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mahatmakanejeeves

(60,744 posts)
Wed Sep 7, 2022, 04:03 PM Sep 2022

Breanna Sharp, 13, died in a stairwell. No one reported her missing. No one seemed to care.

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Breanna Sharp, 13, died in a stairwell. No one reported her missing. No one seemed to care.

Today 8:01 AM

By Gus Burns | fburns@mlive.com

Buried six feet beneath the earth, Jane Doe 08-8093 lay inside a vault with three other bodies in an unmarked grave. ... No one came to visit or set out flowers above. Grass grew and snow fell for three years on her cheap wooden casket, her skin and organs began to decay until only her skeleton remained.

Then, one spring day in 2012, a noisy backhoe rumbled to life and began jabbing at the dirt above. Chains were wrapped around the vault. Jane Doe was pulled to the surface. The casket lid slid off and for the first time in a long time, light shined on the mystery that brought her here. ... A femur bone was extracted and Jane Doe was identified as Breanna Sharp, a 13-year-old who went missing in 2008, though she wasn’t reported missing until a year later when police contacted her mother, Sirbrina Sharp.

Breanna’s body was found in the stairwell of a vacant Detroit apartment building, a TV cable cord wrapped around her neck, some bruising on her body and possibly pregnant. ... Detroit police and the Wayne County Medical Examiner’s office investigated. Within 24 hours it was ruled a suicide by hanging – a determination some of her family believes is wrong.

They think she was killed.

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Breanna Sharp, 13, died in a stairwell. No one reported her missing. No one seemed to care. (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2022 OP
;-( elleng Sep 2022 #1
Good grief. What a mess starting with her mother not contacting police for a year jimfields33 Sep 2022 #2
The love that binds a family together was absent. magicarpet Sep 2022 #3

jimfields33

(18,656 posts)
2. Good grief. What a mess starting with her mother not contacting police for a year
Wed Sep 7, 2022, 04:09 PM
Sep 2022

after she went missing. What a mom! Kinda disgusting.

magicarpet

(16,351 posts)
3. The love that binds a family together was absent.
Wed Sep 7, 2022, 04:17 PM
Sep 2022

Close knit they weren't - any shape or form.

Unfortunate little girl.

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