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The Murder of Bruce Bailey
FromShoe Leather
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Length:
34 minutes
Released:
May 7, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Bruce Bailey was a tenants rights activist who dedicated his life to fighting landlords on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. He was a husband, a father, a graduate of Columbia College, and in June of 1989, he was brutally murdered. His dismembered body was found in trash bags on a street corner in the South Bronx. And his case was never solved.
We set out to find the story behind Bailey’s killing. What could have motivated someone to murder and mutilate an activist? How has this case stayed cold for three decades? And what is Bruce Bailey’s legacy, thirty years after his death?
To read the full transcript, visit shoeleather.podcasts.library.columbia.edu
We set out to find the story behind Bailey’s killing. What could have motivated someone to murder and mutilate an activist? How has this case stayed cold for three decades? And what is Bruce Bailey’s legacy, thirty years after his death?
To read the full transcript, visit shoeleather.podcasts.library.columbia.edu
Released:
May 7, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode
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