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| "We always know the name of the offender, but we seldom ever see or know the name of the victim." -- Sharon Tewksbury, West Chester, Ohio.
Amanda Dowler, 13, known as Milly, was found dead in remote woodlands six months after she went missing. Police confirmed Milly, had likely been murdered and buried after her abduction from a railway station near her Surrey home, on 21 March, 2002. Bob and Sally Dowler, the parents, and her sister, Gemma, 16, were with relatives after police liaison officers broke the news to them. The remains were discovered by a couple picking mushrooms 25 miles from the Dowler home. The identification of the remains was made using dental records from a skull found at the site. Since 16-year-old Christal Jones was found dead in a brothel in the Bronx, Jan. 3 2001, authorities say they have broken up two prostitution rings that lured troubled teen girls from Vermont, and revamped the ways the state deals with troubled kids. Lisa Dianne Norrell, 15, -- 11:00 PM November 6, 1998, Lisa was last seen leaving a party. The black dress shoes she also took to the party were found on Highway 4 in Antioch, CA the next morning. October 23, 1997, Levi Frady was found dead. The afternoon before he rode his bike to a friend's house not far from where he lived in Cumming, Georgia. He never made it home. He was found 15 miles away shot to death in a ditch in a remote area of Dawson County.Danydia Betty-Jacqueline Thompson -- Killeen TX --April 30, 1997, Danydia went to Marlboro Elementary for breakfast then on to the playground where she was seen with an unknown male. Anthony Michael Martinez, 10-- 4/4/97, Anthony was playing with friends in the yard of his home in Beaumont, California when someone tried to lure the kids by telling them he was looking for his lost cat, then pulled out a knife and grabbed Anthony. His body was found on Berdoo Canyon Road. Cecil Turner, 2, aka C. T. was murdered between August 11, 1996, 10:30 p.m. and August 12, 1996, 2:30 a.m. in Orange County, CA. C. T. died of asphyxiation. His parents reported him missing in the morning after his step-father reportedly returned from his morning jog. C. T.s body was found August 13, 1996, in the creek bed close proximity to his home. JonBenet Ramsey, 6 -- In 1996, the Christmas night murder of JonBenét in her Boulder, CO home shocked America. No arrests were forthcoming. Despite a national obsession with this case, nobody really knows what happened. Shauna Howe, 11, daughter of Robert Howe and Lucy Brown, was abducted Oct. 27, 1992, walking home from a Girl Scout Halloween party shortly before 8PM. A witness saw a man approach her, he heard a scream and both were gone. A "small, red boxy" car was seen speeding from the scene. Two days later searchers found an article of Shauna's clothing lying along an abandoned railroad bed in a rural, wooded area near a popular spot. The next morning, a searcher discovered Shauna's body thrown from an old railroad trestle into a dry, rocky creek bed, 200 yards from where her clothing was found. She had died as a result of blunt force injuries to the chest and head. Shauna's body was not at this location the previous day. A DNA sample taken from an Oil City man serving a sentence for attempting to kidnap a woman in 1995 matches. The FBI lab in Washington reported a match. In an interview at Mercer state prison, James O'Brien, 30, says police are using DNA evidence in the Shauna Howe case to smear him. October 18, 1989 Charles Chia, 8 and his sister Jennifer, 6, disappeared after they got off the school bus and entered their apartment complex. Their skeletal remains were found July 25, 1990 in a shallow graves near Portola, California. Kathleen Marie Flynn, 11, Norwalk CT, didnt come home on Sept. 23, 1986. After school she disappeared on the 1/2 mile walk home. Her body was found near school athletic fields. She was raped and strangled. July 17, 1976, Rhona Duncan, 16, was found in tall grass in front of a closed garage on Bewicke Avenue in North Vancouver. The teenager's body was close to her home in the 600-block of West 15th Street. The Carson Graham student had been sexually assaulted and strangled. Attempted infanticide -After twin newborn girls were found dead in the pit of an outhouse October 9, 1994, Princeton RCMP launched a homicide investigation that continues today. "The autopsy determined they were alive when they were born," says Constable Ray Kinloch. "They probably died as a result of being thrown down the hole there and just left."
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