Sunday, it was confirmed by a medical examiner that the body found yesterday in Ohio was that of missing 9 months pregnant, Jessie Davis.
A body found at the end of a days-long search for a nearly nine months pregnant woman is indeed hers, a medical examiner confirmed Sunday as investigators pieced together the case against a police officer accused of killing her. (Fox News)
The cause of death has yet to be determined as further tests will need to be conducted by the medical examiners office. The medical examiner also released some information regarding the baby that was murdered as well.
The cause of death has not yet been determined, pending further investigation, said Lisa Kohler, the Summit County medical examiner.
The baby was still inside the womb of Davis, Kohler said as she left her office Sunday. She declined further comment. Davis’ identity was released on a recording from the medical examiner’s telephone hotline.
Kohler said the cause of death would not be announced on Sunday. (KUTV)
UPDATE I: Body ID’d as pregnant Ohio woman’s
It would also seem that the home of Myisha Ferrell, a classmate of suspect Bobby Cutts was searched by police. (see Update V)
UPDATE II: Search Ends For Jessie Davis: Volunteers React
UPDATE III: Second person arrested, Myisha Ferrell, in Jessie Davis case
Investigators have arrested a high school friend of Bobby Cutts Jr. in the death and disappearance of Jessie Davis.
Stark County deputies and FBI agents today arrested 29-year-old Myisha Ferrell, said FBI spokesman Scott Wilson. Ferrell graduated with Cutts from GlenOak High School.
She will be arraigned Monday in Canton Municipal Court. She is being held in the Stark County Jail.
Body Identified As Missing Pregnant Ohio Mom, Second Suspect Arrested
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Agents and Stark County sheriff’s deputies arrested Myisha Ferrell, described as a former classmate of the man being held for arraignment on murder charges. (FOX News)
June 24th, 2007 at 03:10pm
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Kenneth Cummings, a Southwest flight attendant, has been missing since June 4, 2007. He was last seen at his home. The authorities are concerned for the safety of Kenneth Cummings as they found evidence of someone being injured in his home. Texas Equusearch has joined the search for the missing Kenneth Cummings.
“Our hope is that he’s still OK. We won’t give that up until we actually find him, one way or the other,” said Cindy Wisdom Texas Equusearch. “There are things that went on in the house or appeared to have gone on in the house and that the tire tracks that are left in this driveway and things like that kind of lends towards foul play. And that’s never a good thing”.
(Kenneth Cummings)
Cummings Description:
- 5 feet 10 inches tall
- weighs about 170 pounds
- He has an olive complexion and small scars above his left eye and on his upper lip
Pearland Police are investigating the disappearance of 46-year-old Kenneth L. Cummings, Jr. who was last seen Monday, June 4th at Café Adobe at 2111 Westheimer, as well as EJ’s at 2517 Ralph and at JR’s at 808 Pacific. (Fox-Houston)
Family of Missing Pearland Man Pleads for Help
Volunteers passed out fliers and searched several fields in Pearland on Monday morning for clues in the disappearance of a Southwest Airlines flight attendant.
UPDATE I:Mark Mangum is being charged with murder
Pearland police have made in arrest in the case of a missing man.
Mark Mangum is being charged with murder. Police believe he was the last person to see Kenneth Cummings alive.
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A 26-year-old Cypress man was charged Monday night in the murder of a longtime Southwest Airlines flight attendant who has been missing for more than a week.
Pearland police said Terry Mark Mangum was charged after being interviewed by Houston and Pearland police. “I don’t want to go into detail, but there is enough evidence for the Brazoria County District Attorney to move forward with the charge of murder,” said Pearland police detective Jon Matherne. (Houston Chronicle)
UPDATE II: Texas Equusearch to Search Two areas on Tuesday for Kenneth Cummings
We spoke with Tim Miller tonight, founder of Texas EquuSearch, regarding the search for missing Southwest flight attendant Kenneth Cummings. Tim stated that there has been an arrest and that TES will be searching in two different locations tomorrow on Tuesday. The locations are approximately 25 miles apart from one another. It would appear that authorities must be getting something from the questioning of the suspect that has been arrested; however, nothing has been reported.
UPDATE III: TES has found the body of Kenneth Cummings He was located in a farm field in a shallow grave in the San Antonio area by members of Texas Equusearch. The body is believed to have been burned. Searchers went to the San Antonio area as Kenneth Cummings credit cards were used in the area.
Body of missing Pearland man believed to have been found
Today, Texas EquuSearch says a team member and volunteers found a shallow grave which they believe contains Cummings’ remains. A positive ID has not been made at this time.
June 11th, 2007 at 10:02pm
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15 year old Danielle Cramer had been missing since June 14, 2006. Danielle Cramer was discovered by police in the home of an acquaintance of her parents. It would appear that Danielle Cramer was locked in a small room underneath the stairs.
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Police from Bloomfield went to the home of an acquaintance of her parents with search warrants and to obtain DNA, and found the girl; she was locked in a tiny, 3-foot-tall, 4- or 5-feet-deep room under a staircase, blocked by a dresser, reports the Associated Press.
Her parents had not seen or heard from her in the year in which she was gone, no one around the neighborhood had seen her; there was no indication that anyone had, anyway, and the girl was quite pale. It is probable that she’d been indoors for a long time.
Adam Gault and Ann Murphy were arrested by police and taken in for further questioning.
Authorities have yet to say exactly what Cramer may have been subjected to during her time in captivity. Gault has been charged with unlawful restraint, reckless endangerment, and custodial interference, and is being held on bond. Murphy is facing conspiracy and risk of injury charges.
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(Ann Murphy arrested)
(Adam Gault, Ann Murphy and Kimberly Cray all face multiple charges for imprisoning a Connecticut teen)
Captive Teen Found Under Hidden Staircase A Yr. After She Disappeared
An incredible story of terror and survival has led to the freedom of a long missing 15-year-old girl in the U.S. Danielle Cramer disappeared from her West Hartford, Connecticut home in June 2006, and authorities had been searching for her ever since. Many had given up hope she was still alive. But incredibly on Wednesday, they found her safe in a place no one ever thought to look - a locked space hidden under a stairwell in a couple’s West Bloomfield home.
UPDATE I: Video Trove Of Porn: Sexual Material Reportedly Found On Tapes Seized From Man Charged With Holding Girl
This bizarre story just got even more strange as the man accused of imprisoning a 15 year old girl is now found with a treasure trove of homemade porn. However, Bloomfield police are disputing the information, saying that they don’t yet know what is on videotapes seized from Adam Gault’s home.
Police have found homemade pornography on videos seized from a man charged with unlawfully keeping a teenage girl from her family for a year, a law enforcement source close to the investigation said.
The source said investigators are trying to determine the identities of a number of girls in the videos, which are of poor quality and were apparently posted on the Internet at various times. Adam Gault, a West Hartford dog trainer, is charged in the disappearance of 15-year-old Danielle Cramer of Bloomfield.
Danielle has told authorities that Gault was using her for Internet sex shows and modeling. It was not clear whether Gault, 41, participated in the shows. (The Hartford Courant)
CLOSET GAL GUY’S PORN TAPES
Adam Gault, 41, had a collection of grainy videos - some of which were posted on the Internet - that featured various young girls who have yet to be identified, sources told The Hartford Courant.
The videos were taken at Gault’s home, sources said.
Gault has been held on $1 million bond since Wednesday, when cops found Danielle Cramer, 15, locked in a secret room under a staircase.
Gault’s common-law wife Ann Murphy and a friend, Kimberly Cray, are also in custody.
UPDATE II: Just Like a Typical Defense Attorney … States Clients were only Harboring 15 year old Against Abusive Parents.
So these people were saving her from abusive parents and exploiting her to do porn on the internet? Isn’t that rich.
The parents’ attorney, Marc Needelman, also dismissed as “a total fabrication” defense claims that the girl had been abused at her own home and that she had found a safe haven in the home of Adam Gault, a 41-year-old man who had once worked with her stepfather. Police also have contested the claims.
“The Bloomfield police department has been involved in the investigation for over a year. They publicly stated yesterday in no uncertain terms that (the girl’s parents) have absolutely no responsibility, have committed no crimes or engaged in any improprieties,” Needelman said. (Houston Chronicle)
UPDATE III: Police Dispute Attorney’s Claim That Suspects Offered Safe Haven to Girl Who Disappeared
UPDATE IV: Accused kidnapper may have more victims
June 9th, 2007 at 04:57pm
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Lewis James Wilczek, 21, had been missing since April 29, 2007. He was supposed to 
meet someone in St. Cloud, MN but never showed. His pickup truck was found Wednesday. The police arrested a man who was driving it and claimed to be Wilczek. Now police have found the remains in a shallow grave in Mille Lacs County, MN. The remains are being taken to the medical examiners office; however, they are believed to be that of Lewis James Wilczek.
Police Chief Michael Pender said in a statement that the remains were found Saturday and taken to the Anoka County medical examiner’s office for an autopsy to determine the cause of death and for positive identification.
Lewis James Wilczek, 21, disappeared April 29 when he was supposed to meet someone in St. Cloud. His family told police his absence was out of character.
His pickup truck was found Wednesday, and police arrested a man (Jeremy Jason Hull) who was driving it and claimed to be Wilczek He remained in the Stearns County Jail on Sunday for allegedly providing false information to police and outstanding warrants.
Pender said that man “remains a person of interest” in Wilczek’s disappearance. (West Central Tribune)
Jeremy Jason Hull’s past criminal activites:
Hull has a history of various charges around Minnesota. Stearns County charged him recently after he was accused of purchasing items from an auto supply company by charging the parts to a local tire company where he said he worked. Hull did not work for the shop, according to court records.
Hull has been charged in numerous counties for giving false information to police, providing false information on a driver’s license application and check forgery, according to public records. The Stearns County Jail log shows that Hull has also been charged in Dakota County for applying for a driver’s license in the name of a deceased person.
Hull spent 90 days in Sherburne County Jail after a drunken driving conviction in 2004, according to the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension.
Body of missing man is found
The search for a Little Falls man apparently ended sadly Saturday when police found a body near Foley.
Sharon Wilczek, the mother of Lewis James Wilczek, 21, said police told her the investigation into her son’s weeklong disappearance has changed from a missing person case to a homicide.
“I can’t believe someone from around here could do something so vicious and so violent,” she said. (St Cloud Times)
May 6th, 2007 at 09:17pm
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The case of the disappearance of Ashley Robinson has turned from a missing persons 
investigation into murder investigation. Ashley Robinson was a 23 year old pregnant, Indiana woman who went missing on February 12, 2007. Police now believe that Ashley Robinson was murdered. They have arrested five people in the murder as they continue to search for Ashley’s body.
Police are still searching for Robinson’s body. According to the affidavit filed in Jefferson County (Ind.) Circuit Court yesterday by Indiana State Police Detective Tom Baxter, the five suspects admitted they cooperated in a plan to lure Robinson to a location where she was struck with two blasts from a shotgun.
The affidavit does not state a motive for the killing.
The suspects are Brandon Skinner, 24; Donielle Sherley, 23; Michael Cory Bowling, 24; Brian Kemp, 27, and Carissa Miller, 18. (The Courier Journal)
(5 arrested murder suspects)
The affidavit spells out the account of the murder as follows:
The suspects gathered at Kemp’s home where they decided that “Ashley should pay … so justice would be served,” according to the affidavit.
Sherley and Miller left the meeting, picked up Robinson at home and drove her to the designated location, with the men arriving in a separate vehicle, the document said.
Bowling then handed the shotgun, which had come from Kemp, to Skinner and left with Sherley and Miller, it said. Skinner shot Robinson twice with Kemp handing him the second shell between shots, according to the affidavit.
On Wednesday police searched the home of Kemp’s mother in New Washington and found a 20-gauge shotgun. Lewis said the gun is being tested to determine whether it was used in the crime. He declined to provide further details on what the suspects told investigators.
Sonia Kent said, “I don’t know what was going on” that would have led to the murder. Kent, who said she has guardianship of Robinson’s 4-year-old daughter, said Robinson last visited her in Madison on Jan. 4.
March 17th, 2007 at 11:58am
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22 year old Vicente Ignacio Beltran-Moreno is in custody in Texas in relation to the kidnapping of Clay Moore. The suspect in the kidnapping of Clay Moore turned himself in to the FBI.
MANATEE - The 22-year-old Bradenton resident - the suspect in the gun-waving kidnapping of schoolboy Clay Moore 12 days ago - is in custody of the FBI in Texas, the sheriff says.
In a news conference, Manatee County Sheriff Charlie Wells says Vicente Ignacio Beltran-Moreno was the subject of a manhunt that led into Mexico, his home country. “We learned later (after the kidnapping) that he was in Mexico. An awful lot of effort has gone into getting him and getting him back here. He is is custody down in Texas,” Sheriff Wells said. (Bradenton Herald)
Man Arrested In Fla. Bus Stop Abduction
March 7th, 2007 at 03:48pm
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The torso of missing 34 year old Tara Grant has been found in the garage of a 
Macomb County’s Washington Township home that the couple shared. Tara Grants has been missing since February 9, 2007 and was not reported as missing until 5 days later by her husband.
Investigators found what is believed to be the torso of a 34-year-old suburban wife and mother of two who disappeared last month and are seeking her husband as the suspect in her slaying, the Macomb County sheriff said Saturday. (WFRV)
Her husband, Stephen Grant, is now being sought in the murder of Tara Grant.
Hackel said Stephen Grant was wanted for questioning and was last believed to be driving a white pick-up truck. He said his office was working with county prosecutors to seek murder charges.
“He is the number one and at this time the only suspect in the murder of Tara Lynn Grant,” Hackel told reporters at a news conference in Mount Clemens. (Fox News)
According to reports, Stephen Grant’s attorney has been in contact with his client and trying to make efforts for Stephen to turn himself in. From the outset of this case it had all the similarities of Scott Peterson and his missing wife Lacy Peterson. The peculiar disappearance, the suspicious husband, and the other woman.
Stephen Grant’s lawyer, David Griem, told The Associated Press on Saturday morning that he spoke twice with his client earlier in the day. He said he hoped to arrange for Grant to turn himself in to authorities.
“He was suicidal,” Griem said. “I spent some significant period of time begging him to meet with me and reminding him of all the reasons why he had to live: the foremost being a 4-year-old and a 6-year-old who love him very much.”
Griem said his client last was in the Detroit area, but he didn’t know exactly where.
UPDATE I: Stephen Grant on the run
Stephen Grant is on the run, Macomb County Sheriff Mark Hackel said this morning, after investigators found his wife’s torso hidden in the garage of the family’s Washington Township home.
But his lawyer David Griem fears Grant has killed himself: “I think he’s gone.”
“I spoke with him twice early this morning,” Griem said. “And after the second conversation I had no doubt he was going to commit suicide within minutes.”
Griem said Grant turned down repeated pleas to meet. Grant called from a pay phone at a home, Griem said.
“He was increasingly emotionally distraught,’ Griem said. “He had a hard time getting sentences out coherently. He was rambling. I was telling him all the reasons he needed to live – most especially, two main reason: a little 4-year-old and a little 6-year-old.” (Detroit Free Press)
UPDATE II: Police Arrest Husband Accused of Murdering and 
Dismembering Tara Grant
WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP, Mich. — Police arrested a man Sunday wanted in connection with the dismembering death of his wife as searchers continued the hunt for her remains.
Michigan State Police arrested Stephen Grant early Sunday in Emmet County, Mich., after a statewide manhunt. The county is near the tip of the state’s Lower Peninsula, about 225 miles from his home in Washington Township in suburban Detroit.
Grant was upgraded from serious to stable condition at Northern Michigan Hospital in Petoskey, Mich., after being airlifted following his capture to be treated for frostbite and hypothermia. He’s expected to make a full recovery with the exception of damage to his feet. (FOX News)
Stephen Grant Hospitalized With Frostbite, Hypothermia
Officials announced the capture of Stephen Grant on Sunday, following a massive manhunt.
Grant was found in Emmet County at 6:50 a.m. on Sunday.
Local and federal law enforcement agencies found Stephen Grant barefoot inside the Wilderness State Park in northern Michigan. Officials airlifted him to Northern Michigan Hospital due to health concerns.
Hackel: Grant will be convicted in wife’s grisly slaying
UPDATE III: Stephen Grant Reportedly Confesses
During a news conference, Macomb County Sheriff Mark Hackel stated, “He gave a very lengthy confession.” After weeks of claiming his innocence, Stephen Grant has confessed according to news reports. From the news conference we learn that it would seem that Stephen grant murdered Tara while the children were in the home.
Stephen Grant admitted murdering his wife, Tara Lynn Grant, after police found a Ziploc bag in the woods containing human blood, latex gloves, plastic bags and metal shavings. It was the final piece of evidence authorities needed for probable cause to search the Grants’ house, in which they found a human torso, Prosecutor Eric Smith said.
The metal shavings linked the bag’s contents to Stephen Grant, who worked at a tool-and-die shop, the prosecutor said.
“He’s presumed innocent at this time,” Smith said. An arraignment was expected on Tuesday.
Stephen Grant wanted to “clear his mind,” Hackel said. He “did indicate the method in which he caused her death,” after which he took the body to a creek to dispose of the remains. Hackel said he would not discuss the motive. (FOX News)
Grant murder shocks, saddens
“To find out what he did is just unthinkable,” said Melissa (Elliott) Hanson of Rock, a long-time friend of Tara Grant. Hanson knew Grant since they were in elementary school. Their families were involved in 4-H together. Following their graduation in 1990, the two friends kept in touch until a few years ago.
“When she was first missing, we were hopeful … she would be found OK,” Hanson said Sunday. “We never thought she would leave her family.” (The Mining Journal)
Tara Grant likely strangled
Tara Lynn Grant likely was strangled to death before her body was dismembered and its pieces scattered, Macomb County Medical Examiner Daniel Spitz said Sunday.
Spitz said a preliminary examination of the body parts, presumed to belong to Grant, that sheriff’s deputies brought him over the weekend showed no visible injuries — except for bruising around her neck that could mean she was strangled.
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If its a school story, it must be another teacher-student sexual exploitation case. 23 
year old Allenna Williams Ward is accused of having sex with 5 boys whose ages range from 14 to 15. Ward was busted when an inappropriate note from the teach to one of the victims was found in the garbage.
CLINTON, S.C. (WLTX, AP) — Authorities say a 23-year-old female middle school teacher was arrested Wednesday, accused of having sex with five boys in locations including the school, at a motel, in a park and behind a restaurant.
Clinton Public Safety Director John Thomas says some of the 14- and 15-year-old victims were students at Bell Street Middle School in Laurens School District 56, where Allenna Williams Ward taught. Others went to a different school.
Investigators say there could be more victims.
Warrants show Ward is charged with five counts of second degree criminal sexual conduct with a minor and six counts of lewd acts on a minor. The incidents occurred between November and continued up through the past few weeks.
Ward has been fired from her job and is under house arrest. I wonder if this was a male teacher whether the bale would have been so low and house arrest deemed appropriate if 5 female 14 and 15 year old girls had been molested?
School district officials say they held an emergency meeting and fired Ward from her job. Thursday morning, bond was set at $110,000: $10,000 for each of the eleven charges. Terms of her bond include no contact with the alleged victims, no cell phone use, and if she posts bond, Ward is under house arrest.
March 2nd, 2007 at 02:12am
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A prominent 48 year old attorney Philip Russell has been charged with obstructing 
justice and destroying evidence in the Robert F. Tate/Christ Church of Greenwich, CT child porn scandal.
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) A prominent defense attorney was accused of destroying a computer containing child pornography that belonged to his client, a former church music director, according to an indictment unsealed Friday.
Philip Russell has pleaded not guilty to the charges; however, the indictments reads as follows. Russell faces up to 20 years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000 on each count.
The indictment says Russell destroyed a laptop computer Oct. 9 containing child pornography that was owned by Robert F. Tate, the former music director at Christ Church in Greenwich, where the former President George H.W. Bush once worshipped.Tate pleaded guilty in January to possessing child pornography.
A church employee discovered images of naked boys on Oct. 7 while using Tate’s computer, according to the indictment. A day later, church officials sealed and wrapped Tate’s laptop, treating it as evidence, authorities said.
Russell took Tate’s computer and, after learning it contained images of naked boys, “altered, destroyed, mutilated and concealed it by taking it apart,” according to the indictment.
Lawyer indicted in child porn case: Feds charge Russell took church computer, destroyed evidence
Church officials sealed and wrapped Tate’s laptop, treating it as evidence, according to the indictment. But on Oct. 9, Russell took the computer, the indictment alleges.
Also on Oct. 9 church officials and Russell allowed Tate to pack a bag, in which he put some of the child pornography and discarded the bag, according to the indictment.
Tate resigned and Russell and church officials arranged for him to travel to California, where he was ultimately arrested, according to the indictment.
“The exploitation of children is a serious offense that this office will fully prosecute,” said U.S. Attorney Kevin O’Connor. “Those who possess child pornography or hinder the prosecution of those who do by destroying evidence and impeding investigations will be prosecuted, particularly when the obstructionists are attorneys and officers of the court.” (Greenwich Times)
February 17th, 2007 at 12:59pm
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William Lorenzo Page, 23, the father of Nyia Miangel Page whose body was found Sunday at an abandoned playground was charged with criminal homicide, kidnapping, false reports and simple assault.
A man angry his toddler daughter wouldn’t go to bed knocked her unconscious and left her to die outside in single-digit temperatures, police said.
The frozen body of Nyia Miangel Page, who was about to turn 2, was found Sunday at an abandoned playground about a 10-minute walk from the family’s home. Tiny footprints in the snow suggest she had gotten up and wandered around before she died, police said. (AP)
William Lorenzo Page was in jail on unrelated charges. Those charges consisted sexually abusing another child shortly before Nyia died. What a piece of human garbage this one is.
The sexual abuse charge against Page came as police investigated Nyia’s disappearance.
Police said another child in the house told investigators that sometime overnight Friday, Page entered a bedroom, covered the child’s mouth with one hand and touched the child’s genitals with the other. The child said Page then left the room, followed by Nyia, police said.
February 8th, 2007 at 08:02pm
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