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Precious Doe
Erica Green
Born	Erica Michelle Marie Green
Cause of death	Murder
Body discovered	Kansas City, Missouri
Nationality	American
Ethnicity	African-American
Citizenship	United States

Precious Doe was a pseudonym assigned to an unidentified female corpse (presumed to be 3 to 4 years of age) discovered on April 28, 2001, in Kansas City, Missouri. The girl had been murdered and decapitated. The body was naked and the head was wrapped in a trash bag and dumped nearby. The brutality of the crime, and the fact that the child went unidentified for a long period, sparked national interest.^[1] In an effort to identify the girl, police released sketches, computerized likenesses, and at least two busts depicting the victim.^[2] The case was featured on the TV program America's Most Wanted several times.^[3][4] On May 5, 2005, the body was identified as Erica Michelle Marie Green, age three,^[5] and her mother and stepfather were charged with her murder and extradited from Oklahoma to face charges in Missouri.^[6] The eight other children of Erica's mother were taken into state custody or placed with relatives.^[7] On December 3, 2005, prosecutors announced that they would seek the death penalty against Erica's stepfather, Harrell Johnson.^[8] Police have said that after Erica died, Harrell Johnson said he used hedge clippers to sever her head.^[9] Johnson's cousin, Lawanda Driskell, said that Erica's mother helped Harrell dispose of the body by taking Erica from the house as if sleeping in a stroller and telling Driskell she had given Erica to the woman who had raised her.^[9]

On October 8, 2008, Harrell Johnson was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison.^[10]

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