The Lost Crimes Library

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In September 2011, 28-year-old Adriana Laster suddenly vanished on her walk to church in Elgin, South Carolina.

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Sources:

https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/south-carolina-authorities-find-remains-of-south-florida-woman-who-went-missing-in-2011/3215554/

https://www.wistv.com/2024/02/07/warrants-freddie-grant-abused-adriana-laster-several-times-before-her-murder/

https://www.thestate.com/news/local/crime/article285089742.html

https://www.wltx.com/article/news/crime/family-adriana-laster-speaks-remains-found/101-c858639b-5f82-4cb4-92c7-b34c42408970

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/gabrielle-swainson-update-suspect-in-sc-teens-disappearance-leads-authorities-to-body/

https://www.wistv.com/story/23137035/court-documents-reveal-gabbiee-swainson-died-of-asphyxiation/

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Barbara Jolly was only 19 years old when she went missing from Seattle, Washington on August 22, 1976. Anyone with information about this case is urged to contact The Seattle Police Department at (206) 625-5011.

Ira Elizabeth Shaw went missing in the summer of 1978 after she was last seen at her summer job at the Lyndon B. Johnson Library in Austin, TX. Anyone with information about this case is urged to contact the Austin Police Department at 512-974-5250.

29-year-old Barbara Jean Baldwin was last seen on July 1, 1978 in Fayetteville, North Carolina. 

Anyone who might have information regarding this case, you are asked to contact Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office at 910-677-5548.

Michelle Ellis was only 23 years old when she disappeared from Indianapolis, Indiana in August 1978. Anyone with information about Michelle’s case should contact the Indianapolis Police Department at 317-327-6915. 

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Sources:

Barbara Jolly

https://ourblackgirls.com/2021/11/28/barbara-jolly-seattle-missing/

https://charleyproject.org/case/barbara-kay-jolly

Ira

https://ourblackgirls.com/2024/02/01/ira-elizabeth-shaw-missing/

https://charleyproject.org/case/ira-elizabeth-shaw

https://original.newsbreak.com/@erika-marie-ourblackgirls-1789538/3319262283696-ira-elizabeth-shaw-15-last-seen-leaving-an-austin-library-in-1978

https://www.namus.gov/MissingPersons/Case#/105868/details?nav

Barbara Baldwin

https://ourblackgirls.com/2020/02/26/missing-barbara-jean-baldwin-has-been-missing-since-1978/

Michelle 

https://ourblackgirls.com/2020/10/31/michelle-ellis-missing/

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18-year-old Ben Keita was found hanging from a tree in the woods near Seattle, Washington in January 2017. Ben’s death was ultimately ruled a suicide. But his family and social media aren’t so sure.

If you are struggling with suicidal thoughts, you can find help here: https://988lifeline.org/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=onebox

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Sources:

https://www.cnn.com/2017/03/03/us/washington-teen-ben-keita-hanging/index.html

https://www.heraldnet.com/news/records-show-no-sign-of-struggle-in-death-of-ben-keita/

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/law-justice/hate-crime-suspicions-cloud-death-of-black-teen/

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In the early morning hours of December 27, 2022, 30-year-old Cierra Chapman was last seen leaving her ex-boyfriend’s apartment in Dayton, Ohio. Despite conducting multiple searches for Cierra since she went missing, Cierra has still not been found. 

Anyone with information is urged to contact the Dayton Police Department at 937-333-2677

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Sources:

https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/kidnap/cierra-j-chapman

https://www.wlwt.com/article/missing-dayton-woman-cierra-chapman-middletown/45816173

https://www.whio.com/news/local/questions-remain-unanswered-1-year-after-cierra-chapmans-disappearance/4BTFYPAIF5FMZPLZPQPLZAEDGY/

https://www.wcpo.com/news/state/state-ohio/family-hoping-and-praying-for-answers-in-ohio-womans-disappearance-as-fbi-offers-10k-reward-for-info

https://www.oxygen.com/crime-news/search-for-missing-ohio-mother-cierra-chapman-underway

https://www.wdtn.com/news/local-news/dayton-police-still-searching-for-cierra-chapman-10-months-later/

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Over 23 years ago, a 22-year-old trans woman named Tyra Henderson was found dead in a dark alleyway in Southeast Washington, D.C. By the summer of 2011, 5 more trans women were murder in D.C. and one of those was the murder of 23-year-old Lashay McClean. Lashay was found shot to death in Northeast D.C. and over a decade later her case is still unsolved.

Anyone with information about these cases is asked to contact the police Command Information Center at 202-727-9099. Anonymous tips can be sent by text message to 50411.

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Sources:

https://www.washingtonblade.com/2018/01/17/revisiting-10-unsolved-lgbt-murders-in-d-c/

https://www.thepinknews.com/2020/07/31/ukea-davis-stephanie-thomas-washington-dc-trans-murder-suspect-identified/

https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/transgender-person-slain-in-northeast/1898004/

https://mpdc.dc.gov/publication/homicide-victim-lashay-mclean-aka-myles-mclean

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Britney Hardwick was found shot and killed in her car around 2:45 a.m. on December 12, 2020.

Anyone with information on the case is being asked to contact the Cleveland police homicide unit at 216-623-5464.

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Sources:

https://www.news5cleveland.com/news/local-news/cleveland-metro/cleveland-mothers-unsolved-murder-case-reaches-2-years-without-an-arrest

https://www.news5cleveland.com/news/local-news/cleveland-metro/22-year-old-woman-found-shot-killed-inside-of-vehicle-in-cleveland

https://autos.yahoo.com/family-22yo-britney-hardwick-holds-041154264.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAJyQEFO1K_RdBy59iAi7c9R-74iiztP9t_fzYJAyEleWq1lTDRLu7-tjQRa1l1h4EtQyv-a5LFpNxKJD8g69balafpNmcFisEU-hMsk8mNV39XlzGv4eb_ViEnNrHi84NiFXyvBB_JYed_keDsbR5K3rUsTkrjgdpFrl2gk0YHZm

https://www.wsj.com/story/murders-of-black-women-rose-during-the-pandemic-so-did-their-unsolved-cases-774dcc76

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Today we have the story of Isaiah Nixon, a World War 2 veteran and active NAACP member who was murder in Montgomery County, Georgia in 1948. Over 75 years later, Isaiah Nixon and his family have not received justice and his case is at risk of being forgotten forever. 

🔗 Dorothy Nixon Williams recovering father’s gravesite: https://coldcases.emory.edu/isaiah-nixon/

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Sources:

https://coldcases.emory.edu/isaiah-nixon/

https://coldcases.emory.edu/bullets-and-ballot-boxes-the-isaiah-nixon-story/

https://www.newspapers.com/article/alabama-tribune-slayers-of-isaiah-nixon/113903381/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaiah_Nixon

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Henry Dee and Charles Moore were just 19 years old when they were murdered in Franklin County, Mississippi.

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Sources:

https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/mississippi-cold-case/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippi_Cold_Case

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/aug/03/klansman-dies-1964-murders

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/interactive/unresolved/cases/charles-eddie-moore

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/sks/season3/who-s-who-in-the-dee-moore-case-1.4360206

https://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/local/2021/07/16/mississippi-marker-men-killed-klan-1964-charles-eddie-moore-henry-hezekiah-dee/7987499002/

https://mississippiencyclopedia.org/entries/dee-moore-murders/

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As Mattie Green, her husband, and their six children slept in their home in Ringgold, Georgia, a dynamite explosion erupted beneath the home in 1960. 

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Sources:

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/interactive/unresolved/cases/mattie-green

https://www.justice.gov/crt/case/mattie-greene

https://coldcases.emory.edu/mattie-green/

https://www.justice.gov/crt/case-document/mattie-greene-notice-close-file

https://www.courthousenews.com/%EF%BB%BFfbi-document-suggests-klan-behind-unsolved-1960-bombing/

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