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Deceased/Not Found DC - Unique Harris, 24, Washington DC, 10 Oct 2010 *arrest, guilty*
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Isaac Moye, 43, was arrested and charged Saturday with the murder of 24-year-old Unique Harris, who disappeared on Oct. 9, 2010, the Metropolitan Police Department said in a statement.
https://nypost.com/2020/12/22/arrest-made-in-cold-case-of-dc-mom-who-vanished-10-years-ago/
https://nypost.com/2020/12/22/arrest-made-in-cold-case-of-dc-mom-who-vanished-10-years-ago/
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More than a decade after Unique Harris, a 24-year-old mother of three, vanished from her Southeast Washington apartment while her children were asleep, an acquaintance of hers went on trial in D.C. Superior Court, accused of killing the still-missing woman out of jealousy and disposing of her body.
“He stole her from her family and he made sure we’d never find her, and we haven’t,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Vinet Bryant told the jury Tuesday in her opening statement. Gesturing to the defendant, Isaac Moye, now 46, Bryant said, “But we found him.”
A few months after the 10-year anniversary of Harris’s disappearance, Moye, who had been questioned by police repeatedly over the previous decade, was arrested in December 2020 and charged with second-degree murder.
One of his attorneys, Candace Mitchell, scoffed at the prosecution’s mostly circumstantial case against her client and criticized D.C. police in her opening statement, saying they prematurely eliminated other possible suspects in an “incompetent and irresponsible investigation.” Arresting Moye, she said, was “an easy solution to a question that, to this day, they cannot answer: What happened to Unique Harris.”
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Man convicted of killing DC mother who vanished in 2010
The mother of Unique Harris handed out fliers with her daughter’s photo for years, hoping for a miracle after the 24-year-old disappeared from her D.C. home.
www.nbcwashington.com
The mother of Unique Harris handed out fliers with her daughter’s photo for years, hoping for a miracle after the 24-year-old disappeared from her D.C. home over a decade ago.
A man was convicted on Friday of killing her, though her body has never been found.
Isaac Moye was found guilty of second-degree murder after jurors began deliberating late Wednesday afternoon.
Harris’ mother, Valencia Harris, grinned and whooped with joy as she left court.
“All I could think was, ’Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, God. Thank you, Lord,'" she told News4.
“There are no words to sum up having to turn a predator into my prey. Because I told him, ‘You made my daughter your prey and now you are mine.’ And I meant every word then and I still mean it now. So here we go: Guilty! Guilty!” Valencia Harris said.
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This is a great article.
“A young mother disappeared 13 years ago. What did it mean?
Detectives couldn’t make sense of the Unique Harris mystery. Neither could I.
A decade later, something clicked.
[…]The jury had been brought in that morning for a murder trial. It was a homicide with no body, a case that had been first classified as a missing person instead of a death. There had been no confession. No blood. No weapon. No witnesses. No live scents picked up by search-and-rescue dogs, no decaying scents picked up by cadaver dogs. The alleged murder had gone unsolved for more than a decade, and onlookers had wondered, not unreasonably, whether it was simply unsolvable.
The question at hand was whether, 13 years ago, a man named Isaac Moye had murdered a woman named Unique Harris. The trial was an attempt to bring an ending, at last, to a mystery that had tortured her family and baffled strangers, including me.
I had followed the case from the beginning. I had written about it before other journalists. I had looked for meaning in the extraordinary circumstances of Unique’s disappearance; as years passed, I would sometimes wake in the middle of the night and search the internet to see whether there had been any resolution.
By the end of the trial, I realized I’d understood it wrong.”
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A D.C. man was sentenced Friday to 35 years in prison for second-degree murder in the 2010 death of Unique Harris.
They said the convicted culprit, Isaac Moye, removed and hid Harris’s body, which, 13 years later, has yet to be found.
“You deviant!” Harris’s mother, Valencia Harris, 56, said in D.C. Superior Court as Moye, 46, sat a few feet to her right in an orange jail smock, waiting to be sentenced
They said the convicted culprit, Isaac Moye, removed and hid Harris’s body, which, 13 years later, has yet to be found.
“You deviant!” Harris’s mother, Valencia Harris, 56, said in D.C. Superior Court as Moye, 46, sat a few feet to her right in an orange jail smock, waiting to be sentenced
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District Man Convicted of Murdering Woman Who Went Missing in 2010 and Has Never Been Found
Isaac Moye, 46, of Washington D.C., was sentenced today by Judge Anthony Epstein to 35 years in prison and five years of supervised release for the second-degree murder of Unique Harris, a 24-year-old woman who went missing from her home in October 2010 and whose body has never been found. The...
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Unique RaQuel-Leona Harris – The Charley Project
Details of disappearance updated:
Harris was last seen at her apartment in the 2400 block of Hartford Street southeast in Washington, D.C. on October 9, 2010. She had moved in only five weeks earlier, and lived with her two sons, aged three and five. Her cousin's daughter, age eight, was visiting at the time and spent the night there. Harris disappeared sometime between 3:00 and 8:30 a.m. She spoke to someone on the phone at 3:00, and when the children woke up at 8:30 a.m., she was gone.
There was no evidence of forced entry to the residence and no signs of a struggle. Harris's glasses were folded on a pillow in the bedroom, which is where she always kept them when she slept. Her purse was also left behind, but her phone and keys were missing. Her eyesight is so poor that she could not have navigated out of the building by herself without her glasses.
The area of Harris's apartment building has a very high crime rate, and the building itself was not secure; its security intercom was inoperable, and Harris's apartment door was not in good shape.
Harris witnessed a murder outside her apartment several days before she went missing, but there's no indication that this was connected to her case, and she hadn't acted fearful. She had just gotten accepted to a massage therapy school, and she had an upcoming court date regarding a child support issue.
She has no history of drug abuse and didn't even drink alcohol, and she wasn't having any problems with her family at the time of her disappearance. Her family does not believe she would have abandoned her children or left them unattended. Her boyfriend was out of state at the time of her disappearance. Both her boyfriend and her ex-boyfriend, the father of her sons, passed polygraphs in her case.
When they were interviewed about Harris' disappearance in 2010, the children who'd been in her apartment that night said they'd slept through the night and didn't remember hearing or seeing anything out of the ordinary.
In 2017, one of Harris's sons, who was five years old in 2020, told the police that the night his mother disappeared, he'd gotten out of bed and opened the door. He'd seen a man whom he later he recognized as someone he knew as "Iceberg". Later, after he closed the door, the boy heard his mother yell "Get out, get out" followed by screams. In 2020, the same witness said he didn't remember Iceberg having ever visited his mother's apartment.
In 2020, a police informant who'd served time in jail with Isaac Moye told police he had heard Moye talk about a missing girl and that Moye had said the police would never identify the person who took her, "because he did it the right way so they will never figure it out."
By then, Moye was already considered a possible suspect in Harris's disappearance: his nickname is Iceberg, and authorities were able to match his DNA to semen found on Harris's living room couch after her disappearance. Someone had cut fabric away from the couch cushion, perhaps to eliminate evidence, but there was still some genetic material present.
In December 2020, Moye was arrested and charged with murder in Harris's case. Investigators had interviewed him several times over the years, and he told contradictory stories about whether and when he went to Harris's apartment and what sort of relationship he had with her. He and Harris spoke to each other by phone thirteen times on the day Harris disappeared. He was interested in dating her, but she wasn't interested in him and was seeing another man.
He maintained his innocence in her case, and suggested Harris was alive and had decided to walk out of her life. At the time of Harris's disappearance, Moye was wearing a GPS tracking bracelet. According to the data from the tracker, he was in Harris's apartment complex on the night of October 9 and left it on the morning of October 10.
Moye was convicted of Harris's murder in 2023, in spite of his attorney arguing he was innocent and had no idea what had happened to Harris. He was sentenced to 35 years in prison for second-degree murder, to be followed by five years of supervised release.
Harris was raised in Richmond, Virginia and graduated high school there. She moved to Washington, D.C. in 2010 to be closer to her mother. Her body has never been found, but foul play is suspected in her case due to the circumstances involved.
Details of disappearance updated:
Harris was last seen at her apartment in the 2400 block of Hartford Street southeast in Washington, D.C. on October 9, 2010. She had moved in only five weeks earlier, and lived with her two sons, aged three and five. Her cousin's daughter, age eight, was visiting at the time and spent the night there. Harris disappeared sometime between 3:00 and 8:30 a.m. She spoke to someone on the phone at 3:00, and when the children woke up at 8:30 a.m., she was gone.
There was no evidence of forced entry to the residence and no signs of a struggle. Harris's glasses were folded on a pillow in the bedroom, which is where she always kept them when she slept. Her purse was also left behind, but her phone and keys were missing. Her eyesight is so poor that she could not have navigated out of the building by herself without her glasses.
The area of Harris's apartment building has a very high crime rate, and the building itself was not secure; its security intercom was inoperable, and Harris's apartment door was not in good shape.
Harris witnessed a murder outside her apartment several days before she went missing, but there's no indication that this was connected to her case, and she hadn't acted fearful. She had just gotten accepted to a massage therapy school, and she had an upcoming court date regarding a child support issue.
She has no history of drug abuse and didn't even drink alcohol, and she wasn't having any problems with her family at the time of her disappearance. Her family does not believe she would have abandoned her children or left them unattended. Her boyfriend was out of state at the time of her disappearance. Both her boyfriend and her ex-boyfriend, the father of her sons, passed polygraphs in her case.
When they were interviewed about Harris' disappearance in 2010, the children who'd been in her apartment that night said they'd slept through the night and didn't remember hearing or seeing anything out of the ordinary.
In 2017, one of Harris's sons, who was five years old in 2020, told the police that the night his mother disappeared, he'd gotten out of bed and opened the door. He'd seen a man whom he later he recognized as someone he knew as "Iceberg". Later, after he closed the door, the boy heard his mother yell "Get out, get out" followed by screams. In 2020, the same witness said he didn't remember Iceberg having ever visited his mother's apartment.
In 2020, a police informant who'd served time in jail with Isaac Moye told police he had heard Moye talk about a missing girl and that Moye had said the police would never identify the person who took her, "because he did it the right way so they will never figure it out."
By then, Moye was already considered a possible suspect in Harris's disappearance: his nickname is Iceberg, and authorities were able to match his DNA to semen found on Harris's living room couch after her disappearance. Someone had cut fabric away from the couch cushion, perhaps to eliminate evidence, but there was still some genetic material present.
In December 2020, Moye was arrested and charged with murder in Harris's case. Investigators had interviewed him several times over the years, and he told contradictory stories about whether and when he went to Harris's apartment and what sort of relationship he had with her. He and Harris spoke to each other by phone thirteen times on the day Harris disappeared. He was interested in dating her, but she wasn't interested in him and was seeing another man.
He maintained his innocence in her case, and suggested Harris was alive and had decided to walk out of her life. At the time of Harris's disappearance, Moye was wearing a GPS tracking bracelet. According to the data from the tracker, he was in Harris's apartment complex on the night of October 9 and left it on the morning of October 10.
Moye was convicted of Harris's murder in 2023, in spite of his attorney arguing he was innocent and had no idea what had happened to Harris. He was sentenced to 35 years in prison for second-degree murder, to be followed by five years of supervised release.
Harris was raised in Richmond, Virginia and graduated high school there. She moved to Washington, D.C. in 2010 to be closer to her mother. Her body has never been found, but foul play is suspected in her case due to the circumstances involved.
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A yearslong investigation revealed Isaac Moye, 46, of D.C., who Harris had known only two months before her disappearance, visited Harris’ home after her children went to bed the evening of Oct. 9, 2010, prosecutors said. Moye’s semen was ultimately discovered on the torn sofa cushion in Harris’ home, according to prosecutors who said a review of GPS records also showed he spent the entire evening there.