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A tsunami triggered by a strong undersea earthquake off the coast of Indonesia’s Java island on Monday killed 105 people, swept away buildings and damaged hundreds of fishing boats.
The U.S.-based Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said the quake had a magnitude of 7.2, while the U.S. Geological Survey put it at 7.7.
Indonesia’s state meteorology and geophysics agency said the quake’s strength was 6.8 on the Richter Scale.
An official at the Indonesian Red Cross disaster centre said that 2,875 people had been displaced from their homes, 148 people were injured and 127 still missing.
(NewsRoom.co.nz)
July 17th, 2006 at 09:59pm
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Amelie Weisbecker, 15, a French school student on and exchange program is missing in Scotland. Amelie Weisbecker has disappeared with her male Scottish penpal Conor Cumming after their first meeting. They are thought to have exchanged emails prior to meeting one another.
The pair are thought to have swapped e-mails plotting the escape since the schoolgirl arrived in the UK on 4 July.
Amelie had exchanged love letters with Conor, from Irvine, Ayrshire, for the past 18 months.
It appears that the two had planned this; however, their parents are concerned as neither has much money.
“It appears they had been in correspondence since Amelie arrived. Unfortunately, none of the e-mails say where they intended to go, but they have made certain provisions. They have some clothes and enough money for a few days.
“They may believe they are being very Romeo and Juliet, but don’t have much money and their families are very concerned.”
(The Scotsman)
July 11th, 2006 at 10:09pm
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Walter White, a registered sex offender, was criminally charged today by Davis 
County prosecutors for his role in the death of Samantha Mikesell. Walter White and Samantha Mikesell struck up a friendship in 2005, when she met him through White’s son. White is a registered sex offender since his convicted in 1996 of lewdness involving a child.
Walter White was charged in Farmington’s 2nd District Court with child abuse, a second-degree felony; obstruction of justice, desecration of a body, unlawful sex with a minor and unlawful sex with a 16-year-old, all third-degree felonies. It is in connection with the death of Samantha Mikesell, whose body was found Thursday in Mueller Park Canyon. (The Desert News)
It appears that through the questioning of friends and acquaintances, the police believe that White and Mikesell were more than “just friends“ as Walter White had suggested.
In another bizarre development in this case, prosecutors charged White’s landlord, Deborah Jule, with burglary, a second-degree felony and obstruction of justice, a third-degree felony.
After Bountiful police searched White’s apartment, Davis County 
prosecutors said Deborah Jule broke in through a window and stole a pair of cameras in the apartment.
“A witness indicates there were photos of the girl on the camera,” said deputy Davis County Attorney Steve Major. “She refused to turn over that camera to us and that’s why obstruction of justice.”
The cause of death has yet to be determined; however, a medical examiner stated there were no signs of trauma, and toxicology reports are pending.
She was found in oak brush wearing a bra and jeans but no shirt.
White has told police the pair went up the canyon Sunday night, drank liquor and took his antidepressant medication, but he has claimed he doesn’t remember anything between walking up the canyon and waking up in the lap of a dead Mikesell.
Pickett said White is being cooperative, but his version of events might not be accurate. Meanwhile, police on Friday were seeking a warrant to search White’s computer to see if he used it to speak with Mikesell and to to entice underage girls.
“What we found out so far is he has at least tried and maybe has picked up other 14- and 15-year-old girls,” Pickett said.
(Salt Lake City Tribune)
July 10th, 2006 at 09:19pm
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Bianca Noel Piper has been missing since March 10, 2005. Has anyone seen this missing girl? If you have please contact the nearest FBI office.
On March 10, 2005, the mother of Bianca Noel Piper reported her missing at approximately 8:20 pm to the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office in Missouri. Bianca was last seen approximately one mile from her residence, walking on McIntosh Hill Road in Foley, MO. Bianca Noel Piper suffers from bipolar disorder and ADHAD.
For more information check out the website http://www.findbianca.org/
Description:
| Sex |
Female |
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| Race |
White |
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| Age at Disappearance |
13 |
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| Age Now |
14 |
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| Height |
5’6″ |
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| Weight |
185 lbs. |
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| Hair (Color, Description, Facial Hair) |
Brown
Bianca has curly hair.
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| Eyes (Color and Correction) |
Brown
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| Other Physical Characteristics |
Bianca has scars on her arms, legs and abdomen.
Bianca has pierced ears.
Bianca is taking medication for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and bipolar disorder.
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(AMW)
Bianca was last seen wearing a lime green blouse, blue jeans, a gray Adidas hooded sweatshirt, and white tennis shoes. She may also wear her hair in a ponytail and has scars on her arms and legs, a scar on her abdomen, and pierced ears. Additionally, Bianca is mentally challenged and may be in need of medical attention. The victim’s nickname is “B.”
America’s Most Wanted Brief
Bianca Piper Case Gets National Help
The National Center For Missing and Exploited Children has activated its “Team Adam Project” and one of its consultants is no stranger to tough cases around here.
Joe Burgoon has brought his 27 years as a St. Louis police homicide investigator to the front of the Bianca Noel Piper case. Retired and now a consultant for the National Center For Missing And Exploited Children’s “Team Adam Project,” Burgoon says time may be the key to this case.
(KSDK)
Search Resumes for Missing Lincoln County Teen
Police and volunteers resumed their search Monday for a missing Lincoln County, Missouri teenager.
Hundreds of people joined in the search over the weekend for 13-year-old Bianca Noel Piper, who has been missing since Thursday evening.
Bianca was last seen around 6:00 Thursday walking along McIntosh Hill Road in Foley, Missouri.
(KOLR)
July 9th, 2006 at 10:20pm
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Tabethia Smith-Bryce has been missing since July 4. Tabethia Smith-Bryce could be with Randy Blake, 41.
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Smith-Bryce was last seen wearing blue jeans, brown clogs and a two-piece blue top worn under a white tank top, police said. She also has a diamond stud nose ring on her left nostril. Standing 5-foot, 3-inches tall and weighing 130 pounds, Smith-Bryce had shoulder length light brown hair with blonde streaks.
Police reported Smith-Bryce could be with Randy Blake, 41, also from the Charleston area. She may be traveling in a green 1999 Mercury Cougar with a Vermont registration of EEH697, according to police.
(Times Argus)
Anyone with information is asked to call 334-8881.
July 8th, 2006 at 10:23pm
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The body of missing 16 year old Samantha Mikesell was found in Meuller Park, a 
wooded area in the Bountiful foothills in Utah. Police were lead police to the area of Samantha’s body search where dogs located her. She had been missing since Sunday.
Police have found the body of a missing teenager while acting on information from her suspected abductor.
Police first believed the girl may have run away until information from their investigation led them to a man that may have been with her when she disappeared.
(WCBS-TV)
Body of missing teen found
BOUNTIFUL — Police found the body of a missing 16-year-old girl today in Mueller Park Canyon. A convicted sex offender who has been living in Woods Cross is being questioned about any role he may have played in her death.
Search dogs discovered the body of Samantha Mikesell in some brush and undergrowth near the backyard of a home on Wood Hollow Drive. Police said they found empty pill bottles nearby.
Officers on Thursday were questioning Walter White, 38, who admitted that he had been with Mikesell since Sunday. Bountiful police said White admitted to picking up Mikesell on Sunday at Dee’s Restaurant in Bountiful, where she worked, and taking her to the canyon.(Desert News)
It was originally though that the two had met on the internet; however, later determined that Samantha had met her assailant through the man’s son. What were the odds that Samantha Mikesell’s alleged killer was a previous sex offender?
The unnamed man is a registered sex offender with the State of Utah. In 1996 he was convicted of lewdness involving a child, a class B misdemeanor. He has not been charged with a crime involving Mikesell.
(WCBS-TV)
Police said Mikesell met White through his son, and the two were friends. Officers seized a mattress and a computer from White’s apartment on Thursday. However, police said there was no evidence of a sexual relationship between White and Mikesell.
Cardall said Mikesell’s family may have recently learned of her friendship with White and disapproved. (Desert News)
Walter Andrew White is just another example of the system giving sex offenders ever chance in the world so that they can ultimately kill. What in the hell is wrong with out legal system that provides opportunity after opportunity for sex offenders to commit crimes until they finally kill? Only then do we take it seriously. What purpose would a 38 year old registered sex offender and a 16 year old girl need to have a relationship?
Bountiful Detective Paul Cardell noticed White, who was convicted in 1996 of lewdness involving a child, had scratches on his arms and face, and he admitted picking up Mikesell Sunday from her job at a Dee’s Restaurant in Bountiful.
At that point police took him to the station for questioning and searched his home and car, confiscating his computer and a mattress, Lt. S.A. Gray said.
White told detectives he had been with the Viewmont High School student in the foothills east of Bountiful but does not remember anything between the time he was with her and the time he woke up in the Lakeview Hospital.
Officers said Davis County sheriff’s deputies found him disoriented in the foothills earlier this week and had him taken to the hospital.
Police said others have told them the pair went into the canyon intending to commit suicide.
White met the teen through his son or stepson, police said, and they would talk on the Internet.
(Salt Lake Tribune)
UPDATE: Walter White Had Past Says Relative
Walter White’s family and estranged wife knew that he was seeing a 16–17 year old girl, obsessed over her and was a registered sex offender. All this and they told no one? The family urged him to stop seeing Samantha. Did they warn her family? Either the answer is no or if they did, then Samantha’s family knew their 17 year old daughter was associating with a sex offender. The latter I find hard to believe.
Walter White’s family and his estranged wife say he met Samantha Mikesell about a year ago and the two saw each other often.
White’s family told us they met through one of White’s sons. Several family members told us it was a friendship that broke up Walter White’s marriage. Another family member told us it was more than a friendship and seemed a lot like obsession.
Walter White and Samantha Mikesell met a year ago. Some family members say they were just friends and never alone, others say it was more than that. All agreed it was not healthy, and both had a history of suicide attempts.
White’s sister-in-law says the relationship was obsessive; they talked about being in love. She says he admitted he could not leave young girls alone.
Sister-in-Law: “Walter has a horrible, sexual abuse, um past, where he’s been in trouble with the law.”
The family urged him to stop seeing the teen. They tried to stay in touch and make sure he was getting counseling and taking his medicine.
(KLS-TV5)
July 6th, 2006 at 07:57pm
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UPDATE: AMBER Alert Canceled (Danyelle found safe)
Reason for Cancellation:
AMBER Alert cancelled, child safely recovered in Phoenix, Steven Herman is in custody
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Police in Chandler, AZ issued an Amber Alert for Danyelle May Hawkins, 17, who was last seen on Thursday July 6, 2005. She was abducted at gunpoint by an ex-boyfriend, Steven Anthony Herman, as her 9 year old brother witnessed the events. Steven Herman also made threats to the brother in the process of the abduction. Vehicle description is as follows: silver Kia Spectra sedan, later model.
Steven Herman told the brother not to call police or he would kill Danyelle and ship her body to the family.
Danyelle May Hawkins Description:
Name: Danyelle Hawkins
Age: 17 years
Race: White
Gender/Sex: Female
Hair Color: Black
Eye Color: Green
Height: 5’7″
Weight: 113lbs
Clothing: dark midriff t-shirt, blue jeans, black sneakers, Marilyn Monroe purse
Other: hair is in a pony-tail
Incident: CHANDLER PD is looking for Danyelle Hawkins.
The event occurred at 500 W. Cheyenne Dr, chandler AZ on Thursday, July 6th at 9:00AM. Ex-boyfriend,who has made threats in the past, abducted Danyelle Hawkins at gunpoint in front of her brother. Steven Herman told the brother not to call police or he would kill Danyelle and ship her body to the family. Herman was with a second subject
The suspects in this abduction are Steven Anthony Herman, 24, and a second man by the name of John or Ernie.
Suspects:
Name: Steven Herman
Age: 24 years
Race: White
Gender/Sex: Male
Hair Color: Bald
Eye Color: Brown
Height: 6′”
Weight: 135lbs
Clothing: white t-shirt, black pants
Other: shaved head
The suspect is Steven Anthony Herman, a while male about six feet tall with a dark complexion and a shaved head. He was driving a silver late model Kia Spectra. (KVOA)
Suspect 2
Name: John
Age: Unknown
Race: Hispanic
Gender/Sex: Male
Hair Color: Black
Eye Color: Unknown
Height: 6′”
Weight: 200lbs
Clothing: Unknown
Other: acne, curly hair, also goes by name Ernie
Anyone with information is urged to call Chandler police at 480–782–4175.
Amber Alert issued for teen allegedly taken by 2 men
Several tips of sightings have been called in since the alert was issued about 1:30 p.m., but none have panned out, police said.
Police believe Danyelle Hawkins, 17, was kidnapped by her ex-boyfriend, 24-year-old Steven Anthony Herman, and his friend, a man police and relatives only know as John, who also goes by the nickname “Ernie,” police said.
(Arizona Republic)
July 6th, 2006 at 05:58pm
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There is sad news to report in the case of missing teen, Jamie Lynn Drake . With the
help of Kevin Wayne Newland, who is in custody in connection with Jamie’s disappearance, he informed police where to find her body. Another teens life ends so tragically early, far before her time.
A body believed to be a missing 19-year-old woman has been located with the help of a man arrested in her disappearance, sheriff’s deputies said today.
Deputies from Spokane and Stevens counties were told by Kevin Wayne Newland, 20, to look beneath the floorboards of a cabin near the town of Addy, the sheriff’s offices said in a press release.
Newland was returned to Spokane on Thursday and under interrogation he directed deputies to the cabin, which is reportedly owned by his mother, the press release said.
(Seattle Times)
Missing woman’s remains found in Stevens County
Newland to be charged with Jamie Drake’s murder
SPOKANE — Detectives have located a body in Addy, Washington that is believed to be the remains of 19-year-old Jamie Lynn Drake, who has been missing for a week and the man who was found with her car earlier in the week will be charged with her murder.
Spokane County detectives were led to a cabin in Addy by Kevin Newland, the 20-year-old man who was arrested in Maple Valley earlier this week with Drake’s 1993 Ford Mustang.
Credit card receipts show he allegedly first headed north to Deer Park, Colville and Kettle Falls on a route that took him right through the area where the victim’s body was discovered.
(KXLY)
Jamie Lynn Drake’s friends gathered to mourn the loss of their friend.
Jamie Drake’s friends gathered Friday afternoon at Mead Alternative High School. While it’s not unusual for these girls to get together, the circumstances for their meeting Friday – to mourn the loss of a close friend – was something they never planned for.
Jordan Sheffield, Jamie’s best friend since the 3rd grade, is at a stage of shock where past and present tenses blur together. She was Jamie’s roommate and her ex-boyfriend Kevin Newland is the one accused of killing her.
“I love the girl … she’s a great person and I’m sorry everything happened,” she said.
Statement from Jamie Drake’s family
This morning we met with the representatives of the Spokane County Sheriff’s Department. They advised us of the investigation to date and that they would be executing a search warrant in rural Stevens County where they believe they will find a body. While one always wants to remain optimistic, there seems little reason to be at this point.
Jamie is and always will be very special to all of us. She represents all that is good in life with her smile, sparkling eyes, quick laugh and spirit for life. She is a wonderful daughter, sister, aunt, granddaughter, niece and cousin.
June 30th, 2006 at 10:11pm
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Jamie Lynn Drake, 19, has been missing since last Friday June 23. Jamie Lynn 
Drake was last seen at her boyfriends apartment.
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Jamie Lynn Drake, 19, is Caucasian, 5’1” tall, 125 pounds with brown hair and eyes. A recent graduate of Mead High School, Drake has been missing from her job at a local Subway restaurant since last Thursday night.
Newlund is from Chewelah and is not a suspect in drake’s disappearance.
(KXLY)
Missing woman’s Mustang found, acquaintance arrested
SPOKANE — The King County Sheriff’s Department has arrested the acquaintance of a missing 19-year-old Mead woman.
A police spokesman tells News4 Kevin Wayne Newland, 20, was located in Maple Valley, Washington around 9pm Tuesday and arrested for Possession of Stolen Property, Jamie Lynn Drake’s 1993 Ford Mustang.
(KXLY)
Man arrested in case of missing Spokane woman
Kevin Wayne Newlund, 20, was arrested in Maple Valley on Tuesday evening on suspicion of possessing stolen property. Authorities there also recovered Jamie Lynn Drake’s 1993 Ford Mustang.
Deputies did not say how Newlund was located, and Drake’s disappearance remains under investigation.
Newlund was a former boyfriend of Drake’s female roommate. He had lived with the two women as recently as two months ago, Spokane County sheriff’s deputies said.
(Olympian)
A global positioning satellite located Drake’s cell phone in Ellensburg on Saturday, said Tommy Frees, 22, a friend of Drake’s; Drake was not found.
June 28th, 2006 at 05:21pm
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Salem Police and Fire are on scene at Cascade Gateway Park in Salem, OR responding to a report of a missing 13 year old girl.
A 13-year old girl is missing, and Fire Department Spokesman Bill Holmstrom says the Fire Department has their boat in the water at this time.
Salem Fire is reporting that the young girl that is currently lost may have been in the lake at Cascade gateway park.
(Salem-News)
UPDATE: Body of Missing Teen Recovered From Walter Wirth Lake
Today authorities made the grim discovery, the body of 13-year-old Maria Martinez was recovered from Walter Wirth Lake.
(SALEM) – Linn County Sheriff’s Office divers recovered the body of 13-year-old Maria Martinez Sunday just before 2:00 PM in about 25-feet of water.
An Oregon Army National Guard Helicopter from Salem on it’s way back from a training mission helped in locating the teens body.
(Salem News)
June 24th, 2006 at 10:18pm
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