Adriane Clowney was a 36-year-old African American/Black woman whose death was recorded as a murder in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The case was reported on February 19, 2008, with the incident location listed as 617 N. Braddock Avenue in the city’s 15208 ZIP code, in Allegheny County. The available online case information places the investigation with the Pittsburgh Police Department and identifies the case as unsolved.
The public record of her death is spare, which leaves much of the story without the fuller detail that families and communities often hope will someday surface. What is known is that Clowney’s life ended in violence at an address along North Braddock Avenue, and her name later appeared among Pittsburgh homicide victims whose killings had not resulted in an arrest. The available sources do not provide a detailed account of what happened in the moments before she died, do not identify a motive, and do not specify the exact cause beyond listing the offense as murder.
No suspect has been publicly named in the online sources reviewed. The suspect field in the available cold case listing is marked unknown, and the suspect’s location is also listed as unknown. The case status is unsolved, and there are no public details in the sources reviewed indicating that anyone has been arrested, charged, tried, or convicted in connection with Clowney’s death.
Her case remains one of the many Pittsburgh homicides from that period where the public record shows a victim, a location, a date, and an investigating agency, but little else. The surviving details point to a case that still depends on information from someone who may know what happened at 617 N. Braddock Avenue on or around February 19, 2008. Public case listings direct anyone with information to contact the Pittsburgh Police Department.
