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Podcast: Darkness Radio
Episode: Murder On Skid Row w/Charlene Wexler
Description: True Crime Tuesday presents: Murder On Skid Row with Author, Charlene Wexler!
The homeless and migrants are not new to Chicago. In the 1960s, there was Chicago’s Skid Row, centered at Madison and Halsted Streets. Now an area filled with recently built upscale housing and trendy businesses near Greektown, decades ago it was a downtrodden community occupied by lost souls, mainly veterans from the war nobody wanted to recognize—Vietnam. Mel, a young dentist who believes he can do good for the people living on Skid Row, enters into this world in 1966. It is a community so diff...