Saturday, June 28, 2008

CRIME UPDATES AND TIP LINES

Thanks to everyone who drops by. Crime seems to happen so fast that I can't keep up with the news.

I have been searching for updates on many of the stories: Tinley Park Lane Bryant, the Boca Raton Mall, Florida, killing of Nancy Bochicchio and her 7-year-old daughter, and Randi Gorenberg, and many more.

Can we forget that Brianna Denison's killer is still out there?

And where is Jodi Huisentruit, KIMT-TV news anchor, who disappeared in June 27, 1995?

And who took the life of Jakeob McKnight, age 10, in Denver, July 21, 1991. This happened while I lived in Denver. I used to take my dog to the park where they found Jakeob. "Jakeob’s father, Gary, said 17 years later, it still hurts."

If you want to read about these stories, or if you have information about these crimes, please, read the links below.

Remember, you can always call
America's Most Wanted Hot Line
if you have information about any crime.
1 - 800 -CRIME - TV

TINLEY PARK LANE BRYANT
http://www.amw.com/fugitives/brief.cfm?id=52877

"We continue to investigate a large number of leads in this case. We continue to request the public to call the Tip Hotline at 708-444-5394 with any possible information they may have, regardless of how trivial it may at first seem.

Have you seen this suspect?














BRIANNA DENISON
http://bringbriback.blogspot.com/












JODI HUISENTRUIT
http://www.findjodi.com/

http://www.findjodi.com/case.htm













JAKEOB MCNIGHT
http://blogs.denverpost.com/coldcases/2008/01/15/new-profile-boy-stabbed-repeatedly-in-park/#comment-27

If you have information about this case, call the Lakewood Police Department’s Major Crime section at 303-987-7200. Staff writer Kirk Mitchell can be reached at 303-954-1206.












BOCA RATON MALL KILLINGS
http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2008Mar22/0,4670,MurderAtTheMall,00.html

http://www.myspace.com/brpsd (Nancy Bochicchio Family's search for killer)

MEGAN TOUMA: MYSTERY LETTER CLAIMS TO BE HER KILLER


Note: 'I'm killer' of Spc. Touma
By Nancy McCleary / Fayetteville Observer Staff writer
Published on Saturday, June 28, 2008

A person claiming to be the killer of the pregnant soldier found dead in a motel has written an anonymous letter calling the murder a “master piece” and threatening to kill again.

On Friday, sources requesting anonymity told The Fayetteville Observer that a symbol used in the letter is identical to one found written in lipstick on a mirror in the Fairfield Inn room where Spc. Megan Lynn Touma’s body was discovered June 21.

The letter, which was received by the Observer on Wednesday and immediately turned over to the police, was signed with a symbol resembling the one connected with the Zodiac killer, a notorious serial killer in the late 1960s.

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The letter, which appears to have been composed on a typewriter, is dated June 17, four days before Touma’s decomposed body was found in the bathtub of Room 143.

The letter was postmarked June 24, the day before it arrived at the paper, and carried a local postmark. The envelope was smeared and blackened with an unknown substance.

READ MORE ON THIS IMPORTANT UPDATE...
http://www.fayobserver.com/article?id=297965

Thursday, June 26, 2008

FT. BRAGG: PREGNANT MEGAN TOUMA DEAD IN HOTEL TUB

Photo of Megan Touma posted on LOCAL12.COM

Army Specialist Megan Lynn Touma, 23, grew up as Megan Heine in Cold Spring, Ky. She was was found in tub at the Fairfield Inn on Morganton Road, Room 143. Touma, a dental specialist recently arrived in the United States after spending three years in Bamberg, Germany at an Army dental clinic. She was staying in the motel until proper military housing was found for her for her assignment with the 19th Replacement Company at Fort Bragg, N.C.

Officials say the 24-year-old was dead when they found her Sunday at the Fairfield Inn on Morganton Road.

The Fairfield Inn is close to Ft. Bragg/Pope AFB, and located inside the Fayetteville shopping and restaurant district. Relax with a splash in their refreshing swimming pool. At Fairfield Inn, you can always count on a friendly welcome at an affordable price.

Ex-Husband: Army Said Pregnant Soldier Found Dead in Hotel Was AWOL
AP / Thursday, June 26, 2008

A pregnant soldier was declared AWOL after failing to report back to the Army because she was dead, her ex-husband said on Wednesday.

The body of Spc. Megan Lynn Touma, 23, was identified Tuesday, three days after being found decomposing in a bathtub at the Fairfield Inn in Fayetteville, N.C., over the weekend. Police called the death suspicious but released few other details.

Click here to read Jonathan Serrie's on-the-scene blog.

Touma's ex-husband, El Sayed Touma, who lives in Charleston, S.C., told FOX affiliate WRAL that the Army failed to check on her before considering her absent without leave.

"She was left in the room for two days, and the Army said she was AWOL. They didn't even bother to go check on her in the motel where she stayed. I mean the Army knows that she stayed in that hotel," El Sayed Touma said.

The two met at Fort Drum, N.Y., when both were stationed there. They were married for three years but divorced when the stress of living in separate countries became too much for them, WRAL reported.

Meanwhile, Fort Bragg officials said Wednesday they were investigating why Megan Lynn Touma wasn't reported missing after she was absent from a formation.

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Touma is the second pregnant service member to die under suspicious circumstances in North Carolina in recent months. Lance Cpl. Maria Lauterbach was reported missing and later found dead near Camp Lejeune in January. A fellow Marine, Cpl. Cesar Laurean, has been charged in her death and is awaiting extradition from Mexico.

WHAT ARE THE ODDS OF THIS HAPPENING TWICE?
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,371945,00.html

CHOMP LOOKS AT SOME CRIME SCENE DETAILS. LOOKS LIKE INVESTIGATORS HAVE FOUND IMPORTANT CLUES!

The bed in Touma’s room had been pushed slightly away from the wall, and both the lamp and nightstand were out of place.

No hotel employees had entered the room since June 17 because there was a “Do Not Disturb” sign on the door.

According to check-in information Touma was supposed to check out by 11:25 a.m. June 21.

Hotel assistant maintenance supervisor Jim Cameron found the body.

The search warrant showed that authorities found a set of keys with an Enterprise Rent-A-Car key ring on the dresser in the room. A 2008 Chevrolet Trailblazer registered to Enterprise was parked outside the hotel room.

El Sayed Touma, Megan's ex-husband, says he is not the father of Megan's baby. Touma is an Egyptian native who served in the U.S military, and now lives in Charleston, N.C.

Sunday, June 22, 2008

SHEILA LeBARRE: PEOPLE WHO KNEW HER TELL BIZZARE STORY

Louise and Daniel Harvey sold their farm to chiropractor Wilfred LaBarre several years ago, and remained friends with him until his death. (Michele McDonald/ Globe Staff)

A woman, her men, and a mystery
Inside the strange world of Sheila LaBarre, where charges of murder are only part of the story
By Sally Jacobs, Globe Staff
BOSTON GLOBE/ July 2, 2006

EPPING, N.H. -- The snow had just stopped falling when the young man came stumbling forlornly down the dirt road.

Bruce Allen, a dairy farmer, had been approached by other young men in need of help over the years, but this one was in the worst shape he'd ever seen. His name was Michael and his face was gashed and dripping blood into the snow. His ear was ripped and his skin was a mottled olive.

As he passed Allen's place that winter morning two years ago, the slight man whispered a single hoarse word, the farmer recalled. "Sheila," he said, glancing anxiously back up the road. "Sheila."

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Police got to know her well. In Hampton alone, LaBarre has been involved in more than a dozen complaints over the past 15 years. In 1995, she was granted a restraining order against Ennis, saying that he had attacked her and threatened to ``cut off my fingers and shoot me in the face." She got another order against him in 1997. The year after that, LaBarre and Brackett were both charged with second-degree assault in a lovers' quarrel involving a knife and a pair of scissors. The charges were dismissed.

READ MORE ABOUT THIS STRANGE WOMAN...
http://www.boston.com/news/local/new_hampshire/articles/2006/07/02/a_woman_her_men_and_a_mystery/

SHEILA LeBARRE CONVICTED: KILLED 2 BOYFRIENDS

AP /2008
Sheila LaBarre enters court today before the judge met briefly with the jurors to start the day of her insanity trial at Rockingham County Superior Court in Brentwood, N.H.


Kenneth Countie: Victim of Sheila LeBarre


Jurors take a walk around the outside of what was Sheila LaBarre's horse farm in Epping. Police would not allow them to view the inside of the house because it has been vandalized and is unsafe.
Ken Yuszkus / Staff photo



Carolynn Lodge, mother of Kenneth Countie, walks up the road to Sheila LaBarre�s farm in Epping. Lodge visits the farm daily to bring flowers to the site where her son's alleged murder took place.
Photo by Jackie Ricciardi


N.H. woman who killed 2 boyfriends sane, jury says
By CLARE TRAPASSO,
AP/ Posted: 2008-06-21


BRENTWOOD, N.H. (AP) — A woman who claimed she was an angel sent from God to punish pedophiles was convicted Friday of murdering two boyfriends by a jury that rejected her insanity defense.

Sheila LaBarre, 49, was sentenced to life in prison without parole.

In 2006, police found her burning trash that contained the bones of one of her victims, Kenneth Countie. The remains of Michael Deloge, killed in 2005, also were found on LaBarre's horse farm in Epping, about 50 miles north of Boston.

As the jury filed out after the verdict, relatives of the victims burst into applause.
"This is for my son," said Countie's mother, Carolynn Lodge. "(For) two years, my son could not rest. Now he can rest."

During the five-week trial, defense lawyers argued that LaBarre, 59, was a delusional woman who believed every man in her life was a pedophile and who saw herself as an avenging angel. The prosecution countered that she was a "crude, manipulative, cruel and vindictive" woman who violently lashed out at the men she dated.

READ UPDATE...
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gqzRNVrA3B-ruKgkMUth9bXSlvSgD91E2AD00