July 9, 1965 - Anthony Balaam
Over a two-year span in the mid-1990s, Balaam targeted women in Trenton's street sex trade, using drugs as a means of access before killing four victims. His capture came not through investigative work alone but because a fifth intended victim survived and escaped. The case stands as a reminder of how predators exploit the vulnerability of those society is least likely to notice missing.
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Anthony Balaam (born July 9, 1965), known as The Trenton Strangler, is an American serial killer who raped and murdered four prostitutes between 1994 and 1996 in Trenton, New Jersey, luring them with sex-for-drugs encounters. Balaam was captured after his would-be fifth victim escaped, and he was later given a life sentence for his crimes.
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