Pamela Andrews

Pamela Andrews

Status: HOMICIDE

City: Jacksonville

State: Florida

County: Duval County

Date of birth: October 7, 1950

Date of death: December 17, 1984

Age: 34

Gender: Female

Race: African American/Black

Cause of death: Ligature Strangulation

Anniversary month: December

LEA: Jacksonville Sheriff's Office, Jacksonville, Florida

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February 11, 2019 | By Kevin Beaugrand This story is part of a collaborative project between Project: Cold Case and a University of North Florida Journalism class. At one o’clock in the morning, December 17, 1984, Vivian Andrews woke to pray for her five sisters. “I started with my older sister and I went to my sister Brenda, to my sister Joyce, to my sister Lily, and I got to Pamela,” Andrews said. “And I said, ‘Lord, you know that she’s miserable. And I’m asking you Lord, whatever your will is, let your will be done.’” Four and a half hours later, Pamela’s body was discovered by a can-collector behind the YMCA on Riverside Avenue. Pamela Andrews was described by her sister as a vibrant, complex, articulate world traveler. Andrews was a writer and poet who studied journalism at the University of North Florida in the 1970s. Her sister Vivian said she “could tell a story about you and make the world laugh or make you cry.” Pamela... Read More



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