'Precious Doe' — Toddler Erica Green Was Killed By Her Parents In 2001

What this little girl went through was pure torture.

There are a handful of infamous new stories that Missouri wishes were erased from its state history books, but few were as grisly as the savage murder of three-year-old Erica "Precious Doe" Green.

In April 2001, police dispatch got a call from a man claiming that his elderly friend had wandered away from his home, and he was worried. A unit responded and canvased the area, but soon after, they were alerted that the missing person had been found. It was a regular night in Kansas City, that is, until the officers came across a gruesome scene when they stumbled upon the headless, nude body of a toddler. Police later found the head not far from the corpse and determined that one of the weapons used in the murder of the child was an ashtray that was found close to the body. There were visible injuries all over her, and because identification was difficult, she was given the name "Precious Doe."

An examination of Precious Doe's body revealed that she had been violently beaten and kicked. The location where the body was found wasn't where the young girl was murdered, so investigators scrambled to find out who this child was and what kind of monster could take an innocent life.