Honor Page (Expanding as Names are Collected) In In In Honor of the Victims
(Perpetrators rarely mentioned - only as part of certain account details provided)
American child homocide victims (in no way inclusive all of known cases, but this alphabetized* list is a growing compilation) as found on Wikipedia:
Among the darkest of days in USA: Arkansas Cub Scouts (three boys' lives taken by cowards, May 5, 1993)
Link includes update on "Memphis 3"....like all of these tragedies, the accounts are very** troublesome:
Derrion Albert
Amish school shooting victims (five female victims, Oct 2, 2006)
Aqua-tots (two Tongay children, early 1950s)
Michele Avila (murdered by "friends" per CMM)
Christopher Barrios Jr.
Judith Barsi
Cassie Bernall
Molly Bish
Boy in the Box (Philadelphia, 1957)
Nixzmary Brown
Carlie Brucia (inspired Carlie's Law)
Stephanie Carter
Heather Dawn Church
Nicholaus Contreraz
Kirsten Costas
Deanna Cremin
Dantrell Davis
Shaniya Davis (not on 2009 Wikipedia list)
Precious Doe (aka Erica Green, found in April, 2001 in KC,
Missouri)
Princess Doe ("Princess" still unidentified, found in July, 1982
in Blaistown, NJ; see http://porchlightinternationalformissinguid.com/)
Marcus Fiesel
Bobby Franks
Michael "Spider" Gianco
Delia Green
Nicholas Green
Bobby Greenlease
Sakia Gunn
Amber Hagerman (10 year old's death inspired Amber Alerts)
Yusef Hawkins
Shauna Howe
Elisa Izquierdo (Age 6: died at hands of her own mom, a drug addict. C
Case led to Elisa's Law. Click on her name to learn more).
Dennis Jurgens
Megan Kanka
Kayla Rolland (Age 6: reportedly, youngest school shooting victim)
Charlie Keever
Johnny Keller
Polly Klaas = often called "America's Child" (see previous Honor Page)
Jennifer Klein
Stephanie Kuhen (Age 3: death led to Federal anti-gang efforts)
Sylvia Likens
Lindbergh kidnapping
Mya Lyons (not on 2009 Wikipedia list)
Nadine Lockwood
Jessica Lunsford
Koby Mandell
Adriana Marines
Nicholas Markowitz (result of drug money fued?)
Amy Mihaljevic (still an active case; reported 1st year of AMW)
Lisa Ann Millican
Hser Ner Moo "Monkey" (please see Previous Honor page)
Tiffany Moore
Michelle Morgan (still a cold case)
Wesley Morgan
Martha Moxley
Adam Walsh
Stephanie Kuhen
Candace Newmaker
Jeanine Nicarico
Oklahoma Girl Scout Murders (3 girls ages 8, 9, 10, 1977)
Ronnie Paris
Marion Parker
Holly Piirainen
Mary Quigley
JonBenét Ramsey
Red Lake massacre (Red Lake, MN; March 2005)
"Lost but not Forever"
Please provide any missing names by writing to the e-mail address under the Contact Us Webpage.
Rebecca Riley
Jimmy Ryce
Robert Sandifer
Riley Ann Sawyers
Rachel Scott
Jonathan Sellers
Kelsey Smith
Kelsey Smith-Briggs (common example of long-term, child abuse-leads-to-death case)
Craig Sorger
Ethan Stacey (please see Previous Honor Page)
Anna Svidersky
Rosie Tapia (see Previous Honor page; not on 2009 Wikipedia list)
Somer Thompson (see Previous Honor page;not on 2009 Wikipedia list)
Emmett Till ("one of the leading events that motivated the American Civil Rights Movement" - Mother insisted on open casket "to show the world the brutality of the killing", Mississippi; Illinois burial, 1955)
Marcia Trimble (murdered while selling Girl Scout Cookies; solved 30 years later; 2009)
Danielle VanDam (See Previous Honor page; not found on 2009 Wikipedia list)
Joseph Wallace
Christina Marie Williams
Timothy Wiltsey
Wineville Chicken Coop Murders (at least three deaths in Riverside, CA, 1928)
Margie Lee Winn
* Arranged by Last name in most cases. Unless otherwise noted, the above were retrieved from: "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Murdered_American_children"
One goal of the Delivering Diamonds organization is to present a "Diamond" memorial to surviving family members or other supports of the child whose life was taken so early....
Details to follow including photograph of some presentations.
** Most days this Webpage builder cannot deal with these disturbing accounts. Takes a strong resolve to press on and get the names and the stories preserved onto this Page. Consequently, much of the time, music from the book takes center stage: a far more tolerable topic, accompanies Delivering Diamonds.
