OK OK - Ashani Karin Creighton, 4, Tulsa, 21 March 1997

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Missing Since: March 21, 1997 from Orlando, Florida
Classification: Endangered Missing
Date Of Birth: August 16, 1992
Age: 4 years old
Height and Weight: 4'0, 50 pounds
Distinguishing Characteristics: African-American female. Black hair, brown eyes. Creighton's ears are pierced. She may be known by her middle name, Karin, or use the alias first name Ashanti.

Details of Disappearance

Creighton was last seen by her mother on March 21, 1997 in their hometown of Orlando, Florida. She was initially abducted by her non-custodial grandparents, Ernest S. Jackson and Kaia Jackson, also known as Ernest and Abiola Anderson, in March 1997. Photographs of them are posted below this case summary. The Jacksons moved from Orlando to Tulsa, Oklahoma in August 1998, with their four children. The last confirmed sighting of Creighton took place at that time.

Creighton's grandparents were arrested for child abuse charges in October 2000 in Oklahoma. The charges are relating to the abuse of one of their sons in 1988 and are not related to Creighton's case. Both Ernest and Kaia were convicted of the charges and sentenced to twelve and ten years in prison, respectively. The Jacksons' children were located in Oklahoma but Creighton was not with them at the time of their arrest and she has not been seen again.

In 2006, Jerry Jackson wrote a confession that he and a male accomplice had killed Creighton "round bout March of 1997." He also confessed to the murder of another woman and drew a map pinpointing the spot where he said he put both females' remains. Jackson, a teenager who has a history of mental illness, is serving a thirty-year sentence for a number of violent crimes he committed in 2002, including kidnapping and rape. Authorities have doubts about his credibility; he said Creighton was thirteen years old at the time of her death when she would have been four, and there is no missing persons report on file for the other person Jackson claims to have murdered. However, police plan to investigate Jackson's account to see if it has any veracity.

Creighton's grandparents are the prime suspects in her disappearance. Investigators believe she was murdered and her body was taken to Oklahoma and buried somewhere in that state. The Jacksons have refused to be interviewed regarding Creighton's case and have never been charged in connection with it.

Investigating Agency
If you have any information concerning this case, please contact:
Orange County Sheriff's Office

407-836-4357
 
Tulsa police to search for remains of Florida missing child

Tulsa police say new leads may help them and other agencies solve the 15-year-old cold case of a missing child from Florida.

Ashani Creighton, last seen in the late 1990s, is now believed to have been killed in Florida and buried in Tulsa.

Saturday morning, forensic experts and archeologists will join detectives in searching for Ashani's remains.
 
Tulsa Police: Missing Florida Girl's Body May Be Buried Beneath South Tulsa Parking Lot

[snip]

Sheriff's deputies in Florida developed a lead -- that her remains were brought to Tulsa and buried behind a house in 1999.

Problem is, a lot has changed since then.

"That house has been torn down; a new structure was built: a shopping center and a parking lot behind it," Deputy Tulsa Police Chief Dennis Larsen said.

More: http://www.newson6.com/story/17073719/tulsa-police
 
South Tulsa search resumes for missing Florida girl Ashani Creighton

On Monday, forensic crews returned to an area in south Tulsa where they believe the body of a 5-year-old Florida girl could be buried.

Crews searched that same general area in March, but found no sign of Ashani Creighton. But on the last day of the search, three cadaver dogs alerted to the same brush pile. So this where crews are focusing their efforts this time.
 
Bumping up for Ashani.
She deserves to be found. She matters. She deserves justice.

It's a shame that the adults who were the last to see her were never charged with any crime in her case.
IMO.

Ashani Karin Creighton – The Charley Project

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Ashani, circa 1997; Age-progression at age 23 (circa 2015)

Missing Since: 03/21/1997
Missing From: Orlando, Florida
Classification: Endangered Missing

Date of Birth: 08/16/1992 (Current Age 28)
Age when missing: 4 years old

Height and Weight
4'0, 50 pounds

Distinguishing Characteristics
African-American female. Black hair, brown eyes. Ashani's ears are pierced. She may be known by her middle name, Karin, or use the first name Ashanti.

Details of Disappearance
Ashani was last seen on March 21, 1997 in their hometown of Orlando, Florida. She was initially abducted by her non-custodial grandparents, Ernest S. Jackson and Kaia Jackson, also known as Ernest and Abiola Anderson, in March 1997.

Photographs of them are posted with this case summary. Her mother had sent her to visit them and they refused to return her.

The Jacksons moved from Orlando to Tulsa, Oklahoma in August 1998, with their four children. The last confirmed sighting of Ashani took place at around that time.

Ashani's grandparents were arrested for child abuse charges in October 2000 in Oklahoma. The charges were about the abuse of their eight-year-old son in 1988 and are not related to Ashani's case.

The Jacksons were charged in 1988 after the child ran away from home and wandered into a Teaneck, New Jersey restaurant, disoriented and covered in burns and other injuries. He stated both of his parents beat him and at one point his mother refused to let him eat for fifteen days straight, then beat him with a belt after she caught him climbing out the window to take fruit from a tree. He had scars all over his body, including on his chest, his shoulders, his abdomen, his collarbone, his knees, and twenty to thirty on each hand.

His parents skipped bail and fled, and weren't caught until 2000. The Jacksons' children were located in Oklahoma when Ernest and Kaia were arrested, but Ashani was not with them at the time of their arrest and she has not been seen again.

Kaia was convicted on the charges and sentenced to thirty-five years in prison. Ernest's jury failed to reach a verdict at his first trial and he was acquitted the second time, but in 2002 he was convicted of aggravated assault and child endangerment involving another child in New Jersey in the 1980s and sentenced to twelve years in prison. He was released from prison in 2009.

Ashani's grandparents are the prime suspects in her disappearance. Investigators believe she was murdered in Florida in approximately 1999, and her body was taken to Oklahoma and buried in the Tulsa area.

The Jacksons have refused to be interviewed regarding Ashani's case and have never been charged in connection with it. Her case remains unsolved.

Investigating Agency
Orange County Sheriff's Office 407-836-4357
 

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