Kaelin Moore

You're going to hear about that actually a lot in this story, the amount of crack that was like unfortunately spreading around these communities.

Then around 1993, 28-year-old Teresa had some issues with law enforcement.

She was arrested a few times, once for shoplifting, then for theft, and then for some offenses related to sex work.

Teresa was engaged in the sex work industry, and she typically found her clients on a famous stretch of Baden's Main Street Broadway, and it was nicknamed The Stroll.

This continued for a couple of years, and then in the winter of 2000, 36-year-old Teresa went to rehab.

Afterwards, though, it seems like she still continued to struggle.

Just a few weeks after she graduated from rehab in 2001, Teresa relapsed, and she returned back to sex work.

And in early May of that year, she got into a strange man's car, and she never made it home after that.

It was just a few weeks later that her body was discovered in that tall grass.

Teresa's body was found at a time when the police were dealing with a lot of murder cases, both in and around St.

Louis, but especially in East St.

Louis.

East St.

Louis and St.

Louis, for those that aren't familiar with the area, are different cities.

They're right next to each other.

East St.

Louis is just over the border from Missouri.

It's in Illinois.

And for many years, it had the highest murder rate in the country, almost 20 times the national average.