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Wadel Akers

Case from Philadelphia, PA dated Dec 30, 2007

Victim Details

Wadel Akers

March 28, 2022

Male

Black / African American

Philadelphia

PA

2007-12-30

2007-12-30

23

Wadel

Akers

07/03/2026


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Wadel Akers, a 23-year-old Black male from Philadelphia, was killed in the city on December 30, 2007. The public online record that survives about his death is strikingly thin, which gives the case an especially haunting feel: his name appears in cold-case databases, the date is fixed in place, and then the trail seems to fade into silence. The available sources agree on the basic outline that his death was treated as a homicide in Philadelphia, but they preserve very little publicly accessible ...
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    08/09/2023
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