The death this week of a Michigan inmate just two weeks after he entered a guilty plea for the 2024 murder of Na’Ziyah Harris means that the little girl’s family may never recover her body.
Jarvis Butts died by suicide on Thursday, March 26, two weeks after being sentenced to jail until at least 2059 for Harris’ killing and numerous sexual assaults, the Michigan Department of Corrections confirmed.
Harris was 13 when she died in January 2024. Butts wasn’t charged with the J.E. Clark Preparatory Academy student’s slaying until 2025.
Her body has never been found. Now that the only person who kn...
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