Post by LadyBlue on Jul 14, 2007 15:35:31 GMT -5
[glow=red,2,300]Haleigh Culwell[/glow]
It's been 2 weeks since anyone's heard from a Jackson County mother and daughter.
Their family is pleading for help, while investigators call the disappearance suspicious.
Kimberly Whitton and Haleigh Culwell of Section have been missing since June 21st, but there's so much more to this story.
Kim's husband was a suspect in a missing person turned murder case from nearly 10-years ago.
The victim was his wife, but he was never charged with her murder.
But now his new wife and her daughter are missing, and their family is desperate for answers.
Barry Whitton, Kimberly Whitton’s husband, told investigators that his wife and her daughter left together in a vehicle from the house.
Whitton was previously married to Michelle Townsend Whitton whose body was found near Powell in DeKalb County on Jan. 21, 1998.
She had been reported missing on Dec. 7, 1997 sometime after she reportedly left her Dutton home in a 1990 Toyota to buy breakfast at a fast food restaurant in Scottsboro.
Barry Whitton “lost his wife to a homicide about nine years ago,” York said. “We never made a case.”
Local authorities did have a suspect in the case but, according to records, there was not enough evidence to make an arrest.
Investigators are not certain what either Kimberly Whitton or Culwell were wearing and they do not know what type of vehicle they left in.
Whitton, 36, is 5’9 and 270 pounds and has brown hair and brown eyes.
Culwell, 5’2 and 110 pounds, is 11 years old. She has blonde hair, blue eyes and wears braces.
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19753724/
Search teams Friday drained a pond and combed 40 hilly acres in northeast Alabama in the search for an 11-year-old girl and her mother, and the woman’s husband was in federal custody on an unrelated weapons charge.
Kim Whitton, 26, and her daughter, Haleigh Culwell, were reported missing two weeks ago by her co-workers. Her husband, whose first wife was killed and buried in the area, told investigators she had left him, sheriff’s officials said.
Barry Whitton was arrested Thursday. Nearly 10 years earlier, the body of his first wife, Michelle Whitton, was found partially buried in the hills of a neighboring town. Police never made an arrest in that case or disclosed how she was killed.