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Arizona
Jun 19, 2004 22:18:16 GMT -5
Post by LadyBlue on Jun 19, 2004 22:18:16 GMT -5
Body found near Bisbee believed to be Pirtleville teen
A body found ten miles east of Bisbee off Highway 80 may be a missing 16-year-old Pirtleville boy.
A possible link has been made between the body and a missing person report filed with Cochise County officials for a boy who was last seen by his family June 12th.
The teen was to travel to Tucson to visit family, but he never arrived or contacted them.
Cochise County sheriff's officials say the personal description and clothing on the missing person report and that of the deceased are similar.
Positive identification awaits comparison of dental records. Autopsy results are still pending.
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Arizona
Nov 12, 2004 9:08:47 GMT -5
Post by LadyBlue on Nov 12, 2004 9:08:47 GMT -5
Authorities on Thursday removed the body of a 29-year-old Prescott man, who has been missing for three weeks, after they found it hanging from a tree off White Spar Road in Prescott.
Prescott Police Sgt. Pete Hodap said it is possible that no one noticed Aaron Scott hanging from the tree, just a few yards from the street, for three weeks because the leaves and tree branches had camouflaged him so well. And people do not tend to look up as they drive, he said.
One of Scott’s legs was resting on a limb, Hodap said. A witness described him as a man who appeared to be “standing dead” in the tree.
Police received a call at around 1 p.m. after a worker from a nearby business who was walking back from a lunch break noticed the hanging body in the 400 block of White Spar. The first people to arrive on the scene were patrol officers and the Prescott Fire Department Technical Rescue Team.
Hodap said Scott used a nylon rope to take his own life, adding that cold weather prevented the remains from decomposing quickly, although some evidence of it was visible.
A roommate of Scott, who would have celebrated his 29th birthday on Nov. 6, reported him missing after he failed to return home, Prescott Police Det. Jerry Yslas said previously.
Scott and his roommate lived in the 600 block of South Granite Street and Yslas said that they moved here from Ohio about two months ago.
Yslas said Scott had gone to work at Tastebuds Pizza and that upon completion of his shift he visited a couple of bars with friends of his. They left around 10:30 p.m., when Scott returned home. That is when his roommate last saw Scott, Yslas said.
The roommate reported him missing on Oct. 22, when he was unable to locate him in places that he believed Scott could have visited. Yslas said his parents also called the police to report their son missing.
He said in his e-mail message that Scott had made suicidal remarks to another friend. He was apparently suffering from depression.
Hodap said that after detectives conducted the investigation, they ruled it to be a suicide because they have found no evidence of foul play. He said it would have taken a lot of effort for someone to lift the 240-pound man up the tree.
Hodap said that only twice in his almost 20-year career has he seen hanging used as a method to end one’s life.
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Arizona
Feb 1, 2005 17:08:14 GMT -5
Post by LadyBlue on Feb 1, 2005 17:08:14 GMT -5
The day after what would have been Alvin and Zuraida "Bee Bee" Lewis' 23rd wedding anniversary, Alvin Lewis identified his dead wife's body. A Hilton Tucson El Conquistador Golf and Tennis Resort representative reported Zuraida Lewis missing to Oro Valley police Friday morning after she didn't show up for work and employees found her maroon Toyota Camry in the parking lot. The employees also notified Alvin Lewis and police issued a "Be on the Lookout" notice to officers.
The next morning, around 11:30, hunters found a woman's body about a half-mile north of State Route 77, near Willow Springs Road in Pinal County. On Sunday, Alvin Lewis marked their anniversary by spending the day with a friend worrying that the body was that of his 42-year-old wife, he said yesterday morning.
Authorities contacted him later yesterday and he identified his wife's body.
Police have no suspects.
Alvin Lewis was not available to comment last night following the identification, said a family friend who answered his home phone.
Earlier yesterday, Lewis, chairman of Pima Community College's department of social work, said he last saw his wife about 6:45 a.m. Friday as she left for the Hilton, where she had worked for 10 years.
His last words to her were, " 'Goodbye. Have a good day,' " he recalled early yesterday. "She just said, 'You too.' "
An autopsy was performed yesterday morning, but investigators are not releasing the cause of death or Zuraida Lewis' injuries. Pinal County Sheriff's Department Cmdr. Jerald Monahan said no identification or purse was found with the body.
Hilton general manager Tim Booth said resort staffers are working with Oro Valley Police and referring all questions to the authorities. He said Zuraida Lewis worked with the front desk team.
"The team here is just devastated," Booth said.
Oro Valley police spokeswoman Becky Mendez said investigators don't know where the homicide took place, but are investigating the disappearance. Pinal County is in investigating the homicide.
"The investigation is very young," Monahan said when asked if Lewis was killed in a robbery. "At this point it would be hard to say." He suspects Lewis was killed elsewhere and the killer or killers dumped her body to delay discovery of the crime.
The Lewises have two sons: a 20-year-old who attends the University of Arizona and a 14-year-old.
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Arizona
May 16, 2005 13:48:08 GMT -5
Post by LadyBlue on May 16, 2005 13:48:08 GMT -5
A 17-year-old boy who disappeared last year was killed during an argument with a friend and then buried at a cemetery, concealed in a woman's freshly dug grave, authorities said.
Richard Waive Palmer, 26, was being held in a Maricopa County jail Monday on a charge of second-degree murder. He confessed last week to killing Robert K. Martin in April 2004 by hitting him over the head with a baseball bat during an argument, authorities said
Investigators exhumed the body last week. Authorities still need to compare dental records to make a positive identification.
"Had this guy kept his mouth shut, we would've never, ever found out what happened to this victim," Detective Tony Morales said.
Authorities learned that Martin, of Naperville, Ill., went to Phoenix to see Palmer and to buy marijuana for resale in Chicago, where the drug's street value is higher, Morales said.
Palmer told police he killed Martin, then put the body in the back of an enclosed truck and later in a rented storage facility, Detective Jan Butcher said.
Late one night in May 2004, Palmer took the body to Resthaven Park Cemetery, and found a freshly dug grave. He shoveled about 4 feet into the ground, and put Martin's body in the hole, near the top of a woman's coffin, authorities said.
Detectives had originally suspected Palmer, but had no evidence of a crime. They questioned Palmer again last week after a private detective hired by Martin's family told authorities he had made incriminating statements during an interview.
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Arizona
May 17, 2005 1:07:22 GMT -5
Post by Paula on May 17, 2005 1:07:22 GMT -5
Copycat, this guy was doing what the cat and mouse people are said to do in Stalemate, he just copied it and had to have the fame. I Believe the murder was irrelavant to the act of recreating this fiction that children are buried in the graves at San Francisco Bay as paedophiles ring in the 70s and onwards. He had to know there was a grave ready for him, 1, he had to know that it would be covered and that there was a coffin already in, 2, so knowledge made him brag as the Bindner fiction goes, these kids are entombed, not buried, and that is why I started here, and gave you insite into the Moors case which is in deep research levels at the moment with inspirational thinkers of the past.
Audrey May Herron, there will be developments that mirror such copycats as no crime is new, most homicides are internal or local actors.
The slaughter house island killing, remember the body in the water earlier, well lets see if this is a fisherman that found this tied in the reeds and a us mail bag as shroud as the image has not been found yet. I have important archive work to do in forensic psychology so espect results. I am out in the field as it were so go to my site and email me as this site does not let me in as password. rainforestanne@aol.com for urgent calls or the LE
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May 18, 2005 3:23:31 GMT -5
Post by paula on May 18, 2005 3:23:31 GMT -5
Phoenix police: Man buried victim in woman's grave
Emily Bittner The Arizona Republic May. 16, 2005 12:00 AM
When 17-year-old Robert K. Martin was buried last year, his confessed killer hid him under the cover of darkness in a grave freshly dug for - and occupied by - someone else.
When Martin's body was exhumed last week, it was again in the middle of the night. But this time, an expert from the Maricopa County Medical Examiner's Office, the cemetery directors and Phoenix homicide detectives were on hand to witness the recovery.
The discovery of Martin's murder and the retrieval of his body came after a yearlong investigation into his disappearance. Without his suspected killer's confession, though, a closed case would have been impossible. Investigators said they had never before seen anything like this case. advertisement
"Had this guy kept his mouth shut, we would've never, ever found out what happened to this victim," Phoenix police Detective Tony Morales said.
Richard Waive Palmer, 26, was arrested on a second-degree murder charge and is being held in a Maricopa County jail.
Martin first came to police attention when his parents reported him missing from their Chicago suburb.
The last time anyone had seen him was April 9, 2004. He left his hometown of Naperville, Ill., and flew into Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport. He was supposed to visit his friend, Palmer, then 25 years old, said Detective Jan Butcher, who investigated the case.
At the time, Palmer gave detectives several accounts of Martin's disappearance. Detectives considered him a strong investigative lead from the beginning: There was obviously something wrong with his story, but authorities had no evidence of a crime.
Later they learned that Martin came to Phoenix with a large amount of cash strapped to his inner thighs. Martin was supposed to buy marijuana in Phoenix and take it to Chicago, where the drug's street value is much higher, Morales said.
In March, Martin's family hired a private investigator who met with Palmer. The investigator told Phoenix police that Palmer made several incriminating statements and detectives decided to interview him again.
In a two-hour interview Thursday, in which he cried but otherwise remained calm, Palmer admitted killing Martin, Butcher said.
He gave her the following account:
Martin landed in Phoenix and went to Palmer's house, in the 2300 block of West Hayward Avenue. Palmer wanted to get out of the drug trade. The men argued, things got out of control and Palmer hit Martin over the head with a baseball bat, killing him.
Palmer, who had once worked at a mortuary, owned a body bag similar to the ones used by medical examiners. He put Martin's body in the bag and kept it in the back of his enclosed truck for a few days.
Then he rented a storage facility at the Storage Max near 19th and Glendale avenues. He kept the body there for a few weeks. Late one night in May 2004, Palmer decided to move the body.
He took it to the Resthaven Park Cemetery, 6290 W. Northern Ave.
He walked around until he found a freshly dug grave. A woman had recently been buried there, and the dirt was loose and easy to dig.
Palmer shoveled about 4 feet into the ground, near the top of the woman's coffin, and put Martin's body in the hole.
The disturbance went unnoticed.
Last week, after Palmer told detectives his story, they drove to the cemetery. He told them the approximate area where he had buried Martin. The mortuary gave detectives information on women who were buried in the area in the time frame.
"With that information, they were able to narrow it down pretty good," Morales said.
Investigators brought a cadaver dog, and the dog grew agitated at one of the graves.
Detectives were granted a search warrant, and later dug up a decomposed body. Authorities still need to compare the body's dental records with Martin's to get a match.
Police said Palmer never gave them a reason for admitting to the killing. Butcher said she established a good rapport with Palmer during the interview and that might have contributed to his willingness to take blame. "Maybe he was feeling guilty," she said. "I really don't know."
Palmer did not respond to a jailhouse interview request by The Arizona Republic.
The above, highlights predators dispose where their knowledge lets them have access to materials, location and with no hard work to themselves. Just as other killers take the route of leaving exposed or not, so this case mirrors missing children in the San Francisco Bay area. But also the problem of folie a deux, where there are two or more in the act of disposing as in this case stlll a cold case and another little girl is snatched with same hobo appearance of the snatcher.
In taking missing and found the patterns of each in a portfolio of knowledge, location and whether with vehicle or not, would be a more usefull tool, I use a tool such as neurotool used in oXford as mapping facial characteristics with binary o or 1, this architecture used and advanced could make many different cases similar when the place is not known by typing known and then letting the machine predict the missing information. It is a tool I shall be lecturing on in US so contact me to see how such a data bank could work.
For example, person missing in car, female, terrain rocky, water, as inputs with desired output. The input of those found and where would allow the machine to think out side the box, as facial mapping is done with inputs of face, hair, eyes, shape, etc as simple 10 inputs, Jack, tim, etc as names so the binary has to guess who is jack by the 1 as listed features. Do you see how doing it can realise the similarity of this case to the Bindner and co cases where the output is not known of where Amber Swartz is and Xianas skull was found, where Angela Bugay was found. Copycats have to let someone know, it maybe an eyebrow, or ritus muscle, or some stance that is not in cognition, you put that observation as data and come out with the hidden voices.
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Jul 17, 2005 9:06:06 GMT -5
Post by LadyBlue on Jul 17, 2005 9:06:06 GMT -5
[glow=red,2,300]Deidra Gayle Applegate[/glow] Applegate was found safe in 2005. She had been missing since Novenber 18, 2004 from Glendale, Arizona.
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