A homeless woman strangled to death, allegedly by a man with a history of preying on homeless women and sex workers, told the Daily News in an interview ten years ago that— despite making efforts to get off the streets— she feared they would one day claim her life.

This year, on the afternoon of July 1, police found her lifeless body under an overpass to the Harlem River Drive at E. 135th St. and Park Ave. in east Harlem. Cops would charge Audoine Amazan, himself homeless and living in a shelter, two months later with strangling her to death.

Shivonne Thompson, who was born in the Bronx, gave an interview to the News in 2015, speaking with candor about her struggles with mental illness and homelessness. Echoing a story that is far too common in New York, she told the News she became

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