Journalism students humanize murder victims

Roosevelt University journalism professor John W. Fountain tasked 15 of his students to examine a potential serial killer's slayings. Fountain found out about the killings after stumbling across the Murder Accountability Project's work, a group dedicated to tracking 51 female deaths across Chicago from 2001-2018. He became interested in the cases after finding all the stories published were focused on the fear of a serial killer on the loose but said nothing of the victims' lives. His students worked together to create a page memorializing the women and raising awareness for their case. He hoped to "tell [the public] the human story, not the fact that they died, or were killed, but the fact that they lived."

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