After some of the most bizarre behavior in quite a while by an accused, Maurice Wallace, he pleaded guilty to the 1st degree murder of Olamide Adeyooye. In return with the guilty plea came a life sentence.
But after being admonished by the judge and sent into an isolation room to cool down, Wallace returned to plead guilty to all the charges against him – including first-degree murder, concealing a homicide, attempted murder, aggravated battery, assault with a deadly weapon and attempted escape.
He also agreed to a sentence of natural life plus 50 years in prison, which was handed down Friday.
When McLean County Judge Scott Drazewski asked Wallace whether he understood that his plea would keep him behind bars for the remainder of his life, Wallace replied, “Yeah, can’t wait.”
(AP via Sun Herald)
What a fitting ending to the bizarre behavior that Maurice Wallace showed during the trial. At least its over and no one will hear from him again. Hopefully.
July 28th, 2006 at 11:27pm
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Jessica Ann Leach, 14, left home on July 12 and stated that she would stay with 
friends for two nights after arguing with her father. She has been missing since July 14 when she was last seen about 11 p.m. that night, walking on Ramona Avenue in Bellflower with “no apparent place to go.”
Jessica Ann Leach, 14, left home on July 12 with only her bathing suit and a change of clothes and did stay that night and the next with friends, Jim Amormino of the Orange County Sheriff’s Department said.
It is reported that she took no money and there has been no activity of her cell phone. Of course what did the teenager have? A Myspace account.
The girl, who will be a sophomore in the fall, had been corresponding on the Internet site Myspace.com, Amormino said. Jessica, who has long blonde hair, is 5 feet 6 inches tall and weighs about 135 pounds. (CBS2)
Anyone with information concerning her whereabouts was asked to call (714) 628-7170.
July 28th, 2006 at 10:32am
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Stephanie Frame, 30, has been missing since Monday. She was last seen when she
dropped off her children with a neighbor. She was heading to a friend’s house in Gloucester City, but never arrived.
Description:
She is 5 feet 4 inches tall and 135 pounds, with brown eyes and red hair. She was driving a maroon Dodge Caravan with New Jersey license plates UAR-64M.
(Courier Post)
If anyone with information regarding Stephanie Frame, please call police at (856) 456-7797.
30-year-old woman last seen on Monday
Stephanie Frame, who normally lives alone and reportedly has partial custody of her children, dropped them off at one friend’s house Monday and said she was going to another friend’s place to make a phone call, police said. She had said she was headed to an unspecified social service agency to seek assistance, said police.
(Gloucester County Times)
July 28th, 2006 at 10:19am
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Once again we are presented with a senseless killing of a teenage girl by animals. Teenagers have to understand though, that they are not prepared for what they may come across in the real world. When they have to sneak out of the friendly confines of their home, they are entering a world that they know nothing of. Such was the unfortunate case of 18 year old Jennifer Moore. The two teenagers that went to NYC for a night of fun were unprepared for things that could have gone wrong. Things went terribly wrong.
The teens drank heavily until 2:30 a.m., police said, when they walked back to where they had parked the car and discovered it had been towed. About an hour later they took a cab to the NYPD impound lot at Pier 76.
Clearly drunk, Kenan cursed loudly after an impound clerk told her she couldn’t have the car back until she sobered up. Kenan continued to argue with the clerk and then collapsed shortly after 4 a.m. After employees called an ambulance, Moore wandered off.
At this point Moore had been separated from her friend, alone and vulnerable. It was only a matter of time before she became a victim.
Lost on the far West Side, Moore used her cell phone at 5:08 a.m. to call her boyfriend, Kofi Boakye, in New Jersey. She told him she thought she was being followed, police said. Boakye, 18, told her to take a cab to the hospital.
But two minutes later, Coleman had Moore’s cell phone and she was never heard from again. Cops believe Coleman lured Moore into a cab by telling her he was going to New Jersey.
Jennifer Moore had been missing for 2 days until her body was found in a dumpster.
The 18-year-old’s body was discovered about 4:30 a.m. yesterday, two days after she got lost walking along 12th Ave. on the West Side, wearing a black halter top and white miniskirt.
Chunks of her long, brown hair had been ripped out of her head and her body horribly bruised.
As ex-con Draymond Coleman, 34, and his prostitute girlfriend were being held in the assault and murder of Jennifer Moore.
“It sounds like somebody got a hold of her very quickly and she never had a chance.” Investigators believe Jennifer Moore was sexually assaulted in a drab room on the third floor of the Park Ave. Hotel in Weehawken, before Coleman strangled and beat her as his lover watched, sources said.
(New York Daily News)
A Teenager’s Last Steps on a Trail of Missed Chances
In a city of random encounters, this one seemed especially touched by chance.
She, a tiny prep-school girl in a miniskirt and halter top, in from New Jersey to go to a club. He, a troubled drifter and convicted felon — a pimp, investigators say, who slept in cheap rented rooms and was in and out of jail for selling drugs.
Then there was the happenstance at play: her boyfriend had not come out with her that night; her friend had gotten drunk, leaving her to wander the streets alone; their cherry red sedan had been towed from a “no standing” zone while they were dancing, leaving her no easy way of getting home.
The rest is just a terrible set of circumstances that lead to her abduction, assault and murder.
July 28th, 2006 at 10:09am
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