A video showing Zenobia Weatherspoon’s body being discovered in a garbage can in a Back of the Yards alley spread widely online this summer, drawing outrage and demands for answers about how she died. Her family had reported the 38-year-old missing and, based on the video, she had been there a while.
“Women feel less safe,” Block Club Chicago reported one man saying during a neighborhood cleanup event shortly after the discovery.
“That’s just an evil spirit, and I hope that that person is found, and the punishable act will be appropriate to bring justice to her family,” Ald. Stephanie Coleman said in the news outlet’s coverage…