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Vanessa Joyce Ward

Case from Oxford, MI dated Apr 08, 2006

Victim Details

Vanessa Joyce Ward

Female

Oxford

MI

2006-04-08

23

Vanessa

Joyce Ward

07/05/2026

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In the quiet community of Oxford, Michigan, the life of 23-year-old Vanessa Joyce Ward was brought to a tragic end on April 8, 2006. She was a young woman caught in the midst of dissolving a marriage that had recently become strained. Vanessa had separated from her husband and initiated divorce proceedings just ten days prior to the incident that would claim her life.

On that Saturday, Vanessa met with her estranged husband, 38-year-old Donald Frederick Ward III, at his mother's home in t ...
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