Woman who started Alabama crime victims group after 21-year-old daughter’s 1976 rape and murder dead at 91

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In 1982, Miriam Shehane founded Victims of Crime and Leniency, or VOCAL, after the death of her daughter, Quenette Shaheen.

Miriam Shehane, who founded a Montgomery-based crime victims advocacy group after the 1976 kidnapping, rape and murder of her 21-year-old daughter, Quenette Shaheen, died Monday at 91, the organization said.Miriam Shehane, who founded a Montgomery-based crime victims advocacy group after the 1976 kidnapping, rape and murder of her 21-year-old daughter, Quenette Shaheen, died Monday at 91, the organization said.

Quenette Shehane graduated from Birmingham-Southern College in 1976, but had stayed in Birmingham before heading home to Barbour County to cook out steaks with her boyfriend. She ran to a nearby convenience store to get salad dressing where she was kidnapped by three young men.“I can’t stand the thought of Quenette being forgotten.

Jones began his life sentence in March of 1982, and is being held at Staton Correctional Facility. He was last denied parole in 2013, and comes up for parole again in September of 2018.

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