Shit Out of Luck: The Capture of The Kansas City Strangler

True Crime Never Sleeps · Mar 24, 2022 · 9m

Over 15 years, a string of unsolved homicides had left a pile of such cases on the desks of Kansas City detectives. One of the victims was Sheila Ingold, a sex worker whose murder led to the questioning of one suspect shortly after her body was found in 1987. His name was Lorenzo Gilyard. Though he wasn't charged due to a lack of sufficient evidence, police were able to get a blood sample from him. Little did they know at the time that in the future, this sample would link this suspect to more than a dozen murders of women in Kansas City. This is the story of his eventual capture.

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