Teresita Basa was a Filipina immigrant living in Chicago in 1977, known for her quiet routine and her work as a respiratory therapist at Edgewater Hospital. She was studying music at Loyola University and taught piano from her apartment, keeping a small circle and a steady life. On the night of February 21st, a fire in her 15th‑floor unit led to the discovery of her death, and early signs pointed toward a staged scene with very few clues to work from. Detectives spent months trying to make sense of what happened inside that apartment, and the direction the case eventually took was nothing anyone expected.

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