May 24, 1950 - Lorenzo Gilyard
Gilyard operated in Kansas City over a period of roughly two decades, targeting vulnerable women — many of them sex workers — whose deaths went uninvestigated for years. His case illustrates how the demographic profile of victims can delay or derail law enforcement attention, allowing a pattern of killings to continue long past early opportunities for intervention. DNA evidence eventually connected him to twelve murders, and he was convicted in 2007.
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Lorenzo Jerome Gilyard Jr. (born May 24, 1950), known as The Kansas City Strangler, is an American serial killer. A former trash-company supervisor, Gilyard is believed to have raped and murdered at least 13 women and girls from 1977 to 1993. He was convicted of six counts of first-degree murder on March 16, 2007.
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