Bra murders
- Year
- 1967
- Where
- Connecticut
- Source
- Wikipedia
- Evidence
- 1
The Bra murders were a series of murders committed against four sex workers and one mother of four from 1967 to 1971 in Stamford, Connecticut. Most of the victims were African American or in active addiction, each had been strangled, sometimes with their own bras, from which the murders' moniker originated. Benjamin Franklin Miller, a self-styled preacher from Norwalk, was charged and later acquitted by reason of…
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