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In the late summer of 2016, in Essex county New Jersey, women began showing up in abandoned houses, dead. These women had their faces covered eyes to chin in duct tape, they had been sexually assaulted, then strangled with an article of clothing and left to disappear into the ether.\xa0\nThese crimes all had a direct but circumstantial trail back to a clean cut, twenty year old, orange county man named Khalil Wheeler-Weaver, but, his victims were sex workers who lived in the most depressed parts of town. We've seen this before, so it should come as no surprise to any of us that the police did not pursue Khalil based on his clean cut and harmless appearance, and let the deaths of these women fall between the cracks in turn, based on theirs.\nBut that's not the end of our story this week. When authorities failed to solve this case, the women effected by it, did. In a time when we all feel helpless, and at the mercy of our circumstances, this story shows that with a little ingenuity even the most seemingly impossible justice can be served.\xa0\nClick to learn more\nNorthJersey.com 's excellent coverage of this case. Our primary source.\n\xa0\nVideo coverage featuring interviews with Family Members and survivor Tiffany Taylor\n\xa0\nInsight on this case and "the absence of sympathy for black women" By Raven J. James\n\xa0\n\xa0\n\xa0\n\xa0\n\xa0\n\xa0\n\xa0\n\xa0\n\xa0\n\xa0\nWWBD Merch\nBuy your WWBD swag here!\xa0\nJoin the Conversation