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"The less dead" started to be used about victims who don't attract a huge amount of emotional outpouring, such as street sex workers and the homeless. A lot of cases are cold cases because eyewitnesses didn't bother coming forward. I wanted to write about the murders of sex workers that happened in Glasgow in the late 80s and 90s. The last victim came from a really lovely family and they went on Crimewatch and people really cared about it, but the other cases were not treated like that. It's a wider societal value system about how you prioritise victims. In a time of Black Lives Matter, acknowledging that some people are perceived to have value attached to them and others aren't is really important.
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