Death of Adre-Anna Jackson

{{short description|Unsolved 2005 child murder in Washington state}}

{{infobox person

| birth_date = 1995

| birth_place = Lakewood, Washington, U.S.

| death_date = April 2006

| death_place = Lakewood, Washington, U.S.

| name = Adre-Anna Jackson

}}

Adre-Anna Anita Jackson, also spelled Adreanna or Adre'Anna was a missing person of Native American descent from Lakewood, Washington.{{Cite web |date=2025-04-06 |title=Can AG’s office solve the case of Lakewood girl found dead nearly 20 years ago? |url=https://www.yahoo.com/news/ag-office-solve-case-lakewood-120000819.html |access-date=2025-06-24 |website=Yahoo News |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |date=2018-04-08 |title=Adre'Anna Jackson: Large reward for clues leading to young girl's killer |url=https://www.fox13seattle.com/washingtons-most-wanted/adreanna-jackson-large-reward-for-clues-leading-to-young-girls-killer |access-date=2025-06-24 |website=FOX 13 Seattle |language=en-US}} She disappeared at age 10 while walking to school in December 2005 in "a high-crime area with a large number of registered sex offenders".{{cite news|title=Massive resources, no luck in search for Adre'anna Jackson |author=Stacey Mulick |author2=Adam Lynn|date=May 21, 2006 |newspaper=The News-Tribune|location=Tacoma|url=https://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/crime/article188400799.html}} (updated December 06, 2017){{cite news|title= Officials halt search for missing 10-year-old|date=Dec 4, 2005|author=Christopher Schwarzen |newspaper=The Seattle Times |url= https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/?date=20051204&slug=missinggirl04m }} Her mother had sent her out on a three-block walk not knowing school had been canceled because of snow and didn't report her missing until late in the day.{{cite news|title=Adre'Anna Jackson: Large reward for clues leading to young girl's killer|date=August 9, 2013|publisher=KCPQ-TV|location=Seattle|url=https://q13fox.com/2013/08/09/adreanna-jackson-large-reward-for-clues-leading-to-young-girls-killer/}}

Search, death investigation and suspects

In April 2006, her skeletonized body was found by children in a thicket near 7500 block of 146th Street Southwest in Tillicum in an abandoned lot that was "a popular passageway for school-aged children and a hangout for transients and drug users", identified as Jackson by use of her dental records.{{cite news|title=Searching for answers in death of Adre'anna|author=Stacey Mulick|date=April 4, 2011|newspaper=The Olympian|url=https://www.theolympian.com/news/local/crime/article25294369.html}} The finding followed a highly publicized search by bloodhounds and 120 personnel from the Lakewood police and fire departments, search-and-rescue teams from Pierce County and nearby Joint Base Lewis-McChord, and sonar scans of American Lake off Silcox Island organized by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).{{cite news|title=FBI will use sonar to map lake floor in search for girl|newspaper=The News-Tribune|location=Tacoma|last=Mulick|first=Stacey|date=December 13, 2005|id={{ProQuest|}} }} Investigators determined the death was suspicious but had not determined the exact cause of death as of 2017.{{cite news|title=Adre'anna Jackson's cause of death undetermined | newspaper=The News-Tribune|location=Tacoma |date=Dec 6, 2017|url=https://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/crime/article188410964.html}}

Child murderer Terapon Adhahn was a person of interest in the case and his former home was searched for evidence in 2007.{{citation|title=Man who led police to girl's body denies rapes|work=Associated Press|date=July 20, 2007|author=Gene Johnson|via=The Spokesman-Review (Spokane)|url=https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2007/jul/20/man-who-led-police-to-girls-body-denies-rapes/}}{{cite news|publisher=KOMO-TV|location=Seattle|title=Former Adhahn home searched for possible evidence in Adre'Anna murder|date=July 31, 2007|url=https://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/crime/article188400799.html}}{{cite book|title=The Encyclopedia of Unsolved Crimes|first=Michael |last=Newton|year=2009|isbn=978-1-4381-1914-4|page=153|publisher=Infobase Publishing|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gijG7fSwvjAC&pg=PA153}}

Her death appeared on the FBI's most wanted list from 2005 through 2019.[https://web.archive.org/web/20101017120629/https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/seeking-info/adreanna-anita-jackson FBI Most Wanted, dated December 5, 2005] last archived November 2, 2019 As of 2020, there was a $60,000 cash reward – contributed by the FBI, local authorities, and individuals – for information leading to her killer or killers.{{cite web|title=Unsolved Death Investigation – 2005: Victim Andre'Anna Jackson |publisher=Tacoma–Pierce County Crimestoppers|url=http://www.tpcrimestoppers.com/case.php?id=123|access-date=June 16, 2020}}

=Cold case unit involvement=

The case remained unsolved as of April 2025, when the Washington State Attorney General's cold case unit, formed in 2023, reviewed the case for potential investigation by the unit.{{cite news|title=Can AG's office solve the case of Lakewood girl found dead nearly 20 years ago?|author=Puneet Bsanti |date=April 6, 2025|newspaper=Tacoma News-Tribune|url=https://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/crime/article303261391.html}}

Death of Adre-Anna Jackson

Search, death investigation and suspects

=Cold case unit involvement=

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