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Marcus and Javon VanCleaf Murders: One Columbus Family Lost Three Loved Ones to Gun Violence
Columbus, Ohio — 2014–2020 Some families experience tragedy once. The VanCleaf family endured it three times. The family of Marcus and Javon VanCleaf, along with their nephew Erick Peeples, contacted The Vivid Faces of the Vanished because their story is not about a single act of violence. It is about years of grief, unanswered questions,…
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Bonnie Marrow Murder: Richmond Mother Killed After Visiting Son’s Grave
Richmond, Virginia — December 22, 2011 Just three days before Christmas, 56-year-old Bonnie Marrow made a visit no parent should ever have to make. She drove to Oakwood Cemetery off Nine Mile Road to spend time at the grave of her son, Robert Lee Cox Jr. Robert had been shot and killed in June 2010…
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Machelle Brinson Murder: Florida Mother Killed in Front of Daughter
Palmetto, Florida — November 19, 2007 People in Palmetto knew the road by her family’s name. The street was so closely connected to generations of the Brinson family that many simply referred to it as “Brinson Road.” That was how deeply Machelle Brinson was rooted in her community. She was 41 years old. A mother…
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David Brown Murder: Atlanta John Doe Identified After 28 Years
Atlanta, Georgia — April 24, 1996 In a vacant lot in southeast Atlanta, a man stumbled through flames screaming for help. His body was on fire. His skin had been burned so severely that witnesses could barely recognize he was human. Despite unimaginable pain, he managed to tell investigators what had happened. Someone had come…
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Adrian Cox Jr. Disappearance: Louisiana Man Vanished After Running Into Swamp
Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana — February 14, 2020 From the very beginning, everything happened fast. Deputies say a stolen 2014 Nissan Altima was spotted traveling approximately 115 miles per hour on Interstate 49 through Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana. What followed was a pursuit stretching nearly 22 miles. The chase finally came to an end near Ajax when…
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Jane, Isabella and Annabelle Kuria Murders: Georgia Family Slain in Unsolved Triple Homicide
Jane Kuria came to America believing she was giving her children something every parent hopes for. Safety. After the death of her husband, Jane left Kenya in 2001 and brought her children—Isabella, Annabelle, and Jeremy—to the United States. The family first settled in Boston before eventually making their home in Powder Springs, Georgia. She worked…
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Jokisha “Dynasty” Brown Murder: Atlanta Model Killed One Day Before Birthday
Atlanta, Georgia — July 1, 2016 Jokisha “Dynasty” Brown was preparing to celebrate another year of life. The next day would have been her 36th birthday. Instead, July 1, 2016, became the last day of her life. Dynasty was sitting inside her Mercedes SUV in the parking lot of a strip mall along Cheshire Bridge…
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Keshon Gardner Murder: Montgomery Cold Case Remains Unsolved
Montgomery, Alabama — June 28, 2020 Keshon Gardner was 30 years old when his life was taken in broad daylight on a neighborhood street in Montgomery, Alabama. Around 11:30 a.m. on June 28, 2020, Montgomery police responded to the 5900 block of Oakleigh Road in the Regency Park community after receiving reports of a person…
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Sadeek Clark-Harrison Murder: Philadelphia 12-Year-Old Killed Inside His Home
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania — November 22, 2020 Sadeek Clark-Harrison was only 12 years old when someone came to his family’s home in Philadelphia’s Frankford neighborhood in the early morning hours of November 22, 2020. According to investigators, around 3 a.m., someone knocked on the front door of the residence on the 5000 block of Ditman Street.…
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Keshaun Williams Disappearance: Cleveland Teen Believed Abducted After Party
Cleveland, Ohio — June 17, 2023 Keshaun Williams was just 15 years old when he disappeared after attending a party on the 6000 block of Gertrude Avenue in Cleveland on the night of June 17, 2023. He never made it home. What should have been an ordinary summer night became the beginning of a nightmare…