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Unsolved homicide

Killing of Savannah Mitchener-Williams

Year
2009
Where
Roanoke County, Virginia
Source
Virginia State Police
Evidence
1
What the record says

Savannah was 11 days old when she was brought to Roanoke Memorial Hospital after becoming unresponsive at her residence. She had been in the care of family members. Her cause of death was ruled to be blunt force trauma and manner of death a homicide.

From the Virginia State Police cold case database. Records change. The source is the authority.

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