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Cortney   Clayton

REFERENCE NUMBER: 51 - Unsolved
COMPANY: C
RACE: White
SEX: Female
CITY: Stamford
COUNTY: Jones
RELATED YEAR: 1988



DETAILS:

During the evening hours of Friday, 09-02-1988, 7 year old Cortney Clayton walked to a convenience store one block from her residence in Stamford, Texas. Cortney was last seen alive leaving the store and was not located after a search of the town was conducted the same evening. On Sunday, 03-26-1989, Cortney's remains were discovered in a field approximately 50 miles from her home. Cortney was a student at Oliver Elementary School in Stamford, which had a population just under 4,000. Cortney was survived by her parents and two brothers.

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