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((Short description|Five-year-old girl abducted in 2002))
((more citations needed|date=August 2011))
((Infobox person
| name        =Samantha Runnion
| image       =
| caption     =
| birth_name  = Samantha Bree Runnion
| birth_date  = ((birth date|1996|07|26))
| birth_place = [[Boston|Boston, Massachusetts]], U.S.
| death_date  = ((death date and age|2002|07|15|1996|07|26))
| death_place = [[Cleveland National Forest]], [[Riverside County, California]], U.S.((Citation needed|date=November 2015))
| death_cause = Homicide by strangulation 
| known_for   = Murder victim
| parents     = Derek Jackson (father)<br/ >Erin Runnion (mother)
))

'''Samantha Bree (Jackson) Runnion''' (July 26, 1996&nbsp;– July 15, 2002) was a five-year-old girl abducted from outside her home in [[Stanton, California]], and murdered.<ref name=Tru>((cite web|url=http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/photogallery/runnion.html|title=TruTV photo gallery of the case|website=truTV|access-date=2011-08-05|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110903162622/http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/photogallery/runnion.html|archive-date=2011-09-03|url-status=dead))</ref>

==Kidnapping and murder==
On July 15, 2002, Runnion was playing with a friend in her front yard<ref>((cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBjflnEv-es |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/EBjflnEv-es| archive-date=2021-12-11 |url-status=live|title=KTLA 10pm News, July 15, 2002|last=NewsActive3|date=3 October 2015|via=YouTube))((cbignore))</ref> when a man approached them asking for help in finding a lost dog. After a short conversation, he grabbed Samantha, forced her into his car, and drove away. A day later, her nude body was found 50 miles south in [[Cleveland National Forest]].<ref name=Tru /><ref>Montaldo, Charles. [http://crime.about.com/od/sex/a/911_runnion.htm “911 Call Transcript - Finding Samantha Runnion's Body,"] ((Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130331105121/http://crime.about.com/od/sex/a/911_runnion.htm |date=2013-03-31 )) About.com Guide. Retrieved on April 1, 2013.</ref><ref>Bragg, Rick. [https://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/20/us/man-arrested-in-california-case-of-child-s-abduction-and-killing.html “Man Arrested in California Case Of Child's Abduction and Killing,"] The New York Times, July 20, 2002. Retrieved on April 1, 2013.</ref> Runnion had been sexually assaulted and strangled. Police said that the killer was "extremely sloppy" and had left behind "mountains of physical evidence connecting him to the crime".

Alejandro Avila of Lake Elsinore, California, was arrested three days after the abduction. His DNA was found on Samantha's body, and her DNA was found in his car. Avila had previously visited his girlfriend in the condominium complex where Samantha lived and had been acquitted of molesting his girlfriend's daughter and niece. Police found child pornography on Avila's laptop computer, and he had booked a motel room on the day of the murder, where it was believed that Samantha was killed. Avila's public defender argued during the trial that he couldn't have kidnapped the girl, abused, murdered, and then dumped her body 50 miles away in one day as the prosecution believed.

On May 16, 2005, a jury returned a guilty verdict, and Avila was sentenced to death. He is incarcerated at San Quentin State Prison on death row. Samantha's mother, Erin Runnion, launched a foundation called "The Joyful Child Foundation," whose mission is "Preventing crimes against children through programs that educate, empower, and unite families and communities."<ref name=DeathRowList>((cite journal | author=Division of Adult Operations | title=Death Row Tracking System Condemned Inmate List (Secure) | version=13 August 2009 | format=.PDF | publisher=California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation | url=http://www.cdcr.ca.gov/Reports_Research/docs/CondemnedInmateListSecure.pdf | date=31 December 2008 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100819011358/http://www.cdcr.ca.gov/Reports_Research/docs/CondemnedInmateListSecure.pdf | archive-date=19 August 2010 | access-date=2011-02-28 | url-status=dead ))</ref>

==See also==
*[[List of kidnappings]]
*[[List of solved missing person cases: post-2000|List of solved missing person cases]]
* [[Child abduction scare of 2002]]

==References==
((Reflist))

==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20050918001839/http://crime.about.com/od/current/p/runnion.htm About.com Crime article on the Runnion case]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20150402134625/http://www.ccarts.net/ California Conservatory of the Arts]: Kids Next Door is a performance group, in residence at CCA, consisting of students selected by audition from the Conservatory. 2006 is the 25th anniversary of the group.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20091026235545/http://geocities.com/mantharunnion/ In memory of Samantha Runnion]
*[https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=324878 Good Morning America story] 
*[http://www.thejoyfulchild.org/ The Joyful Child Foundation]

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