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[marilyn.monroe]

DETROIT – From the street, the two decomposing bodies were nearly invisible, concealed in an overgrown lot alongside worn-out car tires and a moldy sofa. The teenagers had been shot, stripped to their underwear and left on a deserted block.

They were just the latest victims of foul play whose remains went undiscovered for days after being hidden deep inside Detroit’s vast urban wilderness – a crumbling wasteland rarely visited by outsiders and infrequently patrolled by police.

http://www.journalgazette.net/article/20120803/NEWS03/308039975/1066/NEWS03

Unsolved murders in Detroit

http://1800speakup.org/cspublic/03_caseScroll.cfm?ct=33

The estimated functional illiteracy rate in the city limits hovers near 50%. The unsolved-murder rate is about 70%, and unemployment is around an astonishing 29%.

Read more: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1926008,00.html