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John Russell Payne Jr., a 46-year-old man from Detroit, Michigan, became one of the city's unsolved homicides in 2016. His death left a void in the lives of his loved ones, who remember him through a sparse online obituary that marks his birth in 1970 and his passing in 2016. The circumstances surrounding his death remain shrouded in mystery, with publicly available information offering no specifics on the date, location, or manner of his killing.

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Victim Details

John Payne

March 28, 2022

Male

Black / African American

Detroit

MI

2016-10-15

2016-10-15

45

John

Payne

01/17/2026


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