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Kanika Powell

Case from Laurel, MD dated Aug 28, 2008

Victim Details

Kanika Powell

December 14, 2022

Female

Black / African American

Laurel

MD

2008-08-28

1980-01-31

28

Kanika

Powell

07/06/2026


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Kanika Powell and Sean Green
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Do you know who killed 28 year old Kanika Powell in 2008?
In the late summer of 2008, a series of unsettling events shattered the quiet life of Kanika Powell, a 28-year-old female Army veteran living in Laurel, Maryland. Her life, marked by military service and a sensitive job as a security contractor at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, was about to take a dark and violent turn. The strange occurrences began on August 23, 2008, when a man posing as an FBI agent knocked on her apartment door, asking for her by name. Wisely, she refus ...
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  • The Murder of Kanika Powell - Trace Evidence Podcast
  • Episode 98 - Kanika Powell & Sean Nicholas Green
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