VACANT
DETROIT BECOMES DUMPING GROUND FOR THE DEAD
AP,
2
August, 2012
Abandoned
and neglected parts of Detroit are quickly becoming dumping grounds
for the bodies of murder victims. And authorities acknowledge there's
little they can do.
At
least a dozen bodies have turned up in 12 months, many of them
purposely hidden or discarded in alleys, fields and vacant houses or
garages. Seven of the dead are believed to have been slain outside
Detroit and then dumped within the city.
It's
a pattern made possible by more than four decades of urban decay and
suburban flight. Many parts of the city are now a vast urban
wilderness that is rarely visited by outsiders and infrequently
patrolled by police.
Officer
John Garner says a slaying may go unsolved because of the time it
takes for the corpse to be found.
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