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Slaying underscores experts' difficulty in handling domestic violence cases

latimes.com
Nov. 15, 2009
LAPD officers had offered Flor Medrano a range of options to ensure her protection from a suspected abuser, but she refused and returned home. That evening, she was stabbed to death. As Los Angeles Police Department investigators probed the death of a woman who was attacked by her abuser as...
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