# Suitland murders

Unsolved · 1986

The Suitland murders refers to a series of murders of young girls and women committed from October 1986 to January 1987 in the unincorporated area of Suitland, Maryland, considered a suburb of Washington, D.C. All victims were black, and each had been sexually assaulted and stabbed afterwards. During the investigation, police arrested a resident of D.C., Alton Alonso Best, for the murder of a girl that was never…

Original record: https://en.wikipedia.org/?curid=70476670
Case page: https://realjustice.ai/cases/suitland-murders-w70476670

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## Open questions

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## Unverified findings

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## Sources

1. Wikipedia record (CC BY-SA 4.0), https://en.wikipedia.org/?curid=70476670


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