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It’s been nearly 14 years since 15-year-old Yasmin Acree went missing from her Austin home, yet the family still has no answers about her whereabouts. Rev. Ira Acree, one of Yasmin’s relatives, is pushing for answers once again. The family and West Side faith leaders are offering a $10,000 reward for information leading to Yasmin.
State Rep. La Shawn urges West Side residents to take steps to keep their children safe from abduction more than 10 years after teenager Yasmin Acree disappeared.
Ten years after she was last seen, friends and family of 15-year-old Yasmin Acree said they still hold out hope they will discover what happened to the honors student who disappeared on Martin Luther King Day in 2008.
She was among dozens of Chicago area families and friends who participated in the Cook County Medical Examiner’s first annual missing persons day May 20th.
Services for Rose Starnes will be held Sunday at Greater St. John Bible Church. She died seven years after Yasmin Acree disappeared.
Family and friends of Yasmin Acree gathered Wednesday to mark the six-year anniversary of the high school freshman’s disappearance. They believe they know who’s responsible and question what police are doing to solve the case.
The prayer vigil will be held at 11 a.m. Jan. 15 at the home of Yasmin’s family, 4842 W. Congress Pkwy.
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Yasmin Acree, who disappeared in 2008, will be featured on TV One’s Find Our Missing, as part of a 10-episode docu-drama series that aims to bring attention to missing black Americans.
In a front-page story today, the Chicago Tribune reports it found the missing 15-year-old’s journal, which mentions a rape suspect who lived in the same building as Acree before she vanished.