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National Day of Remembrance for
Murder Victims
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For this year’s 2017 National Day of Remembrance for Murder Victims,
Unit 1012 will remember more than 1500 murdered victims + victims of war crimes
from the United States and around the world. Let us remember how they lived on
this earth and treasure their memories.
"So long as we live, they too shall live and love for they are a part of us as we remember them."- Gates of Prayer
For this observance, we will present murdered victims
from 1995 to 2000:
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| Thien Minh Ly |
981. Thien Minh Ly, a Vietnamese American who was murdered
by Gunner Lindberg due to a hate crime on January 28, 1996.
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| Stacey Lee Stites |
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| JonBenét Ramsey |
984. JonBenét Patricia Ramsey
(August 6, 1990 – December 25, 1996) was an American child beauty pageant queen
who was murdered in her home in Boulder, Colorado, in 1996. The six-year-old's
body was found in the basement of the family home about eight hours after she
was reported missing during a police search of her home. She had been struck on
the head and strangled. The case remains unsolved, even after several grand
jury hearings, and continues to generate public and media interest.
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| Barry Alan Van Treese |
985. Barry Van Treese (December 3, 1942 to January 7, 2007)
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| Laura Kate Smither |
986. Laura Kate Smither (April 23,
1984 - April 3, 1997)
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Young death ... Jennifer
Neal (aged 6 in the photo) was 17 when she died of a heroin overdose in 1997.
Her mother Beverley says she prays that Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran die
for their role in drug trafficking. Picture: Supplied. Source: Supplied
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| Frank Meziere |
988. Frank Meziere (July 31, 1974 to March 26,
1988)
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| James Byrd, Jr. |
989. James Byrd, Jr. (May 2, 1949 – June 7, 1998)
was an African-American who was murdered by three men, of whom at least two
were white supremacists, in Jasper, Texas, on June 7, 1998. Shawn Berry,
Lawrence Russell Brewer, and John King dragged Byrd for three miles behind a
pick-up truck along an asphalt road. Byrd, who remained conscious throughout
most of the ordeal, was killed when his body hit the edge of a culvert,
severing his right arm and head. The murderers drove on for another mile before
dumping his torso in front of an African-American cemetery in Jasper. Byrd's
lynching-by-dragging gave impetus to passage of a Texas hate crimes law. It later led to the federal
Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes
Prevention Act, commonly known as the Matthew Shepard Act, which passed on
October 22, 2009, and which President Barack Obama signed into law on October 28,
2009.
Lawrence
Russell Brewer was executed by lethal injection for this crime by the state of
Texas on September 21, 2011. King remains on Texas' death row while appeals are
pending, while Berry was sentenced to life imprisonment.
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| Melissa Trotter |
990. Melissa Trotter (November 26, 1979 to December
8, 1998)
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| Stacie Reed |
991. Stacie Reed (August 21, 1982 to January 29, 1999)
992-1004. Victims of the
Columbine High School Massacre
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I am not going to apologize for speaking the name of Jesus... If I have
to sacrifice everything... I will. – Rachel Scott
[PHOTO SOURCE: http://www.azquotes.com/quote/1224912]
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Rachel Joy Scott
(August 5, 1981 – April 20, 1999) was an American student and the first murder
victim of the Columbine
High School massacre, which claimed the lives of 12 students and a
teacher, as well as both perpetrators.
She has since
been the subject of several books and is the inspiration for Rachel's Challenge,
a nationwide school outreach program for the prevention of teen violence, based
on her life and writings.
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| Cassie Bernall |
Cassie René Bernall
(November 6, 1981 - April 20, 1999) was a student killed in the Columbine
High School massacre, at age 17.
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In NATO attack on Serbian
Radio Television these people were massacred: Dejan Marković (age: 39), Darko
Stiomenovski (26), Slaviša Stevanović (32), Slobodan Jontić (54), Ksenija
Banković (28), Branislav Jovanović (50),Ivan Stukalo (34), , Dragan Tasić (31),
Nebojša Stojanović (27), Siniša Medić (32), Tomislav Mitrović (61), Milan
Joksimović (47), Jelica Munitlak (28), Aleksandar Deletić (31), Dragorad
Dragojević (27), Milovan Janković (59).
[PHOTO SOURCE: https://theremustbejustice.wordpress.com/2015/01/08/wherever-it-outbreaks-terrorism-is-evil-all-the-terrorists-should-be-punished-rigorously/] |
1005-1020. The NATO bombing of the Radio Television of Serbia headquarters occurred on 23 April 1999, during
the Kosovo
War.
1021. Stephanie Neiman (May 18, 1980 to June 3, 1999)
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| Teresa Del Rio |
1023. Kaylene Harris (September 27, 1986 to December 31,
1999)
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| Kleber Pescone dos Santos, 28, and his wife, Lillian D'Ascanio Carla dos Santos, 25. |
1024-1025. Kleber Santos and his wife, Lilian – A Brazilian couple who
were murdered by Michael Adam Sigala on August 22,
2000. He was executed by the state of Texas on March 2, 2010.
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Leslie
Rae White
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1026. Leslie Rae White (February 25, 1982 to October 4, 2000)
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| Heather Muller |
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