Casonya Crawford was 14 when she was murdered on May 4, 2006, in Cincinnati, Ohio. She was living with her grandmother in Avondale and, according to a later confession by the killer, had snuck out the night she encountered Anthony Kirkland. Kirkland told investigators he offered Casonya money for sex, then became enraged when she refused, grabbed her as she resisted, and choked her to death. He later burned her body.

Kirkland, who had been paroled in 2004 after an earlier murder conviction, was arrested in 2009 and admitted to killing Casonya and several other women and girls. At trial he pleaded guilty to two of the murders; jurors found him guilty of aggravated murder in the cases of Casonya Crawford and another girl, and he was sentenced to death. A later appeal led to a resentencing hearing where a jury again recommended death and the judge upheld that sentence.

Does anyone have memories of Casonya or information about her life in Avondale that could help keep her story from being forgotten?