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While the FBI returned to a Pierce County Lake Thursday to resume their search for 10-year-old Adre-Anna Jackson, missing since last Friday; Police are talking to Adre-
Anna Jackson’s stepfather, who was the last person to see her.
Police are talking to Adre-Anna Jackson’s stepfather, who was the last person to see her, KIRO 7 Eyewitness News reported.
Jon Federici said he last saw her on Friday, as she was walking from their apartment in Lakewood to school.
Police are not calling Federici a suspect; however they are not revealing much about what he’s told them. Its appears that Federici was arrested in 2002 and charged with third-degree assault for allegedly punching Jackson.
Federici was arrested in 2002 and charged with third-degree assault for allegedly punching Jackson and pulling her hair during an argument. Jackson reported Federici “smacked her in the head and scratched her face,” according to court documents. He was convicted on a reduced charge of misdemeanor assault.
Police are not calling Federici a suspect, and they’re not revealing much about 
what he’s told them.
“I’m not going to get into any of that at this point. I don’t want to compromise the investigation,” said Lakewood Police Lt. Brett Farrar. “All I can say is we’re looking at anybody and everybody that’s had anything to do with this little girl.”
According to reports, detectives are also speaking with the 51 registered sex offenders who live within walking distance of Adre-Anna Jackson’s home.
Seattle Times: Search for missing Pierce County girl goes national
Lakewood Police Lt. Bret Farrar said police searching for Adre-Anna Jackson have enlisted the help of The National Center of Missing and Exploited Children and television’s “America’s Most Wanted.” Information on the girl, who has been missing since Friday, is available on the Web sites for the center (www.missingkids.com) and the show (www.amw.com).
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Description of Adre-Anna Jackson
Sex: Female
Race: White
Age at Disappearance: 10
Height: 4’10″-5′ Weight: 78 lbs.
Hair: (Color, Description, Facial Hair) Brown, Has reddish highlights.
Eyes (Color and Correction): Brown
December 9th, 2005 at 02:42am
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It’s about time a judge stood up for the rule of law and treated the Lafave case for what it 
was. As soon as the original plea deal was announced most everyone shook their head and said the sentence was too light. It immediately set off a firestorm and criticism of a double standard that “kept the attractive, young media darling out of prison”.A Marion County Judge rejected the plea deal. Debra Lafave faces similar charges in Marion County as she did in Hillsborough County because one of the alleged sexual incidents took place there.
A judge in Marion County, Florida, on Thursday rejected a proposed plea deal for Debra Lafave, who pleaded guilty in another county to having sex with a 14-year-old student while she was a teacher. 
“The agreement went below the guidelines, and I’m not willing to go below the guidelines,” Judge Hale Stancil told CNN, without elaborating.
The trial in Marion County for the 25-year-old former reading teacher is set for April 10.
Defense attorneys had sought to spare their client a prison sentence, which they were able to do with the plea agreement in Hillsborough County. Lafave pleaded guilty there on November 22 to two counts of lewd and lascivious behavior.
ABC Action News: In surprise move, Marion County judge rejects Lafave plea deal
It looks like the plea deal that kept Debra Lafave out of prison was too good to be true after all.
Thursday afternoon, a judge in Marion County rejected the plea arrangement
that had previously looked like a done deal in Hillsborough County, meaning the former teacher will be going to trial next spring on charges of sexual battery.
“The court is not going to, at this time, accept the plea that has been presented,” Judge Hale Stancel stated.
With what was expected to be a stamp of approval from the Marion County Judge turned out to be far from it today in court.
Based on that last allegation, Lafave faced charges in both Hillsborough and Marion counties. Her November plea deal with prosecutors in Hillsborough — which left her with three years of house arrest, seven years of probation, and status as a sex offender — was said to include the Marion County charges. The judge’s stamp of approval was expected to be a formality today, but he rejected the deal and set an April trial date. 
“There were some unexpected developments today in court. I really don’t want to comment on those developments. I anticipate that we will be here in the next couple of weeks,” John Fitzgibbons said. Prosecutors even seemed surprised by the turn of events.
Judging from the glare on Debra Lafave’s mothers face and attorney’s reaction, someone has some explaining to do. A defendant agreeing to a plea deal that is supposed to encompass both county’s charges, only to have it fall through. Someone did not dot the i’s and cross the t’s. Ouch. The trial is expected to go forward in Marion, despite the wishes of the victim’s family.
Tampa Bay News 10: LaFave’s attorney reacts to plea rejection
Attorney John Fitzgibbons says Debra Lafave was obviously upset by the events in court on Thursday. Fitzgibbons says that was clear from the tears in her eyes. LaFave’s mother also appeared to be moved to tears because of the judge’s decision.
Fitzgibbons told me the events were “not a total surprise.” Fitzgibbons says after practicing law for several years, he never counts on a judge going along with a plea agreement until it is signed, sealed and delivered. Now Debra Lafave finds herself between the proverbial rock.
“If it goes to trial, Debbie can withdraw her plea in Hillsborough”
However that is not likely to happen, because it would be a huge gamble that the insanity plea would work. LaFave also isn’t facing any jail time in Hillsborough. Meantime while the judge has jurisdiction over the case, “the Marion state attorney could end the case by dropping all the charges”
That too isn’t likely, because the state attorney has to stand for re-election. That could be political suicide if the charges are dropped, even though the state attorney was not pleased with the judge’s decision.
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An Amber Alert issued for Teketria Buggs, 12, Sunday and remained in effect in 
southeast Texas. She was last seen asleep on her couch at her home in the 9000 block of Johnson Road in Orchard late Friday night.
Teketria known by friends as Teeky Bugg, was last seen asleep on a couch at her home in the 9000 block of Johnson Road in Orchard late Friday night. She was reported missing at about 10 a.m. Saturday. None of her belongings, including a jacket, had been taken from the home.
On Monday night, Teketria’s mother told CNN’s Nancy Grace that she thinks someone Teketria trusted might have taken her.
Texas EquuSearch and the Fort Bend County Sheriff’s Department widened their search Tuesday morning near Teketria’s rural home and asked for help from the Texas Department of Transportation.
“They are going to help us, being guides. They know the ditches, and the bridges and the culverts,” EquuSearch founder Tim Miller told KPRC Local 2.
Tim Miller of Texas Equusearch also went on to describe the many search methods that they would have at their disposal to search for Teketria Buggs. 
Dive teams searched the Brazos river Tuesday afternoon. Miller said divers are searching several areas of the water where sonar equipment detected something. Miller said searchers would use remote control airplanes, high-vision scopes, 4-wheelers and Sonar to search more than 12 acres of heavily wooded land and the Brazos River near her home.
“I don’t see where there is to go. We understand she’s scared to death of the dog. She won’t even go to her aunt’s house, which is right next door, when it was dark. So for her to take off and go to some place on her own, I think that’s out of the question,” EquuSearch founder Tim Miller told KPRC Local 2.
Description: Teketria is a black female, about 4 feet 10 inches tall and weighs about 95 pounds. She has black hair, brown eyes, and light brown skin. She was last seen wearing a red and white long-sleeved pullover shirt, blue jeans and white tennis shoes.
Anyone with information should call the Fort Bend County Sheriff?s Office at (281) 341-4665 or Fort Bend County Crime Stoppers at (281) 342-TIPS.
Fort Bend Herald: Search for missing girl expands
The search for 12-year-old Teketria Buggs, who disappeared in Orchard Saturday evening, continued Tuesday morning with additional personnel joining the search.
A prayer vigil for Buggs will be held at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 7, at of the Pilgrim Journey Baptist Church, 2022 Ransom Road in Richmond, where Buggs is a member. Deacon Robert Willis will conduct the service, which is open to the public.
Search for missing girl focused on Brazos River
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The search for a missing Fort Bend County girl moved to the water Tuesday as dive teams went in into the Brazos River.
Tuesday was an especially emotional day for the searchers and volunteers.
Although the town of Orchard has a population of only 400, they have big hearts. Letters from the girl’s schoolmates, thanking searchers for their efforts, inspired investigators and searchers.
Several veteran deputies wiped away tears as they read the letters posted on the board by volunteers.
Searchers continued to search on land and in the water.
Investigators said they didn’t have any new leads, but divers were concentrating on one area of the river. They said sonar had picked up some images Monday.
The river is about a mile from Buggs’ home, where she was last seen sleeping on her couch.
“It’s been successful in the past. We’ve done many, many dives where it ended up that it was an old barrel or something like that,” said Tim Miller of EquuSearch.
Volunteers came back again to continue the ground search on horseback and four-wheelers.
December 6th, 2005 at 11:58pm
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The Taylor Behl Task Force Monday released photos of a pond, obtained in the 
investigation, and is seeking public assistance in determining its location. They are requesting your help in determining the location of this picture.
Photos and the request for public assistance were initially sent primarily to news media in the Virginia tidewater area on the presumption that the pond is likely located in that part of Virginia, according to authorities. Other news media, however, have picked up on the information in the highly-publicized case.
The Task Force did not identify the source of the pond photos. Attorney General’s Office investigator, Les Lauziere, when queried Monday by the Vienna Times, would not say whether the photos were taken from a computer belonging to Ben Fawley, “a person of interest” in the case, currently being held by Richmond police on unrelated child pornography charges.
UPDATE: AP: Pond identified as Behl murder investigation continues 
Police looking into the death of college student Taylor Behl say they have identified and located a pond shown in two photographs that are part of their investigation.
Sergeant D.S. Carr with the Virginia State Police said in an e-mail to reporters Monday that the pond has been identified located in an area adjacent to Mathews County , but he cannot say anything else about it because of a judge’s gag order in the case.
Other agencies on the task force include the state attorney general’s office, the FBI, and the Richmond and VCU police departments.
Anyone with information should call police at (877) 244-HELP or (804) 828-1196.
Richmond Times Dispatch: Behl investigators want help
Authorities hoping public can lead them to photographed pond
Two photos of a pond believed to be in Mathews County could prove to be little more than a fishing expedition in the hunt for evidence in the death of Virginia Commonwealth University student Taylor Behl. Sources close to the investigation said Behl task force members gathering evidence on the Vienna teen’s death in September — allegedly during a sexual encounter in Mathews with suspect Benjamin Fawley — have no direct evidence suggesting that the pond is linked to Behl’s death.
Still, the sources said investigators want to know where the pond is because it is one of the few places photographed by Fawley that they have not been able to identify and search in the three months since Behl was last seen alive.
December 5th, 2005 at 09:37pm
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Adre-Anna Jackson disappeared Friday after she left her apartment to walk to school.
Police state that they called off the search on Saturday, even though her location was still unknown.
Lakewood Police on Saturday called off their search for a 10-year-old girl missing since Friday, even though her location was still unknown.
Adre-Anna Jackson disappeared Friday after she left her apartment for a five-minute walk to Tillicum Elementary. Her family said they didn’t realize she was missing until late Friday afternoon because they didn’t know the school was closed because of snow.
On Saturday, Lakewood Police searched the girl’s apartment, as well as nearby American Lake for clues to Adre-Anna’s disappearance.
“We haven’t given up hope,” Hall told The News Tribune Saturday night. “But we have searched all logical and available places where this young girl could have gone. “Right now we don’t have a whole lot,” Hall said. “But we’re going to continue interviewing and re-interviewing people to make sure we don’t miss anything.”
Adre-Anna’s disappearance is being treated as a missing person’s investigation
Her mother said the fourth grader was carrying a black and pink backpack. She was wearing blue jeans, possibly a blue shirt and white tennis shoes. She’s just under 5 feet tall and weighs approximately 78 pounds. She has brown hair with reddish highlights. She may have been wearing a puffy black coat or jacket.
The News Tribune: Police halt search for Tillicum girl 
The girl, described as artistic and well-spoken, disappeared Friday after she left her apartment to walk to Tillicum Elementary a few blocks from her home. But due to the snow, the school had closed that day. Family members said they didn’t realize the girl was missing until late Friday afternoon. They called the police.
The fourth-grader was last seen walking from her family’s apartment off Wads-worth Street Southwest toward Tillicum Elementary, about a five-minute stroll away. Standing outside the police command center in the Tillicum Elementary parking lot Saturday, Hall said there’s been no indication yet that Adre-Anna had been a victim of violence or been snatched by a stranger.
Police, family and rescue workers have “knocked on almost every door in Tillicum,” as well as searched the nearby American Lake and parks. Some even crossed Interstate 5 on the neighborhood’s eastern border to look in that area. Still, no sign of the girl.
Bloodhounds were brought in to find the girl’s scent, but didn’t find a trail, while divers searched American Lake without finding any clues.
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December 4th, 2005 at 07:25pm
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Maurice Wallace, a 27 year old man, is being charged with three counts of first degree murder and two counts of concealing a homicide and theft of a motor vehicle in the death of Olamide Adeyooye. 
BLOOMINGTON — A 27-year-old man will be charged today with murder in the death of 21-year-old student Olamide Adeyooye.
“Maurice Wallace is today being charged with three counts of first-degree murder, two counts of concealing a homicide and theft of a motor vehicle,” McLean County State’s Attorney Bill Yoder said. “The investigation is ongoing, and additional counts could be forthcoming at a later date.”
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According to reports (AP), Olamide Adeyooye, was murdered in her apartment and then driven to Mississippi where her body was later found in a burned chicken coop.
But according to court papers, the woman was killed in her apartment on the day she was last seen. Wallace tried to clean blood from the floor of her apartment, then put her body in her car and left the area, the court papers said.
Adeyooye’s badly burned body was found Oct. 21 in Mississippi when the chicken coop’s owner was cleaning up from a fire four days earlier. She was later identified through dental records.
Authorities said two autopsies failed to pinpoint the cause of death, but they will seek another autopsy and further forensic tests.
The slain woman’s father welcomed the charges. “He should pay for it,” Abiodun Adeyooye said in a telephone interview from his home in Maryland.
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Suspect was banned from campus
In an unusual move, Illinois State University officials considered the man named as a suspect in Olamide Adeyooye’s death to be a threat and banned him from campus two months before she died.
Police officers handed a letter Aug. 17 to Maurice L. Wallace, 27, who was not an ISU student, that said he was not welcome on campus.
The letter from Helen Mamarchev, vice president of student affairs, followed reports in the last five years that Wallace was kicked out of several buildings, banned from specific areas of campus and accused of theft and harassment on separate occasions. ‘
“I am taking this action based on serious allegations pending against you that suggest that your presence on this campus constitutes a threat to the members of the Illinois State University community,” Mamarchev’s letter says.
The letter adds if Wallace is found on ISU property, he’d be “subject to arrest for criminal trespass.” No such charge has been filed against Wallace since the letter was written.
The AP also added that Wallace briefly worked at the university but was banned from campus for inappropriate conduct.
Wallace, who worked briefly at the university as a food service worker several years ago, was banned from the campus in August, university spokesman Jay Groves said.
Wallace allegedly made inappropriate sexual comments to students and employees, Groves said. He was banned from the campus recreation center in 2001 because of similar incidents.
NBC5: Murder Charges Announced In Student’s Death
Police had named Wallace as a suspect last month in Adeyooye’s disappearance and death. Her body was found Oct. 21 in Mississippi when the chicken coop’s owner was cleaning up rubble from a fire four days earlier. She was later identified through dental records.
Wallace, who lived in the same block as Adeyooye, has been in custody since Oct. 20, when he was arrested at an Atlanta shopping center on an unrelated warrant from Normal. Adeyooye’s car was found abandoned in Atlanta on Oct. 30. Wallace waived extradition from Georgia and has been held in the McLean County Jail in lieu of $540,000 bond on the unrelated theft, aggravated battery and disorderly conduct charges.
ISU officials say they will confer Adeyooye’s degree and present it to her parents.
December 2nd, 2005 at 01:09am
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Joseph Smith who was convicted of raping and killing 11-year-old Carlie Brucia. There is 
honestly no punishment, live in prison or the death penalty, that fits the crime that this man did. There is no punishment severe enough to make this man pay for the crime that he committed.
(CNN) — In a 10-2 vote, a Florida jury recommended Thursday that Joseph P. Smith should be put to death for the rape and murder of an 11-year-old girl.
Prosecutor Debra Riva argued that Smith should receive the death penalty for the killing of Carlie Brucia, who Smith kidnapped from a car wash parking lot on February 1, 2004, as the youngster was walking home from a friend’s house.
Smith, 39, was convicted November 17 of kidnapping, first-degree murder and sexual battery. It took the jury five hours to return the verdicts. Fox News: Jury Recommends Death Penalty for Killer of Carlie Brucia
SARASOTA, Fla. — After deliberating into the evening, jurors were ready to deliver their sentencing recommendation of the death penalty or life in prison without parole for a mechanic convicted of kidnapping, raping and killing 11-year-old Carlie Brucia.
“The advisory sentence on a majority vote of 10-2 recommends the court impose the death penalty upon the defendant. So say we all this 1st of December,” said the court clerk as she read the jury’s decision.
(AP): Jurors: Death for Fla. Girl’s Killer
Circuit Judge Andrew Owens ultimately will issue the sentence and could do so as early as next month. Under the law, he must give great weight to the jury’s decision before imposing a sentence of death or life in prison without parole.
Smith, 39, showed no reaction as the recommendation was read. Carlie’s mother, Susan Schorpen, let out deep sobs and hugged relatives. Patricia Davis, Smith’s mother, left the courtroom crying.
“I’m overwhelmed. Yes, it’s what I wanted,” Schorpen said. “He may be condemned, but he’s still breathing, and my daughter is not.”
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So now Steven Avery plans on playing games with the Halbach family by making wild claims that Teresa Halbach may still be alive. 
Steven Avery said he thinks the 25-year-old photographer he’s accused of killing may still be alive.
In another jail house interview, Avery said Teresa Halbach, “Could still be out there.”
Avery claims the case against him is all a set-up.
If this was not so cruel it might be comical. It is instead just hideous. Now the Avery family is setting up a defense fund. Who is their right mind would give to this?
Avery’s family is setting up a defense fund for him. “It will go toward Steven no matter what, 100 percent,” said niece Carla Avery.
“It will be used for cash bail or defense. We are looking into regular attorneys instead of public defenders.”
AP NewsBreak: Avery thinks Halbach may be alive
Instead of just doing the right thing we see where Steven Avery is going with his pseudo-insane act.
“Any person who would have killed Teresa Halbach “ain’t got a right mind,” Avery said. “There is no way I could kill somebody,” he said. “That would be too hard.”
Avery’s Family Stand Behind Him
A day after Steven Avery speaks out from jail, his family echos Steven’s assertion that Teresa Halbach may still be alive.
Dolores Avery, Steven’s mother starts the conversation by claiming her son’s innocence.
Steven Avery’s mother and niece, Carla, are quick to proclaim Steven’s innocence and although they are not quick to admit it, they are taking steps to try to prove he had nothing to do with Teresa Halbach’s disappearance or murder.
It seems to run in the family as Carla Avery, Steven’s niece, went on to say that for all she knew the bone fragments could be sheep bones even though the “State crime lab tests show the bone fragments were that of an adult female and that teeth found were human”.
Timeline in Teresa Halbach murder case
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Richard Clark, age 67, has been missing from Pleasanton, KS, since 10/16/05.
According to reported there is evidence he is hitchhiking around the country with truck drivers. Because of the dementia, he has the mental reasoning of a child.
Richard has suffered the effects of dementia for quite some time now. His mental state has deteriorated to the age level of a young child. He cannot dress himself, spell his name, or dial a phone number. Kim is concerned that he can no longer even name the city he is from. He also has diabetes, (not insulin dependent) thyroid problems, anemia, and may have trouble walking. Richard walked away from the home with no money, credit cards, or other possessions.
DESCRIPTION: 
Richard Lee Clark
Classification:
Endangered Missing Adult
Alias / Nickname: Papa
Date of Birth: 11–30–1937
Date Missing: 2005-10-16
From City/State: Pleasanton, KS
Age: Time of Disappearance: 67
Gender: Male Race: White
Height: 70 inches
Weight: 130 pounds
Hair Color: White Hair (Other): With graying.
Eye Color: Brown
Complexion: Light
If you see Richard, call the National Center for Missing Adults at 1-800-690-FIND, or Project Jason at 402-932-0095, or the Linn County Sheriff’s office at 913-795-2666.
For much more detailed information please go to Kelly J’s blog voice4themissing.blogspot.com.
Local law enforcement called in area search teams and looked for Richard in about a 2 mile area around his rural home. Tracking dogs traced him to the middle of a field, and then lost the scent. It was as if he walked back out of the field.
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Just some amazing news for Robert Buran. Erik Buran has been found. 
From Bring Erik Home
I told friends we must find him by Christmas or we must stop Christmas.
Detective Cherie Rye called an hour ago while I was sleeping.
Erik is OK and has been taken into protective custody and LE is going to contact me immediately to arrange return to Reno.
A tremendous job an effort put in by Kelly Jolkowski of Project Jason.
Read the following and many of the other cases she is following. What a fantastic job and joyous occasion.
What a Christmas gift that will never be forgotten.
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November 29th, 2005 at 09:40pm
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