Christopher Whitaker didn’t know it, but though he was convicted of viciously killing Alianna DeFreeze, he helped start a movement to keep it from happening to anyone else. "There will never be ...

CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) - Nearly two years after the death of Alianna DeFreeze, her family is upset the abandoned home where she was tortured and killed remains standing. The home on Fuller Avenue in ...

Cleveland, OH (WOIO) - Dionne DeFreeze says she’s still grieving nearly two years later. “You know, if you don’t see our faces on TV or hear our voices, it’s because we’re still dealing with it," said ...

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CLEVELAND, Ohio -- The father of Alianna DeFreeze, the 14-year-old girl who was killed and left in an abandoned Cleveland building, lashed out on social media at controversial Cleveland Heights Pastor ...

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CLEVELAND — More than four years after the murder of 14-year-old Alianna DeFreeze inside a Cleveland vacant home, members of the community marked her birthday with a protest against the continued ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- The day after 14-year-old Alianna DeFreeze was found killed in an abandoned building in the city's Kinsman neighborhood, City Councilman Zack Reed asserted that a serial killer ...

Lawyers for the family of a Cleveland girl who was abducted on her way to school and later found killed have sued the teen's school, claiming staff there never told the family she was absent — a ...

CLEVELAND --A registered sex offender who could face the death penalty for the slaying of a 14-year-old Cleveland girl has pleaded not guilty. A judge on Thursday refused to set bond for 44-year-old ...