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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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What is Giorgio Armani thinking with this junior ad? The following ad is taking all kinds of fire in Spain. This coming on the foot heals of a previous ad having to be pulled. What is wrong with these people? If you have to ask whether one thinks the ad is inappropriate … the answer is yes.
The advertisement shows a little girl in a bikini. The decision was taken a few days after Dolce & Gabbana was forced to pull an image from Spain showing a woman pinned to the ground by a man as other men looked on.
A Giorgio Armani advertisement showing a little girl in a bikini has drawn the attention of Spanish authorities who are debating whether it depicts a child in an improperly sexual manner.
The Madrid regional government’s child protection chief said on Monday he would ask the advertising industry self-regulator to consider whether the image visible on the Italian fashion house’s Web site (www.armanijunior.com) should be withdrawn.
March 12th, 2007 at 10:32am
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14 year old Breanna Bird has been missing for three days in New Jersey. Its a parents worst nightmare. Thinking your child is safe and under your protection when suddenly they realize their teenager is living a duel life on the internet.
“I just don’t think she’s where she wants to be, I really don’t,” said her mother, Renee Bird.
With every passing hour, Renee and Harvey Bird’s level of fear rises. Their 14-year-old daughter Breanna vanished without a trace three days ago.
“Multiple things are running through our heads right now. From best- case scenarios to worst,” said Harvey Bird.
The Galloway township teen — whose dad is a 22-year veteran of the local police force — stayed home Saturday evening when her parents went to dinner.
When they came back, they said Breanna was gone. No one has heard from her since.
She left her cell phone behind, but nothing indicating she planned to be away for long.
“The only thing missing is her pocketbook and her coat,” said her mom. (NBC10)
Breanna Bird’s parents discovered that she had a MySpace account. On that account it indicates that she is 19.
The ninth- grader’s parents soon learned Breanna had at least three accounts on the popular Web Site MySpace.com, on which she claimed to be as old as 19.
The couple said they also discovered teen had been in contact with adult men, both online and on the phone.
Anyone with information is asked to contact the Galloway Township Police at 609-652-3705.
UPDATE I: NJ Teen returned home safe
A missing South Jersey teenager returned home on Tuesday after disappearing Saturday night.
The girl’s parents had worried that she may have set up a meeting with someone she met on the Internet, and Galloway Township police were treating her disappearance as a missing person.
But the girl, the daughter of a township police officer, came home at approximately 9 p.m. It was unclear where she was or who she was with.
March 6th, 2007 at 09:53pm
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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.
March 3rd, 2007 at 11:40am
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There is an AMBER ALERT issued in Florida for 13 year old Clay Moore who was abducted at a school bus stop this morning. It appears to be a random kidnapping.
Printable Flyer from Florida Law Enforcement
Description of Clay Moore:
- Moore is described as 5 feet tall
- 100 pounds
- long light brown or blonde hair; chin length, wavy hair
- last seen wearing a green polo shirt and black jacket, both with Manatee School of the Arts emblem, khaki pants and red backpack
Description of suspect:
- The suspect is described as a 5′ 6″-tall Hispanic man
- He was driving a maroon truck.
Amber Alert Issued For Manatee Co. Teen Abducted At Gunpoint
PARRISH, Fla. — An Amber Alert has been issued for a boy who officials said was abducted at gunpoint Friday morning from a school bus stop.
Manatee County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Dave Bristow said the boy was taken just before 9 a.m. from the Parrish area. (WESH)
Anyone with information please call the Manatee County Sheriff’s Office at 941-748-4501, extension 3596 or call 911.
UPDATE I: CLAY MOORE FOUND SAFE
Boy Sought in Florida Amber Alert Has Been Found
Clay More Found Safe, Suspect Still at large
UPDATE II: Arrest Warrent Issued for Vincente Ignacio Beltran Marino
(CBS4) Florida Police are closing in on a central Florida man suspected of abducting a Manatee County teen in a failed ‘kidnapping for ransom’ scheme.
At a news conference Sunday morning, Sheriff Charlie Wells said an arrest warrant has been issued for 22-year old Vicente Ignacio Beltran Moreno for Friday’s armed abduction of 13-year old Clay Moore from a crowded bus stop on Friday.
Moore, who was duct taped to a tree and left in a wooded area about 20 miles away from where he was taken, managed to free himself with a safety pin. He then walked until he found a farm worker with a cell phone. He called his mother at about 1-30 p-m. Wells says he boy wasn’t hurt except for scratches and scrapes.
“This was an absolute kidnapping for ransom,” Wells said, “The person wanted money in exchange for Clay Moore.”
February 23rd, 2007 at 12:11pm
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A Missing Child Alert has been issued in Orlando, FL for 11 year old Ninotshka Pablos. She was last seen at the 2800 block of East Colonial Drive in Orlando, FL. She is considered in danger.
( Ninotshka Pablos)
Description:
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11-year-old white female
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5 feet tall
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85 pounds
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brown hair
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brown eyes
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She was last seen wearing a white jacket, white tank top with blue and black stripes, dark jeans capris with “Mecca” on them in red and gold lettering, large hoop earrings and white tennis shoes.
If anyone has any information regarding Ninotshka Pablos, please contact the Orlando Police Department at 407-246-2470 or 911.
UPDATE I: Ninotshka Pablos went missing while going to get ice cream Monday night
Investigators said Ninotshka Pablos left her home Monday night at the Home Suitet Home extended stay suites located at the corner of Colonial Drive and Primrose apparently walking to the Fashion Square Mall with a friend to get ice cream. The girl’s mother said she never came home. (Press News)
(HomeSuiteHome Extended Stay)
UPDATE II: Missing 11 year old girl went to go get ice cream with a friend last night and never returned. The question that comes to mind is, where is the friend she went with to get ice cream? Is she missing as well? That individual would have to have seen her last. Who else did she meet at The fashion Square Mall? Also, what is the surveillance cameras like in the mall? VIDEO Investigators say they got a call about 8pm last night from the mother of Nanashka Pablos.
She says the girl left their room at the Home Sweet Home on Colonial Drive in Orlando and hasn’t been seen since. Investigators say the young girl left to go get ice cream with a friend at the Fashion Square Mall and hasn’t returned since. Police say the girl has no history of running away and asks if anyone sees her to please call police. (CFN13)
UPDATE III: No Shortage of Sex Offenders living in the area … 6 in Same Complex
Home Suite Homes, 2801 E. Colonial Drive, where their friend Ninotshka Pablos, 11, went missing after she left Monday night to go get ice cream. (Orlando Sentinel)
According to the Florida Sex Offender Registry there are 452 sex offenders living within 5 miles of the residence and 20 within 1 mile. There are actually 6 sex offenders living in the same 2801 E. Colonial Drive Complex.
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UPDATE IV: Found Safe, 11 year old returned home.
Orlando Police have announced that an 11-year-old girl who went missing last night returned home this afternoon.
Ninotshka Pablos, a 5th-grade student at Audubon Elementary in Orlando, appeared to be in good condition when she returned to the Home Suite Home Extended Stay just before 1 p.m. today, said Orlando Police Sgt. Barbara Jones. Police are now interviewing the girl, to determine where she had been. (Orlando Sentinel)
February 20th, 2007 at 12:03pm
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34 year old, mother of two Tara Lynn Grant has not been seen or heard from since February 9, 2007. Her husband, Steven Grant, stated that she was on her way to San Juan Puerto Rico on a business trip. However, there are no records of any such trip.
Her family said she got into a black vehicle on Friday in front of her home — she was on her way to a business trip in San Juan, Mexico, but never made the trip.
Tara Lynn Grant Description:
- 5′ 6″ tall
- 120 lbs
- brown hair
- brown eyes
Stephen Grant has been questioned by police and hired a criminal defense attorney. Is this a precaution or does he have something to hide?
Investigators tell WXYZ.com that Grant, 34, an executive with the Washington Group construction company in Troy and mother of two children, hasn’t been seen nor heard from since Feb. 9. Her husband, Stephen Grant, says she was heading to San Juan, Puerto Rico — but investigators say there’s no record of her trip, no credit card activity since she left, and her cell phone has been turned off.
Adding to the mystery, the sheriff’s department says, is the fact that Grant and her husband argued prior to her disappearance from their home in Washington Township. And that her husband has hired prominent criminal defense attorney David Griem.
In a letter to investigators obtained by WXYZ.com, Griem explains why he was hired and how his client will continue to cooperate:
If anyone has any information regarding this case please call the sheriff’s office at 586-307-9358 or 586-307-9412.
UPDATE I: Missing woman’s family gets a detective
As investigators continue searching for a missing 34-year-old Washington Township woman, an attorney for her husband said a private detective is also on the case.
Tara Lynn Grant argued with her husband over taking business trips and left her home late Feb. 9, said attorney David Griem, retained by Stephen Grant.
Tara Grant’s cell phone has been turned off, and she hasn’t used her credit cards since she left, Hackel said. She has not returned to work, he said.
Hackel said Tara Grant made her last cell phone call to her husband on Feb. 9 after she returned to Michigan from a business trip to San Juan, Puerto Rico. (Detroit Free Press)
UPDATE II: Missing woman’s husband refuses lie detector test
Why won’t Tara Lynn Grant’s husband take a lie detector test? Does he have something to hide or is it advice from an attorney that is only making the husband look suspicious? Normally an innocent person would want to clear themselves so that police can put their efforts toward other directions in solving a case. What’s up here?
Relations between a missing woman’s husband and police investigating her disappearance may be turning bitter, with allegations of police harassment and an attorney’s refusal to let the husband take a polygraph test. (Macomb Daily)
UPDATE III: Husband Suspected Tara Grant of Having an Affair
Stephen Grant suspected his wife, Tara Lynn, was cheating on him, and he planted a device on their home computer to track who she was corresponding with, according to a former girlfriend and e-mails obtained by police Tuesday.
A woman who identified herself as Stephen Grant’s ex-girlfriend, who did not want to be publicly identified, turned over a series of e-mails to police Tuesday. The e-mails the girlfriend received said Stephen Grant, 37, told her he thought his wife was cheating with a man he called “the old geezer.”
“So what are you going to do about the cheatin’ wife?” the former girlfriend asked.
“Don’t know yet,” was the reply, which went on to say that his wife talked to the subject of her interest in code. “And because of that, I don’t know what is actually going on,” the e-mail said.
The e-mail said he knew this relationship was physical because a friend helped him load special software on a computer. “The magic of intercepted e-mail and phone calls.”
In one e-mail, he raised his suspicion that his wife had had a nonphysical relationship with another man about two years ago. His e-mail said that relationship amounted to “just txt and e-mail and phone calls.” (Detroit News)
UPDATE IV: Men deny affairs with missing Washington Twp. woman
Police questioned two co-workers who were said to have had affairs with Tara Lynn Grant, but both men denied any involvement with the missing woman.
Hackel said investigators questioned the man referred to as “the old geezer” in the e-mails, and a second man who co-workers told police may have had an affair with Tara Lynn. Both men denied the allegations, Hackel said.
“There was no indication that there was anything but a professional relationship,” Hackel said. (Detroit News)
February 18th, 2007 at 02:13pm
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Maybe this might be one of the top 5 “Most Unbelievable line” ever uttered … “People 
don’t like me for some reason.” (John Couey) Gee, ya think? Funny how most people are adverse to kidnapping, child rapists and murderers.
The trial of John Couey, accused monster who kidnapped, raped and murdered Jessica Lunsford, begins Monday. Jury selection is set to begin and the trial will be held in Miami rather than Citrus County where the crime was committed.
The trial was moved 300 miles to Miami from Citrus County, where the crime occurred, because of intense pretrial media coverage. That coverage has included the passage of tougher sex offender laws in Florida and at least 18 other states and spurred creation of the first-ever coordinated Justice Department effort to track down noncompliant offenders nationwide, such as those who fail to register or aren’t living where they are supposed to.
The trial could be held on the moon, John Couey will not escape the heinous acts that he did. Once again this morning the defence tried to delay the trial from going forward. Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Richard Howard denied the motion. Let’s face it Couey … its time to face the justice that you have so rightfully earned.
”The fact of the matter is, this case is going forward,” said Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Richard Howard, who denied a request for a delay by attorneys for defendant John Evander Couey. (Miami Herald)
There is one of the most unbelievable articles in The Tampa Tribune that discusses the victim-hood of John Evander Couey … or Johnny as they refer to him … “Every Way He Turned, Couey Always Landed In Trouble.” Let us never forget what this beast did to a poor innocent young girl. Let us not forget he buried her alive. Let us never forget the innocence of Jessica Lunsford.
Couey later told detectives he knew where she was. For three days, he said, she lived in his closet. For three days, he told detectives in lengthy interviews, he molested her, raped her, then placed her in a pair of trash bags and buried her next to his back steps.
The Tampa Tribune goes on to write a touchy, feely piece on Couey’s trouble filled life and times. Honestly, who cares! Maybe the Tribune may want to spend more ink and paper discussing Jessica Lunsford’s life that will never be. A life cut short in one of the most viscous and heinous ways imaginable.
However, do not worry about John Couey’s troubled life … a Florida jury will see fit to putting him and us out of our misery by handing Couey a guilty sentence and death penalty.
February 12th, 2007 at 11:25am
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An Amber Alert was initially issued for 10 year old Marissa Graham in Oklahoma. She was reportedly abducted by a white male approximately 35–40 years of age. Later the next day Marissa Graham was found safe in Clovis, NM getting away from her abductors vehicle at a gas station. The suspect remained at large.
The FBI has recently released some new information in the case of Marissa Graham’s abduction. The FBI is presently offering a $25,000 reward for information leading to the identification, arrest, and or conviction of the person or persons who kidnapped Marissa.
Graham was abducted about 6:30 p.m. on Jan. 18 while collecting donations for a basketball fundraiser in Texhoma and was driven to Goodwell, Okla., where the suspect stopped near a grain elevator, said FBI agent Michael Ward. “At this point, the suspect is believed to have engaged in a cell phone conversation with an unknown person … (and) inquired as to the media coverage and police response to the abduction,” Ward said. (Examiner-Enterprise)
There seems to be one important change from the initial accounts of the 10 year old’s escape from her abductor. It appears that the kidnapper opened the trunk latch and released Marissa.
When the suspect drove to an Allsup’s convenience store in Clovis, Ward said the man activated the automatic latch for the vehicle’s rear door and let the girl out of the vehicle. The girl then walked into the store and notified store employees, who called police.
FBI Press Release:
(Sorry, error with sketch that was previously posted)
February 8th, 2007 at 12:01am
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The Coast Guard is searching off the Maine coast for the 52 foot boat, “Lady Luck”, that went missing at approximately 2:00 AM this morning.
The 52-foot Lady Luck, based out of Newburyport, Mass., has been missing since about 2 a.m., when the Coast Guard said it received a distress call.
Officials said there were two crew members aboard.
One of the planes located a debris field and an oil sheen in the vicinity.
Weather conditions this time of year in Maine make it difficult at best for rescuers.
The coast guard has deployed a Falcon jet and a helicopter to the scene and two cutters are en route. The helicopter has detected a debris field and oil sheen in the area.
The Canadian coast guard and other fishing vessels are assisting in the search.
The wind is currently at ten knots, with four-foot seas. The water temperature is 40 degrees.
UPDATE I: Search suspended for missing fishing boat
BOSTON – A New Hampshire crewman and his Massachusetts captain are presumed dead after the Coast Guard on Friday suspended its search for a fishing vessel that issued a distress signal early Thursday off the coast of southern Maine.
Wood debris and a distress beacon from the Lady Luck, a 52-foot ground fishing boat missing since Thursday at 2 a.m., were spotted floating off the shoals of Cape Elizabeth, Maine. But as of Friday afternoon, Coast Guard search teams had not found the Newburyport-based boat or its crew, skipper Sean Cone, 24, of North Andover, and Dan Miller, 21, of North Hampton, N.H. (Fosters On-Line)
February 1st, 2007 at 12:32pm
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