We traveled to Baltimore to spend time with two of the people whom Alexander and the team tracked for nearly three decades. Here are their stories:
Monica Jaundoo Of Parkville, Md.
Monica Jaundoo didn’t have an easy life growing up in Baltimore in the early ’80s.
“I remember being so immune to death, so immune to shootings, killings. I just remember wanting them to rush, like, get the body out the way so we can get back to playing hopscotch or dodgeball,” she says.
Things weren’t just bad outside in her neighborhood. Life at home was rough, too.
“It was like really hot. No air conditioning. Barely gas and electric,” she recalls. “It was rodents. It was just very miserable.”