Melissa Heaton

Death by Force

In the late summer of 1989, the quiet community of Warwick, Rhode Island, was shattered by a crime of unimaginable brutality. Eight-year-old Melissa Heaton, a White female, became the youngest victim in a horrific triple homicide that also claimed the lives of her 39-year-old mother, Joan Heaton, and her 10-year-old sister, Jennifer. The gruesome discovery was made on September 4, 1989, when Melissa's grandmother and aunt, concerned after not hearing from the family over the Labor Day weekend, e ...Read More

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