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Jessica Cole

Case from Washington, DC dated Apr 21, 1997

Victim Details

Jessica Cole

Female

Black / African American

Washington

DC

1997-04

41

Jessica

Cole

07/03/2026

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Jessica Cole, a 41-year-old Black woman from Washington, D.C., was known in her Park View neighborhood by the nickname “Bird,” a charismatic, funny presence who had grown up in the city, married her high school sweetheart James Cole, and helped run a small cleaning business even as drug addiction gradually pulled her into more dangerous corners of street life. Neighbors remembered her as a sharp-tongued cut-up who could make anyone laugh, a woman who doted on her children and knew nearly eve ...
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