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Post by LadyBlue on May 8, 2004 21:05:51 GMT -5
The remains of a missing eastern Kentucky woman have been found.
Nearly a month after she left her Breathitt County home.
Neighbors outside the small town of Rousseau are saddened that one of their own died so close to home, especially after several searches in the area.
Kentucky State Police say the body of Cleta Mae Dunn was found on 4-wheeling trail off of Highway 30 in Breathitt County.
Authorities say the 67-year old woman was reported missing on march 24th after apparently wandering off from her home.
The cause of dunn's death remains under investigation but law enforcement officials have ruled out foul play.
Neighbors we spoke with say they had hoped for a different outcome.
Earl Stevens, who found the body, "It just makes me feel real bad that we found her and that she was in that shape you know."
"I hate to find her like this, to see her found like this. I knew her all my live," Monroe Bach said.
The Breathitt County Coroner's office expects to the autopsy report by Wednesday
Both neighbors and police say that Dunn had left her home before in the past but never for this long.
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Post by LadyBlue on Oct 13, 2004 12:07:02 GMT -5
A Kentucky truck driver who had been reported missing Saturday was found dead in his semitrailer truck at the Flying J Travel Plaza near Whiteland Road and I-65.
Walter Lane, 61, Princeton, Ky., was found Monday by two employees of Kipp Transportation.
John Kulju and Stephen Romine had been assigned to locate Lane after the company lost contact with him Saturday.
The men began tracing Lane's travel route, checking truck stops along the way.
The men found the rig at the Whiteland truck stop about 6 p.m. Monday.
Kulju found Lane dead in the sleeper compartment, a police report said.
Johnson County Sheriff's Sgt. Eric Cox said records found in the truck show Lane left Lowell, Ind., about 12:15 p.m. Saturday. It is believed Lane drove to Whiteland, arriving about 3 1/2 hours later.
It is believed he died of natural causes, Chief Deputy Doug Cox said Tuesday.
Deputies tried to locate Lane's wife but learned she had been vacationing in Colorado and was expected to arrive home within two days.
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Post by LadyBlue on Oct 25, 2004 15:52:58 GMT -5
The search for a missing Bullitt County teen ended in tragedy Sunday. The body of 17-year-old Justin Keown was found in a pond where he drowned. His family says he may have suffered an epileptic seizure.
He liked the outdoors, hunting and fishing, so it was no surprise 17-year-old Justin Keown decided to spend his Friday night at a pond near the home of his girlfriend's father off Highway 44 West. He was there with his girlfriend and some friends.
"They'd been there camping out, went in the house about 3:35 in the morning and spent the rest of the morning in the house and he apparently got up around 10:30 or so that morning," says Scott McGaha of the Bullitt County Sheriff's Office.
A couple of hours later his girlfriend, Krystal, noticed Justin had disappeared.
The search for Justin began around noon Saturday, combining the efforts of 150 people and five local agencies.
"He would never do anything like this," said Leanne Keown, Justin's mother. "He always called me. We always knew where he was out, what time he'd be home."
Saturday evening, Justin's family spent tireless hours at the Nichols Fire Department, their concerns heightened by the fact that Justin suffers from epilepsy and didn't have his medicine with him.
"I kept thinking about the water, since he's had seizures, and I just kind of thought maybe it's what happened to him," said Barbara Collins, Justin's grandmother.
At 9:13 Sunday morning, crews discovered Justin's body in the middle of a pond. There's no official cause of death, but the family said they believe seizures killed him.
Family and friends gathered again at the Nichols Fire Department where their vigil began the night before.
Timothy Wade remembered his potential son-in-law who had dated his daughter, Krystal, for three years.
"He was a good boy," said Wade. "She was crazy about him, and I can understand why. They had great plans, he was a good boy, I thought of him as my own."
An autopsy to determine the exact cause of Justin's death is scheduled for Monday morning.
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Post by LadyBlue on Nov 19, 2004 17:36:15 GMT -5
An elderly couple hunting for arrowheads along the Ohio River on Thursday discovered the body of a man who vanished in early October, State Police said.
The Utica, Ky., couple were boating along the river's banks when they found a body washed up near Rome, about 45 miles west of Louisville, Ky.
The body was later identified as that of Larry Kyle Sandage, 25, Cannelton. He was last seen driving his pickup truck Oct. 2.
State Police opened a criminal investigation into his disappearance a week later after relatives reported him missing. An autopsy will be performed Friday at the University of Louisville Hospital.
Police are continuing their search for Sandage's white 1997 Chevrolet pickup.
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Post by LadyBlue on Dec 13, 2004 18:41:27 GMT -5
Police have found a missing 18 month old kentucky girl dead after a state wide search was underway.
The little Kaylynn was last seen around 7:30 Wednesday night. Kaylynn's mother, 23-year-old Amanda Gaddie, is in the Jefferson County jail on unrelated charges.
Police refused an "Amber Alert" because the mother didn't report Kaylynn's disappearance until Friday night. That was two days after the toddler was last seen.
Louisville Metro Police had been asking for the public's help to track down a one-year-old girl that has been missing since Wednesday. Authorities believed the toddler was with her mother's boyfriend who they say was armed and dangerous.
A Metro Police spokesman said Shaw was arrested on Saturday night in Shelbyville on an unrelated warrant.
Shaw has a long criminal history, involving assault and a number of drug trafficking charges.
Shawn Michael Shaw was charged early Sunday morning with the slaying of the child and tampering with evidence.
Parents this is a very tough lesson to be learned here. Team Amber Alert asks/begs that if your child is missing donot delay reporting this to the police. The delay in this case may have contributed to the death of this baby and an amber alert or even a missing child alert could have saved this baby. Details have not been released to determine this yet.
Its very important you contact police as soon as you know a child is missing so no one will have to report another horrible ending such as the one we have today.
Our prayers go out to the family and those first responders that helped to locate the missing baby and to the community.
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Post by LadyBlue on Dec 15, 2004 8:08:25 GMT -5
Police have charged a man in the death of an infant who had been missing since Wednesday. The search for missing Kentucky toddler Kaylyn Gaddie ended when investigators found the 18-month-old girl dead in a plastic bag. Shawn Michael Shaw, the boyfriend of Kaylyn's mother, has been charged with murder and tampering with physical evidence. Kaylyn last was seen Wednesday night with Shaw, who was arrested Saturday night. He picked up Kaylyn from the home of an uncle in Jefferson County who was baby-sitting the girl, police said. He now faces numerous charges, including: Murder Tampering with evidence Burglary Possession of a controlled substance Possession of marijuana Receiving stolen property Unlawful transaction with a minor Shaw faces several other charges as well. Preliminary autopsy results showed that blunt force trauma to the head caused Kaylyn's death. After being questioned Saturday night, Shaw reportedly told investigators where they could find the girl, whom they later found in the bag in Jefferson Memorial Forest. Police said Shaw dumped the body over a guardrail and into a ravine. Shaw now is in police custody, where he is awaiting his arraignment. The baby’s loved ones have more questions than answers, saying that Shaw should have been behind bars. Investigators said Shaw had known drug problems and a criminal record that included two previous domestic violence charges against two other women. They added that Shaw had eight outstanding bench warrants for everything from drug possession to harassment at the time of Kaylynn's death. Prosecutor Bill Adams said at least three of the bench warrants were for an incident in September when Shaw failed to appear for sentencing on drug charges. A plea deal on the charges would have put Shaw behind bars for 12 years, but he never showed up for court. Metro police said they attempted to serve the warrants but couldn't track down their suspect. "The mother is as much to blame, I feel, as the man that killed her, because that mother is so unfit," family member Virginia Beavers said. Family members allege that the girl's mother, Amanda Gaddie, shouldn't have had custody because of what they called a drug problem. The family is wondering why Shaw wasn't already behind bars, and why Kaylynn's mother had custody of her to begin with. "I had no idea who this guy was," the baby's great uncle, James Barr, said. "He always seemed like he was an OK guy, but I'm very disappointed in the system." Barr added that if he'd known better, he'd have done better. He said he never would have given Kaylynn over to her mother's boyfriend. And the baby's aunt, Betty Bryant, added that Shaw shouldn't have been free to commit the alleged crime. "Why was he even with a little baby?" Bryant asked. "They should have had him in jail." www.newsnet5.com/news/3995249/detail.html
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Post by LadyBlue on Dec 18, 2004 6:21:04 GMT -5
Saturday, December 18, 2004
With the discovery of 7-year-old John Spicer’s body – still dressed in a Lewisburg Elementary School basketball uniform bearing the No. 8 – rescue workers’ search efforts came to an end at 11:55 a.m. Friday.
Spicer’s body was found under a log and other debris in Logan County’s Mud River, about 25 to 30 feet from the spot where rescue workers discovered the body of his father, Brandon Spicer, 34, on Wednesday evening.
“When they brought both of them out of the water, they just looked like sleeping angels,” said Brandon Spicer’s mother, Sandra Forman, whose husband, John, was their grandson’s namesake. “Their mouths and eyes were shut and they looked like they had just gone to sleep.”
Brandon Spicer and his son were returning from Lewisburg Elementary’s basketball practice last Saturday evening, the night their truck ran off Coopertown Road and into the river.
They were looking at Christmas lights on the way home, enjoying what they called “quality time” with each other, Forman said.
That night, which had temperatures around 40 degrees, the Spicers were reported missing and a search was started to find their bodies, which were swept by the river’s swift current into debris buildups downstream.
“When they notified us of the accident, I thought they meant it was just a bump and they had gone into a creek,” Forman said. “I did not fully understand the magnitude of it until we got out there. Once I looked and realized, I knew we were going to be looking for bodies, not live people.”
Terry Cole, director of Logan County’s Emergency Management Agency, said the discovery of John’s body filled rescue workers with sorrowful relief.
“Basically, we all stood around and cried at the start. We just had a good cry with the family,” he said. “We are relieved, but we have sympathy for the family – especially around this time of the year.”
Brandon Spicer, who had just been awarded custody of his son, was planning a June 11 wedding with his fiancée, Gennie Cherry of Lewisburg. The couple had a 9-month-old daughter
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