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Its being reported that the man, Joshua Thurber, accused of kidnapping, raping and murdering Jodi Sanderholm had past allegations against him. Allegations that seemed to have gone by the wayside as Thurber was never charged. It does appear that Thurber did have run-ins with the law. When will we ever learn that a criminal element escalates their crimes until all too often it becomes murder.
An Ark City woman claims Joshua Thurber tried to abduct her niece. Loretta Caballero says last April her 11-year-old niece was held by Thurber, against her will.
According to police reports, the young girl was asked by a friend of her mom to help the friend translate a conversation with Thurber. The friend didn’t speak English very well, so the 11-year-old girl tried to help.
The girl says the woman and Thurber started fighting, and Thurber refused to take them home. Instead, he kept them in his car and drove farther away from town. The girl also says Thurber was exposing himself to both of them.
In the end, both girls jumped from the moving car, ran to a nearby home and called police.
Police showed the girl a photo lineup and she immediately picked out Thurber’s picture. (KAKE)
It always seems the case that when predators get away with lesser crimes, they are destined to do it again and escalate the violence until they get caught. We are still trying to understand how the “lewd and lascivious” behavior was allowed to go without incident.
The police reports called the case criminal restraint, endangering a child and lewd and lascivious behavior. But days and weeks went by without an arrest. To this day Thurber has never been charged with these crimes.
Cowley County Attorney Chris Smith says the case was eventually turned over to his office but there wasn’t enough evidence to file charges. It would be Mariela’s word against Thurber’s and Mariela admitted she got in his car willingly.
January 23rd, 2007 at 11:01pm
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An Amber Alert has been issued for 10 year old Marissa Graham in Oklahoma. It is being reported that Marissa Graham was abducted by a white male approximately 35-40 years of age. Marissa was abducted in Texhoma, Oklahoma at about 6:30PM on Thursday.
Description:
- white with reddish-blonde hair
- blue eyes
- about 4-feet tall
- 60 pounds
- She was last seen wearing a pink hoodie and jeans.
- Officials say the girl may be with a white man in his mid 30s to about 40-years-old. The man may be driving a white car, possibly a Chevrolet Cavalier.
The neighbor who spotted Marissa talking to the man turned away for a moment, and when he returned, the girl and the man were gone, the Texahoma Sheriff’s Department told FOX News.
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UPDATE I: Missing Oklahoma Girl Found After Amber Alert Issued
Marissa Graham has been found safe in Clovis, New Mexico
Police said Marissa was found in Clovis, N.M., and that is alive and well. She is now in police custody, they said, and there are no details yet on the kidnapping suspect. (FOX)
According to reports, Marissa Graham escaped from the back seat of her abductors vehicle while he stopped at a gas station to refill. There has been a lot to celebrate lately with missingboys in Missouri found recently and with today’s news. The presense of mind for this young girl to escape so early in her abduction.
“She took the opportunity to bolt from the car and into the convenience store and identify herself as the girl everyone was looking for and give the telephone number for the Texhoma Police Department,” said State Amber Alert coordinator Gene Thaxton.
The suspect was arrested at the store by New Mexico State Police and Clovis police, Thaxton said. His name was not immediately released.
It’s been a fantastic day,” Boring said, adding that Marissa is “extremely lucky” to have had “the sense and sensibility to get in a public place with people.”
January 19th, 2007 at 09:50am
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In an effort to help in the world wide battle for missing & exploited children, First Lady Laura Bush has taken up the cause.
The missing and sexually exploited children of the world are the most vulnerable among us. There are so many countries that have little to no laws protecting child. Child pornography and trafficking have become an epidemic. It is about time that this problem is taken seriously in other countries.
Read the full story at Scared Monkeys.com
January 18th, 2007 at 05:21pm
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Larry Charles, a 49 year old defense attorney was arrested Monday after being found naked in a Court House conference room with a 14 year old girl. Charles had his law license suspended in the past for tampering with public records. Now its time to take it away for good.
Larry Charles, 49, has been charged with solicitation, attempted statutory sexual assault and related counts, said Lt. Dan Bagnell of the police department’s Special Victims Unit.
A sheriff’s deputy making his rounds in the Criminal Justice Center on Monday afternoon looked into a lawyers’ conference room on the third floor and discovered Charles and the girl, Bagnell said.
“He had asked for sex. But there was no physical contact we’re aware of” by the time the deputy arrived on the scene, Bagnell said. (Fox News)
January 16th, 2007 at 10:06pm
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According to reports, child pornography was found on the computer of alleged child kidnapper, Michael Devlin. It certainly would not come as a surprise to anyone if this was the case. What else would a person be doing on the internet who kidnaps 11 year old boys, William Ownby and Shawn Hornbeck?
For more go to Scared Monkeys.com including statement from the family of Michael Devlin and web sites of Shawn Hornbeck.
January 15th, 2007 at 02:46pm
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An Amber Alert has been issued for a 5 year old boy, Geontae Glass, who is believed to have been in the back seat of a stolen vehicle in Albertville, AL.
Description of Geontae Glass:
- 3 feet tall
- 65 pounds
- brown eyes
- black hair
- considered to be in extreme danger
- last seen wearing a long-sleeve blue T-shirt and blue jeans.
Description of abduction:
- He was taken when the vehicle he occupied was stolen by an unknown black male described as approximately 5’9″ – 5’11″
- 200 – 220 pounds
- The vehicle is a light blue, 1994 Nissan Altima, with no tag on the vehicle
- last seen traveling south on Alabama Highway 206 (WTVM)
Anyone with any information please call the Albertville Police Department at 256-878-1212; Alabama Department of Public Safety at 334-242-4128.
Albertville police are looking for a 5-year-old child abducted in a stolen car Monday morning.
The mother pulled up to the convenience store at 6:12 a.m. and left the child inside the car when she went in the store. At some point, a blue pickup truck pulled up to the store. The man jumped out of the pickup truck and jumped into the car.
Both vehicles then left the scene. Police did not have a description of the person driving the pickup truck. (Sand Mountain Reporter)UPDATE: Terrible news is being reported from Etowah County
The body of 5 year old Geontae Glass was found deceased in the trunk of a car one day after he was abducted. Just another terrible, senseless murder.
A 5-year-old boy who was asleep in the back of a car when it was stolen from a parking lot was found dead Tuesday morning in a neighboring county, authorities said.
The body of Geontae Glass was discovered in a rural area of Etowah County, said a dispatcher for that county’s sheriff’s department, who did not give her name. Officials planned to release details at a midmorning news conference, she said.
Alabama state troopers announced only that an Amber Alert for the boy had been canceled. An FBI spokesman did not immediately return calls seeking comment.
The Gadsden Times reported that the boy was found in the trunk of a car at a home in the Mountainboro community. (Worcester Telegram)
December 4th, 2006 at 11:17pm
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One months old Brayn Dos Santos Gomes is still missing. Although the identity of the suspect is not known yet, this is what the authorities do know.
She is Spanish speaking, 28 to 30 years old and drives a black late model SUV with peeling window tint.- She already had a baby seat and diaper bag in the SUV.
- She was armed with a knife.
- From those facts the police have been able to infer certain things.
- The baby seat and diaper bag indicate a kidnapper prepared to abduct an infant, yet also care for the baby.
- The knife demonstrated a willingness to use force. — contrasting traits in a person police suspect may have suffered an emotional trauma of her own.
Read the rest at News-Press
December 4th, 2006 at 03:20pm
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An Amber Alert has been issued for 29-day-old Brayn Dos Santos Gomes who was abducted with his mother, Maria Fatima Ramos Dos Santos, on Friday afternoon by a woman driving a black SUV. The mother was released by the abductor south of Fort Myers; however, the new born was not.
Ramos was released south of Fort Myers shortly afterward but the woman kept the baby, Florida Department of Law Enforcement spokesman Larry Long said Saturday. An Amber Alert was issued for the infant.
Police said the woman could be heading to Miami or Tampa in two-door SUV, which has window tint that is peeling. (AP)
Description of the abduction:
The mother and Brayn, as well as another woman and a baby, were approached by the woman in the SUV while walking along a road Friday, police said. The driver asked for directions to a neighborhood. The women, who did not know the driver, agreed to give directions and entered the vehicle with their children, police said.
The women showed the driver the neighborhood, and she drove the two mothers and children back toward where she picked them up, police said. The driver then forced one mother and child out of the car, and made off with Ramos and the baby, who was born Nov. 3, police said. (Herald Tribune)
Police: “We’re looking for someone who is very cunning”
“We’re looking for someone who is very cunning,” Mike Carr, a sergeant with the Fort Myers Police Department, told a 4 p.m. press briefing. “She already had a baby seat, a diaper bag and no child. She was prepared to do this.”
Police had a computer generated composite of the suspect, but were not satisfied it was an accurate depiction, Carr said.
“We’re trying to get a sketch prepared by a forensic artist,” he added. (The News Press)
Police are investigating a rather unsusal lead. The kidnapper used one of the abducted woman’s cell phones and placed a call that was recorded.
Investigators are still trying to assess the significance of the tape recording they believe holds the kidnapper’s voice.
In an unusual turn of events, investigators were able to determine that the kidnapper used the phone of one of the abducted women to make a telephone call. She pretended to call her mother, Carr said. But, the call was actually made to an area business, he added.
While the kidnapper pretended to have a conversation, an answering machine at the business recorded her voice.
December 2nd, 2006 at 06:39pm
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20 year old Craig Roger Gregerson waived his preliminary hearing rights today in the murder case of 5 year old Destiny Norton. Gregerson will be back in court on November 27, 2006 for an arraignment on a capital murder charges.
The neighbor accused of suffocating 5-year-old Destiny Norton and then sexually assaulting her body waived his right Friday to a preliminary hearing on the evidence against him.
Craig Roger Gregerson, 20, will return Nov. 27 for an arraignment on a capital murder charge and child kidnapping in the July 16 abduction of the girl from her backyard. Prosecutors said they haven’t made a decision on seeking the death penalty.
Both defense lawyers and the family of Destiny Norton did not speak to the media following the hearing.
Destiny’s mother Rachael showed up, but declined to talk to reporters. Rachael’s mother was also there to get her first view of Gregerson. Family friends attended, along with a contingent of Bikers Against Child Abuse. (KSL)
November 17th, 2006 at 02:42pm
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The body of Michelle M. Young, 29, was found in her home outside of Raleigh, NC dead. 
Young was formerly a cheerleader, Michelle Fisher, at Sayville High School in Long Island. Michelle Young was four months pregnant. Cassidy, her 2 year old daughter was by her side when Michelle’s body was found unaware that her mother was dead.
The Wake County sheriff’s office is treating the incident as a homicide and authorities have recently begun speaking with Jason Young, the husband, who was away on a business trip the day her body was found, according to the Raleigh News & Observer.
“It was a violent death,” Phyllis Stephens, a spokeswoman for the sheriff’s office told the newspaper. The reported cause of death was blunt force trauma. (News Day)
Anyone with any information, please call Wake County Sheriff’s Office at 919-856-6800.
Slain Mother Laid To Rest; Case Draws National Attention
Family members and friends Thursday gathered for the funeral of a young mother who was found dead in her Raleigh home.
Flowers draped the casket and the song “Isn’t She Lovely” played during the service. But friends of Michelle Young said it did not do their friend justice. (WRAL)
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It is a mystery as to who murdered Michelle Young in her home. Investigators search the crime scene and interview witnesses. Authorities think Young was murdered sometime between midnight to about 6:00 AM Friday morning.
“It’s a mystery. That is what’s so gripping about it,” Van Susteren told WRAL 
Thursday evening. “People are supposed to be safe in their homes, but they’re not, as demonstrated by this woman.”
Investigators said Young had been at home with friends until about 10:30 p.m. the night before her body was found. Her husband, Jason Young, told authorities he was out of town on business when his sister-in-law, Meredith Fisher, found his wife’s body.
Fisher told authorities she had received a call from Jason Young asking her to go to his house to pick up something. Authorities said it was a fax.
Slain Woman’s Husband Comes Under Scrutiny
Jason Young, 32, was responding to a court order that allows authorities to take physical evidence from someone close to a criminal case. He arrived with attorney Roger W. Smith Jr. at the City County Bureau of Identification at the Wake County Public Safety Center.
Young’s wife, Michelle Young, 29, died last week from blunt force trauma, according to preliminary autopsy reports. She was also about 20 weeks pregnant with her second child at the time.
Under law, the basis for the non-testimonial order is when “there are reasonable grounds to suspect the person named or described in the affidavit committed the offense.” Detectives can collect blood samples and DNA samples as well as fingerprints, Wake County District Attorney Colon Willoughby said. (WRAL)
November 10th, 2006 at 06:15pm
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