Brenda Crockett

A 10 year old runs an errand for her mother and is found dead the next day
On a warm summer evening in Washington, D.C., ten-year-old Brenda Faye Crockett, an African-American girl, was sent by her mother to a local Safeway to buy a few groceries on July 27, 1971. It was a simple errand, just five blocks from her home in the Northwest part of the city. As other children in the neighborhood were getting ready for a movie night, Brenda's mother wasn't immediately alarmed when she didn't return right away, thinking she might have joined her friends. However, Brenda never ...