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MICHAEL ALGUERA: WE REMEMBER; 2 ARRESTED FOR SENSELESS MURDER
Photo credit: Howard Schnapp | A photo of Michael
Alguera, who was fatally stabbed last week, sits in a memorial
that in set in his home on Jan. 22, 2008 in Hempstead, N.Y.
YouTube: Uploaded by YANESITA13 on Feb 23, 2008
R.i.p Michael
Alguera
[(8*24*1992*)] TO [(1-19-2008)]
2 charged with murder in
Hempstead slaying
David Valle and Louis Ruiz, described as lieutenants in the
MS-13 street gang's Hempstead clique, or chapter, were indicted
Thursday at the federal courthouse in Central Islip in the murder
of Michael Alguera, then 15, according to court papers filed by
Assistant U.S. Attorney John Durham.The arrests followed a three-year investigation by the FBI and Nassau County homicide detectives, which concluded that Alguera was accidentally caught up in gang rivalry, according to officials.
"He was not a gang member. . . . He was an innocent child. What a way to lose his life," said Det. Lt. John Azzata, of the Nassau County police homicide squad. "It's something that every parent has to feel" concerned about when they send their kids to school, he added.
Valle and Ruiz had come to Hempstead High School in the afternoon along with half a dozen other MS-13 members, seeking revenge against members of the rival SWP gang, which supposedly had stolen the blue-and-white "flag" or bandanna of a student MS-13 member, according to sources familiar with the case.
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MEMORIAL DAY: PATRIOTS EXTRAORDINAIRE, ROLLING THUNDER ROLLS, 250,000 MOTORCYCLES HONOR AMERICAN MILITARY
Memorial Day
Patriotism and Respect
for American Soldiers and Veterans
More than 250,000 motorcycles from Rolling Thunder roll
into Washington, DC each Memorial Day to
honor our American military men and women. Since 1987,
Rolling Thunder brings awareness each year about prisoners
of war (POW), and about those troops missing in action
(MIA).A music video tribute of the Rolling Thunder motorcycle rally on Memorial Day weekend in Washington, DC. This is the official video used by Rolling Thunder to help bring awareness to the issue of POW/MIAs. http://www.rollingthundermotorcyclerally.com/
Date Published: May 27, 2012 - 8:13 am
MORGAN HILL, CA: ANTOLIN GARCIA-TORRES DNA TIED TO MISSING SIERRA LaMARR
Antolin Garcia-Torres, age 21 (Santa Clara County
Sheriff)
Sierra LaMar Suspect Watched for Weeks Hoping He Would Lead Them To Teen
By ALYSSA NEWCOMB (@alyssanewcomb) , KEVIN DOLAK (@kdolak) and DEAN SCHABNER
abcNEWS / May 22,
2012
Santa Clara County police said today they had been following the
suspect in the kidnapping and murder of Sierra LaMar since March
28, hoping he would lead them to the missing teen.
Antolin Garcia Torres, 21, was arrested Monday and booked into
the Santa Clara County Jail on suspicion of murder and
kidnapping, according to the sheriff's department.
Police said he was not being cooperative and they are still looking for LaMar.
The girl's mother, Marlene LaMar, made an emotional plea to Garcia-Torres at a news conference today.
"Please give the information that you have to lead us to Sierra to help end this nightmare. I would like you to come forward and say where she is and end this nightmare for us as a family." she said.
LaMar said she is holding out hope her daughter is still alive.
"Until she is found,our search is still not going to end," she
said. "As a mother, still I am hopeful because her body has not
been found and that gives me hope."
The cheerleader disappeared on March 16 on her way to a school
bus. Two days later, authorities found her cellphone and Juicy
brand bag containing a pair of folded jeans and a T-shirt two
miles from her home.
DNA was found on several of the teen's belongings and was run through a state database, said Santa Clara County Sheriff Laurie Smith. That DNA was a match for Antolin Garcia Torres who had a submitted DNA during a felony arrest that had not been prosecuted, she said.
BREAKING NEWS: ANTOLIN GARCIA-TORRES TIED TO MISSING SIERRA
LaMARR
Date Published: May 22, 2012 - 11:40 pm
MISSISSIPPI: ADAM MAYES DEAD, TWO BAIN GIRLS SAFE; TERESA MAYES CHARGED WITH MURDER
Alleged Tennessee family
kidnapper dead, girls found safe
Published May 10, 2012 / FoxNews.comThe Mississippi man suspected of killing a Tennessee mother and daughter was caught Thursday evening and died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head, authorities say, while the other two young daughters he is suspected of kidnapping were found alive and safe.
Adam Mayes, 35, on who was added to the FBI's Most Wanted Fugitive List Wednesday, was caught in Mississippi after police received a tip.
Guntown Police Chief Michael Hall says a SWAT team located Mayes in New Albany, Miss., and when they moved in to apprehend him, he shot himself.
Edwards said Mayes was still alive -- in critical condition -- after police took him into custody. He later died from wounds, the FBI confirmed.
Police say the two daughters that Mayes allegedly abducted, Alexandria Bain, 12, and Kyliyah Bain, 8, were found alive and safe. Both girls were being taken to a hospital for observation. It was not immediately clear if they were with Mayes when he was found.
Mayes and his wife, Teresa, are charged with first-degree murder in the deaths of Jo Ann Bain, 31, and her daughter, Adrienne, 14. Their bodies were found buried outside the Mayes' home a week after they were reported missing by Jo Ann Bain's husband, Gary.
Teresa Mayes told investigators that after she saw her husband kill the two in the garage at the Bain home, she drove him, the younger girls and the bodies to Mississippi, according to affidavits filed in court. She faces six felony counts in the case: two first-degree murder charges and four especially aggravated kidnapping charges.
READ: ADAM MAYES DEAD, ALEXADRIA BAIN AND KYLIYAH FOUND ALIVE...
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/05/10/alleged-tennessee-family-kidnapper-caught-girls-found-safe-police-say/
Date Published: May 10, 2012 - 8:28 pm
SEATTLE: MARIZELA PEREZ -WHAT ARE POLICE DOING TO FIND HER???
MARIZELA PEREZ
Where is Marizela Perez? Families frustrated when loved ones vanish
Marizela Perez's family believes Seattle police could be doing more to find the missing University of Washington student. But they have also learned what other families in similarly heartbreaking situations face: There are few resources devoted to finding missing adults and limited avenues for law enforcement to pursue when there's no evidence of foul play.
By Christine Clarridge / Seattle Times staff reporter
Originally published May 19, 2011 at 10:00 PM
Perhaps Marizela Perez is hiding out somewhere, gathering the courage to tell her parents she dropped out of chemistry, switched her major to art and got a tattoo.
At least that's what her parents hope.
The alternatives, say Jasmin and Edgar Perez, are too horrible to accept.
Marizela, an 18-year-old University of Washington freshman, was seen leaving a Safeway store on Brooklyn Avenue Northeast on March 5. She has not been seen since.
Police and her relatives say there was no evidence of an abduction, no note left by Marizela, no indication of what may have happened to the only child, whom her father called "the center of our family."
Her relatives filed a police report and put up hundreds of fliers, held fundraisers, created Facebook pages, hired a private investigator, searched woods and parks with teams of trained dogs and even had the case featured twice on television's "America's Most Wanted." Marizela's cousin, conservative columnist Michelle Malkin, has written about the disappearance in her nationally syndicated column and on the website http://www.findmarizela.com/.
Still, nothing.
Database on missing adults
IN AN EFFORT TO CREATE a comprehensive national database on missing adults, the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs) is asking people with information about specific missing-person cases to enter it into a free online database, which is accessible to medical examiners, coroners, law enforcement and the general public.
In the past, the only national repository of
missing-persons' data was
the FBI's National Crime Information Center,
which can be used only by law-enforcement
agencies.
For more information, see http://www.namus.gov/
Marizela Perez's family has set up a tip line for
information on her whereabouts:
1-855-MARIZEL.
Callers will remain anonymous.
Date Published: Apr 30, 2012 - 12:41 pm
KERRI HARDING: KIDNAPPED BY RAYMOND MOODY. DID HE TAKE BRITTANEE DREXEL?
Kerri
Harding, 38, is seen in an undated photo provided to FoxNews.com.
Harding was kidnapped and sexually assaulted in 1983 by Raymond
Moody, a "person of interest" in the 2009 disappearance of
17-year-old Brittanee Drexel (inset). (FoxNews.com)
Police say Raymond Moody is a “person of interest” in the disappearance of Brittanee Drexel, the 17-year-old from upstate New York who vanished in South Carolina exactly three years ago today.
But to Kerri Harding, Moody is the monster who abducted and raped her in 1983, when she was just 8, and she’s convinced he should be the prime suspect in the Drexel case.
Harding survived the attack in California, but the terrifying memory of her ordeal has never left her. Drexel disappeared from South Carolina’s Myrtle Beach on April 25, 2009, and is presumed dead. Police told FoxNews.com there are similarities between the two cases, and said they confirmed Moody was in the area near where Drexel was last seen. But authorities don’t have enough evidence to declare him a suspect, and to Harding’s horror, he refuses to speak to them.
“My biggest fear is that he’ll do it again,” said Harding, now 38. “You should never get a second chance to hurt a child.”
Moody, 52, served 21 years of a 40-year prison sentence after admitting to sexually assaulting Harding and six other girls. He relocated to Georgetown, S.C., after his release from the California State Prison in Solano in 2004. The ex-con, who police say works in a woodworking shop, could not be reached for comment.
Harding has monitored Moody’s whereabouts since his release, and knew he had resurfaced in South Carolina.
When she came upon a February article on FoxNews.com reporting that Moody is a person of interest in Drexel’s disappearance, she said she had no doubt that her tormentor had struck again.
READ: RAYMOND MOODY RAPED KERRI HARDING. DID RAYMOND MOODY TAKE BRITTANEE DREXEL?http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/04/25/three-years-after-brittanee-drexels-disappearance-past-victim-person-interest/
Raymond Moody
was named a person of interest
in the case of missing teen Brittanee Drexel.
Photo credit: (Booking
Photo).
Three years after Brittanee
Drexel’s disappearance, a victim of ‘person of interest’
speaks out
By Cristina Corbin
Published April 25, 2012
/ FoxNews.com
Police say Raymond Moody is a “person of interest” in the disappearance of Brittanee Drexel, the 17-year-old from upstate New York who vanished in South Carolina exactly three years ago today.
But to Kerri Harding, Moody is the monster who abducted and raped her in 1983, when she was just 8, and she’s convinced he should be the prime suspect in the Drexel case.
Harding survived the attack in California, but the terrifying memory of her ordeal has never left her. Drexel disappeared from South Carolina’s Myrtle Beach on April 25, 2009, and is presumed dead. Police told FoxNews.com there are similarities between the two cases, and said they confirmed Moody was in the area near where Drexel was last seen. But authorities don’t have enough evidence to declare him a suspect, and to Harding’s horror, he refuses to speak to them.
“My biggest fear is that he’ll do it again,” said Harding, now 38. “You should never get a second chance to hurt a child.”
Moody, 52, served 21 years of a 40-year prison sentence after admitting to sexually assaulting Harding and six other girls. He relocated to Georgetown, S.C., after his release from the California State Prison in Solano in 2004. The ex-con, who police say works in a woodworking shop, could not be reached for comment.
Harding has monitored Moody’s whereabouts since his release, and knew he had resurfaced in South Carolina.
When she came upon a February article on FoxNews.com reporting that Moody is a person of interest in Drexel’s disappearance, she said she had no doubt that her tormentor had struck again.
READ: RAYMOND MOODY RAPED KERRI HARDING. DID RAYMOND MOODY TAKE BRITTANEE DREXEL?http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/04/25/three-years-after-brittanee-drexels-disappearance-past-victim-person-interest/
Date Published: Apr 25, 2012 - 11:27 pm
BRITTANY KILLGORE FOUND: 2 CHARGED IN SEX MURDER
Fallbrook, CA: Brittany Killgore, 22, body found near Lake
Skinner in Riverside County, CA
Estranged: Brittany Killgore, right, filed for divorce from husband
Cory, left, last week
Suspect: Authorities believe that the victim knew Jessica
Lynn Lopez (pictured here),
and the two were involved in some kind of sex slave ring.
Suicide attempt:
Jessica Lynn Lopez was found with numerous self-inflicted stab
wounds on her body
at this Ramada Inn near the San Diego Airport
FALLBROOK, CALIFORNIA: shows San Diego (south), Riverside (north)
Killgore Murder: Second Suspect Arrested
By DEAN SCHABNER and ALYSSA
NEWCOMB (@alyssanewcomb)
abcnews / April 24,
2012
A Marine already charged with illegal possession of an assault
rifle was arrested today on suspicion of murder in the killing of
Marine wife Brittany Killgore.
Staff Sgt. Louis Ray Perez, 45, was arrested on the new charge at
Vista Detention, where he is being held.
Killgore, 22, of Fallbrook, Calif., disappeared April 13, after
telling friends she was going out in San Diego's Gaslamp Quarter.
Her body was found four days later, dumped near Lake Skinner in
Riverside County, Calif.
Jessica Lopez, 25, was already charged with first degree murder in
Killgore's death. She entered a not guilty plea in court April 19,
and was ordered held on $3 million bail, the San Diego County
Sheriff's Department said.
Lopez was arrested at a Ramada Inn in San Diego on April 17, while
she was being treated for an undisclosed medical condition at an
area hospital. She is now in jail.
Key to the case was an apparent suicide note found in Lopez's hotel
room, that detailed the 22-year-old Killgore's fate and the
location of her body, according to ABC News affiliate KGTV in San
Diego.
According to legal records, Lopez once lived with Perez, who had
been considered a person of interest in the case since the
investigation into Killgore's disappearance began. Police had said
they believed he may have been the last person to see Killgore
alive.
Perez was arraigned April 18 on an unrelated charge of possession
of an AR-15 assault rifle and was ordered held on $500,000 bail.
Authorities have not commented on the connection between Killgore,
Lopez and Perez.
READ UPDATE: JESSICA LOPEZ, LOUIS PEREZ ARRESTED FOR MURDER
OF
BRITTANY KILLGORE...
Date Published: Apr 24, 2012 - 8:53 pm
PAIGE BIRGFELD: MISSING 2007, REMAINS FOUND 2012 IN COLORADO
Paige Birgfeld (DMV
Photo)
Heartbreak: Frank Birgfeld, 68,
said today he knew nothing of his late daughter's double
life
- but now recognised that the
clues were there all along
Warning sign: Three days after
Birgfeld went missing in 2007, her car was found burnt out and
abandoned
Mesa County offiicals at the
scene Wednesday where the body of Paige Birgfeld was found
(9News)
Body found of Paige Birgfeld, Mesa County woman missing since 2007
By Joey Bunch
The Denver Postdenverpost.com / Posted: 03/08/2012
Frank Birgfeld of Centennial has searched for the body of his 34-year-old daughter on the Western Slope for 4½ years, but Wednesday's news that her remains were found by a hiker in a creek bed in Delta County brought cold comfort.
"I don't know about closure," he said on his cellphone as he neared Grand Junction on Wednesday afternoon, on his way to talk to investigators. "I think of my daughter at least three or four times a day every day. The fact that we found out where she is, I don't know that this is going to change that.
"Whatever closure is, damned if I know," he said.
Dental records led investigators from several agencies to determine the remains were those of Paige Birgfeld, the 34-year-old mother of three young children whose burned car was found in Grand Junction on July 1, 2007. She had been missing for three days at that point.
A hiker found skeletal remains of a woman at 12:30 p.m. Tuesday off U.S. 50 in the Wells Gulch area in Delta County, about 30 miles southeast of Grand Junction and about 15 miles west of Delta.
Frank Birgfeld said the area where the body was found had been searched thoroughly in 2007 after a man with a flat tire found Paige Birgfeld's checkbook, still in good condition, on the pavement, as though it recently had been tossed out a car window.
"It's bittersweet," said Connie Flukey, executive director of the Western Slope's Abby and Jennifer Recovery Foundation, which searches for missing persons in memory of Abby and Jennifer Blagg, who went missing from their Grand Junction home in 2001.
Jennifer Blagg was 34 years old when her body was found in a Mesa County landfill. Her husband, Michael, was convicted in her death in 2004. Their 6-year-old daughter has never been found.
"I always knew she would be found someday," said Flukey, reached on her cellphone en route to the site where Paige Birgfeld's body was found. "Today was that day. At the same time, it's heartbreaking to see what the family is going through.
"At least they can bring her home."
READ: ASTOUNDING UPDATE ON MISSING COLORADO WOMAN, PAIGE BIRGFELD....
http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_20126354/body-found-mesa-county-woman-missing-since-2007
Date Published: Mar 09, 2012 - 10:39 pm
BLAKE LITTON: AGE 3, NEEDS JUSTICE FOR THE END OF HIS SHORT LIFE
BLAKE LITTON NEEDS YOUR
HELP TODAY!
Nancy Grace wants justice in tot's death
I WANT JUSTICE! A 3-year-old little boy was savagely beaten, his little body had bruises all over his head, neck, torso, legs and arms. Police say this was at the hands of the little boy's mother's boyfriend and that his own mother was complicit in not seeking emergency medical attention. The couple charged with second degree murder. Why? These people should be charged with 1ST DEGREE CAPITAL MURDER and face the DEATH PENALTY. Please help me with a call to action.
READ: CAN YOU HELP? STAY TUNED WITH NANCY GRACE
http://nancygrace.blogs.cnn.com/2012/03/06/nancy-grace-wants-justice-in-tots-death/?hpt=ng_mid
Date Published: Mar 06, 2012 - 10:01 pm
BLAKE LITTON: T.J. PRESLEY, MOM'S BOYFRIEND BEATS BOY TO DEATH
BLAKE LITTON, AGE 3
BLAKE LITTON'S KILLER: MOM AND BOYFRIEND
More charges filed against
Presley
lakenewsonline.com / Posted Mar 05, 2012
Morgan County, Mo. — Additional charges have been applied to a
Stover man accused of beating his girlfriend's 3-year-old son
to death.
Thomas Joseph (T.J.) Presley, 21, is now also facing two counts of endangering the welfare of a child in the first degree and abusing a child resulting in death, according to online court records. The charges are class C felonies and a class A felony, respectively.
Presley told police he lost control after Litton had soiled his pants, and he hit and kicked the child "more times than he could remember".
Later, the child was found unresponsive in the couple's home. Presley said he thought the child was paralyzed.
Fearing prosecution by police, Presley attempted to cover up the abuse by staging a hit-and-run accident just north of Stover on Route 135 near Buttons Road.
Blake's mother Jamie Ann Litton, 25, was also arrested and charged with second-degree murder and two counts of endangering the welfare of a child for her alleged role in failing to tell police the true nature and cause of Blake's injuries.
Before Presley called 911 about the fraudulent hit-and-run, Presley exchanged several text messages with Litton informing her about the abuse. Presley had also told Litton his plan of faking a car accident so Blake could receive needed medical attention while Presley avoided prison.
READ: MORE TO COME, BLAKE LITTON BEATEN BY T.J. PRESLEY, JAMIE LITTON'S BOYFRIEND...
http://www.lakenewsonline.com/news/x570349993/More-charges-filed-against-Presley
Date Published: Mar 06, 2012 - 9:55 pm
BRITTANEE DREXEL UPDATE: RAYMOND MOODY, CHILD RAPIST, PERSON-OF-INTEREST
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/
Date Published: Feb 16, 2012 - 3:29 pm
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