Anissa Jordan Took Part in a Robbery. She Went to Prison for Murder.
Anissa Jordan was born in Oakland, California, in 1968, the last of eight children. For years, her mother’s live-in boyfriend beat and molested her and her half sister Althenia. The girls didn’t tell their mother. “It was our secret,” Jordan told me. When Jordan was in fourth grade, Althenia was murdered. The case was never solved.Jordan was held back in school, started acting out, and was sent to juvenile hall.