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Authorities are searching for 5-year-old autistic boy, Aaron Campbell, who vanished from his 
mother Sunday. Aaron Campbell can hear but he does not talk due to Autism. Please be on the look out for Aaron.
The mother of Aaron Campbell said she left the boy in a vehicle Sunday morning while she ran into his grandmother’s home at 12547 Westhope Drive in Orange County. She said when she returned, the boy was not in the vehicle. (Local 6)
Anyone with information concerning Aaron’s whereabouts is urged to call the Orange County Sheriff’s Office.
Police Scour Orange County For Autistic Boy
The Orange County Sheriff’s Office received a call at 9:23 a.m. reporting Aaron Campbell missing.
After an extensive search of 12547 Westhope Drive and surrounding areas, the boy is still missing. (WESH)
October 8th, 2006 at 08:59pm
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North Carolina Amber Alert issued for 2 year old Edwin Sanchez Gonzales. Edwin is 3 feet tall, weighs about 25 pounds, has black hair and brown eyes and was last seen wearing a white T-shirt and a diaper.
Edwin Sanchez Gonzales, 2, and Gonzales’ father, Jorge Sanchez Aguilera, in connection with the disappearance.
SILER CITY, N.C. — Authorities are investigating whether a sport utility vehicle found in Gaston County is the one that might have been carrying a 2-year-old who was taken from his Siler City home early Sunday.
An FBI spokesman told WRAL Sunday night that they are investigating whether the vehicle is the one Jorge Sanchez Aguilera, 29, was traveling in when he allegedly took his son, Edwin Sanchez Gonzales, at gunpoint during a home invasion robbery. (WRAL)
Aguilera is believed to be traveling in a 1998 burgundy Ford Expedition with possible North Carolina license plate numbers SWR-3253 or VRZ-3641. He might be headed to South Carolina, where he has relatives, authorities said.
AMBER Alert issued for missing boy
The Sheriff’s Office has released two possible license plate numbers – SWR-3253 and VRZ-3641.
Police say Aguileva, along with three other armed men, tied up the young boy’s mother, grandfather and a teenager with duct tape.
Aguileva is 29 years-old, 5’6″ tall, 145 pounds, with black hair and brown eyes. Edwin Gonzales is three-feet tall, 25 pounds, with black hair and brown eyes, and was last seen wearing a white t-shirt and a diaper. (RDU News Carolina 14)
Anyone with information should call the Chatham County’s Sheriff’s Office at 919-542-2911
October 1st, 2006 at 09:39pm
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There are no hero’s in this story. Both Melinda and Josh Duckett should both be ashamed of themselves. Melinda is now dead of an apparent suice and Josh Duckett goes on TV and plays the adoring concerned dad. If both Josh and Melinda actually cared about Trenton Duckett and not themselves, maybe Trenton would not be missing or worse.
During his first two years of life, Trenton has been shuffled back and forth between his parents, his paternal grandmother, his maternal great-grandparents and into foster care. (WESH)
Is it possible by an act of God that maybe someone took this child away from all of these individuals to make a better life for Trenton Duckett? One can hope, pray and dream.
As the search for Trenton Duckett continues, information comes from the family courts as to what had transpired between the two parents and Trenton Duckett. Like with any terrible marriage and divorce between two adults, the child is always pout in the middle. The marriage and subsequent divorce of Melinda and Josh Duckett was no different. Trenton Duckett was and is the only innocent party in this entire matter and is the only one without blame. The court records were released and as usual both parents should be ashamed of themselves for using their child as a pawn. Its always the innocent that suffer the most.
Records: Experts critical of parents Court-ordered evaluation says Ducketts were unfit, another saw child as pawn
Judge reviewing DCF files involving Trenton Duckett
Doesn’t this sound rather familiar in the sad life of Trenton Duckett? On the day that the judge decides to have a hearing, Josh Duckett is off to NYC to appear on TV. If both Josh and Melinda made the situation about Trenton, maybe none of this would ever have happened.
On Wednesday, Hallman agreed with Sentinel attorney Susan Bunch, who argued that the public interest in Trenton Duckett’s DCF case outweighed his individual privacy rights.
DCF does not object to the release of the records in question, said Tim Bottcher, an agency spokesman. He said DCF officials suspect a public release of the records may help investigators determine what happened to Trenton.
Joshua Duckett, the boy’s father, did not appear at the hearing. He was on his way to New York City to appear on television and make another national plea in the search for his son.
But on Tuesday Joshua Duckett told the Sentinel he wants the DCF records revealed to the public.
“There’s stuff in there that should be released,” he said Tuesday. “In my eyes, they [DCF] screwed up. They were passing Trenton back and forth between the families.” (Orlando Sentinel)
DCF Releases Timeline Of Trenton Duckett’s Turbulent Life
September 30th, 2006 at 10:52pm
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The following is the suicide note that Melinda Duckett was to have wrote prior to her taking her life.
Could it be that Trenton Duckett is still alive? From Melinda Duckett’s suicide note:
“He was and always will be my essence and as he grows, I want him to know that.”
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Police say one note they found with her was addressed directly to the public.
“Public:
I’m sorry this is short. Usually I plan things out and am better with my writing.
Your focus came off of my son. I love him and only wanted him safe in my arms. You created rumors and twisted words. Usually I am strong and what others say does not affect me. However I am young, have worked my [explicative] off and still being faced with ridicule and criticism.
I only wish you do not push anyone else. I do not bleed my emotions to the public and throughout this situation you did not understand that. There were many more errors you made in understanding me, but time is short and I have more important people to speak to.”
Police say there was also a second note, which appeared to be a continuation of the first.
“There are so many people I would write to if I could and had the time. This is a last minute idea, but I have felt myself sinking after one week mark of Trent[on] being gone. I love him dearly and he is all I was breathing for. He was and always will be my essence and as he grows, I want him to know that.
I have refrained from any negative comments in the hopes that individuals will realize their wrongdoings. Thank you for your time.” (Central Florida News)
(Melinda Duckett Suicide Note)
September 24th, 2006 at 08:26pm
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It turns out that Melinda Duckett did write a suicide note before she killed herself with a 
shotgun in her grandparents home.
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In the letter addressed to the public, Duckett, 21, spoke of her love for her missing 2-year-old son, Trenton, and the anguish she felt at being “faced with ridicule and criticism” as rumors swirled about her role in his Aug. 27 disappearance. Thursday, investigators named her the “prime suspect” in the case.
After completing the unsigned two-page letter, she left it on the dashboard of her car and later took a shotgun and killed herself in a closet at her grandparents’ home in Lady Lake.
Melinda Duckett went on to say that the attention came off her son and on her. Obviously this was a troubled women.
“I’m sorry this is short,” Duckett wrote in her letter. “Usually I plan things out and am better with my writing. Your focus came off of my son. I love him and only wanted him safe in my arms. You created rumors and twisted words.”
One really has to wonder what the police were doing in this investigation. The idea that they had obtained the toddlers toys in the garbage and that they focussed on Melinda Duckett as the primary suspect, yet never arresting her is puzzling. Knowing that she has previously attempted suicide and had some issues, they let her remain free. They lost their number one witness and suspect with one shotgun blast.
Police said they could have arrested Duckett within four days of her son’s disappearance and more than a week before she killed herself, but they chose not to in hopes that she would lead them to the toddler.
Investigators began following Duckett and considered using other surveillance techniques, but the young mother shot herself before police could get her to cooperate. (Buffalo News)
Leesburg police release more evidence in Duckett case
The note apparently left by Melinda, which was undated and unsigned, was addressed simply to “Public” and appeared to place the blame for her suicide on the media. Later in the note, Melinda wrote that the decision to take her own life was one she made quickly and without much thought.
Investigators said they retrieved the note from the dashboard of Melinda’s car during a search following her Sept. 8 suicide. (The Village Daily Sun)
September 24th, 2006 at 07:50pm
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The search continues for 2 year old Kevin Brown in Alvarado, TX who wandered away 
from his home at approximately 8:00 pm Thursday night. According to reports, the father was given a polygraph test and passed.
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The Johnson County Sheriff’s Department, Burleson police and the Texas Department of Public Safety are all involved in the search. The search is concentrated along County Road 405 north of FM 2415.
A DPS helicopter from Austin has been searching along with people on foot, horseback and vehicles. Bloodhounds are being brought in, and some are diving into and dragging area stock ponds.
The FBI is now assisting in conducting interviews, questioning registered sex offenders in the area and searching six homes, and said everything checks out. (NBC5)
No sign of missing two-year-old
Kevin Brown disappeared from his front yard around 8 p.m. Thursday. Search dogs detected his scent on the family’s property, but were unable to trace it further.
Kevin Brown was playing with his 4-year-old brother when the brother was bitten by fire ants and went inside, Johnson County sheriff Cpl. Pam Jetsel said. The parents were treating the ant bites with medicine inside the house while Kevin played outside. When the parents went to look for him, the toddler was gone. (WFAA)
Anyone with information about Kevin should call the Johnson County sheriff at 817-556-6055.
‘Help me find my son,’ mother pleads
A 2-year-old Johnson County boy remained missing Friday night, more than 24 hours after he was last seen playing with his brother outside his home, and a $12,000 reward was offered for information, authorities said.
Kevin Brown’s parents asked the public for help, saying they are sure the boy was abducted.
“Please, all the mothers out there, help me find my son.” (Centre Daily)
UPDATE: Alvarado toddler missing for nearly three days found alive
2-year-old boy was found about a mile from his home today, nearly three days after he was reported missing, authorities said.
A helicopter pilot doing his final search sweep of the day spotted Kevin Brown drinking water from a stock tank. Authorities said he was ill and covered with scratches and ant bites, but was otherwise unharmed. (Houston Chronicle)
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This story defies all sense of reality and offends the all conscious thought. A woman has been arrested for killing her cousin and cutting her cousin’s child from her womb. The murdered woman’s children are also missing: 7 year old DeMond, 3 year old Ivan and 2 year old Jinela.
Police sources said a child was cut from the womb of a woman whose body was 
found behind an East St. Louis home Thursday.
Police have arrested the victim’s cousin for the murder. She was taken into custody late Thursday night.
Friday morning, police announced they were looking for three children last seen with the suspect. They were searching part of Frank Holten State Park for the children.
The missing children are 7 year old DeMond, 3 year old Ivan and 2 year old Jinela. The suspect is not the mother of the missing children. Police did not issue an Amber Alert for the children, but they told NewsChannel 5 they are concerned because the children are missing and were last seen with a woman now accused of killing her cousin and cutting her cousin’s child from her womb.
(KSDK)
Woman Questioned About Killing Mother, Stealing Fetus; Victim’s 3 Kids Missing
A 26-year-old woman who police called a “person of interest” was in police custody Friday. Local FOX affiliate KSDK reported that the woman being questioned is the victim’s cousin.
On Thursday there was a funeral for a baby who the woman in custody claimed was hers and had been stillborn, East St. Louis Police Chief James Mister told the Belleville News-Democrat.
An autopsy will be performed on the baby Friday to determine if it was removed from the dead woman’s womb, Mister said. (Fox News)
UPDATE: Three Missing Children all Found Dead
Three missing children have been found dead, days after their mother’s body was discovered with the fetus cut from her womb, authorities announced late yesterday.
The bodies of the children were found hours after a woman was charged and jailed on US$5-million bail in the deaths of Jimella Tunstall, 23, who was seven months pregnant.
The two boys, ages 7 and 2, and their one-year-old sister were found together in an apartment in the East St. Louis public housing complex where their mother lived. (Calgary Sun)
3 children drowned and then put in washer and dryer
Good God, how could this story get any more sick and twisted. Woman accused of killing a pregnant woman and her fetus now admits to drowning three young children and putting them into a washer & dryer.
A woman accused of killing a pregnant woman and her fetus told police she drowned the woman’s three young children and stuffed them into a washer and dryer at their apartment, an official said today.
Preliminary autopsies on the dead children Sunday appear to show they were drowned, Ace Hart, a deputy St. Clair County coroner, told The Associated Press.
According to today’s autopsies, there were no signs of physical abuse or trauma on the children – ages 7, 2, and 1 – and toxicology tests were pending “to see if they were poisoned or possibly drugged,” Hart said.
“They were not drowned there in the wash machine,” Hart stressed.
Today, the community turned to prayer to understand the slayings at a service for the slain family. (Houston Chronicle)
September 22nd, 2006 at 04:27pm
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Two year old Trenton Duckett is missing, Melinda Duckett is dead due to an apparent suicide, possessions of Trenton were found in the garbage and still these troubling comments left of Josh Duckett’s MySpace account go unanswered.
What a tragic situation of a bitter divorce between two adults and the child caught in the proverbial middle.
The message was posted on Joshua Duckett’s MySpace.com homepage on July 3, 2006, at 8:15 p.m. The language is course and the message is filled with obscenities.
VIDEO (Interview with Josh and Melinda Duckett regarding MySpace comments)
“I hate you because you ruined my life and took my son.”
‘”I am going to hunt you and your damn son down one day and kill both of you.”
“I don’t even think Trenton is my son anyway and your (sic) going to pay for what you’ve done to my life.”
“When I get my hands on your f—– (racial slur) a– you’ll regret what you’ve done … and I’ll bury your son with you.”
When asked by police about these comments, Josh Duckett claimed it was his estranged wife who was behind it. Josh Duckett claims “that his wife somehow accessed his pass word and changed his information and also typed and sent the letter to herself”.
But according to a criminal complaint filed with the Bushnell Police Department on July 11, Joshua Duckett told investigators his “estranged wife was the person behind the incident, though (the detective) was presented no evidence to that effect.”
(WESH)
Anyone with information regarding Trenton Duckett please call 800-CALL-FBI.
UPDATE: Melinda Duckett Wrote MySpace Posting, Police Say
WOW, according the the police … Melinda Duckett hacked into Josh Duckett’s MySpace account and posted the death threats.
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Also, Leesburg police confirmed on Thursday that a MySpace.com posting that included death threats and racial remarks directed at Melinda Duckett was written by Melinda Duckett. The posting appeared on Josh Duckett’s MySpace page, but he said he didn’t write it.
Computer experts now believe that Melinda Duckett hacked into his account and posted the message to set him up.
“I said that since Day 1. I knew for a fact,” Josh Duckett said on Thursday. “She was the only one that had the passwords to my e-mail account and everything. So, I knew from the start and I said that. I mean, they tried to set me up, and they failed.”
Also, the authorities have released an inventory list of the items taken from the Melinda Duckett residence.
Among the 15 things that investigators seized was a swab of something taken from an unknown stain on the hall wall in her apartment.
Also, police took a blue towel with unknown stains and a top sheet with “blood-like stains,” according to the inventory sheet.
(I -Team, WESH)
September 21st, 2006 at 05:28pm
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Breaking News from Fox, Abigale Lynn Woods found alive. It has been confirmed. The tragic case of the abduction is over with a happy ending.
UNION, Mo. — A family spokesperson says that little Abigale Woods has been found and is safe and well, FOX News has confirmed.
Abby Woods found alive
St. Louis (KMOX) — Eleven day old Abby Woods, the infant kidnapped from her home on Friday, has been found alive. Franklin County Sheriff Gary Toelke made the announcement this afternoon, with tears in his eyes. Family members quickly spread the news. Abby was found, not far from her home in Londell, Missouri. She has been taken to a hospital. Initial reports are that the baby is in good condition. Police earlier identified a suspect in the case. There is no information , at this time, concerning the suspect.
AMBER ALERT CANCELLED
Amber Alert cancelled, child safely recovered near Lonedell, MO, suspect in custody.
UPADATE: Baby Abby Woods Found Alive
“The family is elated and thankful to everyone in the community who prayed for them,” McCarthy said. “The baby was hydrated, nourished and in good condition when she arrived at the hospital.”
Franklin County Sheriff Gary Toelke told KSDK-TV in St. Louis on Tuesday evening that the baby was found alive in an abandoned house near Lonedell, not far from where the crime occurred. Toelke said a woman has been arrested. (11 Alive)
CNN: Suspect Gives herself up through intermediary
The child was reported to be in good condition at a hospital Tuesday. The baby’s relatives were told a female suspect was in custody, Petzold said.
The child was found within five miles of the family’s home, authorities said. She has been reunited with her family.
Franklin County Sheriff Gary Toelke said the suspect gave herself up through an intermediary. The woman matched a description given by the mother, he said.
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It is no surprise that law enforcement probably considered Melinda Duckett a suspect from
the out set of the disappearance of Trenton Duckett. Melinda would have been the last one to have put Trenton to bed and the first one to have noticed he was missing. The disappearance also took place under Melinda’s roof. However, now we are learning some more details to the original searches performed by the police upon gaining the initial search warrants.
Police asked to search her apartment on Aug. 27 — the night she reported Trenton missing. Investigators went to court to get a search warrant, and they searched her home early Monday morning.
“There were two search warrants served. One on the original night of the disappearance, or I guess that would actually be the following morning, early in the morning hours, and that was as the case wore on and it became apparent after interviewing the parents that the child had indeed disappeared,” said Capt. Steve Rockefeller of the Leesburg Police Department.
Upon searching the home the police found some interesting items:
Law enforcement officials told the WESH 2 I-Team that police found freshly painted walls in some places, and in the back, trash that was allegedly thrown out by Duckett was filled with Trenton’s toys.
But what grabbed investigators’ attention were the pictures, officials said. They said a lot of pictures of Trenton, including the sonogram printout from when Duckett was pregnant, were all thrown away in the trash.
Learning such details it becomes all that much more tragic that Melinda Duckett committed suicide. Authorities being able to question her in whatever manner might have shed some light on all of this as to “Where is Trenton Duckett”? Authorities have been searching at Ocalla National Forest and have turned up the following so far.
1. This past Sunday, divers in Farles Lake in the Ocala National Forest found a white garbage bag.
On the bag, investigators discovered a substance that some believed was blood and holes that appeared to be from alligator bites. The bag was sent to a Florida Department of Law Enforcement lab in Jacksonville for analysis, and forensic tests showed that the substance on that bag is not blood.
2. Law enforcement officials also said divers found a large piece of asphalt about 10 feet away from the bag. The lake is in a remote woodland where there are no paved roads.
3. The search in the Ocala National Forest has also turned up what could be a child’s shoe. Forensics experts are examining the shoe. (WESH)
The family is trying to work out the details to offer a $5000.00 reward.
The Eubanks’ church fund is in addition to the reward offered by Crimeline. In order to get that reward, tipsters need to call 800-423-TIPS. Police are also urging anyone with information to call the main investigative number at 800-CALL-FBI.
September 19th, 2006 at 05:27pm
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