Addiction, crime plague area where Sesker?s body was found

Nicole Sesker would have turned 38 on Friday; instead, Baltimore City police found the body of former Commissioner Leonard Hamm?s stepdaughter under a porch, the victim of an apparent strangling.

Now homicide detectives are scrambling to solve a crime in a neighborhood where residents said drugs are plentiful, prostitutes ply the streets and life is cheap for women trapped in the deadly cycle of addiction.