Crystal Dozier, 35, was reported missing from Cleveland in May 2007. A mother of seven who had struggled with crack cocaine addiction, family members remembered her as a devoted parent who loved cooking and once acted as the family’s little mother hen. Her family filed a police report and mounted their own search after becoming frustrated with the response to her disappearance.

Her remains were recovered in 2009 in the backyard of a house on Imperial Avenue that was later tied to a series of murders. The property belonged to Anthony Sowell, a 50-year-old convicted sex offender who had served 15 years for kidnapping, rape, and attempted rape. Reports say Sowell lured vulnerable women into his home with promises of drugs or alcohol, then raped and strangled many of them and concealed their remains on the property.