Gotta a personal street story for y'all from the other side of the Long Island Sound in Stamford, Conn
Decades ago I bought a leather jacket with multi-colors on the front from Blye of Florence in Midtown Manhattan. It was the flyest joint in town. Anyway my slice from childhood begged me to borrow it so I did. Homie let his homie borrow it. He lent to an old school pimp/hustler that he was trying to get the game from. The pimp let one of his hoes wear it on the blade (hoe stroll) and that was all she wrote for her life and that jacket. She got murked by a serial killer while wearing it.
While visiting my sister last year I saw a pic of the jacket in a fam photo album.
One day I'll tell y'all about some chit I've seen in Harlem back in the day.
receipts
Benjamin Miller
www.law.umich.edu
From 1967 through 1971, several young black prostitutes were found strangled in a wooded area of Stamford, Connecticut, adjacent to the Merritt Parkway.
In April 1969, James Miller, a preacher in Stamford, reported to police that he had received an anonymous phone call. He said the caller, who sounded like a black male, described the location of a body that had not yet been found and expressed his wish that the deceased woman receive “a Christian burial.” By that time, three bodies had been found.
The investigators created a list of all Millers who were clergymen in the area, including Benjamin Miller. Benjamin Miller was a white postal worker who claimed to be an ordained minister and spent much of his time preaching to the black community, especially to black women. He had a history of mental illness dating back to 1953. Police invited Miller in for an interview, but when he said he was too busy with church work, the matter was dropped.
By January 1972, a total of six black prostitutes had been found strangled and a task force of state and local police detectives was created. These investigators followed up on the earlier mention of Benjamin Miller and learned of his psychiatric history and his contacts with black women.
Benjamin Franklin MILLER Jr.
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