A School Nurse Is on a Mission to Count the Women Killed by Men
Dawn Wilcox is building a public database of the victims murdered by lovers, neighbors, fathers, and strangers.
PLANO, Texas—In February 2017, a school nurse in this Dallas suburb began counting women murdered by men.
Seated at her desk, beside shelves of cookbooks, novels, and books on violence against women, Dawn Wilcox, 54, scours the internet for news stories of women killed by men in the United States.
For dozens of hours each week, she digs through online news reports and obituaries to tell the stories of women killed by lovers, strangers, fathers, sons, stepbrothers, neighbors, and tenants.
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“I’m trying to get the message [across] that women matter, and that these women’s lives mattered,
