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Derek Washington

Case from Mulga, AL dated Jan 20, 2017

Victim Details

Derek Washington

November 2, 2022

Male

Black / African American

Mulga

AL

2017-01-20

2015-04-03

2015-04-03

23

Derek

Washington

06/21/2026


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Who murdered 23 year old Derek Washington?
Derek DeWayne Washington, a 23-year-old Black man, vanished from Birmingham, Alabama on April 3, 2015, leaving behind a sudden silence that his family tried to fill with flyers, phone calls, and pleas for anyone who might have seen him in the Wylam area. For months, hope and frustration lived side by side as tips came in but led nowhere, and the days he’d been missing began to outnumber the memories of his last confirmed sighting.

Nearly two years later, on January 29, 2017, the uncert ...
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