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Tonnie Storey was 15 when she left home on July 11, 1984, to attend a computer class at a Cincinnati junior high school and never returned. Her mother reported her missing the same day. Eight days later, on July 19, her partially decomposed body was found in an abandoned building; the cause of death was listed as strangulation.

Investigators tied the killing to Alton Coleman and Debra Brown. A classmate said she had seen Coleman talking to Tonnie the day she disappeared. Coleman’s fingerprint was found at the scene, and a bracelet stolen from another victim was recovered under Tonnie’s body. Coleman and Brown were arrested the next day, on July 20, 1984, and both were convicted in Tonnie’s murder.

Coleman received death sentences in multiple states; Brown was also sentenced to death but later had that sentence commuted to life in prison. Does anyone have memories of Tonnie, the school she attended, or details about that week in Cincinnati that could add to the record?