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What Sarah Everard’s Murder Illuminates And Might Obscure
We must consider why this one case has attracted so much attention, to the exclusion of many others.
March 17, 2021
A vigil for Sarah Everard in LondonVictoria Jones / PA Images / Getty
Updated at 9:50 a.m. on March 17, 2021.
On the evening of March 3, Sarah Everard did everything right: She went home at a reasonable hour and traveled the long way, along well-lit London streets. As she walked, she checked in with her boyfriend on the phone. Then the call abruptly cut out.
Everard never made it home that night. Her remains were recently discovered in the Kent woodlands, some 50 miles from where she was last seen alive. A police officer, Wayne Couzens, has been charged with the 33-year-old’s kidnapping and murder (and also faces separate allegations of indecent exposure three days prior). The two do not seem to have had any previous contact.