✝️ Buffie Rae Brawley, age 27 – March 24 2005, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA 🇺🇸💔
Buffie was mother of a daughter, Ebony. She lived in Toledo, Ohio.
Having turned to prostitution along the interstate circuit at just 13 years old, she met Derek Maes in Michigan. He became her pimp and, later, in a Las Vegas wedding ceremony, her husband. On July 14, 1997, she tried to leave him. Confronting her in a West Toledo home as she packed, he punched her face and whipped her with a coat hanger and belt, police said.
Her killer, serial killer John Robert Williams, tightened the ligatures around her wrists and ankles so they sliced into her flesh. He’d pressed the duct tape over her face so that she couldn’t breathe. Then her killer had bashed her head until her skull split.