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May 15, 2004 20:42:53 GMT -5
Post by LadyBlue on May 15, 2004 20:42:53 GMT -5
Missing woman's body found on campus of elite college
Apr. 22, 2004
WELLESLEY, Mass. - A Wellesley College freshman missing since Monday was found dead Thursday in a wooded area on the sprawling campus, officials said. They stressed there was no obvious sign of foul play.
KateLynn Palmer, a freshman from California, was last seen Monday afternoon by one of her roommates, school spokeswoman Mary Ann Hill said. The roommates reported her missing on Wednesday.
The cause of death was not immediately known.
"Our hearts and prayers are with her family and her friends," Hill said. "This is a tragic situation."
There were no obvious signs of trauma to the body, which was discovered behind a dormitory at the elite women's college, investigators said. It was taken to the state medical examiner's office, which will determine the cause of death, a spokesman for the Norfolk district attorney's office said.
"We don't know if it's natural causes or some other cause of death," DA spokesman David Traub said. "The information we've been able to get at the scene has not led us to make a determination there."
Palmer's family in California was notified of her death. Wellesley President Diana Chapman Walsh also told students and faculty in an e-mail.
Walsh "wanted to make sure that people knew that the initial examination revealed no outward signs of foul play, to allay concerns they might have for their own safety," Hill said.
Wellesley, an elite all-women's school with 2,300 students, is on a 500-acre campus in an affluent suburb west of Boston.
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May 24, 2004 10:28:34 GMT -5
Post by LadyBlue on May 24, 2004 10:28:34 GMT -5
Police are investigating the weekend murder of a woman in Braintree, Mass., and the discovery of a dead toddler who may have been her son in East Boston. NewsCenter 5's Gail Huff reported that an off-duty state trooper discovered the unidentified woman's body Sunday while taking a walk with his family on the shore of Great Pond Reservoir. Police said the body was wrapped in plastic and tied with a cable. Then, while following leads in the case early Sunday, they found the body of a 2-year-old boy at a high-rise apartment complex on Border Street in East Boston. "They went to the apartment door, and while at the apartment door, a uniform police officer who was below the apartment in an underground garage discovered an approximately 2-year-old male that was in a green garbage bag. The child is deceased. The suspects of the apartment have been brought to Boston police headquarters and they are currently being interviewed at this time," said Deputy Sgt. Bob O'Toole. Four people were taken to police headquarters for questioning, three of them family members. Neither the woman nor the child's names have been released. news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=index&cid=383
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Jun 8, 2004 16:02:23 GMT -5
Post by LadyBlue on Jun 8, 2004 16:02:23 GMT -5
BOSTON -- New Bedford police recovered a body Tuesday that was found floating in the harbor.
Officials said that they received a phone call at about 9 a.m. Emergency personnel were dispatched to 256 Herman Melville Blvd. Police found the body floating among the docks.
The victim was identified as Arnoldo Ferreira, 25, of New Bedford. His family reported him missing on May 31.
Officials are investigating to determine the cause of death.
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Jul 29, 2004 15:48:32 GMT -5
Post by LadyBlue on Jul 29, 2004 15:48:32 GMT -5
Molly Bish was abducted on June 27, 2000 from Comins Pond in Warren, MA where she worked as a lifeguard.
Molly was 16 years old at the time of her abduction. The efforts of law enforcement, the media and community in the search for Molly were unprecedented and deeply appreciated.
The extensive search for Molly came to its end June 9, 2003 just five miles from her family home. An intensive investigation into the circumstances surrounding Molly's abduction and fate is ongoing ... ******************************************** Molly's abductor sat in wait for the teen back in the pines. Familiar with her schedule, and the activity at the beach, he crept down as Bish prepared for the children, who were to arrive at 10:30 that morning. Maybe he asked her for help. Eager to use her newfound lifesaving skills, she might have followed him from the fringe of the beach, down the path carpeted with leaves and pine needles and, ultimately, to the cemetery where his car was parked.
Though some of her young swimmers noticed Molly was not there when they arrived at 10:15, three hours would go by before police decided her disappearance was suspicious and launched a full-scale search. If the abduction took only eight minutes, as Josh Bish posits, his daughter could have been anywhere by then. And after two years of investigation that cost the state police more than $1 million, dozens of suspects, and more than 5,000 leads, she could still be anywhere.
But just who could brought her there? The smoking man in the white sedan remains at large. And suspects, including Molly's boyfriend at the time (he later passed a lie detector test), have come and gone without any arrests. (Law enforcement officials would not comment for this story.) So the Bishes, to their dismay, have had to live to learn with the doubt as well as the grief.
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Jul 29, 2004 15:49:07 GMT -5
Post by LadyBlue on Jul 29, 2004 15:49:07 GMT -5
After Molly said goodbye to her mom that morning she gathered the tools of her trade—a police-issue radio and a first-aid kit—and placed them with her backpack, lunch, and sandals near the beach. It was a few minutes after 10. When police and her family gathered on the beach three hours later, these items were the only sign of Molly they found.
Molly's mother Magdalen Bish, who is known as Magi, always starts the story on the morning before, June 26. Instead of dropping her daughter off and leaving, as usual, Magi Bish lingered at the beach while her daughter set up. A man smoking a cigarette was sitting in a white sedan in the parking lot, out of view of the lake and without any seeming purpose, and she wasn't about to leave her daughter there alone.
"I guess it was sort of a mother's instinct," said Bish, an energetic elementary school teacher with a warm smile. "I felt uncomfortable. He had this thingyy look. He just kind of stared at me. I said 'I can't leave Molly here with this guy here.'"
When Magi Bish returned to the parking lot, she exchanged glances with the man, and then pretended to look for something in her car until he drove away. She forgot about him until her daughter disappeared the next day. "Molly was gone," she said. "And all I could think about is that man in the car."
Two hundred years ago, General Henry Knox carted cannons bound for George Washington's army down a road that led through the pond. In the 1900s, it became a rock quarry, reaching down some 100 feet into the earth. Its final incarnation, thanks to a few tons of concrete that raised a barrier on the side facing the parking lot, was the recreational pond that remains today. That's where the search for Molly began.
The first place anyone looked was the water. Molly's older brother, John Jr., was the first one in. A lifeguard for two years there himself, he stripped his clothes off and dove. "I know all the land and everything out there," said the 22-year-old, his eyes welling with tears. "It's probably one of my worst memories."
After a day of searching, it was clear the pond, which would later be swept by the same sonar equipment used to look for John F. Kennedy, Jr's plane, wasn't the answer. Molly was nowhere. The Bishes lay awake all night, thinking about how the three-sport athlete and star student wouldn't have run away and how she had no known enemies. The insomnia would be a constant as police sifted through suspects and leads in the weeks that followed. "We didn't sleep for days," said John Jr.
"I don't know if we really fully any of us sleep anymore," added his sister, Heather, 25.
The next day, bloodhounds brought in from New York trailed Molly's scent up into the woods behind the beach. Anchored in a hill that rises behind the pond, the foliage there thickens until, about 30 feet back, a person could crouch undetected in the brush and observe the beach below.
A main path forks at a stand of pine trees, one continuing around the beach, the other leading up to a cemetery. It's this path the bloodhounds followed, and this path that police say Molly Bish and her abductor followed that day.
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Jul 29, 2004 15:49:37 GMT -5
Post by LadyBlue on Jul 29, 2004 15:49:37 GMT -5
A profilers point of view: October 2000 “He did not stumble upon her. He knew his stuff. He was watching her,” Dr. Kelly said. “This person is visually oriented. He enjoys the outdoors, more of a fisherman, and probably does not work. He'll probably have a background of female abuse, lewd behavior, has exposed himself when he was younger and he may be known as a Peeping Tom.” www.mollybish.org/new_page_7.htmThe area where the bathing suit was found is wooded, not far from the Nenameseck Sportsmen's Club on Bacon Road in Palmer and about 5 miles from where Molly was last seen. Yesterday, two state police canine units from Conte's office searched the undisclosed area again, but found nothing. www.mollybish.org/images/Bacon_Road.jpg
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Sept 21, 2004 11:00:18 GMT -5
Post by LadyBlue on Sept 21, 2004 11:00:18 GMT -5
A body wrapped in plastic that was found floating in the Charles River was identified Monday as a missing Malden woman who vanished after work nearly a month ago and whose car was found ablaze in a parking lot.
The body of Julaine Jules, 26, who disappeared in August after leaving work in South Boston, was identified Monday. A passer-by spotted the body floating in the river on Sunday afternoon and called police. Jules was identified through dental records.
Her family, which has held prayer vigils for Jules and plastered missing posters throughout the Boston area, wept and sobbed on their Malden street after receiving word from police.
"This is so, so, so hard," said Jules' cousin, Cherlie Magney-Mormilus. "This is not what we wanted. We were waiting for Julaine to come back to us safe and sound."
While the autopsy Monday did not reveal a cause of death, the case was being treated as a homicide. Planned toxicology tests could take weeks to complete and may not conclusively yield the cause of death, Emily LaGrassa, a spokeswoman for the Middlesex district attorney's office, said Tuesday.
Middlesex DA Martha Coakley and Suffolk DA Daniel Conley are investigating the murder together, as it's not clear where it took place. The Charles River is the boundary between the two counties.
"To that family, we promise today that we will not tire, we will not yield, we will not stop until we find who did this," Conley said at a press conference with Coakley.
After Jules left work at about 7 p.m. on Aug. 24, her car was found burning in the lot near the Revere-Malden line just after midnight, according to investigators.
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Dec 18, 2004 7:51:13 GMT -5
Post by LadyBlue on Dec 18, 2004 7:51:13 GMT -5
The weeklong search for a missing Lawrence woman ended Friday when a tow truck driver spotted her flipped car with her body inside about 100 feet from Interstate 93, authorities said.
The body of Andrea Hilse, 35, was inside the car, which was flipped over in a gully and out of view, not far from the South Shore Plaza in Braintree, said David Traub, a spokesman for Norfolk District Attorney William R. Keating.
The tow truck driver, who had pulled over onto the shoulder, saw the car at about 4:30 p.m. as he was climbing on his rigging, and had an elevated view of the area off the freeway, Traub said.
Traub said an autopsy planned for Saturday would verify how she died, but said evidence suggested that it was an accident.
Hilse's husband, Karl, reported her missing Dec. 10, some 17 hours after she called him from her cellular phone in Middleboro to say she would be late because rainy weather was making driving difficult.
Hilse disappeared as she was returning to Lawrence from Martha's Vineyard, where she had worked at a temporary pharmacist job.
Lawrence Police Chief John Romero said the location of the car was consistent with Hilse's return route from work.
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Apr 29, 2006 20:25:38 GMT -5
Post by LadyBlue on Apr 29, 2006 20:25:38 GMT -5
BOSTON -- Human remains found in Braintree this week have been identified as those of a Quincy man who disappeared four years ago. The Norfolk County District Attorney said that bones found on River Street were those of Michael Connelly, 38, who disappeared in 2002. The bones were found by teenagers near a Department of Public Works yard two days ago. Authorities did not disclose how Connelly died, but that do no suspect foul play. www.thebostonchannel.com/health/9071078/detail.html
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May 2, 2006 15:30:17 GMT -5
Post by LadyBlue on May 2, 2006 15:30:17 GMT -5
[glow=red,2,300]Body found in woods is missing Milton teen[/glow] BOSTON -- Boston police say the burned body of Dominique Samuels was discovered over the weekend in a wooded section of Franklin Park. Authorities are saying little about the case, confirming only that the homicide unit is investigating and the medical examiner is trying to determine the cause and manner of death. Police have confirmed that the body has been identified as that of 19-year-old Dominique Samuels, a 2004 graduate of Milton High School. Samuels had been listed as being missing in a recent bulletin from the Jubilee Christian Church in Boston, where her family attended. www1.whdh.com/news/articles/local/BO18800/
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May 11, 2006 21:22:25 GMT -5
Post by LadyBlue on May 11, 2006 21:22:25 GMT -5
[glow=red,2,300]Missing Child's Body Found[/glow] Police found the body of a missing Woonsocket girl early Monday morning. The body of 8-year-old Savannah Smith was found dumped in the woods of Cranston, police said. According to broadcast reports, the child had been sexually assaulted. Cranston police charged Joshua Davis, 20, of Woonsocket, with one count of murder. He was ordered held without bail at his arraignment in Providence District Court Monday. Officials said Davis is the boyfriend of the girl's baby sitter. Smith was reported missing on Sunday. Her mother said that the girl had not been seen since late Sunday afternoon. Police had been searching with a K-9 unit. "A young girl got killed from Woonsocket. You know, raped and, you know, whatever. Scary world," Cranston resident John Gorman said. The child's body was found dumped in the woods on Parkview Boulevard in Cranston, about 18 miles south of the girl's hometown of Woonsocket. How police knew to search the wooded area where the body was found is unclear. A chemical plant once operated at the site. "I have been at the scene this morning since about 5 this morning. It's obviously a horrific day for the citizens of Cranston, especially the ones who are parents. There are grieving parents in Woonsocket," Cranston Mayor Stephen Laffey said. Laffey said it is the city's first murder in at least three years. Smith was described as blonde, beautiful and very well liked. Davis could face additional charges after an autopsy is completed, officials said. www.thebostonchannel.com/consumer/9176613/detail.html
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Oct 30, 2007 16:06:01 GMT -5
Post by Justine on Oct 30, 2007 16:06:01 GMT -5
[glow=red,2,300]Missing Child's Body Found[/glow] Police found the body of a missing Woonsocket girl early Monday morning. The body of 8-year-old Savannah Smith was found dumped in the woods of Cranston, police said. According to broadcast reports, the child had been sexually assaulted. Cranston police charged Joshua Davis, 20, of Woonsocket, with one count of murder. He was ordered held without bail at his arraignment in Providence District Court Monday. Officials said Davis is the boyfriend of the girl's baby sitter. Smith was reported missing on Sunday. Her mother said that the girl had not been seen since late Sunday afternoon. Police had been searching with a K-9 unit. "A young girl got killed from Woonsocket. You know, raped and, you know, whatever. Scary world," Cranston resident John Gorman said. The child's body was found dumped in the woods on Parkview Boulevard in Cranston, about 18 miles south of the girl's hometown of Woonsocket. How police knew to search the wooded area where the body was found is unclear. A chemical plant once operated at the site. "I have been at the scene this morning since about 5 this morning. It's obviously a horrific day for the citizens of Cranston, especially the ones who are parents. There are grieving parents in Woonsocket," Cranston Mayor Stephen Laffey said. Laffey said it is the city's first murder in at least three years. Smith was described as blonde, beautiful and very well liked. Davis could face additional charges after an autopsy is completed, officials said. www.thebostonchannel.com/consumer/9176613/detail.html
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