Today’s way to help is a more difficult one. Data collected by the Department of Justice Bureau of Justice Statistics finds an average of three women are murdered by an intimate partner every day in the United States. These murders represent more than a third of all female homicides.

Last year the ZeroV compiled a list of 25 Kentucky women who were murdered by an intimate partner between October 1, 2011 and September 30, 2012. We must remember their lives. Consider how many times they tried to leave, and imagine the barriers to safety and healing they might have faced. Think about the friends, family and children who are still mourning.

Speak their names, and commit to help end intimate partner abuse in families and our community in their memory.

  • Sandy Allen, 24, Oldham County
  • Tasha Campbell, 26, Kenton County
  • Karyn Michelle Carr, 38, Jefferson County
  • Katie Coomer, 28, Woodford County
  • Amy Dennison, 36, Muhlenberg County
  • Sherry Dillon, 52, Pike County
  • Mary Gilmore-Hislope, 44, Pulaski County
  • Sade Goldsmith, 28, Jefferson County
  • Lori Hall-Boswell, 35, Powell County
  • Erika L Hutchason, 43, Webster County
  • Leigh-Ann Kinder-Parsons, 35, Boone County
  • Leslie “Cricket” Lanham, 43, Greenup County*
  • Barbara Martin, 64, Powell County
  • Kathleen McGee, 30, Christian County
  • Tamlyn Nguyen, 36, Daviess County*
  • Jessica T Rawls, 27, Christian County
  • Autumn Rollings, 24, Christian County
  • Robyn Slone, 37, Boyd County
  • Valeria K Stevens, 43, Rowan County
  • Modena Sutton, 50, Anderson County
  • Danielle Thomas, 27, Boyle County
  • Angela Thurman Ervin, 34, Monroe County*
  • April Turner, 35, Gallatin County
  • Theresa Utley, 51, Gallatin County
  • Barbara Walker, 51, Larue County

*The deaths of these women occurred before September 30, 2011 but the cases were pending when the list was published. Since then someone has been charged in each case.

This post is part of this year’s 17 Days/17 Ways Campaign to end intimate partner abuse.