SHANIYA DAVIS: MOM SELLS HER TO EXECUTIONER

Searchers Find Body of Missing Girl
By ALYSIA PATTERSON / AP / Monday 11/16/09

SANFORD, N.C. (Nov. 16) — A missing 5-year-old whose mother was accused of offering her for sex was found dead off a heavily wooded road in a rural area Monday, ending a weeklong search, police said.

Searchers found Shaniya Davis' body early Monday afternoon about 100 feet off a road southeast of Sanford, in central North Carolina, Fayetteville Police spokeswoman Theresa Chance said. She declined to comment on a cause of death or the condition of Shaniya's body.

"We've got a lot of people out at the scene right now that are torn up," Chance said. "Detectives have been running off adrenaline to find this little girl and to bring her home alive. You have a lot of people in shock right now."

Two people have been charged in her disappearance, one of them her mother, Antoinette Davis, 25. Police charged Davis with human trafficking and felony child abuse, saying Shaniya was offered for prostitution.

Davis was calm and quiet during a five-minute court appearance in Fayetteville on Monday afternoon. She provided one-word answers to the judge's questions and held her hands in front of her, without handcuffs. She requested a court-appointed attorney and did not enter a plea.

READ MORE ABOUT THIS TRAGIC STORY, AND SENSELESS LOSS...
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SHANIYA DAVIS: She was only five years old. So many hearts are crushed over Shaniya's death. My prayers are sent to the grieving family, and to the man who loved her so much, Shaniya's father.
...CHOMP

NORTH CAROLINA: SHANIYA DAVIS SEEN WITH CLARENCE COE

Police: Missing N.C. Girl Seen With Man at Hotel
Friday, November 13, 2009
ASSOCIATED PRESS

FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. — A missing 5-year-old North Carolina girl was seen with a man at a hotel, but not the same person charged in her kidnapping, police said late Thursday.

Shaniya Davis was spotted in Sanford with a man identified as Mario Andrette McNeill, said Fayetteville Police spokeswoman Teresa Chance. She was seen with him Tuesday, about an hour after she disappeared from her home in Fayetteville, about 40 miles away.

Late Wednesday night, police arrested and charged 30-year-old Clarence Coe, who told a judge at his first court appearance that he is not guilty of kidnapping the girl. Police did not comment on any possible link between Coe and McNeill.

Chance said a hotel worker called police to report seeing a child matching Shaniya's description, but by the time police got there, McNeill had left. Authorities reviewed surveillance video and, after speaking with family members, confirmed the child's identity.

Chance said authorities are uncertain of the connection between McNeill and the child. Her father, Bradley Lockhart, made a tearful appeal for his daughter's safe return.

"We just ask that they bring her home safe. We all miss her and love her very much," Lockhart said. "Shaniya, if you're listening to daddy, I miss you so much, honey. I'm waiting for you. I'm not going to give up. You don't give up either, honey."

In court on Thursday, Cumberland County Judge Tal Baggett asked Coe if he understood why he was there.

"No, but I'm not guilty, sir," Coe said.

SO MANY QUESTIONS: WHERE IS SHANIYA DAVIS? WHY IS CLARENCE COE IN JAIL? WHO IS MARIO McNEILL? IS MOM, ANTOINETTE DAVIS, DATING CLARENCE COE?

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CAYLEE ANTHONY: CHLOROFORM, SYRINGE FOUND, EVIDENCE PILES UP

Casey Anthony case: Report says chloroform found in sports bottle near Caylee Anthony is miniscule
November 11, 4:18 PM
Crime Examiner / Cindy Adams

On Friday, more documents were released in the case against accused murderer, Casey Anthony. Among them was a report that indicated traces of chloroform were found inside a sports drink and a plastic syringe that were found near Caylee Anthony's remains.

Casey, 23, is charged with the first-degree murder of Caylee, 2.

To see a slideshow of photos of the syringe, Gatorade bottle, and other evidence, click here.

Dr. Michael Rickenbach with the FBI determined that the syringe contained testosterone, ethanol, chloroform, and water.

MORE LINKS TO CAYLEE ANTHONY MURDER...
To read the entomology report, click here.

To watch breaking news and events streamed live over the Net, click here

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CURTIS VANCE: IS ANNE PRESSLY KILLER A SERIAL RAPIST?

Man accused in TV anchor death appears in 2nd case
Thursday, March 19, 2009
By JON GAMBRELL, Associated Press Writer

MARIANNA, Ark. — The man accused of killing an Arkansas television anchorwoman pleaded not guilty Thursday in a separate rape and burglary case in his hometown.

Curtis Lavelle Vance, 28, wore a bullet-resistant vest as he was escorted by six police officers into the Lee County Courthouse. In a brief hearing, Circuit Judge Ann B. Hudson accepted his plea and set trial for July 27.

Little Rock police detectives say a DNA sample from the crime scene of anchorwoman Anne Pressley's slaying last year linked Vance to her killing and an unsolved rape of a woman in Marianna, about 90 miles east of Little Rock.

When Vance arrived at the courthouse, he only shook his head and said "No" when asked whether he was worried about DNA evidence.

After the hearing, defense attorney Bill James told reporters that he would want separate DNA tests done on the sample that police say links Vance to the Marianna rape and Pressley's slaying.

James said it was too early to say whether he would need to ask for the trial to be moved to another county or whether Vance would be willing to accept a plea deal.

The woman who claimed Vance raped her sat in the front row during the hearing. She declined to speak to reporters.

READ: HOW MANY WOMEN HAS CURTIS VANCE ATTACKED, ABUSED, RAPED, BEATEN, MURDERED?
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ANNE PRESSLY: CURTIS VANCE, IS LIFE ENOUGH FOR BRUTAL MURDER?

Man gets life without parole in Arkansas TV anchor's murder
CNN / November 12, 2009 (CNN's Carolina Sanchez contributed to this report.)

(CNN) -- A jury sentenced an Arkansas man to life in prison without parole for killing a television anchor, officials said Thursday.

The Pulaski County, Arkansas, jury on Wednesday convicted Curtis Lavelle Vance, 29, of capital murder, residential burglary, rape and theft of property in the October 2008 slaying of Anne Pressly, 26.

Pressly, the morning news anchor for CNN affiliate KATV, was found beaten and unconscious in her home. She died five days later.

Vance's sentencing phase began after he was convicted Wednesday of capital murder, rape and burglary.

Jurors were tasked with deciding whether the aggravating circumstances in favor of the death penalty outweighed the mitigating circumstances.

"Tonight, they have come back with a sentence, a sentence that they believe, and we share with them, is the harshest possible sentence for this gentleman going forward, where he will now spend the rest of his natural life in a 6-by-9 cell with nothing to think about but what he has done," said Guy Cannady, stepfather of the victim.

(snip)

Among the defense witnesses presented Thursday was Vance's mother, Jacqueline Vance Burnett, CNN affiliate KARK reported. Burnett cried on the stand as she spoke about her battle with crack addiction and admitted abusing her son when he was a child, including an incident when he was 7 years old and she slammed his head into a brick wall, the station said.

READ: CURTIS VANCE SENTENCED FOR KILLING ANCHORWOMAN ANNE PRESSLY
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SOMER THOMPSON: DIENA THOMPSON TO THE KILLER "WE'LL GET YOU."

Somer Thompson (Family Photo)
Somer's favorite song was "You Are My Sunshine." Seven-year-old Somer Thompson vanished on her walk home from school. Her tiny body was found under trash in a Georgia landfill.

AP Photo / Phil Coale

AP Photo
Jake Roth / AP
Neighbors continue to pay their respects to Somer Thompson's family by leaving stuffed animals, books, and signing large cards across the street from her home in Orange Park, Fla.

Mystery of Who Killed Florida Girl Baffles Detectives, as Hunt Turns Up No New Leads
Saturday, October 24, 2009 / Associated Press

ORANGE PARK, Fla. — Detectives searching for a 7-year-old's killer have interviewed more than 100 sex offenders living nearby, sifted through tons of garbage and combed the well-kept neighborhood where Somer Thompson disappeared.

Missing child posters featuring the slain girl's face, framed by her thick brown bangs, still plaster nearly every utility pole along the mile-long route from her elementary school to her suburban Jacksonville home.

Somer was last seen alive walking along the sidewalk in front of a vacant house, and authorities said Friday that they're searching for anyone who saw what happened to the 7-year-old after that. Investigators sifted through evidence from that vacant house and the Georgia landfill where her body was found Wednesday.

So far, no witnesses have come forward to say they saw Somer attacked or abducted, sheriff's spokeswoman Mary Justino said.

"What we've been trying to figure out is who frequents that area, because obviously it's more than just the people who live there," she said.

LIVESHOTS: Police ID Body as Missing Florida Girl

READ DETAILS AND PROGRESS ON FINDING SOMER THOMPSON'S KILLER...
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BRITTANEE DREXEL: STILL MISSING ON 18TH BIRTHDAY

BRITTANEE MARIE DREXEL ...MISSING, VANISHED, GONE
WHERE IS BRITTANEE DREXEL???

If you have information about Brittanee Drexel, please contact:

The Myrtle Beach Police Department (843)918-1000 or

The Polly Klaas® Foundation (800) 587-4357

Rachael Stein, friend of Brittanee Marie Drexel, hangs a missing poster across the street from the Bar Harbour Motel on Ocean Boulevard in Myrtle Beach. Drexel was staying at the Bar

Family braces for Brittanee Drexel's 18th birthday
Monday, October 5, 2009
By Kurt Knapek - kknapek@thesunnews.com

The pain and uncertainty of the last 163 days have been agonizing enough for the family and friends of Brittanee Drexel, the New York teen who has not been seen since leaving a Myrtle Beach hotel room in April.

But Wednesday - Drexel's 18th birthday - will likely be the most difficult of all, her mother said.

"Brittanee loved birthdays, and she loved a big deal being made about her birthday," Dawn Drexel said. "She couldn't wait until her 18th. We had a lot of plans ... a lot of things she really wanted to do."

Brittanee Drexel is still missing. She was last seen April 25 leaving the Blue Water Hotel on Ocean Boulevard, and investigators remain puzzled as to her whereabouts. Another search will take place later this month, according to the Community United Effort Center for Missing Persons in Wilmington, N.C.

Family members and investigators were encouraged to learn in late August that a missing California girl was found 18 years after she was abducted at a bus stop.

Drexel's family is planning a balloon launch next week in Rochester, N.Y., to coincide with her 18th birthday and the six-month anniversary of her disappearance.

While Drexel has missed several family holidays - Mother's Day, Father's Day and her brother's 6th birthday - along with her high school's homecoming this past weekend, Wednesday will be one of the toughest for family and friends, said Monica Caison, who has been the Community United Effort group director for 16 years.

BRITTANEE, COME HOME!
http://www.thesunnews.com/news/local/story/1101901.html

BOCA RATON TOWN CENTER: $350,000 REWARD FOR KILLER, OCT 2009

NANCY BOCHICCHIO AND DAUGHTER JOEY BOCHICCHIO-HAUSER

RANDI GORENBERG

IDEY ELIAS, RANDI GORENBERG'S MOTHER

$350,000 TO CATCH A KILLER!
Boca Raton Town Center mall murders, update October 2009
by CHOMP

Boca Raton Town Center is one of South Florida's hottest shopping malls. It is still thriving, still busy, still enjoyed by shoppers and lookers. Christmas and Hannukah are coming soon, and the mall will be packed with gift-shoppers. No one will be thinking about the three disturbing murders that happened outside in the parking lot. You know, the killings where the killer was never identified, never caught.

The families of those murdered at this mall will not be shopping here. They still suffer from the brutal, senseless killing of their family members. They still wonder why Randi Gorenberg, Nancy Bochicchio, and her daughter Joey never came home from the mall.

Randi Gorenberg, 52, was seen leaving the mall March 2007, and she was murdered soon after. She was found at Gov. Lawton Chiles Memorial Park in suburban Delray Beach, where she was shot in the head, and dumped from her black Mercedes-Benz sport utility vehicle. Her Kooba purse and Puma sneakers have never been found.

The Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office found Gorenberg's bloodstained Mercedes abandoned behind Home Depot at Jog Road and West Atlantic Avenue.

She was "thrown out of her car into the street like an animal," says her 78-year-old mother, IdeyElias. "I'm her mother. I wasn't there to protect her."

Randi's son turned to drugs after his mother's cruel death, and went to rehab. Her daughter, Sarie, is a teacher in a New York private school, and she continues her education.

August 2007, another woman was adbucted from the mall parking lot, and robbed at gunpoint with her child in the back seat. She lived. She did her best to tell the police sketch artist what the abductor looked like.

December 13, 2007, Nancy Bochicchio and her daughter Joey were abducted in the mall parking lot. The gunman took both of their lives. Mother and daughter were found bound and shot to death in their idling SUV outside the Boca Raton Town Center. The two victims were last seen on mall video entering and leaving the mall.

"My sister was always singing and dancing. She, the fourth of July, I think of her singing 'Yankee Doodle Dandy' and dancing... every month has something," says JoAnn Bruno, Nancy Bochicchio's sister.

"Sometimes I see him in faces all over," says Bruno. "What could he have done? Did he come up to her friendly-like? Was he hiding in the car? Did he just show up with a gun? What would Joey thought?" adds Bruno.

POLICE TASK FORCE FORMED...AND DISSOLVED

An investigative Task Force quickly formed to follow up on almost 1,750 leads. The investigators did their best since logging 9000 investigative hours, but the crimes have never been solved.

"The Task Force has officially been disbanded, but that doesn't mean that we are not still working the case. We are," says Officer Sandra Boonenberg, Boca Raton Police Department Spokesperson.

"Once the cases were seperated forensically, the Gorenberg and our cases, and the fact that the number of leads had, you know, over time significantly gone down, there was no practical purpose to keep the Task Force," says Boonenberg.

"Our detectives have been working with other agencies locally throughout the state, throughout the country. Anything that looks like there may be a connection, they have followed up, and there's, at this point, it looks to be unique," says Boonenberg.

Boca Raton homicide detective Jeff Clare remains on the case.

BOCA RATON TOWN CENTER SAFETY

Town Center at Boca Raton, owned by Simon Property Group, took steps to increase security.

The Boca Raton mall will offer special parking areas Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. for parents and grandparents accompanying children age 12 and younger.

Over the past year and a half, new surveillance cameras have been installed on mall property, and there is now a police presence.

Simon Property Group, owners of the mall, have partnered with Crime Stoppers and other grass roots community safety organizations.

POLICE NEED TIPS

Seventeen months after Randi Gorenberg was murdered, two men used her credit card number. It was the first time anyone used her credit card number since she was murdered in March of 2007. What investigators don't know is who the men are, or whether they had Gorenberg's card or had a stolen clone of it.

The sheriff's department said the men purchased two portable Playstation hand-held game systems from the Holyoke Mall Sears, Holyoke, Mass., north of Springfield. The men also purchased food in Springfield, and a Playstation 3 from a Toys R Us in Newington, Conn.

Anyone with information about the murders can call Boca Raton police at (561) 368-6201ORPalm Beach County Crime Stoppers at (800) 458-TIP (8477)

A $350,000 reward is still offered for information leading to an arrest in the case.

ANTWAN PITTMAN: ARRESTED FOR MURDER OF 6 WOMEN

ROCKY MOUNT AND TARBORO / EDGECOMBE COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA

Antwan Maurice Pittman: arrested and charged with Taraha Nicholson's murder

Antwan Pittman, charged with murder, makes first appearance in an Edgecombe County courtroom in Tarboro on Wednesday. His court-appointed attorney, Tom Sallenger, is at right.

Taraha Shenice Nicholson: remains found March 7, 2009, on Marriott Road in Edgecombe County. Nicholson, 29, had been reported missing on Feb. 22, 2009.

Diana Nicholson, the mother of homicide victim Taraha Shenice Nicholson, is comforted during a news conference at the Edgecombe County Sheriff's office in Tarboro, N.C. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)

Man charged in one of a string of slayings in rural N.C.
The Associated Press© September 1, 2009
By Alysia Patterson / TARBORO, N.C.

A man has been arrested and charged with murder in the slaying of a woman who was among six found dead in rural North Carolina since 2005, authorities said Tuesday.

Three other women are still missing. Authorities haven't said if or how the cases may be linked, though all six dead women came from similar backgrounds and had numerous arrests on charges related to drugs and prostitution.

Edgecombe County Sheriff James Knight said Antwan Maurice Pittman, 31, was charged with one count of first-degree murder in the death of 28-year-old Taraha Shenice Nicholson. Her body was discovered north of Rocky Mount in March. Pittman did not yet have an attorney.
Wright would not comment on a possible link between Pittman and the other five women, saying only that the investigation is ongoing.

Pittman is a registered sex offender, convicted in November 1994 of taking indecent liberties with a 2-year-old. Correction Department spokesman Keith Acree said Pittman received probation for his three-year sentence, but the probation was revoked. He went to prison in January 1996 and was released in April 1997.

(snip)

Pittman's mother, Gloria Pittman, told TV station WRAL that her son is not capable of murder. "I truly believe he did not do what they're saying he did," she said.

LOTS OF QUESTIONS ON THIS CRIME...WHEN, WHERE, HOW, WHY?

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CAYLEE ANTHONY: STAINS IN CAR TRUNK SHOW BODY OUTLINE???

Caylee Anthony (Florida State Attorney's Office)

Papers: Stain in Casey Anthony's trunk looks like child outline

Wed September 30, 2009 / By Ashley Hayes / CNN

(CNN) -- What appears to be the outline of a child in a fetal position can be seen in a photograph of the trunk liner from the car driven by Casey Anthony, a Florida woman charged with killing her 2-year-old daughter, according to documents released in the case.

"A very interesting photo exists of the trunk liner ... which highlights the very large stain," FBI Intelligence Analyst Karen Cowan writes to a colleague in a September 2008 e-mail contained among nearly 1,000 pages of documents released Tuesday.

"If you look closely at this photo, there appears to be the outline or silhouette of a child in the fetal position. You can make out what may be the back, bottom and legs most clearly."

An FBI supervisory photographic technologist replied in a later e-mail, "We do not report conclusions about what may or may not have left any marks or impressions in cases like this -- it is too speculative. Others can draw their own conclusions about that."

Watch Nancy Grace report on the documents »

STAY TUNED. MORE NEWS TO COME ABOUT CAYLEE ANTHONY...

http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/09/30/florida.slain.girl/

JESSICA LUNSFORD: JOHN COUEY DIES BEFORE EXECUTION

Jessica Lunsford, age 9, victim of John Couey (AP)

Jessica Lunsford's murder prompted Florida and other states to pass new laws to improve tracking of sex offenders through databases and satellite positioning devices.

[AP Photo/Larry W. Smith]
Mark Lunsford speaks about the abduction and killing of his daughter, Jessica, during a S.A.F.E. Kansas Task Force panel discussion at Wichita State University.

John Couey: convicted rapist and killer of Jessica Lunsford (AP)

Records show that John Couey had no visitors while in prison.

Convicted child killer Couey dies in prison, Florida officials say

Wed September 30, 2009 / CNN.com/crime

CNN's Rich Phillips and Susan Candiotti contributed to this report.

(CNN) -- A Florida death-row inmate convicted of abducting and murdering 9-year-old Jessica Lunsford in 2005 has died, prison officials said Wednesday. John Evander Couey, 51, died at 11:15 a.m. ET of natural causes, a Florida Department of Corrections spokeswoman told CNN. He had been taken to a Jacksonville, Florida, hospital from Florida State Prison in Starke, Florida.

Because of privacy laws, no further information could be released by the Department of Corrections.

A source close to the case told CNN that Couey's death was not unexpected and he had been ill for some time.

"I never dreamed it would happen like this," Jessica's father, Mark Lunsford, told CNN. He said he never thought he would live long enough to see Couey put to death because of the lengthy appeals process.

He said he was sad when he heard the news of Couey's death. "To me, death is sad," he said. "But her death, Jessie's death, has been redeemed ... I'm relieved. I'm glad it's over with."

(snip)

"I am not shedding any tears," the girl's grandmother, Ruth Lunsford, said on Wednesday. "I don't feel sorry for him. I think God said, 'John Couey, it's time to go.' "

"I don't feel sorry for him that he had to suffer," she said. "He didn't have any mercy on my granddaughter when he murdered her. I'm glad we didn't have to wait years and years for his appeals and execution, and the taxpayers no longer have to pay for him. I'm glad that God took a hand in it."

Citrus County Sheriff Jeff Dawsy, who led the investigation into the girl's death, told reporters he wished Couey could have faced the death sentence handed down by the jury.

JOHN COUEY IS DEAD; DON'T FORGET JESSICA LUNSFORD!

http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/09/30/florida.couey.dead/

HALEIGH: KRISTINA PREVATT LETTER SAYS SHE DIED FROM OVERDOSE

Misty Croslin with Ronald Cummings. (From the Florida Times-Union)

HaLeigh Cummings (Family photo)

Kristina Prevatt (Booking photo)

The letter was sent by Kristina Prevatt from the Putnam County Jail where she was taken on drug charges.

Prevatt is reportedly a close friend of Haleigh’s stepmother, Misty Cummings.

In the letter Prevatt wrote:
"We were all over at a party at Chad's house and Haleigh got a hold of some OxyContin and died. We supposedly freaked out and Greg put her (Haleigh) in a black bag in my car, and we took her to a pond by the Mondex."

THERE ARE TOO MANY UNANSWERED QUESTIONS...

AND NO ANSWERS... HALEIGH CUMMINGS IS STILL MISSING
Why did Ronald Cummings marry Misty Croslin so soon after Haleigh vanished?

Misty Croslin flunked polygraph test. She tells the news that she passed the test???

Was Misty Croslin even home the night Haleigh disappeared.

If Misty was home, did she take time to make up all the beds before she called 9-1-1?

Where was Misty Croslin the night Haleigh Cummings went missing?

How many people were in the home that evening? Who were they?

Did all these people leave the home, and where did they go?

Did one of these people take or kill Haleigh?

Why did Misty wait so long to call 9-1-1?

SUSAN ATKINS: MANSON-GANG KILLER GOT HER DEATH SENTENCE, DIES IN PRISON

Atkins and Charles Manson appear in court on Oct. 13, 1970, in Santa Monica to enter pleas in the July 27, 1969, stabbing death of musician Gary Hinman, 34, at Hinman's Topanga Canyon home. (Associated Press)

Susan Atkins, center, appears at hearing at the Central California Women's Facility in Chowchilla on a gurney. She recited the 23rd Psalm as her statement. Attorney James Whitehouse, her husband, is at right. (Ben Margot / Pool Photo / September 2, 2009)

Susan Atkins dies at 61; imprisoned Charles Manson follower
California's longest-serving female inmate, she was involved in one of modern history's most shocking crimes -- the 1969 Tate-LaBianca murders that terrorized Los Angeles.

By Elaine Woo / September 26, 2009 (Copyright © 2009, The Los Angeles Times)

Susan Atkins, who committed one of modern history's most notorious crimes when she joined Charles Manson and his gang for a string of killings in 1969 that terrorized Los Angeles and put her in prison for the rest of her life, has died. She was 61.

Atkins was diagnosed in 2008 with brain cancer and was receiving medical treatment at the Central California Women's Facility in Chowchilla, where she died at 11:46 p.m. Thursday, said Terry Thornton, a spokeswoman for the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.

(snip)

Atkins confessed to killing actress Sharon Tate -- the pregnant wife of director Roman Polanski -- who was stabbed 16 times and hanged; Tate's nearly full-term fetus died with her. The next night, Atkins accompanied Manson and his followers when they broke into the Los Feliz home of Leno and Rosemary LaBianca and killed them.

"She was the scariest of the Manson girls," said Stephen Kay, a former Los Angeles County deputy district attorney who helped prosecute the case and argued against Atkins' release at her parole hearings. "She was very violent."

READ MORE...GHASTLY CHARLES MANSON MURDERS ARE FINALLY ENDING...
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ANNIE LE: RAYMOND CLARK, ARRESTED, MORE THAN "PERSON OF INTEREST"

Raymond Clark III, 24, has been considered a 'person of interest' in the death of Yale student, Annie Le. Clark did custodial-type work, mostly cleaning the cages of the lab mice. (Yale University Police) (Photo of Clark courtesy of MySpace)

RAY CLARK ARRESTED FOR MURDER OF ANNIE LE.BAIL SET AT $3 MILLION !!! Raymond Clark III is taken into custody by police at the Super 8 Motel Thursday morning. DNA results released this morning connected him to the murder of Yale graduate (CLOE POISSON / HARTFORD COURANT / September 17, 2009)

Annie Le Case: Police Arrest Raymond Clark
Clark Swiped Identification in Lab Where Le's Body Found, Exchanged Texts With Le
By LEE FERRAN / Sept. 17, 2009

Police swooped in on Yale lab tech Ray Clark today, arresting him in connection with the murder of graduate student Annie Le, whose battered body was found stuffed in a wall on the day she was supposed to get married.

Investigators have gathered more than 250 pieces of evidence in the case, sources told ABC News, including text messages exchanged between Clark and Le arranging to meet on the day she disappeared.

Clark was taken into custody by police early today after investigators stood vigil all night outside a motel in Cromwell, Conn., where the suspect had retreated to room 214 on Wednesday. Earlier Wednesday, police had taken DNA samples from Clark, searched his apartment and then let him go.

A convoy of police and FBI cars pulled into the motel parking lot with lights flashing about 8 :20 a.m. while others blocked off the intersection. FBI agents ran up stairs at the back of the motel. Clark was arrested minutes later.

The arrest warrant charges Clark with murder and set bail at $3 million.

READ STORY: Raymond Clark arrested for murder of Annie Le..
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NEW HAVEN: ANNIE LE DEAD OR ALIVE? VANISHED BEFORE WEDDING

( Cain/APA ) Flyer bearing photos of Annie Le is posted outside the doors of the New Haven, Conn., building that houses her lab.

ANNIE LE (Facebook Photo)

ANNIE LE

(Yale University Office of Public Affairs) A 2007 graduate of the University of Rochester who is now studying for a doctorate in pharmacology and molecular medicine. Le is of Asian descent and has brown hair and brown eyes. She is 4-foot-11 and weighs 90 pounds.

Anyone with information on Annie Le’s whereabouts is asked to contact

the Yale Police Department at (203) 432-4400.

YALE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE, New Haven, Connecticut

Yale University Graduate Student Disappears Days Before Her Wedding
Thursday, September 10, 2009 By Harrison Korn, Colin Ross, Paul Needham and Florence Dethy Yale Daily News

NEW HAVEN, Conn. — A 24-year-old graduate student at Yale University's School of Medicine vanished days before her wedding and has been declared missing by campus police.

Annie Marie Le, who is supposed to be married on Sunday, has not been seen or heard from since Tuesday morning, according to the Yale Police Department.

Deputy University Secretary Martha Highsmith, who oversees campus security operations, said there is no evidence of foul play in Le's disappearance but declined to elaborate because the investigation is ongoing.

The FBI and the Connecticut State Police are assisting the Yale Police Department in the search for Le. State police with bloodhounds combed the area where Le was last seen, Yale Police Chief James Perotti said in a statement.

Investigators went to the missing student's last known location, 10 Amistad Street, late Wednesday night but didn't find her.

READ STORY, LOOK FOR CLUES. CAN YOU HELP FIND ANNIE LE?
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ROCKY MOUNT,NC: NINE WOMEN MISSING...OR DEAD...REWARD!!!

A billboard shows information about 9 women who are missing or dead in Rocky Mount, N.C.


North Carolina Town on Edge After 9 Women Disappear
Friday, August 14, 2009 / Associated Press

ROCKY MOUNT, N.C. — They spent their nights jumping in and out of strange cars, trolling otherwise empty streets lined with decaying storefronts and boarded-up homes. Many sold sex to support drug habits or children left in the care of worried, hardworking grandmothers.

Even when they were picked up for drugs or prostitution, nights in jail looming, they called home to let their families know they were OK. Then, one by one, the calls stopped.

Since 2005, nine women who lived at the edges of the poor community in this small North Carolina city have disappeared. Six bodies were found along rural roads just a few miles outside town, most so decomposed that investigators could not tell how they died. At least one of the women was strangled, and all the deaths have been classified as homicides.

Three women are still missing.

Police will not say whether they suspect a serial killer, but people in the community about 60 miles northeast of Raleigh do, and they're impatient with law enforcement efforts to investigate the slayings.

After the latest body — that of 31-year-old Jarneice Hargrove — was found in June behind a burnt-out house that was once a crack den, local law enforcement and state police formed a task force.

In July, the FBI got involved.

PHOTOS: Women Mysteriously Vanish From N.C. Town

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