women in Illinois points to a profound reality: not only is Hargrove’s algorithm effective at detecting serial murder activity, but it detected two clusters involving the same serial killer…

While many unanswered questions in the case of the 51 remain, grassroots activists and organizations like Mother’s Opposed to Violence Everywhere work towards local and federal leg...

Back in 2014, Thomas Hargrove’s algorithm sounded the alarm on a cluster of potential serial murder activity brewing Gary, Indiana. Despite Hargrove’s repeated efforts to share his data, the Hammond Police turned a blind eye until a few months later when the information became a reality. 

In October of 2014, Darren Deon Vann was arrested for the murder of Afrikka Hardy. In addition to admitting to strangling Hardy to death, Vann co...

While Reverend Robin Hood and Senator Patricia Van Pelt unite in reducing the DNA backlog, Gerald Hamilton, a retired Chicago Homicide Detective, introduces one of the most chilling cases in the 51…

The Washington Park Murders.

 In 2007, Theresa Bunn and Hazel Marie Lewis’ bodies were found one day apart in Washington Park. They were both strangled to death, dumped in trash cans, and set on fire within 24 hours of each other.

Detec...

Episode 4: Murderers Amongst Us

Despite ample DNA found at the scene of Gwendolyn Williams’ murder pointing to a suspect named Gerald Lyons, the District Attorney refuses to prosecute this case, bringing the wheels of justice to a screeching halt. 

When little is done to eradicate the massive DNA backlog, local community activists and state politicians, including Reverend Robin Hood and Senator Patricia Van Pelt, take action in th...

Episode 3: Justice for Gwen?

In 2001, Dr. Sharon Pritchett’s life is upended when her oldest sister, Gwendolyn Williams, is found strangled to death behind a 99 cent store. Her murder is seemingly random until Pritchett learns that her sister’s case is a part of a mysterious pattern of 51 murders that has plagued the city of Chicago for the last two decades.

With little momentum, the case goes cold until Pritchett discovers a maj...

Episode 2 "Seeing the Forest for the Trees" of true crime podcast Marginalized Murder: The Case of The 51, with your host Carly Roland.

With the help of Thomas Hargrove, founder of the Murder Accountability Project and creator of the algorithm that sounded the alarm in Chicago, we map out key clues in this complex murder mystery.

One of those clues being that this cold case is likely the work of not one, but potentially multiple ...

Episode 1: A Serial Killer In Chicago

Over the course of twenty years at least 51 women were strangled to death in the South and West sides of Chicago. Their deaths were seemingly unrelated, until 2017, when an algorithm pointed to something much more sinister: serial murder.

We begin our investigation and dive down the rabbit hole of potentially the largest, active serial murder case in the country. 

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This season of Marginalized Murder we dive into "The Case of the 51", the largest active serial murder mystery in the county. Over the course of twenty years at least 51 women were strangled to death in the South and West side of Chicago . I speak with Thomas Hargrove, the founder of the Murder Accountability Project and the creator of the algorithm that cracked this cold case wide open. We also meet some of the victim's family mem...