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Case Description
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On Christmas morning of 2020, a welfare check at a home on Lakeside Lane in the Spanish Lake area of St. Louis, Missouri, led to a grim discovery. Inside, law enforcement found the bodies of 28-year-old Charese Garvin and her 23-month-old daughter, Alayah Butler. Both mother and child had been fatally shot. The St. Louis County Police Department's Bureau of Crimes Against Persons immediately began a homicide investigation into their deaths.

The investigation quickly zeroed in on Timothy B ...Read More
Victim Details

Alayah Butler

Female

Black / African American

Saint-louis

MO

2020-12-25

1

Alayah

Butler

01/17/2026