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Post by LadyBlue on May 8, 2004 21:19:22 GMT -5
TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Afternearly a month of searching forher past, it is the present TinaMartinez may find most difficultto let go.On Thursday, the amnesiacauthorities called “Angel”learned Thursday that she is a37-year-old dog breeder with ahusband and three teen-agechildren in Albuquerque, N.M. But she just might stay at thewomen’s shelter that has har-bored her since a sheriff’sdeputy brought her there. “It’s been wonderful. Secure,”Mrs. Martinez said from theshelter Thursday. “It’s all I know.Leaving here is probably one ofthe hardest things I’ll ever haveto do.”It was a month ago when atruck driver spotted the womansoaked and blood-stained alonga highway and picked her up.The trucker dropped Mrs.Martinez off at a conveniencestore near Springer, about 80miles south of Oklahoma City,and asked the store clerk to call for help. Mrs. Martinez was left with theclothes on her back, a $20 bill inher pocket and a wound from ablow to the head. She wastaken to the women’s shelter inAda, 120 miles southwest of Tulsa. Read more here: www.lmtonline.com/news/archive/0918/pagea7.pdf
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Post by LadyBlue on May 15, 2004 20:53:45 GMT -5
Mar 29, 2004, 10:23 Anna Marie Atkinson Police in Norman, Oklahoma, have discovered the remains of a woman missing since September 4, 2003. Based on a note she left behind when she disappeared, it had been hoped she'd come to Bonners Ferry. According to the Norman Transcript, the discovery was made Sunday afternoon by children who found a skeleton hanging in a tree in a wooded area just west of where Anna Marie Atkinson, 27, lived when she was reported missing. Thinking the bones were part of a Halloween-type hoax, the bones were widely scattered before police were notified. Several key elements fit the details uncovered during an investigation after her disappearance, and tatoos on her back are still visible, and match the ones described by those who knew her; early this morning, the coroner made positive identification. Before she disappeared, Anna left behind a rambling note. In one sentence, she said she wanted to come to Bonners Ferry to see her dad, Mike Weland. As the weeks dragged on following her disappearance, those hopes dimmed. Anna leaves behind two sons, Stevie Atkinson and Nicholas Weland. www.ruralnorthwest.com/artman/ publish/article_3384.shtml
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Post by LadyBlue on Aug 7, 2004 8:55:05 GMT -5
New developments on human remains found in a burned-out truck just south of Sand Springs Wednesday.
The truck was apparently dumped about 300 yards into thick woods near 57th and 105th West Avenue, and set on fire.
Thursday, Tulsa County Sheriff’s deputies removed the truck for further investigation. Investigators say inside was the body of 29-year old Felix Garcia Solis, who was reported missing July 27th.
The Tulsa County Sheriff's office is calling this a homicide. They say they want to question 28-year old Tyrone Jermaine Hall and 22-year old Jimmy Lee Humprey.
Anyone with information about their whereabouts is asked to call 596-5701.
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Post by LadyBlue on Apr 4, 2005 12:26:51 GMT -5
An elderly Oklahoma woman who has been missing since August has been found safe by FBI agents in Houston.
Sara Scott, 80, of Stigler, Okla., was one of several people in a car that federal officers had been following Friday afternoon, FBI spokesman Gary Johnson said. Scott was taken into protective custody in Texas.
"She seems to be in good shape," Johnson said. "She's in the custody of the FBI, and she'll be brought back to Oklahoma."
Scott reportedly was staying at a Houston home connected to Susett Gibson, Johnson said. Gibson is a former caretaker who is charged in Oklahoma's Haskell County District Court with financially exploiting Scott.
Gibson faces charges that she exploited Scott for more than $2,000.
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Post by LadyBlue on Jun 5, 2005 20:09:53 GMT -5
A Texas A&M University student who had been feared dead after disappearing nearly seven years ago has been found alive and working in Kentucky, according to authorities. Police spent hours since Brandi Stahr went missing in October 1998 searching for her body in wooded parts of Brazos County, at one point even questioning a serial rapist and murderer just hours before he was executed last year. But a telephone tip led investigators to Florence, Ky., where Stahr has been working for the last five years at a Sam's Club, said Texas Ranger Frank Malinak. "We thought we were dealing with a missing persons case," Malinak said. "But, in actuality, we were dealing with a person who did not want to be found and was in hiding." Stahr, 27, hid from her family since she and her mother, Ann Dickenson, got into an argument over bad grades she received during her sophomore year at A&M. "She wasn't going to school and doing what she was supposed to do," Dickenson said. "When we cut off the charge cards and stopped paying for school, she got mad and said she didn't want a damn thing from us." Dickenson was just a few months from having her daughter legally declared dead and buying a tombstone engraved with Stahr's name, she said. Dickenson and Stahr haven't reunited yet, but have talked on the phone. Stahr has been upset by the media coverage of her reappearance and has told one sister the entire family should not bother visiting her. But her mother said there's nothing that's going to keep her from seeing her daughter after seven years. "We're going. I'm going. Even if I have to sit out in a (Sam's Club) parking lot to see her," Dickenson said. Although Stahr committed no crime in her disappearance, investigators spent a lot of money and time looking for her, Malinak said. Texas Rangers renewed their search efforts for Stahr in 2001. "The responsible thing to do would have been to let someone know you're OK," Malinak said. "There are going to be people expending man-hours and effort, trying to find a missing person." www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/metropolitan/3212040
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Post by LadyBlue on May 22, 2006 21:39:10 GMT -5
[glow=red,2,300]Teen’s body found[/glow] Wagoner County authorities shifted the focus of their investigation of the missing Broken Arrow teenager Thursday, cordoning off the Wahoo Bay area of Fort Gibson Lake for a second time this week to look for clues to his death. Jarret Austin Clark, 18, was found at about 10:30 a.m. Thursday by Marvin Stanley, a game ranger who had been patrolling about 300 yards from the shoreline. He said Clark was floating in about 26 feet of water. As authorities continued their search for evidence of Clark’s death in the Wahoo Bay area, the teen’s family and friends who had just learned his body had been found huddled in prayer outside the park’s gates. The energy and enthusiasm generated by their search efforts turned somber. “We kind of knew — as hard as it was to imagine — it might turn out this way,” said Eugene Smithson, Clark’s grandfather. “We’re just glad they’ve found him so there can be some sense of closure.” Clark, who had been missing since Sunday, was last seen at the Wahoo Bay campground where he and several others gathered to celebrate their graduation last week from Broken Arrow High School. Stanley declined to comment about the condition of Clark’s body when he was found due to the ongoing investigation of the circumstances surrounding the teen’s death. But authorities were able to confirm Clark’s identity from a picture the family had provided. Medical examiners in Tulsa performed an autopsy Thursday afternoon, but the cause and manner of Clark’s death have yet to be determined. Warner Police Chief Terry Thompson, Clark’s cousin, spoke for the rest of Clark’s family. “Even though we knew this was a possibility, it’s still a shock,” Thompson said. “The family’s faith is in God, and we believe the system works. “We’ll get through the coming days and let justice take its course,” Thompson said. Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation Spokeswoman Jessica Brown said four agents had been assigned to the Clark case, a joint investigation with Wagoner County authorities. “We’re interviewing everybody who was at the lake with Clark,” Brown said. “Until the medical examiner can give us a cause of death, we have to investigate it (the case) as a suspicious death.” Wagoner County Undersheriff Mark Day would not confirm reports that investigators had narrowed the scope of their investigation or that there were any particular suspects or persons of interest. “We’re still approaching it from all angles to see if there was any foul play involved,” Day said. “We’re at the point now where we can’t go public with anything until we absolutely have our ducks in a row.” Day also declined to comment about the condition of Clark’s body when it was found. “Tomorrow should be a big day for everybody,” Day said. “By then, the medical examiner should have a ruling on the cause of death and we should be at a point where we can release more information.” www.muskogeephoenix.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060519/NEWS01/60519010/1002
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Post by LadyBlue on Aug 16, 2007 18:07:38 GMT -5
Human remains found April 14 at Camp Kickapoo have been identified as a 21-year-old Japanese woman who went missing nearly six years ago, police said today. Police were able to identify the remains using DNA sampling, police Sgt. Paco Balderrama said. Mayuko Kawase first went missing Aug. 20, 2001. Her remains were found by a group of young boys hiking at the camp earlier this year. An independent lab in Texas was able to use DNA testing to positively identify the remains. At this time, Kawase's cause of death has not been determined, Balderrama said, and the case has gone cold. Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 235-7300. newsok.com/article/3105725
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