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Karessa Bartee

Case from Washington, DC dated Nov 21, 2001

Victim Details

Karessa Bartee

January 3, 2023

Female

African-American / Black

Washington

DC

2001-11-21

2001-11-21

Karessa

Bartee

06/30/2026


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On the night of Wednesday, November 21, 2001, Karessa N. Bartee, an African-American / Black woman from Washington, D.C., was found dead along the 2900 block of M Street Southeast, turning an ordinary evening in that neighborhood into the beginning of a mystery that has never been fully explained. Police records describe how officers responded to the scene and discovered her body there, immediately recognizing that her death was not natural and treating the location as a homicide crime scene.
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