by camarillobrillo

For Gary, a city where more than 35% of residents live under the federal poverty level, the news of the serial killings is another blow. Hit hard by the loss of steel mill jobs, its population has fallen to 78,000 from more than twice that in the 1960s. The city has faced corruption and crime, but worse the legacy of nearly 10,000 blighted and abandoned homes the city cannot afford to knock down.