Lily's Camera

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>All characters and events are fictional and all based on true crimes.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>In 1972 a serial killer was on the loose on Route 51 from Washington DC. to Chicago. Who is he? Where does he come from?</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Tommy Davis Stone was born in Chicago in 1955 to a sixteen-year-old unmarried mother. He was adopted as a newborn and grew up in a content working-class family in Washington DC.. At an early age he showed an unusual interest in the macabre. Around the age of nine he became fascinated by knives and the tools hanging on the wall in his father's garage.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>At age ten experimenting on small animals became a way of entertaining himself. It wasn't long before the pets in his neighborhood began to disappear.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>As a teen he escalated his pursuits.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Rose is a student at Howard University. Her roommate Elenor goes on a date with Tommy D. Stone but it doesn't end well.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Follow The Flower Girls and Detectives Dillon and Valentine as they pursue TD Stone. Now an investigative journalism student at The University of Chicago Lily discovers something about TD Stone and in turn he discovers something about himself.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>In the 1970s there were nearly 300 known active serial killers in the U.S. The 1970s to 2000 period in the United States was known as the golden age of serial murder. Many factors contributed to this increase in serial killings including social changes urbanization and a lack of forensic technology.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>The spike in serial killings in the 1970s is thought to be due to urbanization which put people in close proximity and offered anonymity. DNA was not available which is why so many old cold cases are being solved today decades later. Preserving evidence from the 70s was invaluable to finding closure. </span></p>