Prologue -- Introduction -- But first, Michelle : the cold case murder of my friend by a confessed serial killer -- Panic in Roxbury : serial death in 1970s Boston -- Taco Bell terror : serial murders of Black women in the Queen City -- "No humans involved" : police apathy and the tale of the Grim Sleeper -- Cleveland is dangerous for Black women : serial murders in a house of horrors -- "Say their names--all fifty-one of them" : unsolved serial murders in Chicago -- Conclusion -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Selected bibliography -- Index

"An urgent examination of the invisibility of Black women and girls as victims of targeted killings, and the lack of police intervention and media coverage"--