Case File: Arkita Stevenson

Susan Osborne and her son Evan Chartrand were last seen at their home in Wetumpka on Memorial Day in 2017. Years have gone by, and their family members believe they know who is behind their disappearance.

Erica June was gunned down while sitting in her driveway in 2022. The 35-year-old Montgomery mother’s family continues to grieve as years have gone by with no answers.

Estella Smith was shot and killed in her own home in Selma in 2021. Years have passed and no one has been arrested in the murder of the 77-year-old great-grandmother.

19-year-old Arkita Stevenson was getting ready to give birth. At 36 weeks pregnant, she was shot and killed in Montgomery in 2011. Police are calling the murder a double homicide.

Latricia McDade was murdered while sitting in her car at a railroad crossing in Montgomery in 2018. Police say the mother of four was an innocent bystander, caught in the crossfire.

The Allen family vividly remembers Father’s Day weekend 2017. They were preparing to celebrate when they got a phone call that would change their lives. Joseph Allen’s son, Jeremy Allen, 28, was shot and killed in his home on June 19, 2017. The scene at Eagle Landing Apartments on Eagle Circle was the start of a years-long nightmare for the family.

Six years ago, Lelia Faulkner left her family’s home in Troy, never to be seen again. It was July 4, 2016, a day her mother, Susan Faulkner vividly remembers. At the time, Lelia and her daughter Madison were living with her parents. She’d just moved back in after a bad breakup.

The 30-year-old was the city’s 30th homicide in 2020. He was gunned down in broad daylight in Regency Park on June 28, 2020.

Rickem Samuels’s mother, Ericka Davis, remembers her son as a good kid. Smart, respectful, and hardworking. All of that was taken away from her when he disappeared.

On New Year’s Day 2022, Shayquita Jackson woke up ready to spend the day with her family, specifically, her mother and brother, Daniel Jackson.