Leaders in Kansas City’s Black community say local police dismissed their worries that a serial killer was preying on young Black women until it was too late.
On 7 October, a 22-year-old Black woman escaped from a house in nearby Excelsior Springs, Missouri, where she said she was kidnapped, raped, whipped, and held in shackles for days by a man who killed two of her friends, according to Black news site The Kansas City Defender. Her name has not been released to protect her privacy.
