Sex offender eyed in cold case disappearances of 2 women in South Carolina
By Cristina Corbin
Published February 16, 2012 / FoxNews.com
A convicted child rapist is being eyed by South Carolina cops in the disappearances of two young women, including a New York teenager who disappeared while on spring break in Myrtle Beach almost three years ago, FoxNews.com has learned.
Detectives say Raymond Moody is the primary “person of interest” in the 2009 disappearance of 17-year-old Brittanee Drexel, who was last seen on surveillance video leaving a popular Myrtle Beach hotel along Ocean Boulevard in a case that sparked widespread media coverage. Moody, who served 21 years in prison for abducting and raping a California girl in 1983, is also being looked at in connection with another missing woman, 28-year-old Crystal Soles, law enforcement sources told FoxNews.com.
Both women are presumed dead, though exhaustive searches in the rugged terrain between Myrtle Beach and Moody's home some 50 miles south of the popular destination have been fruitless. Authorities have classified Drexel's disappearance a "cold case," meaning they renew their probe whenever they receive credible, new information. Myrtle Beach investigators have received such information within the last week, though they declined to elaborate.
Drexel, a high school junior from the Rochester area, went with friends and without her mom's permission to Myrtle Beach on April 23, 2009. A video camera at the Blue Water Resort captured her leaving the hotel on April 25 close to 9 p.m., police said. The footage is the last known sighting of her.
Investigator Phillip Hanna of the Georgetown County Sheriff’s Office said a signal from Drexel’s cellphone was detected about 50 miles south of Myrtle Beach later that night – in a remote boat landing area near the South Santee River and roughly 8 miles from the Sunset Lodge apartments in Georgetown County where Moody had been living at the time.
READ: UPDATE ON MISSING BRITTANEE DREXEL; RAYMOND MOODY IS PERSON OF INTEREST...
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/02/16/south-carolina-sex-offender-eyed-in-cold-case-disappearances-brittanee-drexel/
Thursday, February 16, 2012
Sunday, February 12, 2012
TACOMA, WA: SUSAN POWELL'S SONS, CHARLIE AND BRADEN, MORE THAN A THOUSAND AT FUNERAL
Kids Choir Sings At Charlie And Braden Powell's Funeral
More than a thousand remember Powell boys at public funeral
Published February 12, 2012 / Associated Press /FOX NEWS
TACOMA, Wash. – More than a thousand people mourned the deaths of Charlie and Braden Powell at a public funeral Saturday, nearly a week after the young boys' father killed them and himself in a gas-fueled blaze.
"We want to celebrate their innocence today," said the Rev. Dean Curry, lead pastor of Life Center Church in Tacoma. "We want to be grateful for the moments we had with these children."
The boys' grandfather Chuck Cox thanked police, social workers, teachers and everyone who cared for Charlie, 7, and Braden, 5, as well as people who had prayed for the boys after they died.
It "helps us to know that there are good people in the world -- good people who fight against evil," Cox said.
At the front of the church's sanctuary, the boys were in a single casket topped with a large flower arrangement that included daisies, roses and sunflowers.
"We know that they're with their mother," Cox said, remembering his daughter, Susan Powell, who has been missing for two years and is presumed dead.
The boys' father, Josh Powell, was in the middle of a custody battle with Cox when he torched his rental home in Graham last Sunday.
Josh Powell was a person of interest in his wife's disappearance in Utah two years ago, and prosecutors consider the fire an admission that he killed her.
Cox gained custody of the children more than five months ago after police arrested Josh Powell's father, Steve, on voyeurism and child pornography charges.
The kids were arriving for a supervised visit when Josh Powell blocked a social worker from entering the home. He then attacked the boys with a hatchet and torched the house, authorities said.
Pierce County sheriff's spokesman Ed Troyer said Saturday that Josh Powell's body will be released to a cousin Monday.
About 1,200 people attended the boys' funeral at Life Center Church in Tacoma. Many of them wore purple and blue ribbons in memory of Susan, Charlie and Braden.
READ: MEMORIAL FOR SUSAN POWELL'S BELOVED SONS, CHARLIE AND BRADEN...
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/02/12/thousands-remember-powell-boys-in-public-funeral/
Friday, February 10, 2012
GRAHAM, WA: JOSH POWELL, WHOSE BLOOD FOUND IN STORAGE UNIT?
Friday, Feb. 10, 2012
Comforter in Powell unit tests positive for blood
Friday, Feb. 10, 2010 / kirotv.com
By MANUEL VALDES / The Associated Press
SEATTLE —
Police in Washington state who searched a storage unit rented by Josh Powell found a stained comforter that tested positive for blood in initial exams, according to documents filed in court Friday.
Pierce County detectives reported finding a gray-blue-pink comforter with a stain. The search warrant documents say the comforter tested positive for blood. Investigators planned to perform further tests.
Powell killed himself and his two young sons in a gas-fueled inferno Sunday, and Pierce County authorities consider the murder-suicide an admission that he killed his wife.
Investigators had considered Josh Powell a person of interest since his wife, Susan Powell, disappeared in Utah in 2009. At the time, Powell said he took his two sons ice camping in subfreezing temperatures.
Also on Friday, the sheriff's department released a timeline that spans from Saturday, the day before the blast, to Monday, the day after. Among the details that police are trying to determine is if Powell bought the gas cans at a local Fred Meyer store the night before the house fire.
This past week, investigators have tried to piece together Powell's last days, serving search warrants for his sister's cell phone and a local Bank of America branch where security cameras captured him withdrawing money.
READ: MORE MYSTERIES ABOUT LAST DAYS OF JOSH POWELL AND SUSAN POWELL..http://www.kirotv.com/ap/ap/crime/comforter-in-powell-unit-tested-positive-for-blood/nHZbx/
Comforter in Powell unit tests positive for blood
Friday, Feb. 10, 2010 / kirotv.com
By MANUEL VALDES / The Associated Press
SEATTLE —
Police in Washington state who searched a storage unit rented by Josh Powell found a stained comforter that tested positive for blood in initial exams, according to documents filed in court Friday.
Pierce County detectives reported finding a gray-blue-pink comforter with a stain. The search warrant documents say the comforter tested positive for blood. Investigators planned to perform further tests.
Powell killed himself and his two young sons in a gas-fueled inferno Sunday, and Pierce County authorities consider the murder-suicide an admission that he killed his wife.
Investigators had considered Josh Powell a person of interest since his wife, Susan Powell, disappeared in Utah in 2009. At the time, Powell said he took his two sons ice camping in subfreezing temperatures.
Also on Friday, the sheriff's department released a timeline that spans from Saturday, the day before the blast, to Monday, the day after. Among the details that police are trying to determine is if Powell bought the gas cans at a local Fred Meyer store the night before the house fire.
This past week, investigators have tried to piece together Powell's last days, serving search warrants for his sister's cell phone and a local Bank of America branch where security cameras captured him withdrawing money.
READ: MORE MYSTERIES ABOUT LAST DAYS OF JOSH POWELL AND SUSAN POWELL..http://www.kirotv.com/ap/ap/crime/comforter-in-powell-unit-tested-positive-for-blood/nHZbx/
JOSH POWELL: BOTH JOSH AND DAD, STEVEN POWELL, HAD SEX IMAGES ON COMPUTERS
Powell had 'incestuous' images on his computer, police say Published February 10, 2012
Associated Press / FOX NEWS.COM
SEATTLE – Before Josh Powell was going to try to win back custody of his children last week, Washington state authorities received materials from Utah police that had been discovered on a computer in Powell's home two years ago. Authorities say the images depicted "incestuous" sex and were disconcerting enough that they prompted a psychologist to recommend that Powell undergo an intensive psychosexual evaluation.
But a lawyer for Powell's in-laws, who had custody of the boys, wasn't invited to see the materials before the custody hearing - even though a Utah judge had specified in a sealed court order that he was one of the few people allowed to see them.
Had he seen the images, attorney Steve Downing said, he might have asked the court to change the terms of Powell's supervised visitation with the boys, such as by asking for the visits to be in a public place. Instead, Downing said he didn't learn until Thursday morning - four days after Powell killed himself and the boys in a house fire - that he was allowed to see them.
"That would have absolutely given me the opportunity to submit a declaration about our deep concern. I was approved ... to view those pictures and I was never notified," Downing said. "I could have gone into all the reasons why the visitation could have or should have been restricted."
(snip)
Last year, authorities searched Steve Powell's home, computer and cars for evidence in Susan Powell's disappearance - and instead said they found thousands of voyeuristic pictures and videos, including child pornography recorded by Steve Powell. The state took custody of the boys and turned them over to Susan's parents, Chuck and Judy Cox.
READ: JOSH POWELL HAD INCESTUOUS PICS ON HIS PERSONAL COMPUTER. WAS HE A CLONE OF HIS PERVERTED FATHER?
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/02/10/powell-had-incestuous-images-on-his-computer-police-say/?test=latestnews
Associated Press / FOX NEWS.COM
SEATTLE – Before Josh Powell was going to try to win back custody of his children last week, Washington state authorities received materials from Utah police that had been discovered on a computer in Powell's home two years ago. Authorities say the images depicted "incestuous" sex and were disconcerting enough that they prompted a psychologist to recommend that Powell undergo an intensive psychosexual evaluation.
But a lawyer for Powell's in-laws, who had custody of the boys, wasn't invited to see the materials before the custody hearing - even though a Utah judge had specified in a sealed court order that he was one of the few people allowed to see them.
Had he seen the images, attorney Steve Downing said, he might have asked the court to change the terms of Powell's supervised visitation with the boys, such as by asking for the visits to be in a public place. Instead, Downing said he didn't learn until Thursday morning - four days after Powell killed himself and the boys in a house fire - that he was allowed to see them.
"That would have absolutely given me the opportunity to submit a declaration about our deep concern. I was approved ... to view those pictures and I was never notified," Downing said. "I could have gone into all the reasons why the visitation could have or should have been restricted."
(snip)
Last year, authorities searched Steve Powell's home, computer and cars for evidence in Susan Powell's disappearance - and instead said they found thousands of voyeuristic pictures and videos, including child pornography recorded by Steve Powell. The state took custody of the boys and turned them over to Susan's parents, Chuck and Judy Cox.
READ: JOSH POWELL HAD INCESTUOUS PICS ON HIS PERSONAL COMPUTER. WAS HE A CLONE OF HIS PERVERTED FATHER?
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/02/10/powell-had-incestuous-images-on-his-computer-police-say/?test=latestnews
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
JENNIFER WALSTRAND: KILLER DANIEL THREADGILL GUILTY OF 1ST DEGREE MURDER
UPDATE: Guilty verdict in 2010 slaying of Des Moines woman
Threadgill faces a minimum of 30 years in prison
By Ty Swenson / 02/08/2012 / The Highline Times
Update for Feb. 8
From Master Sgt. Bob Bohl, Des Moines Police:
On Monday, Feb 6, a jury convicted Daniel A. Threadgill 12/17/87 of Murder 1st Degree for the brutal stabbing death of Jennifer Walstrand. Jennifer was discovered at her residence in the 24000 block of 25 Ave S on August 31, 2010. In June 2011, the Des Moines Police Department Investigations Unit received information from “Crime Stoppers of Puget Sound” relating to the murder of Jennifer Walstrand. The Des Moines Police Department’s Investigations Unit followed up on this information and arrested Daniel Threadgill.
From the King County Prosecutor's Office:
A King County jury convicted defendant Daniel Threadgill of the crime of Murder in the First Degree for the brutal stabbing and beating death of Jennifer Walstrand in August of 2009. Walstrand was stabbed at least 63 times and her head was severely stomped on, leaving brutal injuries. Police uncovered Threadgill as the murderer only after several cooperating witnesses who were present at the time of the attack came forward. The attack was motivated by jealousy and a dispute over prostitution.
Senior Prosecutor Carla Carlstrom also obtained a guilty finding that the murder was committed with deliberate cruelty. A sentencing date has been set for March 23rd. Threadgill faces a minimum of 30 years in prison.
READ: UPDATE ON JENNIFER WALSTRAND, KILLER THREADGILL GUILTY...
http://www.highlinetimes.com/2012/02/08/news/update-guilty-verdict-2010-slaying-des-moines-wom
Threadgill faces a minimum of 30 years in prison
By Ty Swenson / 02/08/2012 / The Highline Times
Update for Feb. 8
From Master Sgt. Bob Bohl, Des Moines Police:
On Monday, Feb 6, a jury convicted Daniel A. Threadgill 12/17/87 of Murder 1st Degree for the brutal stabbing death of Jennifer Walstrand. Jennifer was discovered at her residence in the 24000 block of 25 Ave S on August 31, 2010. In June 2011, the Des Moines Police Department Investigations Unit received information from “Crime Stoppers of Puget Sound” relating to the murder of Jennifer Walstrand. The Des Moines Police Department’s Investigations Unit followed up on this information and arrested Daniel Threadgill.
From the King County Prosecutor's Office:
A King County jury convicted defendant Daniel Threadgill of the crime of Murder in the First Degree for the brutal stabbing and beating death of Jennifer Walstrand in August of 2009. Walstrand was stabbed at least 63 times and her head was severely stomped on, leaving brutal injuries. Police uncovered Threadgill as the murderer only after several cooperating witnesses who were present at the time of the attack came forward. The attack was motivated by jealousy and a dispute over prostitution.
Senior Prosecutor Carla Carlstrom also obtained a guilty finding that the murder was committed with deliberate cruelty. A sentencing date has been set for March 23rd. Threadgill faces a minimum of 30 years in prison.
READ: UPDATE ON JENNIFER WALSTRAND, KILLER THREADGILL GUILTY...
http://www.highlinetimes.com/2012/02/08/news/update-guilty-verdict-2010-slaying-des-moines-wom
Monday, February 6, 2012
JOSH POWELL: KILLS SELF AND 2 SONS; DOES NOT REVEAL LOCATION OF MISSING SUSAN POWELL
SUSAN POWELL, LOVING MOTHER OF SONS, BRADEN, 2, AND CHARLES, 4
Firefighters work around the smoldering remains of the house
where the bodies of Josh Powell and his two sons were found.
JOSH POWELL, EVIL INCARNATE, KILLED SELF AND 2 YOUNG SONS IN FIRE EXPLOSION
Josh Powell Tragedy: Son Said Mom Was In Trunk of Car, Lawyer Claims
By KEVIN DOLAK, OLIVIA KATRANDJIAN, DEAN SCHABNER and COLLEEN CURRY
Feb. 6, 2012
The young sons of Susan and Josh Powell, who died with their father when he ignited an explosion in their Washington home, were beginning to verbalize that their mother was in the trunk of their father's car on the night that she disappeared in 2009, a lawyer for the missing woman's parents said.
Attorney Steve Downing told the Associated Press that Braden and Charles Powell, who were 2 and 4 at the time of Susan Powell's disappearance, were beginning to tell their grandparents details about the night that their father took them on a late-night camping trip during a blizzard, including the fact that their mother disappeared after leaving in the car with their father.
"They were beginning to verbalize more," Downing said. "The oldest boy talked about that they went camping and that mommy was in the trunk. Mom and dad got out of the car and mom disappeared."
Sgt. Mike Powell of the West Valley City Police Department in Utah did not return phone calls inquiring about the children's assertions about their mother's presence on the December 2009 camping trip, AP reported.
"Quite frankly, this has obviously quickly unfolded up in Washington and we're obviously just working through the details ourselves here," Powell, who is not related to the family, said earlier on Sunday.
Josh Powell set off an explosion at his home Sunday that killed himself and his two sons, who were there for a supervised visit.
(snip)
Graham, Wash., Deputy Chief Gary Franz told ABC News that a Child Protective Services (CPS) worker had just dropped off Powell's two sons at the house for a supervised visit. Powell took his two sons inside the house and then locked the CPS worker out.
"The children were just right in front of her as she was walking up to the door," Child Protective Services spokeswoman Sherry Hill said. "They went into the house and Josh shut the door right in front of her and locked it."
The CPS worker smelled gas, stepped away and the house exploded. The case worker was not physically harmed.
"He grabbed the kids, locked her out of the house, and immediately the house went up in flames, very quickly, very big, so we believe that Josh Powell intentionally set this fire," Troyer said.
READ: DETAILS OF JOSH POWELL'S PLANS TO KILL YOUNG SONS...
http://abcnews.go.com/US/josh-powell-tragedy-son-mother-trunk-car-lawyer/story?id=15520394
Sunday, January 29, 2012
CANADA: TOOBA YAHYA, SON GUILTY; HONOR KILLING BARBARIC AND UNACCEPTABLE
Jury finds Afghan family guilty in 'honor' killings
Published January 29, 2012 / Associated Press
KINGSTON, Ontario – A jury on Sunday found an Afghan father, his wife and their son guilty of killing three teenage sisters and a co-wife in what the judge described as "cold-blooded, shameful murders" resulting from a "twisted concept of honor" in a case that shocked and riveted Canadians.
Prosecutors said the defendants allegedly killed the three teenage sisters because they dishonored the family by defying its disciplinarian rules on dress, dating, socializing and using the Internet.
The jury took 15 hours to find Mohammad Shafia, 58; his wife Tooba Yahya, 42; and their son Hamed, 21, each guilty of four counts of first-degree murder. First-degree murder carries an automatic life sentence with no chance of parole for 25 years.
After the verdict was read, the three defendants again declared their innocence in the killings of sisters Zainab, 19, Sahar 17, and Geeti, 13, as well as Rona Amir Mohammad, 52, Shafia's childless first wife in a polygamous marriage.
Their bodies were found June 30, 2009, in a car submerged in a canal in Kingston, Ontario, where the family had stopped for the night on their way home to Montreal from Niagara Falls, Ontario.
The prosecution alleged it was a case of premeditated murder, staged to look like an accident after it was carried out. Prosecutors said the defendants drowned their victims elsewhere on the site, placed their bodies in the car and pushed it into the canal.
Ontario Superior Court Judge Robert Maranger said the evidence clearly supported the conviction.
"It is difficult to conceive of a more heinous, more despicable, more honorless crime," Maranger said. "The apparent reason behind these cold-blooded, shameful murders was that the four completely innocent victims offended your completely twisted concept of honor ... that has absolutely no place in any civilized society."
In a statement following the verdict, Canadian Justice Minister Rob Nicholson called honor killings a practice that is "barbaric and unacceptable in Canada."
READ: TOOBA YAHYA AND SON TORTURED THE WOMEN IN HIS FAMILY, AND MURDERED THEM...http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/01/29/jury-finds-afghan-family-guilty-in-honor-killings/
Published January 29, 2012 / Associated Press
KINGSTON, Ontario – A jury on Sunday found an Afghan father, his wife and their son guilty of killing three teenage sisters and a co-wife in what the judge described as "cold-blooded, shameful murders" resulting from a "twisted concept of honor" in a case that shocked and riveted Canadians.
Prosecutors said the defendants allegedly killed the three teenage sisters because they dishonored the family by defying its disciplinarian rules on dress, dating, socializing and using the Internet.
The jury took 15 hours to find Mohammad Shafia, 58; his wife Tooba Yahya, 42; and their son Hamed, 21, each guilty of four counts of first-degree murder. First-degree murder carries an automatic life sentence with no chance of parole for 25 years.
After the verdict was read, the three defendants again declared their innocence in the killings of sisters Zainab, 19, Sahar 17, and Geeti, 13, as well as Rona Amir Mohammad, 52, Shafia's childless first wife in a polygamous marriage.
Their bodies were found June 30, 2009, in a car submerged in a canal in Kingston, Ontario, where the family had stopped for the night on their way home to Montreal from Niagara Falls, Ontario.
The prosecution alleged it was a case of premeditated murder, staged to look like an accident after it was carried out. Prosecutors said the defendants drowned their victims elsewhere on the site, placed their bodies in the car and pushed it into the canal.
Ontario Superior Court Judge Robert Maranger said the evidence clearly supported the conviction.
"It is difficult to conceive of a more heinous, more despicable, more honorless crime," Maranger said. "The apparent reason behind these cold-blooded, shameful murders was that the four completely innocent victims offended your completely twisted concept of honor ... that has absolutely no place in any civilized society."
In a statement following the verdict, Canadian Justice Minister Rob Nicholson called honor killings a practice that is "barbaric and unacceptable in Canada."
READ: TOOBA YAHYA AND SON TORTURED THE WOMEN IN HIS FAMILY, AND MURDERED THEM...http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/01/29/jury-finds-afghan-family-guilty-in-honor-killings/
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
LAURA GARZA: MICHAEL MELE DESCRIBES MURDER IN COURT, GETS PLEA DEAL
Courtroom drama: Michael Mele admits killing dancer Laura Garza just as trial opens
Pleads guilty to manslaughter in deal with prosecutors, will serve 23 years
By Henrick Karoliszyn AND Tracy Connor / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Published: Monday, January 23 2012
He lured her from a Manhattan club to his upstate apartment, then refused to drive her home after she realized he had a girlfriend.
To silence her protests, he covered her mouth and nose with his hand until she stopped breathing, heaved her body in a laundry basket, and left it in the woods to rot.
That’s the story serial molester Michael Mele told in court Monday as he pleaded guilty to manslaughter and agreed to a 23-year sentence for killing dancer Laura Garza.
“It happened very quickly,” Mele, 26, said of the 2008 slaying.
“I put my hand over her mouth and partially over her nose, and shortly after that she stopped yelling. She stopped moving. And I realized that something very bad happened.”
The plea-bargain agreement came just before Mele’s murder trial was about to begin. The deal angered Garza’s loved ones, who had hoped he would get more time behind bars.
“For Michael Mele to get 23 years is not right,” said the victim’s brother, Ivan. “For me, there is no justice.”
Elizabeth Esquivel, mother of the pretty Texas transplant, wept as she said Mele got off easy.
“He should be put away for the rest of his life because he took my heart,” she said.
“I hope he melts in jail.”
Mele, who was on probation for a sex crime, picked up Garza, 25, who had just moved to Brooklyn, at Marquee in Chelsea on Dec. 3, 2008.
He drove her to his apartment in Walkill, but when she got there, she must have realized that she would be just a fling.
“She saw a picture of a girl and female-related items that were my girlfriend’s,” Mele said, wearing a dark suit and speaking softly.
“She was upset by being there, knowing that I had a girlfriend.”
He said she demanded he drive her back to the city, about 70 miles away, but he didn’t feel like it.
READ: MICHAEL DESCRIBES KILLING LAURA GARZA, DISPOSING OF BODY..
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Pleads guilty to manslaughter in deal with prosecutors, will serve 23 years
By Henrick Karoliszyn AND Tracy Connor / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Published: Monday, January 23 2012
He lured her from a Manhattan club to his upstate apartment, then refused to drive her home after she realized he had a girlfriend.
To silence her protests, he covered her mouth and nose with his hand until she stopped breathing, heaved her body in a laundry basket, and left it in the woods to rot.
That’s the story serial molester Michael Mele told in court Monday as he pleaded guilty to manslaughter and agreed to a 23-year sentence for killing dancer Laura Garza.
“It happened very quickly,” Mele, 26, said of the 2008 slaying.
“I put my hand over her mouth and partially over her nose, and shortly after that she stopped yelling. She stopped moving. And I realized that something very bad happened.”
The plea-bargain agreement came just before Mele’s murder trial was about to begin. The deal angered Garza’s loved ones, who had hoped he would get more time behind bars.
“For Michael Mele to get 23 years is not right,” said the victim’s brother, Ivan. “For me, there is no justice.”
Elizabeth Esquivel, mother of the pretty Texas transplant, wept as she said Mele got off easy.
“He should be put away for the rest of his life because he took my heart,” she said.
“I hope he melts in jail.”
Mele, who was on probation for a sex crime, picked up Garza, 25, who had just moved to Brooklyn, at Marquee in Chelsea on Dec. 3, 2008.
He drove her to his apartment in Walkill, but when she got there, she must have realized that she would be just a fling.
“She saw a picture of a girl and female-related items that were my girlfriend’s,” Mele said, wearing a dark suit and speaking softly.
“She was upset by being there, knowing that I had a girlfriend.”
He said she demanded he drive her back to the city, about 70 miles away, but he didn’t feel like it.
READ: MICHAEL DESCRIBES KILLING LAURA GARZA, DISPOSING OF BODY..
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Sunday, January 22, 2012
JORAN VAN DER SLOOT: SUCKER OR ANGEL, DR. MARY HAMER PAYS BILLS ...AND MORE
'I'm Van der Sloot's guardian angel': Divorced Florida radiologist, 55, pays bills for 24-year-old 'double killer'... and even visits him in Peruvian jail
By Daily Mail Reporter / Daily Mail.co.uk / Last updated at 8:34 PM on 12th December 2011
While authorities in Peru can lock up Joran Van der Sloot, they evidently cannot contain his charm and manipulative ways.
Though he's jailed for the murder of Stephany Flores and considered the prime suspect in the disappearance of Natalee Holloway, the 24-year-old Dutchman brags that he still gets a lot of attention from women.
One such woman is Dr Mary Hamer, 55, a radiologist from Florida who has been corresponding with Van der Sloot for more than a year.
Dr Hamer, who is divorced, was struck by Van der Sloot since the moment she heard about the Flores case, and believes he may be suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder.
She also claims that he is the subject of an international conspiracy and has been suffering abuse in prison that has left him visibly shaken.
Dr Hamer told Newsweek: 'I have a very strong feeling about protecting. It’s a very deep natural instinct of mine that is driving me - not driving me, but allowing me the freedom - to help Joran.'
After speaking to his attorney and his mother Anita Van der Sloot, Dr Hamer sent the first of several care packages to him last year.
And she continues to send them today. They contain everything from disinfectant wipes to books on spirituality to clothing he can wear in court.
Later, Dr Hamer was given the first of several opportunities to visit him.
She told Newsweek: 'I come every six months. I will come for the rest of my life. I have even told Joran I will move here.'
READ: WHAT ELSE WILL DR. MARY HAMER DO FOR KILLER JORAN VAN DER SLOOT...
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By Daily Mail Reporter / Daily Mail.co.uk / Last updated at 8:34 PM on 12th December 2011
While authorities in Peru can lock up Joran Van der Sloot, they evidently cannot contain his charm and manipulative ways.
Though he's jailed for the murder of Stephany Flores and considered the prime suspect in the disappearance of Natalee Holloway, the 24-year-old Dutchman brags that he still gets a lot of attention from women.
One such woman is Dr Mary Hamer, 55, a radiologist from Florida who has been corresponding with Van der Sloot for more than a year.
Dr Hamer, who is divorced, was struck by Van der Sloot since the moment she heard about the Flores case, and believes he may be suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder.
She also claims that he is the subject of an international conspiracy and has been suffering abuse in prison that has left him visibly shaken.
Dr Hamer told Newsweek: 'I have a very strong feeling about protecting. It’s a very deep natural instinct of mine that is driving me - not driving me, but allowing me the freedom - to help Joran.'
After speaking to his attorney and his mother Anita Van der Sloot, Dr Hamer sent the first of several care packages to him last year.
And she continues to send them today. They contain everything from disinfectant wipes to books on spirituality to clothing he can wear in court.
Later, Dr Hamer was given the first of several opportunities to visit him.
She told Newsweek: 'I come every six months. I will come for the rest of my life. I have even told Joran I will move here.'
READ: WHAT ELSE WILL DR. MARY HAMER DO FOR KILLER JORAN VAN DER SLOOT...
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PERU: JORAN VAN DER SLOOT LOSES "SUGAR MAMA" DR. MARY HAMER
Joran Van Der Sloot Loses Support of ‘Guardian Angel’ Mary Hamer
Jan 21, 2012 4:45 AM EST / THE DAILY BEAST / WORLD NEWS
Sentenced to 28 years in the killing of Peruvian student Stephany Flores, Joran Van der Sloot has been moved to a maximum-security prison—and cut off from Dr. Mary Hamer, who says she wants her money back
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On the day Joran Van der Sloot pleaded guilty to killing Peruvian college student Stephany Flores and was sentenced to 28 years in prison, he wrote his benefactor, Dr. Mary Hamer, a series of letters designed to persuade her to continue supporting him. The divorced radiologist, 55, had decided to cut him off after hearing his guilty plea, and she demanded that his attorney give back the $75,000 she had sent him for what she described as bail money.
“You will always be in my heart, but this, what you are doing to me now I do not comprehend. Why do you want to hurt me?” Van der Sloot, 24, writes in the first handwritten letter.
Hamer wants the money returned immediately, she told attorney Jose Jimenez, who received the funds in November and was supposed to hand them over to Van der Sloot. Jimenez said he never used the term “bail” with Hamer, “because it was never an option,” he said. “I said many times that we would file for habeas corpus, being that my client had been imprisoned for over 18 months without a trial. If we would have been successful, he would have had expenses to cover, like an apartment we were setting up for him, just in case.”
Described as Van der Sloot’s “benefactor” in the Peruvian press, Hamer said in an interview with Newsweek in late November that she was drawn to the Dutch national on the day he was arrested in Chile for Flores’s murder in June 2010. She first saw his image on television, handcuffed and being led by police to his extradition back to Peru.
READ: JORAN van der SLOOT LOSES MONEY SUPPORT FROM DR. MARY HAMER...
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Jan 21, 2012 4:45 AM EST / THE DAILY BEAST / WORLD NEWS
Sentenced to 28 years in the killing of Peruvian student Stephany Flores, Joran Van der Sloot has been moved to a maximum-security prison—and cut off from Dr. Mary Hamer, who says she wants her money back
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On the day Joran Van der Sloot pleaded guilty to killing Peruvian college student Stephany Flores and was sentenced to 28 years in prison, he wrote his benefactor, Dr. Mary Hamer, a series of letters designed to persuade her to continue supporting him. The divorced radiologist, 55, had decided to cut him off after hearing his guilty plea, and she demanded that his attorney give back the $75,000 she had sent him for what she described as bail money.
“You will always be in my heart, but this, what you are doing to me now I do not comprehend. Why do you want to hurt me?” Van der Sloot, 24, writes in the first handwritten letter.
Hamer wants the money returned immediately, she told attorney Jose Jimenez, who received the funds in November and was supposed to hand them over to Van der Sloot. Jimenez said he never used the term “bail” with Hamer, “because it was never an option,” he said. “I said many times that we would file for habeas corpus, being that my client had been imprisoned for over 18 months without a trial. If we would have been successful, he would have had expenses to cover, like an apartment we were setting up for him, just in case.”
Described as Van der Sloot’s “benefactor” in the Peruvian press, Hamer said in an interview with Newsweek in late November that she was drawn to the Dutch national on the day he was arrested in Chile for Flores’s murder in June 2010. She first saw his image on television, handcuffed and being led by police to his extradition back to Peru.
READ: JORAN van der SLOOT LOSES MONEY SUPPORT FROM DR. MARY HAMER...
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DREW PETERSON: LOVE LETTERS TURN BIZARRE AND GRAPHIC
Drew Peterson Writing Love Letters to Woman from Jail: Report
Published : Thursday, 07 Apr 2011
By Anita Padilla, FOX Chicago News
Chicago - It would seem Drew Peterson is working on a love connection, even from jail, according to a new report. The accused murderer reportedly has been sending some racy messages to a woman he's known for several years.
Diana Grandel, 40, told the National Enquirer she met Peterson when she was 14 years old, when Peterson was a young cop and he reportedly rescued her and her family from an abusive father.
Grandel said she reached out to Peterson in a letter to show her support following his arrest for the murder of his third wife, Kathleen Savio. She said it didn't take long before the friendship turned strange.
She started getting mail, at least a dozen letters from Peterson, that was pretty bizarre, Grandel said. He reportedly wanted photos of her in a bikini, her clothing measurements and was graphic in describing what he wanted to do with her in bed.
"I just think of your smile and holding you in the dark feeling your body against mine...I want to spend a lot of time with my lips on yours," he reportedly wrote in one letter.
"I have a closet full of new or like-new clothes Stacy left behind when she abandoned us, everything from formal dresses to sweats to bikinis," Peterson wrote in another, according to the publication. Of course the Stacy he wrote about is Stacy Peterson, Drew's fourth wife.
Stacy Peterson disappeared nearly two and a half years ago and hasn't been seen since.
READ: DREW PETERSON WRITES LETTERS TO DIANA GRANDEL ...
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Published : Thursday, 07 Apr 2011
By Anita Padilla, FOX Chicago News
Chicago - It would seem Drew Peterson is working on a love connection, even from jail, according to a new report. The accused murderer reportedly has been sending some racy messages to a woman he's known for several years.
Diana Grandel, 40, told the National Enquirer she met Peterson when she was 14 years old, when Peterson was a young cop and he reportedly rescued her and her family from an abusive father.
Grandel said she reached out to Peterson in a letter to show her support following his arrest for the murder of his third wife, Kathleen Savio. She said it didn't take long before the friendship turned strange.
She started getting mail, at least a dozen letters from Peterson, that was pretty bizarre, Grandel said. He reportedly wanted photos of her in a bikini, her clothing measurements and was graphic in describing what he wanted to do with her in bed.
"I just think of your smile and holding you in the dark feeling your body against mine...I want to spend a lot of time with my lips on yours," he reportedly wrote in one letter.
"I have a closet full of new or like-new clothes Stacy left behind when she abandoned us, everything from formal dresses to sweats to bikinis," Peterson wrote in another, according to the publication. Of course the Stacy he wrote about is Stacy Peterson, Drew's fourth wife.
Stacy Peterson disappeared nearly two and a half years ago and hasn't been seen since.
READ: DREW PETERSON WRITES LETTERS TO DIANA GRANDEL ...
http://tinyurl.com/88982xh
Sunday, January 1, 2012
McSTAY FAMILY VANISHED FEB 2010. NOW DEC 2011 -McSTAYS, WHERE ARE YOU?
E! Investigates films segment locally on missing McStay family of four
Thursday, November 17th, 2011
Issue 46, Volume 15 / FALLBROOK - BONSALL VILLAGE NEWS
Andrea Verdin , Staff Writer
The internationally-aired program E! Investigates came to Fallbrook in mid-October to begin filming a segment it will produce on the McStay family of four that has now been missing from their home here for over 21 months. The family, last seen Feb. 4, 2010, includes Joseph McStay, 40, his wife Summer McStay, 43, and sons Gianni McStay, 4, and Joseph McStay Jr., 3.
Unless something dramatically changes between now and mid-December when the segment will air, the piece is destined to create intrigue over the family’s mysterious disappearance rather than provide new information that has been learned, as law enforcement doesn’t seem any closer to solving the case than they were at the very beginning.
The film crew has been working throughout the county interviewing individuals they feel could relate the disturbing story to their viewers. One of those they interviewed was Village News Editor Debbie Ramsey.
"I told [E! network associates] that I didn’t know anything that anyone else didn’t know at this time, but I agreed to be interviewed about the details of the case as I understood them," said Ramsey. "I am glad they are doing the segment because I am hoping in keeping the public aware of it, it could possibly ultimately turn up some new leads for law enforcement. This is a very troubling situation. Law enforcement has diligently followed up on all leads they have received and reached dead end after dead end."
The Village News has also shared all stories staff members have written relating to the case with the E! Network.
San Diego County Sheriff’s Department Homicide Detective Troy DuGal has been the lead on the case since the beginning.
"It is still a very open and active case; it always has been," said DuGal. "Nothing has ever changed on the status of the case, however. I continue to get what appear to be new leads and we exhaust every one of those possibilities."
DuGal said his team continues to work on it.
"We are current on all leads we have received to date; we have followed up on leads people have called in saying they’ve seen one or more of The family, who was living in a house they had purchased in the Lake Rancho Viejo development in Fallbrook, just east of Interstate 15, was reported missing by Michael McStay, Joseph’s brother. The family’s car, a 1996 Isuzu Trooper, was found in an impound yard just north of the Mexican border four days after they were last seen. The vehicle had been towed from a strip mall parking lot.
Officials, when reviewing tapes of the United States/Mexico border crossing point at San Ysidro, thought an image of the family walking across the international boundary had been captured on tape, but relatives didn’t agree on whether it was indeed the McStay family.
READ UPDATE: McStay family disappeared in Feb 2010. http://www.thevillagenews.com/story/59931/
E! Investigates is tentatively set to air on televsion Dec. 15, 2011.
For more information on McStay disappearance, or to report sightings, contact family website at
http://www.mcstayfamily.com/
YOUTUBE VIDEO OF FOUR PEOPLE CROSSING INTO MEXICO (see at :28 seconds)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrW223Yq6Ik
CHOMP COMMENTS: Where was this family from the time they left their house in Fallbrook (San Diego) until the time they parked their car in San Ysidro, and walked across the border into Mexico? Why not tell their family that they were leaving? Why cross the border at night? Who is "Summer" McStay really? Why did she change her name several times, and why does she wear sunglasses in photos?
Thursday, November 17th, 2011
Issue 46, Volume 15 / FALLBROOK - BONSALL VILLAGE NEWS
Andrea Verdin , Staff Writer
The internationally-aired program E! Investigates came to Fallbrook in mid-October to begin filming a segment it will produce on the McStay family of four that has now been missing from their home here for over 21 months. The family, last seen Feb. 4, 2010, includes Joseph McStay, 40, his wife Summer McStay, 43, and sons Gianni McStay, 4, and Joseph McStay Jr., 3.
Unless something dramatically changes between now and mid-December when the segment will air, the piece is destined to create intrigue over the family’s mysterious disappearance rather than provide new information that has been learned, as law enforcement doesn’t seem any closer to solving the case than they were at the very beginning.
The film crew has been working throughout the county interviewing individuals they feel could relate the disturbing story to their viewers. One of those they interviewed was Village News Editor Debbie Ramsey.
"I told [E! network associates] that I didn’t know anything that anyone else didn’t know at this time, but I agreed to be interviewed about the details of the case as I understood them," said Ramsey. "I am glad they are doing the segment because I am hoping in keeping the public aware of it, it could possibly ultimately turn up some new leads for law enforcement. This is a very troubling situation. Law enforcement has diligently followed up on all leads they have received and reached dead end after dead end."
The Village News has also shared all stories staff members have written relating to the case with the E! Network.
San Diego County Sheriff’s Department Homicide Detective Troy DuGal has been the lead on the case since the beginning.
"It is still a very open and active case; it always has been," said DuGal. "Nothing has ever changed on the status of the case, however. I continue to get what appear to be new leads and we exhaust every one of those possibilities."
DuGal said his team continues to work on it.
"We are current on all leads we have received to date; we have followed up on leads people have called in saying they’ve seen one or more of The family, who was living in a house they had purchased in the Lake Rancho Viejo development in Fallbrook, just east of Interstate 15, was reported missing by Michael McStay, Joseph’s brother. The family’s car, a 1996 Isuzu Trooper, was found in an impound yard just north of the Mexican border four days after they were last seen. The vehicle had been towed from a strip mall parking lot.
Officials, when reviewing tapes of the United States/Mexico border crossing point at San Ysidro, thought an image of the family walking across the international boundary had been captured on tape, but relatives didn’t agree on whether it was indeed the McStay family.
READ UPDATE: McStay family disappeared in Feb 2010. http://www.thevillagenews.com/story/59931/
E! Investigates is tentatively set to air on televsion Dec. 15, 2011.
For more information on McStay disappearance, or to report sightings, contact family website at
http://www.mcstayfamily.com/
YOUTUBE VIDEO OF FOUR PEOPLE CROSSING INTO MEXICO (see at :28 seconds)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrW223Yq6Ik
CHOMP COMMENTS: Where was this family from the time they left their house in Fallbrook (San Diego) until the time they parked their car in San Ysidro, and walked across the border into Mexico? Why not tell their family that they were leaving? Why cross the border at night? Who is "Summer" McStay really? Why did she change her name several times, and why does she wear sunglasses in photos?
Saturday, November 12, 2011
PENN STATE: 1998, SANDUSKY INVESTIGATED FOR SEXUAL ASSAULT OF BOY
I'm Considering Relocating to Sodom . . .
Posted by Ann Barnhardt - November 10, AD 2011
. . . because I'm absolutely convinced that this culture, right now, today, is WORSE than Sodom or Gomorrah ever were. Sodom would be a step up.
It is now all over the internet that Sandusky was running a high-dollar pedophile ring, and that "Second Mile" was merely a front and means of recruiting and enslaving young boys who were then pimped to wealthy Penn State donors for sex.
Penn State should be shut down. Not just the football program - the entire university. Shut it down immediately. Any student of Penn State with any sense should be making arrangements to transfer to another university, because graduating from Penn State would necessitate that said person list Penn State on their resume, which will now be a major, major strike against that person. Why? Because they knowingly entered and subsidized a cult that worshiped an old man who "coached" a football team. And, as it turns out, that old man facilitated and enabled a massive pedophile ring. Further, said students, even after learning of this and seeing that "old man" fired, RIOTED last night IN SUPPORT OF THE CULT LEADER / PEDOPHILE RING ENABLER.
TIMELINE:
1998: Sandusky is investigated for an incident involving himself sexually assaulting a young boy in the Penn State showers. Child Protective Services investigate. The university is fully notified.
READ: MORE TIMELINE OF PENN STATE PEDOPHILE RING AND SANDUSKY INVESTIGATION...
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Posted by Ann Barnhardt - November 10, AD 2011
. . . because I'm absolutely convinced that this culture, right now, today, is WORSE than Sodom or Gomorrah ever were. Sodom would be a step up.
It is now all over the internet that Sandusky was running a high-dollar pedophile ring, and that "Second Mile" was merely a front and means of recruiting and enslaving young boys who were then pimped to wealthy Penn State donors for sex.
Penn State should be shut down. Not just the football program - the entire university. Shut it down immediately. Any student of Penn State with any sense should be making arrangements to transfer to another university, because graduating from Penn State would necessitate that said person list Penn State on their resume, which will now be a major, major strike against that person. Why? Because they knowingly entered and subsidized a cult that worshiped an old man who "coached" a football team. And, as it turns out, that old man facilitated and enabled a massive pedophile ring. Further, said students, even after learning of this and seeing that "old man" fired, RIOTED last night IN SUPPORT OF THE CULT LEADER / PEDOPHILE RING ENABLER.
TIMELINE:
1998: Sandusky is investigated for an incident involving himself sexually assaulting a young boy in the Penn State showers. Child Protective Services investigate. The university is fully notified.
READ: MORE TIMELINE OF PENN STATE PEDOPHILE RING AND SANDUSKY INVESTIGATION...
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