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This is a list of murdered American children that details notable murders among thousands of cases of subjects who were or are believed to have been under the age of 18 upon their deaths. Cases listed are stated to be unsolved, solved or pending and, in some cases, where the victims' remains have never been found or identified.
Ayla Reynolds is an American child from Waterville, Maine, who disappeared, aged 19 months, on December 16, 2011. [1] She was last seen at 8:00 p.m. that night in her bed by a family member, but was not there when her father checked the next morning. [2]
She is one of the featured children on the Polly Klaas Foundation website. In 2011, a classmate was convicted of manslaughter in the murder of Davis and sentenced to 15 years in prison. However, the man refused to name his alleged accomplices or indicate where Davis's remains were supposedly concealed.
Due to the storm that occurred shortly after the boys left the marina, the boys were declared missing; they were generally believed to be victims of the violent storm. However, with the rediscovering of the boat on March 18, 2016 the parents of Cohen believed that there was potentially additional information on the fate of the children.
[5] [2] The panic popularized the misleading claim that 1.5 million children per year disappeared or were abducted in the United States, [1] [6] [7] [4] introduced the stranger danger narrative into public discourse [6] [7] and intensified tropes relating to the sexual predation and murder of boys by homosexuals in American culture, especially ...
In 2006, self-proclaimed serial killer Thomas Albert Hymer told a prison guard that he had killed Alissa. [ 1 ] [ 10 ] [ 14 ] He had been in prison since 2003 for an unrelated murder. [ 1 ] However, when Phoenix police questioned Hymer, they ultimately determined that he had not had any contact with Alissa, and he admitted he might have ...
On May 11, 2011, six-year-old American boy Timmothy James Pitzen (/ ˈ p ɪ t s ən /) was dropped off at school in Aurora, Illinois, by his father James Pitzen.He was picked up shortly after by his mother, Amy Fry-Pitzen, who took him on a three-day trip to various amusement and water parks.