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Mysterious Murder of Lazarus Averbuch

WTTW News | August 25, 2010, 7:00 pm

A gruesome photo leads Jay Shefsky on a quest to understand a century-old murder.

  • The Chicago Daily News Photo Archive
  • Lazarus Averbuch Story in Northwestern University's "Homicide in Chicago" archive
  • An Accidental Anarchist, by Walter Roth and Joe Kraus
  • The Lazarus Project, by Aleksander Hemon

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