Riley Ann Sawyers

Birthday March 11, 2005

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Birthplace Mentor, OH

DEATH DATE Jul 24, 2007 (2)

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About

Before her body, found in Galveston Bay, was identified, this murdered toddler was referred to in newspapers and on television news programs as "Baby Grace." Her stepfather and her mother were determined to be her murderers. 

Before Fame

Before being killed, perhaps accidentally or intentionally, she was subjected to numerous, brutal beatings at the hands of her stepfather. 

Trivia

A Texas fisherman named Robert Wayne Spinn discovered her body in October of 2007. It had been dumped into Galveston Bay. 

Family Life

She was born to teenage parents Kimberly Dawn Trenor and Robert Thomas Sawyers and was cared for primarily by her paternal grandmother, Sheryl Sawyers (who later identified "Baby Grace" based on police composite sketches). After her father accused her mother of domestic violence and left the household, her mother married a corporal punishment advocate named Royce Clyde Zeigler, Jr.

Associated With

She and fellow American child Jonbenet Ramsey both tragically became murder victims.