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Alfonso Rodriguez Jr.was found guilty by a Federal Court jury in the kidnapping that resulted
in the death of Dru Sjodin. One by one juries across America are taking charge and putting an end to these monstrous predators. Alfonso Rodriguez Jr., was a previously convicted and
considered a Level 3 sex offender. It is too bad he had not been dealt with sooner. The verdict allows now for the sentencing phase in which the first death penalty case in a century will be heard in North Dakota.
Rodriguez, 53, of Crookston, Minn., was charged in the disappearance and death of Sjodin, 22, a University of North Dakota student from Pequot Lakes, Minn. Her body was found in a ravine near Crookston in April 2005, five months after she disappeared from a Grand Forks mall parking lot.
Authorities said she was stabbed, raped and left to die.
Sex offender guilty of kidnapping, murdering student (CNN)
A federal jury found a convicted sex offender guilty Wednesday in the kidnapping and murder of college student Dru Sjodin, whose body was found abandoned in Minnesota a ravine.
The verdict clears the way for the first death penalty deliberations in North Dakota in more than a century.
Jurors deliberated for less than four hours, then found Alfonso Rodriguez Jr., 53, guilty of charges he kidnapped Sjodin, stabbed her, raped her and dumped her body in a ravine.
God Bless Dru Sjodin’s mother, Linda Walker, and father, Allan Sjodin for all that they have been through. Your daughter put up a valiant fight against her attacker and because of that Alfonso Rodriguez Jr. will never see freedom and hopefully he will be put to death.
But Wrigley told jurors that blood found in Rodriguez’s car matched Sjodin’s DNA. He said it was found in a mist pattern, indicating Sjodin fought her attacker and was beaten.
“Ladies and gentlemen, Dru Sjodin battled him every step of the way, and she left us unmistakable messages,” Wrigley said.
It is unfortunate that Rodriguez was not taken off the streets permanently before he escalated his predatorial violence to murder. Hopefully now he will be properly sentenced to death so that no more people have to be affected by his actions.
Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty said in a statement: “If ever there was a case for which the death penalty should apply, this is it.”
Before Sjodin’s slaying, Rodriguez had served more than 20 years for offenses that included rape and attempted kidnapping. He got out of prison about six months before the killing.
August 30th, 2006 at 03:52pm
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Warren Steed Jeffs, 50, The fugitive leader of a polygamist Mormon sect ( Fundamentalist 
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints) was has been arrested in southern Nevada. Warren Steed Jeffs has been on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted list, with a $100,000 reward offered for information leading to his capture.
Warren Steed Jeffs, 50, was taken into custody after he and two other people were pulled over late Monday by a Nevada Highway Patrol trooper on Interstate 15 just north of Las Vegas, FBI spokesman David Staretz said.
The leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints was wanted in Utah and Arizona on suspicion of sexual misconduct for allegedly arranging marriages between underage girls and older men.
(Breitbart)
The other two individuals that were with Jeffs at the time of his arrest were identified as one of Warren Jeffs’ wives, Naomi Jeffs, and a brother, Isaac Steve Jeffs, both 32. According to the AP, they were being interviewed by the FBI; however, not under arrest.
(AP)
Jeffs was in federal custody in Las Vegas pending a court hearing on a federal charge of unlawful flight to avoid prosecution, Staretz said. It was not immediately clear if Jeffs would face extradition to Arizona or Utah.
Jeffs was indicted in June on an Arizona charge of arranging a marriage between a 16-year-old girl and a married man, and unlawful flight to avoid prosecution. He is charged in Utah with two felony counts of rape as an accomplice, for allegedly arranging the marriage of a teenage girl to an older man in Nevada.
Report: Warren Jeffs arrested In Las Vegas
Jeffs was wanted in Arizona on charges of sexual conduct with a minor. He’s also accused of arranging marriages between underage girls and older men and has been charged in Utah with rape as an accomplice. Jeffs also faces a charge of unlawful flight to avoid prosecution.
(Keoland)
Fugitive polygamist sect leader caught near Las Vegas
LAS VEGAS, Nevada (CNN) — Nevada state troopers found one of the FBI’s most wanted fugitives, along with wigs, cell phones, laptop computers and more than $54,000 in cash, on a highway north of Las Vegas, authorities said Monday.
Jeffs faces charges of unlawful flight to avoid prosecution in Utah and Arizona, sexual conduct with a minor, conspiracy to commit sexual conduct with a minor and rape as an accomplice, according to the FBI Web site.
UPDATE: Polygamist Leader Jeffs to Return to Utah to Face Teen-Bride Marriage Charges
LAS VEGAS — The leader of a polygamist sect said Thursday he will not fight extradition on charges that he arranged marriages between underage girls and older men.
Warren Jeffs appeared in court wearing a blue jumpsuit and flanked by armed guards. He nodded when a judge asked if he would be extradited to Utah to face charges there.
(Fox News)
August 29th, 2006 at 09:35am
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A statewide Amber Alert has been issued for a missing two year old Leesburg child, Trenton 
Ducket. Trenton Duckett was discovered missing from his bedroom at Windemere Apartments on Griffin Road on Sunday at about 9:00 pm.
Trenton is described as follows:
- Asian-Caucasian
- 2 1/2 to 3 feet tall
- weighing 30 to 40 pounds
- brown low-cut hair
- He was last seen wearing a blue-and-green striped shirt (or no shirt) with blue denim shorts and no shoes.
Amber Alert Post Flyer
Authorities believe that Trenton Duckett is in danger. It is believed that Trenton was taken through his bedroom window.
Investigators said they’re very concerned, and the FBI has been called in to help search for the boy.
Detectives said they think Trenton was taken through his bedroom window. Investigators said they also found signs of forced entry into the apartment.
“When we were checking out the area, it was discovered that at least one entry point of the apartment has some signs of tampering. I can’t really go into too many details about that, but that did lead us to be extremely cautious regarding foul play or something of that nature in this case,” Leesburg Police Department Capt. Steve Rockefeller said.
(WESH)
Anyone with information is asked to call 911 or 88-FL-MISSING.
UPDATE I: (8/29/06) Police still hunt for missing boy
LEESBURG — Police were still searching late Monday for a 2-year-old boy reportedly abducted from his bedroom during the weekend.
The boy is the grandson of James Duckett, the former Mascotte police officer who is on death row for raping, strangling and drowning an 11-year-old girl, according to Jeanne Bragg, a longtime family friend. That crime occurred in 1987, and he was convicted in 1988. The Florida Supreme Court upheld the conviction in October.
Family members said the boy’s parents, Melinda and Joshua Duckett, both 21 years old, had been fighting for custody of the child. The couple filed for divorce in June and live in separate cities, according to court records.
Last month, Melinda Duckett requested a restraining order against her estranged husband.
In her petition for injunction, she said she received an e-mail from Joshua Duckett in July, threatening to hurt her and Trenton, court records said. Her petition stated “Joshua would hunt my son and I [Melinda] down and that he will bury my son with me.”
(Orlando Sentinel)
VIDEO for missing Trenton Ducket
August 28th, 2006 at 11:41pm
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The San Francisco police need people’s help in finding a 5 months old missing girl who went 
missing Sunday night.
The baby’s father told police that he was parked near 18th and Mission streets around 7:30 p.m. and left his child in his car while he went inside a store.
After returning to his vehicle, he began driving away, police reported, and noticed the baby was gone.
The 5-month-old girl weighs about 15 pounds, has black hair and was last seen wearing a pink dress.
(CBS5)
Anyone with information please contact the San Francisco police at (415) 558-5508 or (415) 553-1071.
Toddler Snatched From SF Automobile
A citywide manhunt was underway Monday for a missing 5-month-old girl who was taken from the front seat of the family car after her father ran into a Mission District store.
(KTVU)
UPDATE (8/29/06): Rescue dogs hunt for missing baby 5-month-old girl apparently taken from father’s car
Police have brought in rescue dogs to help search for a 5-month-old girl who reportedly disappeared from her father’s car in San Francisco’s Mission District when he went into a corner store to buy cigarettes.
The girl’s father, 24-year-old Anthony Demone Theard, told police he parked his car — a 2002 silver Cadillac Seville — on the 3400 block of 18th Street near Mission Street at 7:30 p.m. Sunday.
(San Francisco Chronicle)
Why was Anthony Demone Theard in this area in the first place where his daughter went missing? So you don’t think leaving your child in a car so one can go and score some crack cocaine has anything to do with your 5 month old missing? Think again. Would your daughter be missing if you had stayed home? There are consequences to actions.
Theard has a criminal record for pimping and pandering and admitted to police that he had been at 24th and Mission streets earlier Sunday evening looking for crack cocaine, but had been unsuccessful in finding it. “That has nothing to do with why my daughter is missing,” he said.
UPDATE: Body of missing infant found in SF park
The tragic but all too common end came to the case of missing 5 month old Camille Ferguson early this morning as her body was found in a remote section of a San Francisco park.
The body of a 5-month-old girl who had been missing since Sunday was found early this morning in a remote area of San Francisco’s John McLaren Park, and the infant’s father is a suspect in her death, police said.
Anthony Demone Theard, the baby’s father is said to be a suspect in Camille Ferguson’s death; however, he has not been charged. Theard was taken into custody Tuesday on an unrelated parole violation.
Theard has a criminal record for pimping and pandering and admitted to police that he had been at 24th and Mission streets earlier Sunday evening looking for crack cocaine, but had been unsuccessful in finding it.
“That has nothing to do with why my daughter is missing,” he said.
(San Francisco Chronicle)
Missing 5 Month Old’s Body Found In Park, Father Led Police to Baby’s Body
San Francisco police say the suspect in the baby’s death is the father. Police sources tell ABC7 he led authorities to the body of little Camille Ferguson in a remote area of McLaren Park early this morning, north of the Cow Palace.
The father was the one who told police an elaborate kidnapping story. But early this morning police say he brought them to MacLaren Park and showed them where her body was.
Five-month-old Camille Ferguson’s father told everyone his baby was snatched right out of the front seat of his car Sunday night while he was inside a convenience store, and everyone bought his story.
(ABC KGO-TV)
August 28th, 2006 at 03:51pm
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Natascha Kampusch was ten when she was kidnapped on her way to school Natascha was then imprisoned in a tiny pit dug into the garage floor of her captor’s. What is only more unbelievable than Natascha’s story of being held as a sex slave is her dramatic escape and the fact that she is alive after all this time.
This is the tiny cell where sex slave victim Natascha Kampusch was held captive by her abductor Wolfgang Priklopil. The tiny pit was dug into the floor of her captor’s garage. See more pictures here. (Getty)
Natascha Kampusch, who was ten when she was kidnapped on her way to school, was imprisoned in a tiny pit dug into the floor of her captor’s garage.
Natascha told officers she was kept as a sex slave in a tiny windowless cell behind a heavy metal gate. She was forced to call her captor ‘Gebiete’ – an old-fashioned term for ‘Master’ used in fairy stories.
Initially, it was reported that she had escaped from Priklopil’s car when his BMW was stopped for a routine police check.
But it emerged that she had fled from his two-storey house in Strasshof near Vienna and was found by an elderly woman. Police quickly raided the property, finding Natascha’s passport and her tiny cell. Priklopil had already fled after discovering she was missing.
(The Daily Mail)
UPDATE (8/29/06): Sex slave ‘pregnant by kidnapper’
The girl held for eight years as a sex slave in a tiny cellar in Vienna, is pregnant by her captor, it was claimed today.
Natascha Kampusch, now 18, escaped the clutches of pervert Wolfgang Priklopil last Wednesday, but now according to German newspaper reports, it is feared she is carrying his child.
(Daily Mail)
UPDATE: Natascha Kampusch does first MEDIA Interviews
August 25th, 2006 at 11:37pm
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As the search continues for Gloria Ryan, two people have been arrested in her disappearance. One of the two arrested was Gloria Ryan’s son, Corderral Smith. According to previous reports, Gloria Ryan, age 50, was last seen by her son at her home located in the 1200 block of Truman in Cleveland, TX on Sunday, August 6th, 2006.
Tim Miller and Texas EquuSearch continue to search for Gloria Ryan.
CLEVELAND, Texas — Two people have been arrested in connection with the disappearance of a Cleveland woman, officials told KPRC Local 2.
Gloria Ryan, 51, was last seen alive at her home on Aug. 6.
Cleveland police said one of the people arrested is Ryan’s son.
(Houston Chronicle)
With an arrest in the case and the search for Gloria Ryan changed to a more specific area one can assume that someone is talking. According to credible sources Corderra Smith may have stated the location of where Gloria Ryan may be located. Searchers are optimistic that she will be found.
August 24th, 2006 at 06:00pm
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6 year old Jabriel Eason who is autistic has been missing since Sunday evening in 
Macon, GA. About 45 fire, police and emergency management officials combed the woods and streets near the area of the apartment complex Sunday.
A 6-year-old Macon boy was missing late Sunday, with fire officials dragging the lake behind Crystal Lake Apartments on Chambers Road and a helicopter set to join the search after 11:30 p.m., officials said.
Jabriel Eason, who is autistic and does not communicate, was last seen by his mother about 12:30 p.m. Sunday.
“When I woke up, I called for him,” his mother, Octavia Ammons, said. “He didn’t answer this time.”
Ammons said she had blocked the front door with her sofa so that her son could not get outside while she napped, but Jabriel had moved the couch out of the way.
(Macon Telegraph)
UPDATE: I received a call from Tim Miller as TES was supposed to go to GA and help search for the missing boy. The sad news came in that Jabriel Eason’s body was found.
UPDATE: Also received comment from reader with an article from the Macon Telegraph.
Search for 6-year-old ends tragically
A 20-hour search for a missing 6-year-old autistic boy ended in tragedy Monday when his body was found by searchers in a lake near his home.
Eason was already dead when searchers found him. Bibb County Coroner Leon Jones pronounced Eason dead at 10:30 a.m. He said a Monday autopsy ruled the death an accidental drowning and revealed no injuries to the body.
August 14th, 2006 at 11:31am
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Laurie Mackenzie had been missing for 5 months from Goffstown, NH. Although 
the circumstances of her disappearance were due to a pending shop-lifting felony involving items worth more than $900.00. She was recently found and arrested in Florida. Laura Mackenzie waived extradition and will be headed back to New Hampshire to face the music. However, her parents are elated that they have found their daughter safe, no matter what troubles their daughter faces.
“We’re elated. This is pure jubilation,” Laura Mackenzie’s father, Bill, said at a news conference in Goffstown. “Our prayers have been answered.”
In Florida, Laurie Mackenzie met with her mother and waived extradition on the shoplifting charge, a felony involving more than $900 worth of items.
Though her parents didn’t know it then, Mackenzie was due in Manchester District Court on the charge on March 8, the day she drove off for Goffstown High and disappeared.
(Boston Globe)
N.H. Teen Fugitive Found In St. Augustine
Mackenzie’s mother, Enid, said she was getting ready for work when she got the call she had been waiting for five months and “screamed for joy.”
During the teen’s absence the family had set up a website at findlaura.org to help locate her.
“We’re so happy,” Enid Mackenzie said. “I had no idea which direction she could have gone. I’m just glad that she’s safe and well, and we all will be reunite very soon.”
Investigators said they were tipped off Monday morning to Mackenzie’s location. Police found her vehicle, the same one she drove in New Hampshire, and then her.
(News 4 Jax)
August 9th, 2006 at 05:39pm
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11-year-old Katie Jean Krauth has been reported missing and taken from her home in 
Northwood, Iowa. A missing child alert has been issued.
Bogle says they have few other details. He says the child was taken from her mother and they’re working with local and Minnesota authorities to try and locate her. Bogle says the girl was taken from her home in Northwood around 1:43 a-m in a White Mercury Marquee four-door car. He says they don’t know who took the girl.
Bogle says they have not issued a nationwide Amber Alert, but it is something they will consider. Bogle says they’re trying to “firm up some additional information” so they have the proper information if they issue an Amber Alert.
(Radio Iowa)
Description:
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Krauth is described as being white
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brown hair
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brown eyes
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five-foot-two inches tall
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80 pounds.
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She has a mole on her back.
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Krauth was last seen wearing a blue tank top with blue jeans and flip-flops.
Anyone with information on the girl is asked to call Northwood Police at 642-324-3640.
UPDATE: Missing Northwood girl found Safe
The Iowa Department of Public Safety says a missing Northwood girl has been found and is safe in Minnesota.
As the investigation progressed, investigators determined Katie Krauth was located safe with friends of Barb Krauth in Austin, Minnesota and is currently in the custody of Agents of the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension.
A news release from the Iowa D-C-I says at this time in the investigation, it appears Barb Krauth made an erroneous report to law enforcement. The investigation continues and investigators will consult with the Worth County Attorney to determine if criminal charges against Barb Krauth are warranted.
(Radio Iowa)
Report of missing girl apparently false, mother faces charges
With all the missing persons cases that exist out there the last thing that law enforcement needs are false reports. That seems to be the case in the report that 11 year old Katie Jean Krauth was missing. It would seem her mother filed an erroneous missing persons report.
Saunders says it’s not clear why the mother apparently field the false report.
He says investigators still don’t know exactly why and how the report was made, and he says they used a lot of resources finding the girl and are just glad she was found safe.
Saunders says while fifteen law enforcement agencies from Iowa and Minnesota took time and manpower to participate, the release of a public alert did turn up information on the child’s whereabouts. Saunders says information started coming in from friends of the family who heard officers might be looking for the girl. He says at the time they got the first information, they went with it as the information seemed important to release since the girl’s whereabouts were unknown. Saunders says as the investigation continued, “It would appear that this information was erroneous.”
(Radio Iowa)
August 1st, 2006 at 04:46pm
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What was the senseless and tragic act responsible for the death of Destiny Norton? According to police 
transcripts we may have the answer as to how and why Craig Roger Gregerson killed Destiny Norton.
Police statements:
“On July 16th 2006, Craig Roger Gregerson observed juvenile female…outside his residence in Salt Lake County, Utah. Suspect Gregerson opened the gate to his backyard and lured the juvenile female into his residence. The juvenile female began to scream. Suspect Gregerson put his hand over the juvenile’s mouth and began to squeeze. The juvenile female went limp and suspect Gregerson laid her body on the floor.”
(ABC4)
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Craig Roger Gregerson failed the initial lie detector test the police gave him which led to the further investigation of his story he provided. As it turns out it appears that Craig Gregerson failed two polygraph tests.
Craig Gregerson lured an unsuspecting 5 year old to his home? For what reason? This individual supposedly has had no criminal record and certainly non for sex offenses. Or is it that he just had never been caught? Let’s just hope that Gregerson never asked for an attorney during any of his interrogations that could get any of this evidence thrown out as it was in the Couey case in the murder of Jessica Lunsford.
Death Of Utah Girl Destiny Norton Raises Outrage: Suspect had violent past.
How can antone know this type of sick individual lives next door to them?
Court documents showed Craig Roger Gregerson, 20, had a violent past and was arrested for domestic abuse in 2004.
Documents from Salt Lake District Court and Sandy Justice Court say Gregerson attended group therapy and ordered him to create a plan aimed at keeping himself and others safe.
But Tuesday the Salt Lake County Jail released a statement describing what Gregerson allegedly did with Destiny, whose body was found at 8:30 p.m. Monday.
A probable cause statement says Gregerson lured the juvenile female into his home and covered her mouth when she began to scream.
The document blacks out the name Destiny Norton. The document says Gergerson observed a female outside his residence on July 16 in Salt Lake County, Utah.
Previous complain againt Gregerson by his ex-mother in law:
His mother-in-law filed an affidavit accusing Gregerson of once choking and punching her when she tried to kick him out of her home.
Gregerson once threw the couple’s 1-year-old daughter across a bed when the infant kicked some food off his lap, said an attorney for Gregerson’s wife.
(CBS4 Boston)
July 26th, 2006 at 07:54am
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