Sonseearay Harris was 21 when she was killed on August 22, 1989, at Woodland Cemetery in Dayton, Ohio. Her death was discovered on top of a grave, making the cemetery itself the scene of a homicide investigation and drawing attention because of the unusually disturbing location.

Investigators eventually connected the case to Clifton L. Cousins. Court testimony by an Ohio assistant prosecutor who handled Cousins’s prosecutions stated under oath that Cousins murdered the victims by strangulation, a detail that distinguishes the two prosecuted homicides from numerous other killings Cousins later claimed.

Cousins entered Ohio state custody on October 18, 1990, and correctional records list two separate murder convictions among other offenses. Because prosecutors pursued homicide charges in only two cases they handled, Harris’s killing is part of that smaller, formally prosecuted group rather than the larger set of deaths Cousins later attempted to claim.

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