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Trace Evidence

030 - The Disappearance of Unique Harris

Trace Evidence

Steven Pacheco

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture, History

4.74.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2018

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

In October of 2010, twenty-four year old, single mother of two, Unique Harris was having a movie marathon sleepover with her sons and young cousin. After putting the children to bed, sometime between 10pm and 9am, Unique vanished from her apartment. When the children awoke the next morning they were scared because Unique was gone. Her family wasn't overly concerned until they discovered her glasses had been left behind, glasses which Unique couldn't go anywhere without.

Days after her disappearance, Unique's mother Valencia told a reporter that in the weeks leading up to her vanishing, Unique witnessed a murder in the parking lot across from her apartment complex. This statement has fueled rampant rumors that Unique was murdered by the same person, though this has never been proven and even the murder is debated. In a case full of contradictory evidence and strange details, the mystery has only deepened over the years. Her family remains devastated by her loss and hopes one day to answer the question of where she is.

So what happened to Unique Harris? Did she simply choose to run off and leave her life behind? Did she see something she shouldn’t have and ultimately became a target for a killer? Was she victimized in a random act of violence? Or, did someone Unique knew and trusted use her kind hearted nature against her and abduct and murder this beautiful young mother?

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0:00.0

Unique Harris was a 24-year-old single mother of two young boys.

0:14.4

In the summer of 2010, she moved from Richmond, Virginia to Washington, D.C. in hopes of starting

0:20.9

a new life and with a desire to be close to her beloved mother, Valencia.

0:26.4

A kind-hearted woman who always put family first, Unique had made the choice to go back

0:31.4

to school in hopes of providing a better life for her children and to make strides in carving

0:37.0

out a little piece of the world for herself, too.

0:40.6

In October of 2010, Unique's grandfather Richard came to visit and she was delighted to

0:46.8

see him.

0:48.2

She asked him to give her son a haircut and he obliged while Unique chatted with her

0:52.5

mother in the other room.

0:54.9

At night, rather than allowing her to walk home, Richard gave her a ride and made sure she

1:00.1

and the boys made it into their apartment building.

1:03.8

The neighborhood in which Unique had found a place to live was affordable but also dangerous

1:08.7

with a startling number of violent crimes occurring each week.

1:13.3

While Valencia wanted to encourage her daughter to move, she also felt it was important

1:18.0

to allow her to make her own decisions and she also felt secure knowing she was only a

1:22.9

five minutes drive away in case something happened.

1:27.0

On the evening of Saturday, October 9th, Richard placed a call to Unique's apartment.

1:32.8

They chatted for a while and Unique explained that she was hosting her younger cousin with

1:37.1

whom her boys were planning a movie marathon and a sleepover.

1:41.7

Richard could hear the children laughing in the background and told Unique that he'd

1:45.6

speak to her the next day.

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