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Alex Anaya deserves justice.

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My name is Sarah Attorney and this is Voices for Justice.

Today I'm discussing the case of 13 year old Alex Anaya from Hammond, Indiana. In 2005, Alex lost her life in what the head of the FBI's Chicago office calls one of the most heinous crimes involving a child that they've ever seen.

They have put together a special task force, have done multiple rounds of DNA testing, and while

Alex's partial remains were found extremely close to someone who was later arrested for stalking

her, her case remains unsolved.

This is the case of Alexinaya.

Alexinaya's life was complicated before her death in 2005.

She lived with her mother Sandra and her six-year-old twin sisters, Roxie and Romey, in Hammond, Indiana.

Sandra worked two jobs to support the family. So Alex at age

13 was a mother figure to her sisters. When speaking with Alice and Quinn for the

Daily Beast,

Rome said, quote, she would feed us, teach us stuff.

She taught us our colors, our ABCs, our numbers.

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