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Post by LadyBlue on May 8, 2004 21:13:31 GMT -5
(Battle Creek, April 22, 2004, 4:30 p.m.) Police found the body of 30-year-old James Marshall III Wednesday night in the Kalamazoo River in Battle Creek, just five miles from where he lived. Marshall had been missing since February 27 and his family admits the result may not have been any different, but they have several questions for police. Why did it take so long for them to take the case seriously? And why didn't they organize a search? 24 Hour News 8 talked with Battle Creek Police Chief David Headings. He told us there is nothing police should have done different. He says his department handled the case correctly because there were no signs of foul play and Marshall is an adult male with a history of drug use. Plus, they don't have the manpower to go on a shoulder to shoulder search for every report of a missing adult. "I'm mad because this man is dead," said Shannon Dingee-Kramer of the Missing You Foundation. Dingee-Kramer's foundation is dedicated to finding missing adults. Since December, she has found six people alive and well. The Marshall case has been frustrating for her. She says it shouldn't matter what age or sex a missing person is. What matters is getting answers for the family. "What makes James any different than Dru Sdojin or Laci Peterson? What sets him apart from them? Why wasn't there a full scale search? I understand it. Do I agree with it? No," added Dingee-Kramer. An autopsy was scheduled for Thursday, but investigators don't expect to get the results back for a few weeks. Family and friends of James Marshall have planned a candlelight vigil for Thursday at 8:00 p.m. in Irving Park, across from Battle Creek Health System. www.woodtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=1805574&nav=0RceMV29
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Post by LadyBlue on May 13, 2004 10:55:55 GMT -5
A Farmington Hills businessman was found dead Wednesday, his body tightly wrapped in a blue tarp, bound with duct tape in the back of a Ford Explorer in the driveway of his home. The man, discovered about 5 p.m., had been stabbed three times in the back. Detectives were questioning his 51-year-old wife, Police Chief William Dwyer said. He would not say whether she is a suspect in his death. Officers found the body as they looked for the man at his home in the 29800 block of Briarwood in the gated Ramblewood subdivision. Police would not release the man's name, but neighbors said the man was Robert Seamen, 57. news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=index&cid=400
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Post by LadyBlue on Jun 21, 2004 11:09:45 GMT -5
The body of a missing Michigan girl who disappeared Friday night has been found near her home in Ludington.
More than 200 rescuers have been searching for the 12-year-old girl.
Ludington Police said they have made an arrest in the case.
A 30-year-old parolee and family acquaintance is jailed in while authorities check for links to Sabrina Dalzell's disappearance. Police would not say whether he was the person charged with the crime.
Police had searched a home, property and van linked to him.
An Amber alert had been issued for the girl. It has been canceled.
Sabrina's mother left her and her 10-year-old brother home Friday night for a social event. Sabrina was gone when her mother returned in the morning.
WHERE THE HELL WAS THE AMBER ALERT FOR THIS YOUNG GIRL??
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Post by LadyBlue on Jul 6, 2004 18:24:03 GMT -5
Police said the car found by dredging crews at Conner Creek is a 1956 Chevrolet Bel Air. The creek -- located at Conner, south of Jefferson Avenue, near the Jefferson North Assembly Plant and Bayview Yacht Club -- was reportedly last searched in the 1960s. When the crew pulled the car from the water, they apparently found what was believed to be human remains, the station reported. "When they pulled the car up, they put it up on the barge and we noticed all the excitement when they started pointing inside and then the police came," said a harbormaster at Bayview, who went by the name Angelo. Boaters at the club told Local 4 they had heard from crews that it appeared to be a woman's body, but homicide investigators said all that was found was a bone, which may not be human. The evidence was reportedly taken to the medical examiner's office to be reviewed. Fire crews hosed down the car and police were able to locate a vehicle identification number that may lead them to the car's owner. Video Here: www.clickondetroit.com/news/3486441/detail.html
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Post by LadyBlue on Jul 19, 2004 14:24:30 GMT -5
Police near Jackson have arrested a man witnesses say was last seen with an East Lansing woman who was found dead Wednesday night in Meridian Township. Paul David Gibbs, 48, was wanted by police for questioning in the death of Tammie Sue Dubay, 35. Dubay, who went missing, was last seen with Gibbs Tuesday night at about midnight outside her apartment complex located at Deerpath Lane and Haslett Road, according to East Lansing police.
Her body was found at approximately 6:41 p.m. on Wednesday after Meridian Township Police responded to a call near the intersection of Cornell Road and Orlando Drive in Haslett.
Police had issued reports Wednesday, before the body was found, noting that Dubay had "disappeared" and was "endangered." East Lansing Police said they believed Dubay was taken involuntarily.
An autopsy performed Friday revealed Dubay had been strangled to death 16-18 hours before her body was found.
"She was strangled with some kind of rope or cord or something like that," said Dennis Jurczak, the Ingham County chief deputy medical examiner.
"It doesn't appear that she was killed there, she was killed somewhere else and the body was dropped off."
Gibbs, an "acquaintance" of Dubay's, according to police, was spotted by Jackson-area farmer John Gumbert on Saturday morning and arrested shortly thereafter by Blackman Township police.
"He was taken into custody without incident and Meridian Township was notified," Blackman Township Police Sgt. Rich White said.
Gumbert, of Rives Township, notified police of Gibbs' presence after he recognized his truck.
"I was just coming up one of our farm lanes up toward my house, and he went by right in front of me on the road. So I picked up my phone and called 911 and they just told me to follow him until they could get to him.
"And boy, did they get to him, there were police cars absolutely everywhere."
Gumbert said he followed Gibbs for about six miles as both vehicles headed towards Jackson while he remained on the line with the 911 dispatcher.
"The 911 operator told me to keep following him and they kept me on the phone and I kept telling them which direction he was going on what roads," Gumbert said. "As we got closer to town, the first two police cars were sitting there were waiting for him, and then I backed off.
"They got behind him and got maybe another half-mile or so and there must have been eight or nine more police cars. He turned onto another road and they were all behind him and turned their lights on at the same time and arrested him, or whatever."
Gumbert said Gibbs didn't seem to speed up or attempt to elude the officers, though he believed he knew they were all following him.
"It all kind of happened in slow motion," Gumbert said.
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Post by LadyBlue on Sept 10, 2004 16:49:42 GMT -5
[glow=red,2,300]Holland girl, 12, found dead in woods [/glow] A month ago, 12-year-old Terria Hardy of Holland, a student at Muskegon's Steele Middle School last year, confided to an adult friend that neighbor John McGuckin -- the man now held in her Wednesday night slaying -- had molested her.
"She came to me in tears and told me what happened," Hope Briggance, 30, said Thursday.
Briggance said she told the girl's father, Dan Hardy, who told McGuckin, 34, to stay away from his daughter.
Police confirmed the girl had made the allegations to the neighbor, but would not say whether the allegations were passed along to police before the abduction, and would not say if that was a motive in the slaying.
McGuckin was expected to be charged today in the slaying.
Several hours after the killing, McGuckin reportedly led police to her body hidden under a large pine tree in the Allegan State Game Area, near M-89 east of Fennville.
The slaying devastated the Hardy family. Thursday afternoon, Dan Hardy would have been meeting his daughter -- a seventh-grader at East Middle School -- at her bus stop outside of Crown Pointe Apartments. Instead, he knelt in front of a boulder at the same corner, where she was last seen. There, his family erected a makeshift memorial.
A tearful Hardy kissed his fingers and touched the boulder, on which he had drawn a heart with sidewalk chalk. He also placed two red roses, one silk purple rose and two small teddy bears with wings and halos on the rock. "In memory of Terria," he wrote.
Earlier, Dan Hardy said: "I don't know if I'll ever be able to rebound from this." He said he felt a "huge, empty spot in my soul."
A crisis team of child psychologists and social workers stood ready Thursday at East Middle School to help classmates of Terria Hardy.
But the announcement was received with as much mystery as grief. Terria had attended school in Holland only five days, and few students had a chance to get to know her.
Terria attended Steele Middle School in Muskegon most of last year, moving from Kentwood in late October. She had also attended school in Mount Pleasant, Charlevoix, and perhaps other districts.
Muskegon Public Schools Superintendent Joe Schulze said he couldn't be sure because Terria Hardy's school records had been forwarded to Holland.
"We only had Terria in school for seven months, but her teachers remember her clearly and are very upset by this news," Schulze said. "She was a pleasant, engaging child who liked school, was conscientious about her work, and liked talking with her teachers. She was very personable."
McGuckin had no criminal record, according to state police. Local courts showed only violations for minor traffic offenses. He is married, with two young daughters.
The suspect's and victim's families knew one another, Allegan County Sheriff's Lt. Rick Cain said.
The case has some similarities to the June slaying of a 12-year-old Ludington girl.
In June, Sabrina Dalzell, a 12-year-old Ludington girl, was abducted from her apartment by a man police said was a former boyfriend of the girl's mother. She, too was taken to a wooded area where she was killed.
David Wayne Mears is facing counts of kidnapping and open murder in the case.
In July, the body of 13-year-old Amanda Lankey was found in the Manistee National Forest. Lankey was a Florida resident visiting relatives in White Cloud in Newaygo County.
There has been no arrest in the case.
He said McGuckin persuaded the girl to get into his Dodge Intrepid around 6:15 p.m. Wednesday at the apartment complex on Matt Urban Drive, on Holland's south side. A friend who saw them drive away told the girl's parents. The family called 911 at 6:53 p.m. to file a missing-person report with Holland police.
Holland police launched an extensive search soon afterward, using tracking dogs at area parks, a state police helicopter equipped with thermal-imaging equipment and alerts sent to neighboring departments. Police posted pictures of the girl at area businesses.
Police also put out a statewide Amber Alert to help find the girl, who was described as mentally challenged and bipolar.
The suspect returned to the apartment complex at 8 p.m., where he was stopped by police. Police became concerned because McGuckin was alone, and he quickly became the focus of the investigation. He willingly went to the police station for an interview.
According to the police, McGuckin denied having the girl in his car, but several hours later he told authorities he would lead them to her body. Around 3 a.m., police found her dead, covered with debris, under a large pine tree.
"If he wouldn't have helped us to the scene, we'd have never found her," Cain said. "This is a dense area, and she was well hidden."
Police said they believe she was killed there, down a two-track road off 46th Street south of M-89. The suspect told police he was familiar with the area and had visited the location a week ago. He had also visited the area a couple of years ago.
Cain would not say why the suspect had been there before.
Cain said police believe they know how the girl died, but he would not elaborate pending an autopsy today.
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Post by LadyBlue on Nov 6, 2004 3:01:08 GMT -5
A missing Dearborn man whose body was found Friday outside a fast-food restaurant apparently died of natural causes, police in this Oakland County community said.
David Jelso, 39, who sold windows from a business in Livonia, was last seen Monday at a sales call in Rochester Hills. He disappeared while driving to an appointment in Farmington Hills, police said.
A township police officer found Jelso's body inside his black Jeep Cherokee in a parking lot next to a McDonald's restaurant.
"It doesn't look like he was the victim of foul play," police Capt. Kirt Bowden told The Daily Oakland Press of Pontiac. "There was no trauma to the body or wounds. It looks like he laid back his head and went unconscious."
It was not known how long Jelso was in the parking lot.
An autopsy was to be performed Saturday. Relatives have said Jelso, a married father of two, had a medical condition that caused him to have seizures.
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Post by LadyBlue on Nov 12, 2004 9:20:59 GMT -5
There was good news Thursday for the family of Flint teenager who had been missing for several days.
Edwina Walton, 15, returned home Thursday evening. Flint police said the girl called her cousin from a local store. Her cousin picked her up and took her home. Police are now investigating.
Walton was last seen Monday getting off of a school bus with an unknown man at the corner of Mackin Road and Lavender on Flint's northwest side. Students told family members it seemed like Walton was being held against her will.
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Post by LadyBlue on Jan 2, 2005 7:06:08 GMT -5
Police were holding a man Sunday in the disappearance of four people and the discovery of bodies inside a vehicle belonging to one of the missing.
Police said a friend of the missing people called police to their house Saturday after suspecting something was wrong. When police arrived, they found a 1-year-old unharmed in a closet and the four others gone.
"There appeared to be some signs of an assault," police spokesman James Tate said.
Police began a search for Alicia Jackson, 24; Gloria Pitts, 17; and Jackson's two children, Jamon Wilmer, 6 or 7, and I'jannia Jackson, 4. Pitts is the mother of the 1-year-old found at the house, Tate said.
Police also searched for Jackson's Jeep, and on Sunday morning, officers found it in an abandoned lot with at least two bodies inside, Tate said. The bodies had not been identified as of Sunday afternoon.
Tate said the physical evidence and a statement from the suspect "lead us to understand that it is the result of a domestic situation."
Police were seeking a warrant and expected to have the suspect arraigned Monday, Tate said.
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Post by LadyBlue on Feb 17, 2005 13:34:47 GMT -5
The desperate search for a 19-year-old woman missing since Sunday ended in tragedy. Her body was discovered on the city’s east side Thursday morning. Relatives of Jolana Stafford had been searching for her since Sunday night. Police say Jolana and her boyfriend went to a Roseville Motel on Sunday for a Valentine’s Day date. They reportedly had an argument hours later. The boyfriend says that she left, and he took a bus home. The family then made a disturbing discovery Wednesday night, when they found Jolana’s car, a Neon, parked along the I-94 service drive. www.wxyz.com/wxyz/nw_local_news/article/0,2132,WXYZ_15924_3555108,00.html
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Post by LadyBlue on Jul 17, 2005 9:09:43 GMT -5
[glow=red,2,300]Marquette Elizabeth Bowen[/glow] Bowen was located deceased in 2005. She had been missing since December 15, 2004 from Buchanan Michigan.
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Post by LadyBlue on Jul 19, 2005 21:43:17 GMT -5
CLAYTON TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) -- Police say a body found in a thicket during a search for a missing Lansing-area child is that of a 54-year-old Swartz Creek man.
David Gordon had been living on the streets for several months after a series of personal problems, police said. His body was found behind a Genesee County house about 1 p.m. Friday by searchers looking for Ricky Holland, a 7-year-old from Williamston missing since July 2.
Gordon's death is being treated as suspicious, although there were no obvious signs of foul play, The Flint Journal reported. His family last saw him in November.
The Oakland County Medical Examiner's Office was conducting an autopsy, but no cause of death was available Tuesday.
Area police initiated the search for Ricky after receiving a report that the child may have been seen early Friday in Clayton Township, about 10 miles west of downtown Flint. Ricky has been missing since his adoptive parents discovered he was not sleeping in his bed, which was pushed toward an open window.
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