Okay you know how many times I have called in valid tips on missing cases and wanted sex offenders and been brushed off by incompetent law enforcement officers? Too many, apparently they just don't give a crap!
Today I posted a bulletin about a predator who raped a 15 year old girl that police are looking for, (it has been all over the news this morning). One of his myspace friends had info on him like his phone number, possible locations, etc.
So I call the Crime Stoppers number and they ask to put me on hold and I told him I am on a calling card and only have 15 minutes left and don't have long distance and am calling in a important tip about a wanted child molestor. HE PUTS ME ON HOLD FOR 10 MINUTES! Finally we talk and he acts like he has no clue as to what is going on or how to handle a tip and never heard of the case even after I spelled the guys name out in the phonetic alphabet twice.
Finally I read him the online news article in its entirety and he exclaimed, "Oh he already has a warrant out huh?"
Then he asked me to call back!!!
What the hell is wrong with this idiot? This has happened many, many, times to me.
So instead I called Hollywood, Florida; police and when they answered my phone card interuppted to say you have one minute left and when the call cut back in they had already hung up...
Well now I have no long distance left and am broke until Friday. Hope this guy doesn't rape anyone else. If he does it is Broward County Crimestoppers fault! Why the hell don't they have a 1-800 number like America's Most Wanted. Not that it would help because I have been brushed off by them and the National Center For Missing and Exploited Children before too when calling their 800 numbers.
Update:
I finally got a 800 number for broward county crimestoppers after calling the number for Crimestoppers Int left on a blog comment below, called it got the same idiot, ask him if he contacted the police with this tip yet and he said no. Then I asked him if that was his 15 year old grandaughter would the tip still be sitting on his desk and he shamefully admitted "No" and promised to call them right away.
Update 2: Captured During Routine Traffic Stop
Hollywood Predator Busted In S. Carolina Lured Teenage Girl From California HOLLYWOOD ― A South Florida rapper wanted for molesting a 15-year old girl he lured from California to Hollywood could run, but he couldn't hide.
Wednesday morning 32-year old Ansen Brown was picked in Greenville, South Carolina during a traffic stop.
"This is a 32-year-old adult male conversing with a 15-year-old juvenile from across the country," said Sgt. Manny Marino.
In documents CBS4 News obtained from police, they spell out every parent's fear: A 15-year-old girl seduced by a man half a world away in the secrecy of the internet. The teenager from California wanted a start in the hip-hop industry. She told police Brown allegedly offered that, and a plane ticket to Ft. Lauderdale. But when she arrived at his apartment, she says Brown molested her.
"This guy went out of his way to bring that juvenile from a long distance away, and who knows what his intentions were aside from any sexual activity, that he planned to involve this juvenile in," said Marino.
Police say the most important thing for parents to remember about cases like these is the internet is everywhere. It's not just at home. It's in your child's hand on their mobile home. It's at their friends' houses. So parents must be especially vigilant to figure out who their children are talking to and what they're talking about.
Police found the 15-year-old girl here and rescued her. They believe Brown may have intended to use the underage girl in a porno film.
In response to this incident, Attorney General Bill McCollum released the following statement on the importance of internet safety:
"Social networking sites can be a lot of fun for teens, but unfortunately, those sites can exploited for the purpose of finding and victimizing children. Kids post their hopes, their fears and dreams online, and internet child predators know how to take advantage of that. Teens need to be aware of that possibility, and parents should educate themselves about the internet to help their children use it safely. "
Catch A Pedophile And Lose Your Job? WTF America??
Current mood: pissed off
Category: News and Politics
Let’s helped get this lady fired!!! Write emails demanding Judi Hill’s employment as a supervisor be terminated!!! (see news article below) Send them to: questions@tularecountylibrary.org
Former library aide Brenda Biesterfeld, left, stands with supporter Amber Youngblood at a vigil outside the Lindsay, Calif., library. Tulare County officials say Biesterfeld’s report to police did not get her fired.
Firing of library worker causes uproar
Former library aide Brenda Biesterfeld, left, stands with supporter Amber Youngblood at a vigil outside the Lindsay, Calif., library. Tulare County officials say Biesterfeld’s report to police did not get her fired.
Aide’s dismissal after she alerted police to a patron allegedly viewing child porn has roiled the Central Valley town of Lindsay.
Many in the Central Valley farm town of Lindsay were shocked when a man was arrested after allegedly viewing photos of nude boys on a computer in the local library.
But even more shocking was the dismissal two days later of the library branch’s lone employee, who said she alerted police over the objections of her supervisor. "She kind of threatened me," Biesterfeld tells the paper. "She said I worked for the county, and when the county tells you to do something, you do what the county tells you. She said I had no loyalty to the county." I guess the supervisors loyalty is to perverts!!!
The firing of aide Brenda Biesterfeld has prompted a prayer vigil outside the library, a stinging letter from the City Council to Tulare County officials, rumblings about the town of 11,000 breaking off from the county library system and a wave of anger throughout the community
On Tuesday, an organization promoting "family-friendly" libraries honored Biesterfeld, 46, a single mother of two, before the Lindsay City Council. Attorneys connected with a conservative legal group based at Jerry Falwell’s Liberty University have taken up her cause, threatening to sue the county. Local firefighters are talking about giving her some of the proceeds from a department fundraiser next month.
"As a community, we are extremely upset," said Suzi Picaso, a Lindsay councilwoman and former president of the local chamber of commerce. "We want to make sure that people who move here know we have policies in place to keep our children safe. If the library’s policy is to not report such viewing, then we might have to break our partnership with them."
County officials Tuesday offered to have the dispute mediated by a retired judge. They say there is no policy that keeps librarians from reporting child pornography and that Biesterfeld’s firing -- which occurred two weeks before her six-month probation was to end -- had nothing to do with her report to police. Unless she consents to disclosure of her personnel files, however, privacy laws prevent them from proving their point.
"She can say whatever she chooses, and we can’t respond," said Tulare County Counsel Kathleen Bales-Lange. Biesterfeld could not be reached for comment.
An attorney for suspect Donny Lynn Chrisler said there was no evidence that his client did anything wrong at either the library or his home, where authorities said they found a number of explicit images after his arrest. Chrisler, 39, is a library regular who is deaf. A diagnosed schizophrenic, he is being held at Tulare County Jail on $100,000 bond.
By Biesterfeld’s account, the uproar started Feb. 28, when she saw Chrisler staring at photos of naked, blond boys. She was sickened, she said, and called her supervisor, Judi Hill. According to Biesterfeld, Hill told her to give the man a note ordering him to stop. When Biesterfeld suggested calling the police, Hill told her not to do it, her attorneys said.
But the next day Biesterfeld, nagged by doubts, used her lunch hour to visit the police station next door. She was told to contact the station if the same thing happened again, said Mathew Staver, one of her attorneys. "She was doing the moral and legal thing that anyone would do," he said. "When you see someone viewing child pornography, you report it to the proper authorities."
On March 4, she called police when she saw Chrisler allegedly viewing the same kind of images. Police arrested him and confiscated the computer as evidence. They then received an angry call from Hill, who told them they had violated Chrisler’s "privacy rights," according to a letter Biesterfeld’s lawyers sent county officials.
Biesterfeld was fired March 6 for unacceptable performance -- an allegation her attorneys deny, pointing to a favorable job review six weeks earlier.
The brouhaha riled city officials. "Our alarm bells really went off when we heard of a library supervisor questioning the right of our Police Department to confiscate a computer and investigate a crime," said City Manager Scot Townsend.
The incident also inflamed a widely held feeling in the area that many libraries are more willing to protect speech than patrons.
"Libraries are known to sweep these things under the rug," said Councilwoman Picaso, contending that the American Library Assn. opposes restrictions on what computer users may view.
Mary Minow, a lawyer who specializes in library issues, disagreed. She said the library association unsuccessfully sued the government over requirements for Internet filters intended to block child pornography. But that was largely because the filters block too much -- including, she said, her own blog.
Child pornography is "not protected by the Constitution or the Supreme Court," she pointed out: "When librarians witness a crime, they call the police."
When it comes to explicit photos of adults, practices vary. Viewing such images is not usually illegal and libraries, such as one in Hawaii that threw out a patron looking at shirtless men on a gay website, have been sued for overreaching.
The distinction could come up in the Lindsay case. Roland Soltesz, Chrisler’s attorney, said that all but a few of the hundreds of printed-out images police found at his client’s house were of adult males -- and not illegal. Those that may have depicted children were found on web pages with numerous other photos, he said.
Soltesz cast the case as a test of civil liberties.
"When I go to the library and check out ’Madame Bovary’ or ’Lolita,’ a librarian can call the police and give them my library record just because she doesn’t like classics that deal with sexy topics," he said. "That’s what’s frightening in this case."
Biesterfeld’s supporters have a different view.
"It’s scary that an individual can think he’ll go into the library and just view these types of images," Picaso said. "You can have any type of firewall you want, but the safest firewall was Brenda."
Brianna Denison Confirmed Dead Family: ’Now, we are on a manhunt’
Category: Life
As the grim news hit Saturday that missing woman Brianna Denison was strangled and left in a south Reno field, her family members vowed not to relent until her killer is found.
"We are not giving up until we find that bastard," said her aunt, Lauren Denison. "This shouldn't have happened. Now, we are on a manhunt."
Saturday afternoon, Reno police announced that the body discovered Friday in a field near a busy industrial area was Brianna "Bri" Denison, 19, who was kidnapped Jan. 20 from her friend's home near the University of Nevada, Reno.
Police are confident they will ultimately find her killer, whose DNA, left at Denison's crime scene, was linked to at least two other sexually motivated attacks against college students near where she was kidnapped.
Family members Saturday were feeling different scales of emotions.
"I think we're all in a numb state," Lauren Denison said. "Some of us are angry, some are just really sad. I know all of us, and the community, want to get our hands on him; but that's not realistic."
Lauren Denison said she wants to again stress to the community that someone knows the identity of her niece's killer.
"In my heart of hearts, I know someone knows him," she said. "They may not even suspect him, but people, please, just need to really take a look at your husbands, boyfriends, brothers, nephews or your neighbor."
At the time Brianna Denison was kidnapped, she was on winter break from her college in Santa Barbara, Calif. The Reno High School graduate was a sophomore psychology student who wanted to counsel children, a way to give back from counseling she received after her father died when she was 6.
Thursday and Friday, Brianna's mother made pleas on local and national news programs to her daughter's abductor that he bring her home safely.
Brianna become everyone's daughter the day she disappeared, according to a family statement on her Web site at www.bringbriback.blogspot.com
That sentiment encompasses how the community and nation has come together to "Bring Bri Back" through financial donations to eliminate DNA backlogs at the Washoe County Sheriff's Office crime lab, fliers and billboards and volunteers who have been combing the region looking for her.
"It's so incredibly tragic that anyone has to go through this," said her aunt, who described her as a fantastic girl know for her caring heart and contagious smile.
"Our mission was to get her back. ... We did, but not in the manner we wanted her back," she said. "It just makes you wonder what kind of a person would do something like this."
Lauren Denison said she is at peace, though, that Brianna is safe now and in heaven.
With all of the publicity surrounding Brianna's abduction and subsequent murder, her aunt said she hopes it will provide awareness for personal safety and to the issue of DNA backlogs.
"I never want Bri's name to die in vain," Lauren Denison said. "I want what happened to be able to help people and cause change.
"We really want to thank the community, the police, and everyone involved and let everyone know that as a family, we are paying it forward for other victims and their families," she said.
DNA collected at the house where a 19-year-old Reno woman disappeared from more than a week ago matches DNA gathered by investigators after the sexual assault of another college student just blocks away in December.
Murdered Reno College Student Reno police announced the break in the case of the missing student, Brianna Denison, late Sunday and today will begin a more focused search for a suspect described as a white male between the ages of 28 and 40 who may be driving a pickup truck or a sport utility vehicle.
Authorities reinterviewed the victim of the December attack after they made the match to DNA left behind in Denison's abduction. They hope that details provided by the victim, who has not been identified, might help them identify and apprehend the suspect. The assault victim also told authorities that the truck used in her December kidnap had a dome light above the windshield, was tall enough to require a step and had a floor-mounted console with a radio featuring red and blue LED lighting. A baby's shoe was on the floor of the vehicle, as were pieces of paper with typing. In addition to being a white male likely in his 30s, the suspect was described as about 5 feet 6 inches tall with a long face and square chin. He had a large stomach and an "innie" belly button, according to police. He had shaved the hair around his pubic area and was wearing jersey-style shirt and workout pants with an elastic band
Kansas Amber Alert Ends Safely Kidnapped Toddler Rescued After Standoff
Kidnapped Toddler Rescued After Standoff
Denton police arrested a man they suspect of kidnapping a toddler and killing a woman and another child in Kansas City, Kan.
Police arrested Andrew Anthony Guerrero, 23, without incident at about 8:45 a.m. Monday at a Motel 6 near U.S. 380 and Interstate 35. Authorities said they thought Guerrero was headed to Mexico.
Seth Guerrero, 3, whom police said Guerrero kidnapped, was found safe inside the motel. Police and the FBI were able to track Guerrero through his cell phone signal overnight.
Texas authorities have arrested a local man and safely recovered his 3-year-old son following a manhunt sparked when the man's estranged wife and her baby girl were found shot to death this weekend in their KCK home.
Police in Denton, Tex., arrested Andrew Anthony Guerrero, according to Kansas City, Kan., police. His son, Seth Guerrero was also found unharmed.
On Sunday, Police found the bodies of Nicolette Lyons-Reed, 23, and 8-month-old Leah Lyons-Reed were found shot to death Sunday morning in their home in the 2000 block of South 10th Terrace.
Missing from the scene was 3-year-old Seth, who lived with his mother. Authorities issued an Amber Alert for Guerrero and Seth, signaling that they believed the man was bound for Mexico, and called him armed and dangerous.
Lyons-Reed's vehicle, initially thought stolen from the scene, was located a short distance from the murder scene.
According to police, Leah's father is currently in the military. Friends and neighbors of the victim said Andrew Guerrero fathered Seth, but has since become estranged from Lyons-Reed.
A page — purportedly Guerrero's — on popular social-networking site MySpace features a picture of Seth Guerrero as well the quotes "this is the day that I die. farewell." and "Snake is going to take it all back!" The page's user goes by the online name "Snake."
Headline:this is the day that I die. farewell. Orientation:Straight Here For:Networking, Friends Gender:Male Age:23 Location:KANSAS CITY Profile Updated:2/2/2008 3:07:00 PM
Headline:"No guy is worth your tears & when you find one that is, he won't make you cry." Orientation:Straight Here For:Friends Gender:Female Age:23 Location:KANSAS CITY Profile Updated:11/19/2007 6:05:00 PM
Suspect In Texas Baby’s Murder Surrenders in Philadelphia
Category: News and Politics
A man wanted for questioning in the death of a baby boy found tossed onto the side of a road in his child safety seat turned himself in Friday to authorities in Philadelphia, police said.
Travis Mullis, 21, was arrested on a charge of capital murder. He is being held in lieu of $1 million bail, officials said.
Police Lt. Jorge Treviño said Mullins had told Philadelphia police about the death of Alijah James Mullis, the suspect's 3-month-old son.
The infant's body was found about 9 a.m. Tuesday, in an elevated, grassy area owned by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers between Ferry Road and East Beach. An autopsy later ruled the infant's death a homicide, caused by blunt-force trauma to the head.
"Travis Mullis stated that he intentionally killed Alijah Mullins on Jan. 29," Treviño said.
Police Sgt. Annie Almendarez said Mullis, originally from Maryland, drove more than 1,400 miles to get there. She said he spoke with family members and "a mentor" there whom she declined to identify, before going turning himself in at a Philadelphia police station. "He calmly walked in and said he wanted to talk about some things that happened in Texas," Galveston police Sgt. Annie Almendarez said.
Sgt. Jeremy Schwartz, who has been working on the investigation with Almendarez since Tuesday, said he had mixed emotions upon learning Mullis was in custody.
"I was surprised he was that far away, but I was excited to know that someone had their hands on him," Schwartz said.
Capital murder carries a possible death sentence. Officials said a decision on whether to seek the death penalty against Mullis was likely weeks away. If the state does not seek to have Mullis put to death by lethal injection, a conviction would mean an automatic sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Although she said investigators had "no other suspects" Friday, Almendarez said detectives still wanted to talk to Mullis' wife, the baby's mother. But as police investigate the baby's death, Caren Kohberger is no longer cooperating with authorities. "The mother has retained (legal) counsel and has not talked to us," she said.
A keyboard can be a gateway for the free flow of ideas. And we found out Caren Kohberger, the woman who claims to be the mother of the dead infant found near Galveston's Seawall on Tuesday, has plenty to say on the Web on her account.
"I don't want condolences about this situation. I am posting this bulletin with a link that includes pictures of the man who murdered my 3-month-old son, in hopes that maybe someone has seen him," Kohberger posted online.
Police say that the night before the baby was found Mullis and the baby's mother argued. The child's mother told authorities that she was not concerned when Mullis left with the baby because he said he was going to have his car worked on. She said she became concerned when she could not get a hold of Mullis.
County Criminal District Attorney Kurt Sistrunk said the legal process of extraditing Mullis back to Galveston County would begin Monday. Almendarez and Schwartz leave today for Philadelphia, where police also have Mullis' vehicle in custody.
Treviño said detectives and prosecutors put together a tightly woven case to attain the capital-murder charge. "There was a lot of good work done here," he said. "A lot of good people put in a lot of time on this, and it's close to coming to an end." Although the charge effectively means officials believe the dead infant to be Mullis' young son, DNA tests will be necessary to positively identify the child.
The mother — who reportedly called several area hospitals asking about the boy before telling police she believed the dead child was her son — had claimed to have collected fingerprints from the boy while he was alive, police said. However, those prints were incomplete and could not be used to confirm a match with the dead child, said John Florence, spokesman for the Galveston County Medical Examiner's Office. Florence also said the child appeared to have been dead for no more than a few hours when he was found about 9 a.m. Tuesday.
DNA and blood tests, performed at a Texas Department of Public Safety lab in Houston, often take as long as six weeks. However, Treviño said that investigators hoped to have the results of the child's DNA test done by next week.
Capital murder is not the only charge Mullis faces. Alvin police obtained an arrest warrant for Mullis Thursday in an unrelated case.
He is wanted on a charge of enticing a child, stemming from a report by an 8-year-old girl who accused Mullis of taking her from her home to a nearby school playground in Alvin, where she said her attacker tried to pull down her pants. The girl said the man stopped and drove her back home after she started crying. The child's account placed the attack within a few days of the discovery of the infant's body.
A Web site apparently authored by an Alvin woman who told police an infant found dead here is hers is serving as a memorial to the 3-month-old boy.
Via e-mail, the neighbor said the picture is of Caren and Alijia James, although the child's name is spelled "Alijah" on the Web site.
On the site, the woman said the page would "eventually be a memorial to my gorgeous little boy."
The site states she thought of taking the page down, but she said that's how she met the boy's father, who police believe is Travis Mullis.
A separate personal Web page that was thought to have been Mullis' is authored by a man called T.J. Police said Mullis is also known by those initials.
That site's author said he is a 21-year-old Houston man, which matches Mullis' age, height, weight and former city of residence.
Not all information on the Web site appears to be factual, however.
"T.J." claims to have graduated high school in Edgewood, Md., but there is no recollection of Mullis at the campus.
The school's principal, Larissa Santos, said she didn't recall Mullis attending school there, and there is no record of him in yearbooks or graduation programs.
"I have been an administrator in this building since 2001," Santos stated, via e-mail, "and I have no recollection of a Travis Mullis."
What To Do If You Find A Sex Offender On Myspace
Category: MySpace
Okay, I am really upset right now because I just seen a bulletin someone posted on myspace about a sex offender with a myspace account. To top it off the guy is wanted!
If you see a sex offender on myspace you do not post a bulletin about it!!! All that will do is get the profile deleted, thus cancelling out any chance of capturing the sex offender if he is wanted or getting him violated and sent to prison if they have minors on their friendslist.
I just called in a tip today on a Ohio sex offender who has a 15 and 17 year old girl on his friends and his probation officer is in the process of violating him for having contact with minors.
Use your heads people. By posting a bulletin about a sex offender on myspace you are destroying evidence in a criminal case if they have minors on their friendslist since convicted sex offenders are prohibited from having contact with minors not related to them if they are still on probation or parole. If they are wanted, you are enabling their unlawful flight.
If you find a sex offender on myspace send me a message with the info and I will handle it properly. You can always write me by replying to a bulletin, (just make sure to put something important in the headline). I have already helped capture two wanted sex offenders and have one current case, (the Ohio one) that will be getting violated and sent to prison. Or if you want to try and take them down yourself you can read about my other two captures here and use some of the same tactics I did but it will require setting up a fake account. I just search the registry and then cross-reference the name on a myspace search:
Lets start using our heads people. While your intentions may be good, in reality they are hurting much more then they are helping. Getting a profile deleted accomplishes nothing because they can make a new one almost as quick as it takes to log in. If they are not wanted and have no minors on their friendslists then go ahead and post away, but at least check first on the registry to make sure they are not wanted.
Pregnant Marine missing from North Carolina base found murdered
Current mood: disgusted
Category: Life
Lance Cpl. Maria Lauterbach 1987 to 2008 Rest in Peace Lance Cpl. Maria Lauterbach was eight months pregnant when she went missing on December 14, 2007
The dirtbag who did it: Cpl. Cesar Armando Laurean WANTED FOR: Questioning in a Murder of fellow Marine who was 8 months pregnant.
Possible Locations: National Clark County, NV Police say Laurean is from Clark County, Nevada. Police believe Laurean might be driving a black 2004 quad-cab Dodge pickup with North Carolina license plate: 1522, similiar to the one in the photo below: VEHICLE REPRESENTATION: black 2004 quad-cab Dodge pickup with North Carolina license plate: 1522 Pregnant Woman Murdered, May Have Been Killed By Fellow Marine
Authorities say Lance Cpl. Maria Frances Lauterbach, a 20-year-old Marine, has been murdered and buried in a shallow grave after disappearing from Camp Lejeune, N.C. in December. Lauterbach was eight months pregnant at the time of her disappearance.
Authorities say they are seeking the key suspect in her murder: Cpl. Cesar Armando Laurean, 21, a Marine accused of sexually assaulting her, may be driving a black pick-up truck with North Carolina license plate 1522. Click Here For The Full Story
ANYONE HAVING INFORMATION SHOULD CONTACT America's Most Wanted at 1-800-CRIME-TV or Onslow County Sheriff's Department at 910-455-3113. People with information also can contact Crime Stoppers at 910-938-3273. Or Click Icon Below to report a online tip
Authorities had not recovered the body of 20-year-old Lance Cpl. Maria Frances Lauterbach, but they believed she was buried in a shallow grave in coastal Onslow County, Sheriff Ed Brown said.
The suspect, 21-year-old Cpl. Cesar Armando Lauren, has declined to meet with investigators and is not in custody, he said. Cpl. Cesar Armando Lauren, 21, is reported to be driving a black 2004 quad-cab Dodge pickup with North Carolina license plate: 1522.
"They don't know where he is," Brown said of the suspect. "He's gone."
Lauterbach had claimed a superior had sexually assaulted her, and she was worried that the investigation was going nowhere, according to court documents. She vanished last month before she was to testify in a military probe. Navel investigators said Friday the military was pursing rape charges against Lauren, and a pre-trial hearing had been scheduled for December.
The court papers said the anticipated birth of the baby "might provide evidentiary credence to charges she lodged with military authorities that she was sexually assaulted by a senior military person."
Brown said detectives had tried to speak with Lauren, but he refused to do so, on the advise of his attorneys. Authorities said they didn't consider Lauren a flight risk until Friday, because they had information the pair carried on a "friendly relationship" after she reported the assault to military authorities.
"I came out before y'all on cloud nine," Brown said. "Then I had my insides knocked out with this negative information. I was about to cry."
Brown said Lauren had not yet been charged with Lauterbach's death. The State Bureau of Investigation and the Marine Corps are assisting in the search for Lauren, he said.
Lauterbach, originally from Dayton, Ohio, was reported missing Dec. 19 by her stepmother, who last spoke with her stepdaughter on Dec. 14, authorities said. Her cell phone was found Dec. 20 near the main gate at Camp Lejeune, and she missed a scheduled prenatal care appointment on Dec. 26.
Authorities found her vehicle at a bus station near the base on the Atlantic coast, and an employee there has told investigators it has been there since about the time of her disappearance. Brown said Friday she had purchased a bus ticket to El Paso, Texas, the day after she spoke with her stepmother, but the ticket has not been used.
Camp Lejeune officials said the missing woman, who is assigned to the 2nd Marine Logistics Group of the II Marine Expeditionary Force, joined the Marine Corps in June 2006, trained as a personnel clerk and had not deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan.
Suspect In Meredith Emerson murder linked to 3 other missing cases
Category: News and Politics
Investigators in Tallahassee say the similarities between the murder of a Florida nurse and the killing of a University of Georgia graduate are striking.
The masked man who used Cheryl Dunlap's ATM card and a courtroom photo of Gary Hilton.
Gary Hilton is moved to the Dawson County jail.
Cheryl Hodges Dunlap
Investigators in Tallahassee say the similarities between the murder of a Florida nurse and the killing of a University of Georgia graduate are striking.
Like 24-year-old Meredith Emerson, Cheryl Hodges Dunlap, 46, was abducted and her body found in a remote area. Dunlap was last seen at her Florida home December 1 and her body was eventually discovered December 19 in the Apalachicola National Forest southwest of Tallahassee.
Emerson, of Buford, Ga., was last seen January 1 and her remains were found in the Dawson Forest Wildlife Management Area January 4. An autopsy report said Emerson was decapitated after her death, according to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.
In the Dunlap case, authorities would not say whether her body was also dismembered. "There's evidence to indicate that this perpetrator made efforts to delay our ability to identity Ms. Dunlap," is all Maj. Mike Wood of the Leon County Sheriff's Office would say after her body was found.
Florida investigators also say credit and debit cards from both women were used after their abductions.
"Because of that, we are now making Mr. Gary Hilton our main suspect," Maj. Wood announced Wednesday.
Dunlap's ATM card was used at the same machine for three days after she disappeared -- Dec. 2, 3 and 4. Investigators conducted surveillance of the ATM for one week, but after the third transaction the man didn't return.
The thin man who used Dunlap's card was fully covered in a long-sleeve shirt, gloves and some type of mask, Wood said. He also wore a knit cap and goggles every time.
Leon County investigators say they can prove Gary Hilton was in the area when Dunlap was abducted and murdered. A long list of witnesses, including a forest ranger, report seeing Hilton and his white van in Leon County in early December.
Maj. Wood says Florida crime scene technicians will meet with the GBI to compare evidence in the two murders. Possible connection in another missing Georgia woman.
Police officials said they do not believe Gary Hilton was involved in the disappearance of a University of Georgia graduate student, but Thursday they said they won't dismiss the possibility. Bywater was last seen at the park with her dog on Dec. 29. Friends and family became concerned after she didn't show up for work that night.
A neighbor noticed Bywater's dog running loose two days later. The neighbor also noticed the back door to Bywater's home was wide open.
Hilton is charged with murder in the death of 24-year-old Meredith Emerson.
In another development Thursday, Athens-Clarke County officials have asked the Georgia Bureau of Investigation to join the search for 29-year-old Cayle Bywater. Bywater's glasses were found at Memorial Park in Athens Wednesday. She was reported missing December 29. Athens-Clarke County police requested the GBI's assistance in tracking down Bywater's whereabouts after several days of searching a local pond.
"Given the circumstances and the need for additional resources, they're going to come in to help us," said Maj. Mark Sizemore with the Athens-Clarke County Police.
Investigators said they are following up on a number of leads and they are patrolling the area she was last seen.
Authorities are stressing they are still treating Bywater as a missing person.
When asked about Hilton's possible involvement, Sizemore said, "We have not completely eliminated that potential, however in talking with investigators on that case, we do not believe that Mr. Hilton was in this area at that time."
Bywater's family said they are relieved to hear there will be more help on their case.
Anyone with any information is asked to contact ACC Detective Dustin Smith at (706) 613-3888, ext. 795, or GBI Special Agent Rebecca Shaw at 1-800-597-8477.
Suspect in Georgia case could be linked to North Carolina couple
Georgia police say there could be a connection between a suspect in the disappearance of a female hiker and the disappearance of a North Carolina couple.
Sixty-1-year-old Gary Michael Hilton faces a charge of kidnapping with bodily injury in the disappearance of 24-year-old Meredith Emerson. Hilton is being held in the Union County, Georgia, jail.
The search for Emerson will continue today, but only with trained search and rescue personnel and law enforcement involved. She is thought to be dead. Investigators say Hilton was the last person seen with Emerson.
Georgia Bureau of Investigation Director Vernon Keenan says there could be a connection between the Emerson case and the disappearance and presumed deaths of John and Irene Bryant of North Carolina last October. Family Suspects Hilton In Levi Frady Murder Hilton is 'scary,' some recall The first time she met subcontractor Gary Michael Hilton, Robyn McKinney said he made her uneasy.
"He was a crazy man," said McKinney, who, along with her husband, hired Insulated Wall Systems to do some work on their Snellville home in 2004. "He had rotted teeth. He acted and talked really strange."
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Gary M. Hilton is charged with killing Meredith Emerson.
Gary Michael Hilton worked on Robyn and Ron McKinney's deck in 2004, but it was replaced after being deemed unsafe.
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Several people who encountered Hilton found his personality jarring and unpleasant.
He made a modest living generating leads for the siding company, owned by Duluth attorney John Tabor, said Adam Kurzeja, who formerly subcontracted for Insulated. The company solicited the McKinneys, who said they were impressed with the presentation by Tabor.
But he never showed up to supervise the project, and instead sent Hilton to work on repairs to the couple's back deck, McKinney said. She has since filed a lawsuit against Tabor alleging fraud and breach of contract.
Hilton has been charged in the murder of 24-year-old hiker Meredith Emerson and is being held without bond in the Dawson County Jail in North Georgia.
Although Hilton was believed to have been living out of his van shortly before the crime, he had a long relationship with Tabor, who employed him and gave him a place to live. Their relationship dates back to at least 1999, clients confirmed.
Tabor refused comment to the Journal-Constitution, but he told WXIA-TV that he helped detectives who were searching for Hilton set a trap to nab the 61-year-old man. Hilton called his former boss from a Huddle House in Pickens County on Thursday, and after a long animated conversation, Hilton told a waitress that he had gotten his job back.
Within the next 24 hours, officials believe, he killed Emerson. Hilton also has emerged as the prime suspect in the decapitation of a Florida woman and is being investigated in the presumed double murder of an elderly North Carolina couple.
McKinney said Hilton's work on her deck was shoddy, but it was his erratic behavior that bothered her most.
She recalled him comparing felony convictions with a co-worker "loud enough so I could hear. I think they were trying to intimidate me."
"I was afraid to complain to Tabor about his [Hilton's] work because I was afraid he would come back and get revenge on me," she said.
Finally, she decided she just wanted him away from her house. "I called Tabor and he said, 'Too bad, he's the only worker I have available,' " McKinney said.
Hilton completed his work without incident, but he left an impression. When McKinney first heard he was suspected in the disappearance of Meredith Emerson, she called the GBI.
"I told them I knew where he lived, I knew where he worked," she said. "He was so scary, so scary looking, so scary acting."
Not everyone found Hilton so intimidating. Kurzeja recalled him as being "pretty nice." "I was really shocked to hear about this hiker," the Atlanta subcontractor said. "I don't know what happened to him. He used to tell people he was in Vietnam."
Co-workers and clients say Hilton lived where he worked, residing at Insulated Wall Systems on Clairmont Road a few blocks from DeKalb-Peachtree Airport.
McKinney said that during a meeting with Tabor at a neighboring real estate office, she was warned by a Realtor before going outside to smoke a cigarette.
"She said I should be careful, there's a crazy man living next door," said McKinney, who at the time didn't know where Hilton lived.
Cliff Sargent, a gutter subcontractor, said he heard Tabor and Hilton had a falling out not long ago. "He wasn't paying rent there," said Sargent, of Monroe. In November, Tabor began renovating the house where his business is based, causing Hilton to move out.
Lawrenceville broadcaster Larry Grover also had a bad experience with Tabor's company, he said. "We were very dissatisfied with the work," said Grover, music director for a Christian radio station.
At first, he said, Hilton — whom he never met, but talked to whenever he called Insulated — was understanding about his complaints.
"He was warm to a point, but the more we talked, I got the impression he was a bit strange," Grover said. "One thing that struck me was that he sounded very educated."
Kansas Murder Suspect Israel Mireles Caught in Mexico!
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Emily Sander The man suspected in the death of Emily Sander is now behind bars in Mexico. Authorities in Butler County say Israel Mireles was caught Wednesday morning Melchor Muzquiz, Mexico. The city is on the border of Mexico and Texas.
Mireles is a suspect in the murder of 18-year-old El Dorado student Emily Sander, who was last seen on November 23rd leaving a bar with him. The next day Mirales' hotel room was found with blood in it. Sander's body was found near Toronto in Woodson County almost a week later.
At a press conference this afternoon, authorities credited several agencies for working together to capture Mireles.
Butler County Attorney Jan Satterfield says Mireles' faces three charges, capital murder, rape and aggravated criminal sodomy. All with relation to Emily Sander.
Satterfield says, despite capital murder charges, Mireles will not face the death penalty because of an agreement with Mexico. Prosecutors will seek life in prison without parole, instead.
Police were also looking for Mireles' girlfriend, who is 16-years-old and 8-months pregnant. Authorities say she was found with Mireles, but was not taken into custody because there were no warrants out for her arrests.
At the press conference, authorities said Martens is safe and they hope she will return to the U.S. to be with her family in Hays, Kansas.
International extradition must be completed in 60 days. Mireles will be held in Mexico City until he is returned to United States. Mireles has dual citizenship in Mexico and the US. I Fought the Law - Bobby Fuller Four
He will be missing his baby when it is born and the rest of his babys life when he is doing life in prison in Lansing, Kansas where he belongs! I drove by there once in the summertime and it don't look like no circus, hope he enjoys every minute of his stay!
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