Scared Monkeys Missing Persons Site

Walter White Charged in the Death of Samantha Mikesell

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 Posted by Administrator | Found Deceased, Missing, Missing Teen, Pictures, sex offender | no comments

Body Of Missing Teen, Samantha Mikesell Found In Utah, Walter Andrew White held as Suspect

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 Posted by Administrator | arrested, Found Deceased, Internet, Missing, Missing Teen, Pictures, Samantha Mikesell, sex offender | one comment

Florida Judge Tosses out John Couey Murder Confession of Jessica Lunsford

How else can a victim and family be violated? The confession of sex offender John Evander Couey that he murdered Jessica Lunsford has been thrown out by a judge on the grounds that sex offender, rapist and murdered John Couey had previously asked for a lawyer on multiple occasions prior to his confession.

The confession of a man charged with kidnapping, raping and killing 9-year-old Jessica Lunsford isn’t admissible in court, but the discovery of her body can be used as evidence, a judge ruled Friday.

John Evander Couey, a 47-year-old convicted sex offender, gave the confession to detectives, but also told them that he wanted to consult a lawyer. He wasn’t given the opportunity to do so.

(AP)

This is the face of a sex offender that our legal system seem to provide more right to than the innocent victims that they rape and kill

Although it is reprehensible that this judge has thrown out the confession of this child rapist, murdering pig who buried poor 9-year-old Jessica Lunsford alive after he had violated her; one has to wonder what the hell the police officers were thinking? Did they want to blow this entire case for the prosecution? The unfortunate facts of life is that scum bag child killers are afforded rights even though it is unimaginable that they should be afforded anything. Especially since Couey was already convicted of sexually molesting a 5 year old. The fact remains that the police violated the most simple of legal protections afforded to people accused of crimes.

“This is a material and a profound violation of one of the most bedrock principles of criminal law,” Circuit Judge Ric Howard said in issuing the ruling Friday.

On the taped interview, parts of which were played in court, Couey spoke freely with the detectives about his criminal past, use of crack and relationship with his family. When the topic crept closer to Lunsford, however, Couey repeatedly mentioned wanting a lawyer.

The overall outrage of this case comes from the fact of what was done to 9 year old Jessica Lunsford by this previously convicted sex offender and that he buried her alive. These actions shocked the collective conscience of a country and the fact that the police acted so recklessly in jeopardizing a case is just pathetic. Its like the family being violated all over again. Mark Lunsford, Jessica’s dad, has already been through a living hell having his daughter ripped from him. Now he gets the slap in the face that his daughter’s murderer has more rights than were afforded her.

Jessica was found kneeling and clutching a stuffed animal, hands tied with speaker wire and fingers poking through the garbage bags in which she was buried alive in February 2005. Two days earlier, Couey told detectives he had kidnapped, raped and killed the girl, and he told them where to find the body.

Maybe the police and the prosecution need to be asked as well why the other people that lived in the house where Jessica was raped and murdered were not also arrested. They knew what was going on.

This case also shows the reason why most of us have utter contempt for defense attorney and the scum they represent. Defense attorney Dan Lewan falls into that category as he screams that his client, John Couey’s, constitutional rights were violated. Funny, he didn’t seen to care too much about Jessica’s now did he?

Defense attorney Dan Lewan has portrayed the detectives as overzealous and unconcerned about Couey’s constitutional rights. When his client asked for an attorney, Lewan argued, the detectives spoke over him in a confusing interlude before simply dropping the issue.

Lewan also asked the discovery of Jessica’s body be inadmissible in court because Couey told authorities where to find her.

This is the only victim in this case that anyone should have been worried about protecting the rights of. Innocent children like Jessica.

Don’t worry though Attorney Lewan, your client won’t have to worry too much of that in the future because of the fact that the DNA evidence and subsequent finding of Jessica’s body is still allowed in as evidence. With the death penalty on the table, trust me … John Couey won’t have to worry about his right in the future.

A consent search at the mobile home where Couey was living turned up a bloody mattress which tested positive for Jessica’s DNA the day they began excavating at the mobile home following the confession. Further, disturbed ground near a shovel in the yard was suspicious enough to investigate after officers had already singled Couey out as a person of interest, Ridgway said.

“With (DNA results) they would’ve gotten a search warrant for the home,” Ridgway said.

June 30th, 2006 at 09:50am Posted by Administrator | Crime/Murder, Jessica Lunsford, John Couey, Pictures, sex offender, sexual assault | 2 comments

Charges Dropped Against Debra LaFave in Marion County

Well Debra LaFave can thank the lord that she is a pretty and a woman. Today, the states attorney of Marion County dropped the charges against her for having sex with a 14 year old boy. There is no way this ever would have occurred if she had committed this same crime as a man.

Debra LaFave had just found out the Marion County state attorney dropped three charges against her. So she doesn’t have to stand trial and risk a prison sentence on allegations she had sex with a 14-year-old student in Ocala in June 2004.

Earlier, Marion County Judge Hale Stancil rejected a plea agreement for LaFave, prompting the state attorney to dismiss the charges against her.

Needless to say Debra LaFave is doing cartwheels over this decision.

Debra LaFave, Sex Offender: “Mental illnesses are real and how they can cause good people to do bad things.”

Talk about a double standard. What do you this a states attorney would have done if it was a man having sex with a 14 year old girl? Equal justice under the law, huh? Ever wonder why we are beginning to hear nothing but these types of stories? Maybe its because the women know that they won’t be taken seriously.

This is priceless …

Debra LaFave: “I offer my deepest apology. I’ve been undergoing extensive therapy and believe it has helped me tremendously. I would hope that all media outlets will let us peacefully move on.” And despite the intense media interest in her case, LaFave says she is taking courses on –line to become a journalist. (Tampa Bays 10)

Teacher Debra Lafave Won’t Face Student Sex Charges

Prosecutors and defense attorneys had urged the judge to accept the deal for the sake of the boy involved. A psychiatrist who examined the teenager told the judge at a previous hearing that the boy suffered extreme anxiety from the media coverage of the case and does not want to testify.

Marion County Circuit Judge Hale Stancil, however, said the lack of prison time for Lafave under the plea deal “shocks the conscience of this court,” and he rejected it.

Assistant State Attorney Richard Ridgway, in explaining the decision to drop the charges, said: “The court may be willing to risk the well-being of the victims in this case in order to force it to trial. I am not.” (Local 6)

March 21st, 2006 at 07:19pm Posted by Administrator | Debra Lafave, molestation, Pictures, sex offender | 5 comments

Help Search for Missing Pastor Rafael Rodriguez

Search Alert!

Steve Pitzer, Search Leader for Texas Equusearch needs volunteers to help search for Pastor Rafael Rodriguez. He has been missing since Friday, February 10, 2006.

The search will begin on Friday, February 17, 2006 at 10:30am. We will need ground searchers and 4-wheelers. The command center is located at 4122 Houx St., Bacliff, TX. Please contact us at 281-309-9500 if you can help.

Map of 4122 Houx St
Bacliff, TX 77518-1322

UPDATE ….

Search Alert Continues – Volunteers Still Needed for Missing Pastor!

Steve Pitzer, Search Leader for Texas Equusearch needs more volunteers to help search for Pastor Rafael Rodriguez missing since Friday, February 10, 2006. The search will start at 10am on Saturday, February 18, 2006. We will need ground searchers and 4-wheelers. The command center is located at Bayshore Dr and Jackson Rd in Bacliff, TX.

Please contact Texas EquuSearch at 281/309-9500 if you can help or have any tips or leads.

Map of
Jackson Ave At Bayshore Dr
Bacliff, TX 77518

February 18th, 2006 at 12:09am Posted by Administrator | Missing, Missing Adult, Pictures, Rafael Rodriguez, Search and Rescue, Texas Equusearch | one comment

Detective in the Jennifer Kesse case says , “he believes the case will come to a conclusion by next week”

The search for Jennifer Kesse continues; however, a detective in the case made the following comments

Detective believes Jennifer Kesse case will come to a conclusion by next week.

It’s been three weeks since 24-year old Jennifer Kesse was last seen. Now News 13 has learned that Orlando police may be nearing the end of their investigation.

News 13-spoke with the lead detective in the case, who believes the case will come to a conclusion by next week.

He didn’t say why, because he said it would hurt the investigation.

(Central Florida News)

Investigators in Florida have also asked for the help of the FBI to help in the search for the missing Jennifer Kesse.

Wednesday, detectives asked the FBI to assist in verifying the person’s height and other characteristics from the photos.

(Local 6 News)

The Orlando police have also enlisted the services of a psychic to help in the search efforts.

“The psychic calls we have been getting about the Kesse case, we are not discounting them,” Orlando police Sgt. Richard Ring said. “There is the possibility that there is valid information that we can use.” Detectives have received more than 12 calls from people who have identified themselves as psychics, Local 6 News has learned.

Just twelve psychics, huh? Some how I would have thought more would have called. However, the police and the family are keeping all avenues and options open to find leads and to find Jennifer Kesse.

Kesse’s family told Local 6 News that they had been contacted by a psychic in the past about their daughter’s case. The psychic would only say that Kesse was alive.

“Our bottom line is that we want to solve this case for the Kesse family and if it takes a psychic to get the information and we use it and solve it then kudos to them,” Ring said.

(Local 6 News)

February 15th, 2006 at 09:52pm Posted by Administrator | Missing, Missing Adult, Pictures | no comments

Police Release Surveillance Pictures in Jennifer Kesse case

The search continued today for Jennifer Kesse as volunteers searched for the missing girl who has been missing for nearly two weeks. However, police today are releasing two surveillance pictures that they hope will provide a break in the Jennifer Kesse case.

The pictures show a man they’re describing as a person of interest.

Police say the photos were taken in the area of Texas and Americana around noon on January 24th, which is the day Jennifer failed to show up for work.

Police aren’t releasing much information about these images, but they say the man is a pedestrian who appears to be wearing dark colored shoes and a white top.

Despite the fuzziness of these pictures, investigators say they hope someone in the public can identify him.

(Central Florida News 13)

Video

Police Release ‘Person Of Interest’ Photo In Kesse Case

The pedestrian was captured in the area of Texas Avenue and Americana Boulevard on Jan. 24 around noon.

The area is within about a mile of the Mosaic Condominiums, where Kesse lived, and the Huntington on the Greens Condominiums, which is where her vehicle was found.

(WESH via Yahoo News)

Police are asking for the public’s help in identifying the person. You can contact the police Crimeline at (800) 423-TIPS Video shows person of interest in case of missing woman

On a day when nearly 1,000 people volunteered to help find a missing Orlando woman, police released two grainy video images of a man they want to talk to about the case.

Saturday started with 950 people arriving in the rain at the Mall at Millenia to help find Jennifer Kesse, 24.

By midafternoon, police raised hopes that the man whose image was captured on surveillance video near Americana Boulevard and Texas Avenue on Jan. 24 might have key information about the missing financial analyst.

(Orlando Sentinel)

‘Person Of Interest’ Sought In Missing Woman Case (Local 6)

Investigators said the person in the photo is not a suspect but a “person of interest.”

They would not say exactly why the man stood out from other pedestrians videotaped in the area.

The person in the photo is difficult to see but police think someone may recognize him.

February 4th, 2006 at 07:43pm Posted by Administrator | Jennifer Kesse, Missing, Missing Adult, Pictures | 2 comments

Missing Makayla Christy: Upgraded To National AMBER Alert

Missing 5-year-old Makayla Christy’s local SARAA Alert has been changed to a nationwide AMBER Alert. Makayla Christy was last seen around 6:15 p.m. Sunday night riding in her grandmother’s car, who is facing previous felony warrants.

Police say Makayla Christy was last seen around 6:15 p.m. Sunday night riding in her grandmother’s car on Pontoon Road in Pontoon Beach, Ill. Her grandmother, Deborah Gaye McFadden is driving a 2000 silver Mercury Sable with Texas license Z25-DWM. McFadden said she was taking the girl to Texas.

Makayla’s Description:

• Height: two feet five inches
• Weight: 41 pounds
• Eyes brown
• Hair: brown hair in a shoulder length ponytail
• She is wearing a black t-shirt with pink writing reading ‘I’m Not Perfect But I’m Always Right’ and khaki capri pants. She was not wearing shoes or a coat at the time of her abduction.

Her grandmother’s name is Deborah Gaye McFadden. She also goes by the aliases of Deborah Gaye Smiley and Deborah Rohrback.

If you see Makayla Christy or the car, please call Granite City police at (618) 877-6111.

(KSDK 5 )

Amber Alert issued for 5-year old Illinois girl

The Illinois State Police and the Granite City Police Department issued the AMBER Alert after the girl was apparently abducted by her grandmother on Sunday. The grandmother is currently free on bond on a murder charge and the child is considered to be in danger.

(North Texas E-News)

Code Amber Alert

The suspect is Deborah McFadden, 44 years, white female, 5’4″, 115 lbs with brown hair and brown eyes. She was last seen wearing light blue jeans, a gray sweat shirt and a black jacket. She has her belongings with her so she may have changed clothes.

January 30th, 2006 at 01:35am Posted by Administrator | abduction, Amber Alert, Missing, Missing Children, Pictures | no comments

Missing Mayra Sandoval Spotted on Surveillance Camera

12-year-old Mayra Sandoval who has been missing since Tuesday was spotted on a gas station surveillance camera.

These new photos taken by a surveillance camera show the girl getting out of a dark SUV at the Shell station on the corner of Bee Ridge and Cattleman roads. The pictures were taken Wednesday at about 3:45 p.m.

Sandoval’s parents have seen the pictures and believe this could be their daughter. The images show the girl getting out of the SUV, then going into the station, making a cell phone call and walking toward the bathroom in the back of the store.

As she leaves the station, she is out of the camera’s view. Deputies don’t know whether the SUV picked her up again or whether she left on foot.

Police are asking anyone who was at the gas station at the same time, or anyone with other information about the missing girl, to call (941) 366-TIPS.

Parents plea for missing daughter to call

The parents of the missing 12-year-old Mayra Sandoval issued a plea to her this afternoon to call home and let them know she is OK.

During a press conference this afternoon, investigators said a surveillance camera at a Radiant gas station on Bee Ridge Road captured an image of a female on Wednesday that could be Mayra. But investigators and the girls’ parents stopped short of categorically saying it is Mayra.

(Bradenton Herald)

January 13th, 2006 at 05:58pm Posted by Administrator | Missing, Missing Teen, Pictures | one comment

12-year-old Mayra Sandoval Missing Since January 10

12-year-old Mayra Sandoval Missing Since January 10 getting off a school bus in front of Booker Middle School on Myrtle Street in Sarasota.

Mayra Sandoval was last seen Tuesday getting off a school bus in front of Booker Middle School on Myrtle Street in Sarasota. Her mother said Thursday that she is not the type of person to run away, and after three days, Elva Sandoval is “worried sick” about her daughter’s condition.

“The school didn’t tell them that she was missing. They went to the school and asked why she didn’t come home,” her father Jesus said through a translator.

(ABC Action News)

Investigators say Mayra Erisuris Sandoval is “missing under suspicious circumstances,” according to a Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office statement.

Description:

• Height: 5-foot-1-inch
• Weight: 130 pounds
• Hair: long brown hair
• Eyes: brown
• Last seen wearing a light blue or beige fleece sweatshirt bearing the word “Mickey,” blue jeans and white sneakers.
• She was carrying a light blue backpack

Investigators said Mayra may have been seen at about 8 p.m. Tuesday walking near University Parkway and Lockwood Ridge Road. She may have been in the company of an unknown man between the ages of 18 and 25.

Mayra’s mother Elva, when reached at her home in the 3800 block of Pelau Circle in Sarasota on Wednesday, told The Herald in Spanish that a neighbor saw her daughter Tuesday. The neighbor told Elva Sandoval that a woman, who appeared to be 20 to 30 years old, picked up Mayra from school, went to the Sandoval residence and picked up some clothes.

Sandoval, 34, said many of her daughter’s tops and pants were missing. (Times Leader)

Sheriff’s detectives have notified the “A Child Is Missing” alert program, which will make broadcast telephone calls to the area where she was last seen.

Anyone with information is asked to call Detective Ralph Ortiz at (941) 316-1201 or Crime Stoppers at 366-TIPS (8477).

January 12th, 2006 at 11:19pm Posted by Administrator | Mayra Sandoval, Missing, Missing Children, Pictures | no comments