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More than 100 years ago, five Dayton girls and young women were strangled and raped. Brian Forschner says he knows who did it. By Marshall Weiss, The Dayton Jewish Observer Brian Forschner descends the hill to the back edge of Beth Jacob Cemetery on Old Troy Pike. He finds the

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By Marshall Weiss, The Dayton Jewish Observer In the summer of 1907, the murder of an 18-year-old Jewish woman in Dayton made the newspapers around the country and abroad. Anna Markowitz, her sister Bertha and their friend, Abraham Cohan, were walking home at night from the recreational park at the

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