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2018 Wayne Place murder case

Year
2018
Where
District of Columbia
Source
Wikipedia
Evidence
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What the record says

In April 2018, an abandoned address at Southeast Wayne Place in Washington, D.C. was found to contain the remains of three missing women, Jewel Marquita King, Verdell Jefferson, and Dorothy Jean Butts, who all disappeared in 2006. The case remains unsolved.

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