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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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An Amber Alert has been issued for Teketria Buggs. She was last seen on Saturday sleeping on a couch inside her home.
Authorities say they’ve found no signs of struggle, no signs of foul play and no indication that a crime occurred. But maybe the most disturbing thing is that they’ve found no sign of this missing girl.
Search crews lowered an infrared underwater camera into the Brazos River in the hope of finding anything that might lead to Teketria.
“For her just to get up and put on her shoes, that’s impossible for me to believe,” said Laronald Foy, Teketria’s mother. “God himself would have to come and tell me that.”
Authorities are searching the 12 acres surrounding the home, as are volunteers from Equusearch. Director Tim Miller is not optimistic about finding the 12-year-old alive.
“There are a lot of things we don’t like about this one,” Miller admitted. “It just doesn’t feel good.”
If you have any information on the whereabouts of Teketria Buggs, please call Fort Bend County Crime Stoppers at 281-342-TIPS.
December 5th, 2005 at 12:15pm
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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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People in southern Wisconsin state they saw Christine Rudy the day before she disappeared. She appeared to be upset and anxious. She has been missing since November 12th. That’s when according to reports husband said he dropped her off along County Road MM after they got into an argument. Because that is what one normally does to a woman six months pregnant.
The same thing apparently happened two nights earlier in southern Wisconsin.
Christine walked eight miles to the nearest town and ended up at a church in Fennimore the next morning. “After Mass, I talked to her and said, ‘Is there something wrong?’ I could see she was upset and crying. She said, ‘My husband is going to come and pick me up,’” says Mayor Richard Rogers from Fennimore.
Christine was still waiting five hours later. Residents say they called police for help. “Every time I would try to close a distance between us to have a conversation, she would walk away,” says Chief Richard Kruel from the Fennimore Police Department.
The Clark County Sheriff’s Office has said that Shaun Rudy is not a suspect in his wife’s disappearance at this point. If you can help in the search, please call (715) 743-3157.
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A Missing persons case with a twist. Turns out that this one was charged with manslaughter and child abuse.
According to the AP, the body found by hikers near Albertville has been identified as Aaron Wade Bell. Aaron Wade Bell had been missing since August and had been found November 23 but had just been positively identified.
A missing persons report had been issued for Aaron Wade Bell on August 15, 2005 by Farrah Elizabeth Carr. However, there is a catch to this missing persons story. Bell had gone missing after being charged with manslaughter and child abuse in his infant’s death.
A body found by hikers near Albertville has been identified as a Marshall County man missing since August after being charged with manslaughter and child abuse in his infant’s death.
The body found Nov. 23 was identified this week as Aaron Wade Bell, a Marshall County Sheriff’s Department investigator said Friday.
The cause of death remains under investigation.
Both Aaron Wade Bell and Farrah Elizabeth Carr were charged with manslaughter in the death of their 3 month old baby.
When Bell tried to drive away, the person at the home got into a physical altercation with him to prevent him from driving while intoxicated. Bell left on foot.
Bell was 21 years old at the time of his arrest in April on charges of manslaughter and child abuse. Carr, the baby’s mother, was 20 years old.
The two were charged in the death of their 3-month-old baby. The baby, while still strapped in the car seat, fell off a bed at home Nov. 2, 2003.
Looks like the people of AL got a twofer; a missing persons case solved and tax payers do not have to pay for the trial of at least one of the two people charged in the death of a three month old baby.
The parents, Bell and Carr, told police they woke about 12 hours later to find the child not breathing. An autopsy showed that the baby died from suffocation. Traces of methamphetamine were found in the child’s body
December 3rd, 2005 at 09:34pm
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A small plane piloted by 66 year old George F. Baker III, a New York Philanthropist is missing off Nantucket, MA.
The twin-engine Beechcraft was flying at 200 feet and was about 2 1/2 miles from Nantucket Memorial Airport when it disappeared from radar around 4:45 p.m., said Jim Peters, an FAA spokesman.
The plan was en route from Teterboro Airport in New Jersey, Peters said. Baker filed a flight plan through the Islip Flight Service Station on Long Island, Peters said.
He said the pilot spoke to FAA air traffic controllers at Otis Air Force Base on Cape Cod shortly before the plane disappeared. The plane already had been cleared to land at Nantucket airport, and the pilot did not issue a distress signal.
According to Baker’s wife, he is an experienced pilot who had been flying since he was 18.
Coast Guard spokeswoman Kelly Newlin said there was no immediate sign of any wreckage in the water or on land, although police told the Coast Guard they saw a red light in the water near the airport’s runway.
“We still haven’t found anything — no debris,” she said Friday morning.
UPDATE: December 3, 2005: NBC4, Search Ends For Plane Piloted By NY Philanthropist
BOSTON — The Coast Guard has suspended its search for a plane piloted by a New York philanthropist that went missing off Nantucket, Mass.
The Coast Guard has not found any wreckage in the water or on land.
New England News (WHDH-TV): Search ends for missing plane piloted by NY philanthropist
The Coast Guard searched through the night, but did not find Baker’s plane. They suspended their search around 1:10 p.m. Friday, according to Coast Guard spokeswoman Kelly Newlin.
Nantucket police officers found a First Aid kit, a bottle of aviation lubricant and “a couple pieces of plastic” near Nobadeer Beach, but no other debris was immediately discovered, said Police Chief William Pittman.
“I don’t know if they came from the airplane or not,” Pittman added. “There’s nothing that points directly at that plane.” He said police planned to resume their search Saturday morning.
Palm Beach Post: Aircraft missing off Mass. piloted by zoo benefactor Baker
On Friday, the Coast Guard suspended its search of the waters near Nantucket Island for the twin-engine plane piloted by George F. Baker III, 66, whose family established the Harvard Business School. Baker is the senior trustee of the George F. Baker Trust, a foundation that in 1999 donated $500,000 for the redevelopment of the Palm Beach Zoo at Dreher Park.
In 1993, the trust donated $100,000 to help start a guided boat tour on the zoo’s Baker Lake. Several of Baker’s relatives have homes in Palm Beach County.
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Amber Alert Canceled for Patricia Lynn Visco by New York State Police as she was found alive and okay, at about 1:50 Friday morning near Syracuse.
Geneva Police tell NewsChannel 9 that Visco was found alive and okay, at about 1:50 Friday morning near Syracuse. The Onondaga County 911 Center says the girl was found at the Knight’s Inn in Liverpool, just west of the city. Authorities are not saying how Visco got to Liverpool or why she was there. They are also not saying if there are any arrests pending in the case.
With this discovery, the Amber Alert has been canceled. Stay tuned to NewsChannel 9, Newsradio 570 WSYR and 9wsyr.com for more updates as we learn the details.
The Geneva Police Department has issued an Amber Alert Thursday for a missing teenager.
December 3rd, 2005 at 08:41pm
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Barry Cowsill is reported missing in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
Barry Cowsill of the singing Cowsill family band that inspired “The Partridge Family” TV show has been reported missing by his family.
Bob Cowsill told “Entertainment Tonight” the siblings believe they saw their 51-year-old brother in a CNN video of Hurricane Katrina survivors at the New Orleans Convention Center. But they have not been able to locate him and have turned to the public for help.
“We’re pretty sure that’s him, and if it was him, it meant he was at the convention center,” Bob Cowsill said.
He said the last they heard from Barry was a message on his sister’s answering machine that said: “I don’t know how to get out of town except wait for a bus … I’ve been so … lonely … I hope I get in touch with you.”
Barry had battled substance abuse and depression and was supposed to have been headed to Los Angeles to enter a treatment center, his brother said.
An email from the Cowsill web site:
Dear Tom and Red,
I just discovered your site on the web, and I am writing to ask if you could help us publicize the fact that Barry Cowsill, a New Orleans musician who is also a member of the famous Cowsills family singing group from Newport, Rhode Island, has been missing for over 2 months.
Barry rode out Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, and the last contact that Barry made with anyone in his family was a voicemail on his sister’s phone on September 1. Barry is believed to be included in some footage shot by CNN near the New Orleans Convention Center later that day.
Thanks so much for responding with interest in posting about Barry being missing. The last contact Barry made with his family was a voicemail he left on his sister Susan’s phone on September 1. Barry said that he had made it through the hurricane, but no one has heard from him since. A man who looks like Barry was spotted by fans in CNN footage shot near the New Orleans Convention Center later that day.
Here’s the link to a fan’s web page that contains the CNN video and some stills from the CNN video as well as some of the media attention that has been given to Barry’s story:
http://www.stellarshowcase.durham.on.ca/ET.html
The clothes and hat worn by the man in the video are not familiar to Barry’s family, but that doesn’t mean that the man couldn’t be Barry.
Barry had just moved back to New Orleans a few weeks before Katrina hit and was staying with a buddy on Tchoupitoulas Street.
Barry is 51 years old, is 5′ 10″ tall, weighs 150-160 lbs., has brown hair, hazel eyes, wears a headband and usually either a hat or a cap, may or may not have a beard, usually wears glasses or sunglasses, and is a smoker.
I’ll paste some photos of Barry below. If you have any other questions, please feel free to e-mail me. Your assistance in helping to spread the word is greatly appreciated!
Barry Cowsill Still Missing
The Cowsills singer Barry Cowsill is still missing from his New Orleans home, two months after Hurricane Katrina ravaged the Gulf Coast.
The 51-year-old member of the 1960s singing group moved to the city shortly before the natural disaster in August. He left a message on his sister Susan’s cell phone in the aftermath of the hurricane asking for help, but hasn’t been heard from since.
December 2nd, 2005 at 11:13am
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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.
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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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December 1st, 2005 at 10:20pm
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