Yasmin was last seen at her family’s Chicago, Illinois home on January 15, 2008. That day she went to the North Lawndale YMCA, where she was involved in sports and other activities. After she came home, she did a load of laundry and went to bed. She was gone by the next morning. There were indications of a break-in at their residence; two locks on an outside fence and a lock on the basement door had been cut. Yasmin’s bedroom was in the basement. Her room appeared untouched and nothing was taken, not even Acree’s eyeglasses.
Yasmin was a freshman at Austin Polytech Academy at the time of her disappearance, and was about to start a new job. She has no history of runaway behavior. Her family has criticized the police investigation in her case, claiming investigators assumed she was a runaway and failed to look into other possible causes of her disappearance. Authorities admitted they made serious errors at the onset of the investigation by not immediately dusting for fingerprints and not taking the broken lock from the basement door.
Yasmin, who was born in Kentucky, had a troubled past. Her mother, who is now deceased, was a drug addict. Yasmin and her other brother, Demarcus, were removed from the home when they were toddlers. Yasmin spent several years in the Kentucky foster care system, where she was sexually abused and developed severe emotional and behavioral problems. In 2001, Yasmin and Demarcus went to live with Rose Mae Starnes, their aunt by marriage, and she adopted them in 2006. Starnes stated she loved Yasmin but had trouble dealing with her behavior problems, and occasionally disciplined her by whipping her with a belt or locking her in the basement. In 2007, when Demarcus was 16, Starnes asked him to leave her home. Yasmin was the only child living at the residence at the time of her disappearance. She had been in excellent student in middle school, but when she started high school she got poor grades.
Jimmie Terrell Smith and his father lived in the second-floor apartment in Yasmin’s building at the time of her disappearance. His father was friends with Starnes. Smith moved in into the building in 2005, after he was paroled from prison where he had been serving a sentence for attempted murder. Following his release he was arrested six times and he admits he was always armed and sold drugs near Yasmin’s apartment. He reportedly took an interest in Yasmin, and she mentioned him twice in her diary. Starnes didn’t tell the police that Smith was living in her building until 2009, when he was arrested for raping five females, including two 14-year-old girls he allegedly kidnapped. In a press interview from jail, Smith said he knew what happened to Yasmin and he was responsible for four murders he hadn’t been charged with. This information hasn’t been confirmed.
Yasmin’s case remains unsolved and foul play is suspected.
If you have any information concerning this case please contact: Chicago Police Department (Illinois) 1-312-746-8365
Name: Yasmin Acree
DOB: Oct 25, 1992
Missing: Jan 15, 2008
Age Now: 19
Sex: Female
Race: Black
Hair: Sandy
Eyes: Brown
Height: 5’1″ (155 cm)
Weight: 125 lbs (57 kg)
Missing From: Chicago, IL
The answer is right in front of their faces as to what happened to the little queen! It just tell u that the authorities do nt care until it hit their home!! GOD Bless her and her Family and I wil pray that we as Nubian people handle our own situations cause the system don’t give a fuck!!
Nubian people? Unless you live along the Nile, I don’t think you qualify as a “Nubian.”
Tasha aint nobody on here to worry about who nubian or not take that hatred and dumb talk to another site please
Wow! Jimmie Terrell Smith admits knowing what happened to Yasmin and confesses to 4 murders and still the police have not charged him in this case???? Unbelievable!