Adre-Anna Anita Jackson, also spelled Adreanna or Adre'Anna was a missing person of Native American descent from

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. 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". (updated December 06, 2017) 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.

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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

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. 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

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(FBI). Investigators determined the death was suspicious but had not determined the exact cause of death as of 2017. Child murderer Terapon Adhahn was a person of interest in the case and his former home was searched for evidence in 2007. Her death appeared on the FBI's

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list from 2005 through 2019.FBI Most Wanted, dated December 5, 2005
last archived November 2, 2019 As of 2020, there is a $60,000 cash reward – contributed by the FBI, local authorities, and individuals – for information leading to her killer or killers. The case remains unsolved as of 2020.

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