Dec 5, 2025
Inside a Texas nurse’s quest to document the life and death of every woman killed by a man in America.
“14,445 and Counting” is the new @atavist story by Christa Hillstrom. It’s about a nurse, Dawn Wilcox, who created Women Count USA, a femicide database that tracks the number of women killed by men in America.
What would it take for the country to see femicide as an endemic threat to women? Maybe comprehensive data was the starting point. But how to account for every woman in the country murdered by a man? Lucchesi knew someone trying to answer that very question. She told me: You should meet this school nurse in Texas. She was talking about Dawn Wilcox.
Read an excerpt on Longreads.
