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23 year old Stanford University graduate student, Mengyao Zhou, has been missing since Saturday, January 20, 2007. Zhou was last seen at her place of residence at Stanford’s graduate-student housing complex about 10:30 AM Saturday. Zhou went to run errands and has not been seen or heard from since.
Poster of Mengyao “May” Zhou
Description:
- Zhou is described as Asian
- 5 feet, 5 inches tall
- about 120 pounds
- She was driving a silver four-door 2006 Toyota Corolla with California license plate 5VFG430. (Mercury News)
She has not called or e-mailed any friends or relatives since the weekend, Bates said, noting there is no obvious reason for her disappearance.
If anyone has any information regarding the whereabouts of Zhou or her vehicle please contact Stanford police at (650) 723-9633; (650) 329-2413 after normal business hours.
UPDATE I: $25,000 reward offered for tips leading to the where abouts of Mengyao Zhou
UPDATE II: May Zhou’s body found in the trunk of her car. Police are suspecting it was a suicide; however, no official report has been made. The police reference items found in the vehicle that were consistent with suicide. One would speculate a possible bottle of pills; however, no details were provided. If so, how sad a situation that May felt the need to end her life. May she rest in peace.
The body found inside the trunk of a car at Santa Rosa Junior College this morning is that of Mengyao “May” Zhou, according to Santa Rosa police. Additionally, items found in the trunk of a car owned by the missing 23-year-old Stanford University graduate student “indicate the subject may have committed suicide,” according to Santa Rosa police Sgt. Lisa Banayat.
An autopsy is scheduled for Friday, according to the Sonoma County coroner’s office. Santa Rosa Police Lt. Ed Hemphill confirmed this morning that Zhou’s car was found about 7 a.m. (Thursday) with a body in its trunk, parked at the junior college’s planetarium parking lot. The car was towed to a undisclosed location, where her body was discovered.
UPDATE III: Autopsy reveals high level of sedative
BENADRYL-LIKE MEDICINE IN STANFORD STUDENT’S BODY
Stanford University doctoral student Mengyao “May” Zhou — found dead in Santa Rosa days after she vanished from the campus — had a high level of a legal drug in her system, the Sonoma County coroner’s office reported Thursday night.
Although coroner’s officials said a cause of death has yet to be determined, they did find a toxic level of diphenhydramine, the antihistamine and sedative found in the allergy medication Benadryl and other drugs. Tests found 6.15 milligrams per liter in Zhou’s system; 1 to 5 milligrams per liter is the potentially toxic range.
No other drugs or alcohol were found in Zhou’s system, according to the toxicology report, which stemmed from an autopsy. Officials have previously said there were “no outward signs of foul play.” They have also have said Zhou’s death appeared to be a suicide. (Mercury News)
January 24th, 2007 at 03:13pm
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22 year old Joseph Zahornacky, a student at Manhattanville College, is missing. His car was found submerged in Brookfield, CT’s Lake Lillinonah Tuesday morning. To date there has been no sign of Joseph Zahornacky.
Description:
- 6 feet tall
- about 190 pounds
- blond hair
- blue eyes.
Police found 22-year-old Joseph Zahornacky’s car submerged in Brookfield’s Lake Lillinonah Tuesday morning, but there is no sign of him.
Zahornakcy’s family told NBC 30 they last spoke to him Monday night on his way to school at Manhattanville College in Westchester County, N.Y.
They said he had returned from a trip to California and had just left LaGuardia Airport. (NBC30)
UPDATE I: Police say body found in lake is missing student
HARTFORD, Conn. — Divers searching a lake in rural western Connecticut on Wednesday found the body of a college student missing since Monday, police said.
Divers found Zahornacky’s body after two days of searching in frigid water. Family members identified him at the scene and his body was taken to the chief state medical examiner’s office for an autopsy, which was scheduled for Thursday.
State Police Lt. J. Paul Vance said authorities have labeled his death suspicious but are not releasing any details about how he died. They are asking anyone with information to contact them.
Surveillance video from Monday night showed Zahornacky talking with a petite redhead at a convenience store in Greenwich. Family members did not recognize her.
Records show Zahornacky also bought gas at a station in the town, which is not far from the New York border. A family friend said it would not have been unusual for Zahornacky to stop in Greenwich on his way back to school.
Zahornacky’s family and state troopers said there was no apparent reason for him to be in Bridgewater. (The Advocate)
UPDATE II: Death Of Missing Student, Joseph Zahornacky, Ruled A Suicide
A missing college student whose body was found in a lake in rural western Connecticut drowned himself, police said Thursday.
An autopsy was conducted Thursday on the body of Joseph Zahornacky, 22, of Shelton (Hartford Courant)
January 16th, 2007 at 06:21pm
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Patricia Ellen Morgan, 68, was last seen on Friday January 12 at approximately 7:45 pm when she went out in her car to pick up food from a local restaurant, Portabello’s. Her husband, Richard Morgan has not seen or heard from her since. According to the restaurant manager, Patricia Morgan did arrive at the restaurant and left.
Description: Patricia Morgan
- 5 foot 3 inches tall
- blue eyes
- weighs about 150 pounds
- hair is gray and shoulder length
- She is a disabled adult and does not have her medication
- Her 2003 silver Honda Odyssey has a Florida plate, No. H84-FTM. T
- he car has a long scratch on the passenger side and a Florida Sheriff’s Youth Ranch tag on the front bumper.
The Lee County Sheriff’s Office on Sunday searched by ground and air for the 68-year-old Lee County woman.
Patricia Ellen Morgan, who lives at 4080 Cobia Estates Drive in the Burnt Store Marina gated community of northern Lee County, northwest of Cape Coral, went to the community’s Porto Bello Restaurant for take-out.
She was last seen about 7:45 p.m. Friday, wearing a green velour pantsuit and carrying a green purse with flowers. (News Press)
If anyone has any information on Morgan’s whereabouts should call the Lee County Sheriff’s Office at 477-1000.
UPDATE: 1/15/07, Missing woman’s car found in pond
The vehicle, silver 2003 Honda Odyssey, of missing Patricia Morgan has been found in the pond is directly across the street from Portabellos restaurant where she was last seen.
A dive team searching a pond behind the Portabello Restaurant in Burnt Store Marina in a search for 68 year old Patricia Morgan, is pulling a vehicle out of the water. The Lee County Sheriff’s Office has confirmed it is Morgan’s van. (NBC2)
Vehicle found in pond matches that of missing woman
2:05 p.m.
A wrecker has started pulling a silver vehicle out of a retention pond across from the Portabello Restaurant. The vehicle matched the descpription of the silver Honda Odyssey that Patricia Ellen Morgan was last seen driving Friday night
UPDATE: It is also being reported that the missing woman’s belongings were found in vehicle. Also that there was a body pulled from the vehicle as well; however, they authorities have not released the name. The sad reality that most likely it was Patricia Morgan. This must have just been a terrible accident.
January 15th, 2007 at 02:09pm
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Even though it had been reported earlier that the body found in the woods some 7 or 8 miles away from the car located in the lake was Jodi Sanderholm, it is now official. Also reported during our interview with Tim Miller of Texas Equusearch. The cause of death has not been released and most likely will not be done until formal charges are made in the death of Jodi Sanderholm.
“While there is a DNA test being conducted, we are confident this is Jodi Sanderholm,” Morrison said in a statement.
Morrison spokeswoman Ashley Anstaett said the delay in identifying Sanderholm was the result of authorities’ desire to be certain.
Sanderholm’s car was found Tuesday at the bottom of Cowley State Fishing Lake, and her body was found the same day, about eight miles away. The 84-acre lake on U.S. 166 is about 15 miles east of Arkansas City. (KSHB)
The family has planed a Memorial Service for Jodi Sanderholm:
The family has planned an 11 a.m. memorial service Tuesday. To accommodate the expected large crowds, it will be held at the W.S. Scott Auditorium at Cowley County Community College.
January 13th, 2007 at 01:07pm
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Three men have been arrested, Letalvis Cobbins, Lemaricus Davidson and George Thomas in connect with the brutal murders of 21 year old University of Tennessee student, Channon Christian and 23 year old Christopher Newsom. Police are saying that the couple was carjacked then murdered.
Officers call the deaths brutal slayings and say they came after the couple was carjacked.
Letalvis Cobbins was picked up in Lebanon, Kentucky. His brother, Lemaricus Davidson, was found in Knoxville.
A third man, George Thomas, was found with Cobbins in Kentucky. (Eye Witness News)
Letalvis Cobbins
The tragic murders of Christian and Newsom are just horrific.
Police say Newsom was shot and his body was burned when it was found. Officers said Christian was held for a couple of days and raped before she was killed.
Lemaricus Davidson
3 men in custody after Tennessee couple found dead
Federal agents and Knox County officers raided a house Thursday in Lebanon, Ky., about 180 miles north of Knoxville, where they believed the suspects had family.
Two men were detained, Letalvis Cobbins, 24, and a friend, George Thomas. Thomas was being questioned late Thursday, while Cobbins faced federal charges of being a felon in possession of a weapon, Knighten said.
Cobbins, wanted as a “person of interest” in the deaths, had a gun authorities believe may have been used in the crime, Knighten said.
Meanwhile, Cobbins’ brother Lemaricus Davidson, 25, was picked up at an empty house in Knoxville around 3:30 p.m. EST. Also considered a “person of interest” in the case, a weeping Davidson offered no resistance, Knoxville police spokesman Darrell DeBusk said.
Christian’s body was found Tuesday in a house rented by Davidson, authorities said. (WKRN)
Marshal: Man shot, burned; woman raped
How bad must the sexual assault have been that the Marshal would actually make a point to reference what these 3 animals did? What a senseless act of depravity. There is no punishment that is bad enough for these 3 suspects, if they are convicted of the crimes they appear to have committed.
“They did some really nasty things to this lady,” Knighten said.
Newsom was shot and his body burned, Knighten said. He said he didn’t know how Christian died. (KnoxNews)
UPDATE: 4th Suspect, Eric Boyd, Arrested in the Deaths of Christopher Newsom and Channon Christian
Knoxville police confirm that four men were charged Friday in the carjacking of Chris Newsom and Channon Christian.
Lemarcus Davidson, Latalvus Cobbins and George Thomas were charged with carjacking in federal court. A fourth man, identified as Eric Boyd, has been charged as an accessory after the fact. (WBIR)
January 12th, 2007 at 12:20am
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It had been reported earlier that there was a tow truck at the lake site that was being searched.
According to sources the vehicle of Jodi Sanderholm, a black 2003 Dodge Stratus, has been found at the Cowley State Fishing Lake. Volunteer members of Texas EquuSearch found the car today within minutes of putting their boat in the water. This area had been an area of interest with searches yesterday as well by authorities.
The vehicle is now out of the water and on a flatbed truck. The investigators will now scour the black 2003 Dodge Stratus for clues.
We continue to pray for Jodi Sanderholm, friends and family.
Updates to follow …
UPDATE I: Its is now being reported by local media KWCH, Missing Woman’s Car Found
Authorities in Arkansas City have just pulled the car belonging to a missing 19-year-old woman, out of a nearby lake. The car was taken past our crews covering the story, on a flatbed truck.
UPDATE II: 1-9-06 – Authorities have recovered the car belonging to missing teenager Jodi Sanderholm. Searchers pulled the car from the lake at the Cowley County State Park on Tuesday afternoon (KAKE)
UPDATE III (6:15 CDT): Body Found, PD Preparing Charges
We had been hearing rumors all day that a body may have been found. It is now being reported that a body has been found in a rural area. They have not stated whether it is Jodi, but its hard to imagine it is not. Sadly enough.
1-9-06 – Searchers found the body of a female early this morning in a rural area of southeast Cowley County. By noon on Tuesday, they recovered Jodi Sanderholm’s car from the Cowley County lake. Police also say they are preparing charges against a known suspect.
In a statement released from the Arkansas City Police Department Tuesday night, authorities would not say if the body was that of Sanderholm. They did say the body would be transferred to the Sedgwick County Forensic Science Center for identification and autopsy. (KAKE)
Body Found in Kansas Missing Student Case
The body has been taken to the Sedgwick County Forensic Science Center in Wichita for identification and autopsy, according to a news release.
The release said authorities were “preparing a charging document against a known suspect. The exact charges will be released at a later date.” (AP)
January 9th, 2007 at 05:20pm
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A body was found in Perry County, PA with similar features to that of missing 48 year old Elaine M. Pierson.
A woman’s body with “similar features” to those of a Perry County woman missing more than a week was found yesterday about three miles from the missing woman’s home, state police at Newport said.
Police would not say if the body was Elaine M. Pierson, 48, of Trout Lane, Rye Twp. Pierson was reported missing Dec. 29 and hasn’t been heard from since Dec. 27. (Patriot News)
UPDATE: Officials have now confirmed that the body found was that of missing 48 year old Elaine M. Pierson. They are awaiting dental records for final ID. It is believed that she was a victim of a homicide.
Officials have confirmed that the body found nine days after Elaine M. Pierson was reported missing is the victim of a homicide, though positive identification of the body is still waiting on dental records.
Perry County Coroner Michael Shalonis, who had been Pierson’s neighbor since she built her home in the wooded mountainous area of Rye Township about nine years ago, said he believes the body of the white woman in her late 40s, found just three miles from Pierson’s home, is Pierson. (The Mercury)
January 8th, 2007 at 07:07pm
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The partially burned body of Chris Newsom was found in East Knoxville, TN. Cris Newsom, 23, was found near the railroad tracks on Ninth Avenue. He had been shot and his body was partially burned. Newsom’s remains had been located in the same area where Channon Christian’s vehicle was found. The search continues for 21 year old Channon Christian.
Chris Newsom and his girlfriend, 21 year-old Channon Christian, have been missing since Saturday night, when they were last seen at an East Knox County apartment complex.
Police confirm that a missing person’s report was filed Sunday for Channon Christian.
A major search involving more than 40 officers is now underway in the area in East Knoxville where Chris Newsom’s body was found.
Sgt. Tim Snodderly of the Knoxville Police Department said in a Monday afternoon press conference that Channon Christian’s vehicle was found in the same area Newsom’s body was found.
Snodderly also told reporters that neither Christian nor Newsom have any criminal record, and that the pair did not live together. (WBIR)
UPDATE: Woman’s body found, police confirm it is missing woman
There is more sad news to report out of East Knoxville. The body of missing Channon Christian was recovered and identified. Her body was located in a rental house on the 2300 block of Chipman Street in East Knoxville.
KNOXVILLE (WATE) — Investigators Tuesday night have confirmed that the body of a woman found in a Knoxville home is that of 21 year-old Channon Christian.
The body was found at a rental house on the 2300 block of Chipman Street in East Knoxville. It was taken to the UT Forensic Center and the positive identification was made.
Investigators are now apparently working two murders.
Christopher Newsom, 23, and Christian, 21, disappeared Saturday night while they were on a date.
If you have information on the crimes, call Knoxville police at (865)-215-7212.
UPDATES: Three Men in Custody in Murder of Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom
January 8th, 2007 at 06:52pm
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Yesterday it was reported that 5 year old Geontae Glass was taken while asleep in the back seat of a car that was stolen. This morning it was reported that the body of Geontae Glass was discovered deceased. Now Sholinda Glass and Kevin Andrae Towles have been arrested and are suspects in the death of Geontae Glass.
Sholinda Glass and a man are being held in the Etowah County jail in Gadsden in the death of her son, Geontae, 5, whose body was found early today in the Mountainboro area.
Sheriff James Hayes said in a news conference this morning that Glass, 25, of Rainbow City and Kevin Andrae Towles are suspects in the death of the child.
The child’s body was found about 2 a.m. in a car at a residence on Shady Grove Road. Hayes said Towles is believed to be the owner of the home where the body was found. Hayes also said other persons are being questioned in the case. (Huntsville Times)
December 5th, 2006 at 12:08pm
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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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