London Olsen: 11-Year-Old Baltimore Girl Allegedly Strangled By Her Mother
Eleven-year-old London Olsen was unenrolled in Baltimore County Public Schools as recently as last year and local authorities seem to have dropped the ball with several opportunities to intervene into her dysfunctional family life.
Now London is dead, having been strangled by her 34-year-old mother, Keyona Dillon, according to Baltimore police.
Days before the alleged murder, Dillon posted to social media some strange rants. “You gave my daughter HIV. My 11-year-old is walking around with HIV,” she says in one of the videos.
In another one, Dillon says, “They got the mark of the beast. I'm trying to tell you. And this is how I know, lift your head up, show your head. The mark of the beast, they touched my kids. Y'all touched my kids and you all will die.”
The victim’s aunt, Ariel Johnson, claimed she saw the social media posts and reported them to the Department of Human Services. But she said a welfare check arrived, “Tragically, it was too late.”
On Thursday, January 23, 2025, Dillion allegedly strangled her daughter in the basement of their home.
Authorities say that Dillon went to a neighbor's home and told them that her daughter was dead. When detectives arrived, they found a ligature mark on London's neck and blood on the floor near her head.
Another girl in the home told investigators that the day before, Dillion used a hammer and her knee to kill the family’s pets, including two cats, a rabbit, and a dog.
The thing is, Dillon was supposed to have been in jail due to an arrest warrant, but bureaucratic red tape ensured that it was never served.
“The cop said they just got a call three or four days ago for a SA at this location, but they didn’t believe it to be true,” a nearby resident said.
Before she was charged with killing her child, Dillon, a mother of four, was convicted of attempted murder when she was just age 15. She went to prison, but upon her release, she was convicted of second-degree assault and accused of threatening to burn down her cousin’s home.
In a criminal complaint from a few years ago, her cousin called Dillon “dangerous,” “violent” and a “threat to society.”
Dillon is facing first-degree murder charges. Detectives said they did not find any evidence that any child in the home was the victim of sexual abuse or that any of the claims Dillon made were true.
"The other children were being abused. They had bruises on them. And I, it's just unfortunate. It's sad, it's very very sad," one neighbor told local media.
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