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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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