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Sarah Jane Forrester

Homicide Victim, 1999

Photo of 1999 unsolved homicide victim Sarah Jane Forrester. Sarah Jane Forrester was just 13 years old in 1999 when children discovered her body in a wooded area behind Belmont Park Apartments in Woodlawn.

It was May 12, 1999 at 9:34 a.m. when officers were called to the area adjacent to the parking lot in front of 7 Kafern Drive, 21207. The body, partially decomposed, was transported to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner for an autopsy where it was positively identified as Sarah Jane Forrester. Her death was ruled a homicide by traumatic injury to the body.

Photo of 1999 unsolved homicide victim Sarah Jane Forrester.

Sarah Forrester had been reported missing from a group home on Bloomsbury Avenue, 21228 on February 20, 1999. She was reportedly last seen on or around April 28, 1999, in the Edgewater Village area of Harford County.

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