Nevaeh reward poster campaign

MONROE, Mich. (WUPW) - A renewed effort is underway to help catch whoever killed 5-year-old Nevaeh Buchanan in May 2009 in Monroe, Mich.

Posters will soon be going up all over the city. The group "Justice for Nevaeh" will hold what they are calling a poster campaign next week (download the poster).

Members are hoping to renew interest in the case and help heal a community who wants to see this little girl's killer caught.

The reward poster campaign will be this coming Monday 6-9 p.m. at the Moose Lodge Family Center on Macomb Street. A prayer service will conclude the event.

Reverend Dale Hayford of Cross Walk Community Church was searching an area behind an abandoned warehouse when he got word that the body of Nevaeh had been found.

She was covered in quickcrete, buried alive, and left at the bank of the River Raisin in Raisinville Township.

"I was searching by myself that day about 4 o'clock, 5 o'clock, and the phone call came across that they had found a body on the River Raisin," Rev. Hayford said.

The clergyman and hundreds of others began their searching soon after Nevaeh disappeared from the parking lot of her apartment complex Memorial Day Weekend in 2009.

More than 3,500 searches were performed all over Monroe County and into Lucas County near Toledo.

"Every area had been searched three to five times," Rev. Hayford said. "It was quite an effort and everybody in this community come together."

He said that what makes that fact that no suspect has been named so hard. They hope to begin to find closure by keeping her case fresh in everyone's mind.

'The community is still hurting," he said. "They want an answer. They want to find out what has happened. They are in pain and the community is still grieving over this."

Two rewards are being offered for the arrest of Nevaeh's killer. There is a $1,000 reward from Crimestoppers of Michigan and $20,000 reward from the FBI.

"We're hoping this person will turn himself in," Rev. Hayford said. "In order to find peace in their heart they are going to have to do that."

If you think you know anything at all about the abduction and murder of Nevaeh Buchanan you asked to call the Nevaeh Task Force at 734-457-6713.