Melissa Hawach and her family are missing in Lebanon after she went to retrieve her two daughters. According to Lebanese officials there is no sign or reports as to any of their whereabouts.
In a child disappearance case spanning three continents and six months, Melissa Hawach and her father, Jim Engdahl, have not been heard from since Dec. 21, when she grabbed her daughters, Hannah, 5 and Cedar, 3, from a hotel near Beirut.
Lebanese security officials said Sunday that the whereabouts of Melissa Hawach and her two daughters are still unknown. Also, it was not known whether the woman and her daughters had left Lebanon via an illegal land crossing at the border with Syria, the officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to speak to the media.
Hawach’s estranged husband, Joseph Hawach, had taken the girls to Lebanon – from where his family originally hails – without her permission, said Rhonda Morgan, executive director of the Missing Children Society of Canada. (Fox News)
December 24th, 2006 at 03:32pm
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Sherri Jackson has been missing since November 29, 2006. The 27 year old Jackson was 3 months pregnant when she disappeared. Investigators seem to think that Sherri Jackson knew her assailant. Police have a motive but are keeping tight lipped.
Greensboro police say they have a motive and a suspect in the case of a missing pregnant woman. Detectives will not release specifics of the case, but believe Sherri Jackson knew the person who, in all likelihood, was the last one see her alive. (WGHP)
December 14th, 2006 at 12:39am
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Please do not forget that Jennifer Kesse is still missing. To Drew and Joyce Kesse it is like day one of their daughter Jennifer’s disappearance. However, after all this time the Kesse’s have no answers. Some one out their knows something. Please come forward.
“Nothing thus far has indicated she’s been murdered, but at the time nothing’s indicated that she’s alive either,” Joyce Kesse said. “So we take the positive approach and remain hopeful that Jen will be found. But we want, even if it ends up not being a happy reunion, to find her no matter what.”
Bill Gilmour, Jennifer’s uncle and a former Barnegat mayor, believes the best approach now is spreading the word by e-mailing the Web site link to friends and printing out the poster to tape on cars and storefronts.
“We need the help of the public,” he said. “Somebody out there knows something about this case. (Asbury Park Press)
December 11th, 2006 at 08:39am
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The Dana Pretzer Show for tonight will feature these special guests.
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Attorney Jay Paul Deratany (Melinda Duckett family attorney)
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Dave Holloway
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Bree Smith, sister of missing Honeymooner, George Smith
Be sure to listen in here, or catch the one of the fastest growing podcasts in the country. We will have the show available for download about one hour after the show finishes.
December 7th, 2006 at 11:11am
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James Bardour, Broadway star known for playing the Beast in “Beauty and the Beast” has been charged with five counts of criminal sexual acts and sexual abuse of a 15 year old. Bardour pleaded not guilty to the charges that stem back to 2001.
James Barbour, 40, was charged with five counts of criminal sex acts and sexual abuse against the teen back in 2001. She came forward earlier this year before the five-year statute of limitations expired.
Assistant District Attorney Maxine Rosenthal, speaking at the hearing, said prosecutors were aware of a second case in which Barbour allegedly had sexual contact with another underage girl, in California.
If the New York case goes to trial, Rosenthal said, she will try to introduce evidence regarding the uncharged California case. She did not discuss specifics. (International Herald Tribune)
In a statement from April 2006, James Bardour states quite a different version of events. What does it say? Blames the 15 year old of course.
In a written statement signed April 4, 2006, and made public Wednesday by Rosenthal, Barbour said sexual contact with the girl, a student at the high school he attended, was initiated by her when he had dinner with her and her boyfriend.
The girl later told him she was 16 and wanted to pursue a career in theater, Barbour’s statement said.
During a subsequent telephone conversation, the statement said, Barbour asked the girl what she was thinking the night they had dinner together, “and she said ‘I was thinking I wanted to’” have sex with him.
One evening, he and the girl went to his apartment, and they lay in bed and discussed sex acts and kissed, the statement said.
SEXY ‘BEAST’ BUSTED AS PERV
DA: BROADWAY STAR PREYED ON DRESSING-ROOM VISITOR, 15
The now-20-year-old woman, who is working in the theater, came forward only recently – just within the five-year statute of limitations.
Manhattan prosecutors, who are withholding her name, say she contacted authorities out of a concern that other young girls might be at risk.
Fearing there may be more victims, authorities have asked that anyone with any possible sex-assault allegations against Barbour contact prosecutors at (212) 335-9373. (NY Post)
Underage cutie and ‘The Beast’
Prosecutors charge that the girl, who was visiting from a nearby suburb, was molested backstage as her parents sat in the audience and then again at a restaurant later that night, officials said.
A month later, Barbour invited the teenager back to his upper West Side apartment and the two engaged in sex acts, officials said.
The victim, who is now 20 years old, came forward with her allegations in April. Barbour was arrested later that month released after posting bail, officials said.
A source in the Manhattan district attorney’s office said the teenager came forward earlier this year because she realized what he had done was wrong and she was concerned that he might have approached other underage girls. (NY Daily News)
December 6th, 2006 at 03:23pm
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Yesterday it was reported that 5 year old Geontae Glass was taken while asleep in the back seat of a car that was stolen. This morning it was reported that the body of Geontae Glass was discovered deceased. Now Sholinda Glass and Kevin Andrae Towles have been arrested and are suspects in the death of Geontae Glass.
Sholinda Glass and a man are being held in the Etowah County jail in Gadsden in the death of her son, Geontae, 5, whose body was found early today in the Mountainboro area.
Sheriff James Hayes said in a news conference this morning that Glass, 25, of Rainbow City and Kevin Andrae Towles are suspects in the death of the child.
The child’s body was found about 2 a.m. in a car at a residence on Shady Grove Road. Hayes said Towles is believed to be the owner of the home where the body was found. Hayes also said other persons are being questioned in the case. (Huntsville Times)
December 5th, 2006 at 12:08pm
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An Amber Alert has been issued for a 5 year old boy, Geontae Glass, who is believed to have been in the back seat of a stolen vehicle in Albertville, AL.
Description of Geontae Glass:
- 3 feet tall
- 65 pounds
- brown eyes
- black hair
- considered to be in extreme danger
- last seen wearing a long-sleeve blue T-shirt and blue jeans.
Description of abduction:
- He was taken when the vehicle he occupied was stolen by an unknown black male described as approximately 5’9″ – 5’11″
- 200 – 220 pounds
- The vehicle is a light blue, 1994 Nissan Altima, with no tag on the vehicle
- last seen traveling south on Alabama Highway 206 (WTVM)
Anyone with any information please call the Albertville Police Department at 256-878-1212; Alabama Department of Public Safety at 334-242-4128.
Albertville police are looking for a 5-year-old child abducted in a stolen car Monday morning.
The mother pulled up to the convenience store at 6:12 a.m. and left the child inside the car when she went in the store. At some point, a blue pickup truck pulled up to the store. The man jumped out of the pickup truck and jumped into the car.
Both vehicles then left the scene. Police did not have a description of the person driving the pickup truck. (Sand Mountain Reporter)UPDATE: Terrible news is being reported from Etowah County
The body of 5 year old Geontae Glass was found deceased in the trunk of a car one day after he was abducted. Just another terrible, senseless murder.
A 5-year-old boy who was asleep in the back of a car when it was stolen from a parking lot was found dead Tuesday morning in a neighboring county, authorities said.
The body of Geontae Glass was discovered in a rural area of Etowah County, said a dispatcher for that county’s sheriff’s department, who did not give her name. Officials planned to release details at a midmorning news conference, she said.
Alabama state troopers announced only that an Amber Alert for the boy had been canceled. An FBI spokesman did not immediately return calls seeking comment.
The Gadsden Times reported that the boy was found in the trunk of a car at a home in the Mountainboro community. (Worcester Telegram)
December 4th, 2006 at 11:17pm
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One months old Brayn Dos Santos Gomes is still missing. Although the identity of the suspect is not known yet, this is what the authorities do know.
She is Spanish speaking, 28 to 30 years old and drives a black late model SUV with peeling window tint.- She already had a baby seat and diaper bag in the SUV.
- She was armed with a knife.
- From those facts the police have been able to infer certain things.
- The baby seat and diaper bag indicate a kidnapper prepared to abduct an infant, yet also care for the baby.
- The knife demonstrated a willingness to use force. — contrasting traits in a person police suspect may have suffered an emotional trauma of her own.
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December 4th, 2006 at 03:20pm
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An Amber Alert has been issued for 29-day-old Brayn Dos Santos Gomes who was abducted with his mother, Maria Fatima Ramos Dos Santos, on Friday afternoon by a woman driving a black SUV. The mother was released by the abductor south of Fort Myers; however, the new born was not.
Ramos was released south of Fort Myers shortly afterward but the woman kept the baby, Florida Department of Law Enforcement spokesman Larry Long said Saturday. An Amber Alert was issued for the infant.
Police said the woman could be heading to Miami or Tampa in two-door SUV, which has window tint that is peeling. (AP)
Description of the abduction:
The mother and Brayn, as well as another woman and a baby, were approached by the woman in the SUV while walking along a road Friday, police said. The driver asked for directions to a neighborhood. The women, who did not know the driver, agreed to give directions and entered the vehicle with their children, police said.
The women showed the driver the neighborhood, and she drove the two mothers and children back toward where she picked them up, police said. The driver then forced one mother and child out of the car, and made off with Ramos and the baby, who was born Nov. 3, police said. (Herald Tribune)
Police: “We’re looking for someone who is very cunning”
“We’re looking for someone who is very cunning,” Mike Carr, a sergeant with the Fort Myers Police Department, told a 4 p.m. press briefing. “She already had a baby seat, a diaper bag and no child. She was prepared to do this.”
Police had a computer generated composite of the suspect, but were not satisfied it was an accurate depiction, Carr said.
“We’re trying to get a sketch prepared by a forensic artist,” he added. (The News Press)
Police are investigating a rather unsusal lead. The kidnapper used one of the abducted woman’s cell phones and placed a call that was recorded.
Investigators are still trying to assess the significance of the tape recording they believe holds the kidnapper’s voice.
In an unusual turn of events, investigators were able to determine that the kidnapper used the phone of one of the abducted women to make a telephone call. She pretended to call her mother, Carr said. But, the call was actually made to an area business, he added.
While the kidnapper pretended to have a conversation, an answering machine at the business recorded her voice.
December 2nd, 2006 at 06:39pm
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Did Melinda Duckett conspire with another individual and give Trenton Duckett away to another individual? The Marion County investigators seem to think so. Is it a coincidence or a conspiracy? What are the odds on the very day that Trenton Duckett was reported missing the following occurred:
- Trenton Duckett reported missing on August 27, 2006
- Just before noon, two workers at a Belleview Wendy’s reported seeing her with the boy.
- Minutes later, at 12:08 p.m., authorities confirm that she made a phone call to close friend, Chai Chen, 25.
- Chai Chen works across the highway from the Wendy’s at a Rent-A-Center
“We believe that it was an original location where there was a drop-off,” said Maj. Chris Blair of the Marion County Sheriff’s Office. (WESH)
Chai Chen has also been given a lie detectors test.
Marion County investigators call Chen a person of interest but not a suspect. He voluntarily answered investigators’ questions this week and took an FBI polygraph last week.
According to law enforcement officials, the only thing that Melinda Duckett told him during that critical 12:08 p.m. phone call was that she invited him over to her Leesburg apartment to watch videos that night.
Deputies investigating friend of Melinda Duckett
The man is an employee of the Rent-A-Center store across the street from the Wendy’s fast-food restaurant in Belleview, where two employees reported seeing Melinda and Trenton the day the boy was reported missing, officials said.
You can classify it as a person of interest, but every person connected to Melinda Duckett is a person of interest, said Maj. Chris Blair of the Marion County Sheriff’s Major Crimes Unit. They’re thinking he’s a person of interest because of all the activities in the Belleview area.
Cell phone records indicate that Melinda Duckett called the man at 12:08 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 27, Blair said. (The Villages Daily Sun)
December 1st, 2006 at 09:37pm
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