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Post by Admin on May 14, 2020 23:58:15 GMT
5/14/20 Suzanne Morphrew
A massive search effort is underway in Colorado for a 49-year-old missing mother of two who went for a bike ride on Mother’s Day and hasn’t been seen since, according to the Chaffee County Sheriff's Office.
Suzanne Morphew of Maysville, Colorado, vanished after going on a bike ride on Sunday, May 10, in the area of County Road 225 and West Highway 50 in Maysville, Colorado near Salida. Authorities are asking for the public’s help as family and friends put out a desperate plea for her safe return.
Suzanne’s nephew, Trevor Noel, is helping in the search both online and on foot in Colorado. He spoke to Dateline on the family’s behalf.
“Everyone involved in this search, we just want her back so bad,” Trevor told Dateline. “We want her back because she is just such a bright light in all of our lives.”
He described his aunt as a beautiful, sweet and loving person who is “loved by everybody in this town and community."
Trevor created an online Facebook page “Find Suzanne Morphew” in an effort to collect information that could aid in search efforts. He also confirmed that earlier this week, Suzanne’s husband, Barry, put up a $100,000 reward for her safe return “no questions asked.” Trevor told Dateline the reward offered by his uncle was matched Wednesday night by a family friend in the hope of aiding in Suzanne’s safe return.
Law enforcement entities across the state have joined forces in a massive search effort which began Sunday evening after a neighbor reported Suzanne missing. The search has included canine assistance, drones, water and helicopter searches as well as collaboration with the Colorado Bureau of Investigation and FBI.
“We’ve had members of the community, family, and anyone who knows the country and is willing to go walk with us,” said Trevor in regards to the search.
Susan Medina, spokesperson for the Colorado Bureau of Investigation, confirmed to Dateline that the organization has set up a dedicated tip line for the case and are assisting local law enforcement in the search for Suzanne.
Trevor hopes to keep the attention on his aunt and said the best way volunteers can help is by “pounding the keyboard.”
“We need people on their phones, people on their computers, posting the Facebook page, posting the GoFundMe, so if anyone has seen anything or knows someone who has, they must call the tip line,” Noel said.
Suzanne is a native of Indiana, but now lives in Maysville, Colorado with her husband and two daughters.
Anyone with information into the disappearance of Suzanne is asked to call the tip line at 719-312-7530.
Haylee Barber
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Post by Admin on May 16, 2020 14:13:17 GMT
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Post by Admin on May 16, 2020 14:14:37 GMT
5/15/20 Shannan Gilbert
The lawyer who represents the estate of Shannan Gilbert has now listened to the 911 calls related to her disappearance and he claims that they contradict a previous investigator’s analysis of them.
A New York Appellate Division court ruled last week that the Suffolk County Police Department must release 911 calls related to the disappearance of Gilbert, whose death may be connected to the Gilgo Beach serial killings on Long Island, to her estate. Gilbert estate lawyer John Ray has been fighting to get the calls released for three and a half years.
Gilbert, 24, had made a panicked call to 911 on May 1, 2010 while seeing a client out on Oak Beach, Long Island. She was a sex worker, who would sometimes find her clients on Craigslist. Ray previously told Oxygen.com that three other 911 calls were made that night. One call was from Gilbert's client Joseph Brewer and two were from neighbors. After she disappeared, police's search for her led to the grim discovery that a serial killer had been dumping bodies along the area. Ten sets of remains in the area have been attributed to an unknown killer, or killers, known as the "Long Island Serial Killer," the "Gilgo Beach Killer," and the "Craigslist Ripper" because many of the women found dead had advertised sex work on Craigslist.
Gilbert’s skeletal remains were discovered in a marsh in Oak Beach on Dec. 13, 2011.
While Ray told Oxygen.com he is under strict court-implemented orders not to speak about the contents of the 911 tapes he has received, he said he has now listened to them and calls them “extremely important and extremely interesting.” He said they reveal "many, many things that nobody knows right now" about the investigation.
Ray also claims they are full of contradictions. He pointed to a 2012 Newsday letter in which now-retired Suffolk County homicide detective Vincent Stephan, who worked on the Gilbert case, described Gilbert's 911 call as being 22 minutes long.
“It’s not,” Ray said.
He refuted other claims written in the 2012 letter including Stephan’s assertion that Gilbert mentioned she was near Jones Bones and that she was let into a neighbor’s house before running into some reeds. He called the Jones Beach statement “misleading.”
In Stephan’s letter, Stephan wrote that “Gilbert was not about to be murdered” and “her demeanor on the tape was calm. You can hear male voices on the tape, and they are calm. At no time during this call was she desperate.”
Ray claimed, now that he has listened to the tapes, that these elements of Stephan’s analysis are false.
“When you have those kind of statements that are outright false and they are about some very substantial issues on the whole matter, why were they telling lies like this to the public?” Ray told Oxygen.com.
When asked about the alleged inconsistencies between the calls and the 2012 letter, the Suffolk County Police Department told Oxygen.com that “the court has implemented strict parameters to maintain the integrity of this ongoing investigation. We fully expect Mr. Ray to honor the requirement set out in the judge’s order, and as such, the Department will decline to comment further.”
Ray also told Oxygen.com that he was given copies of the original tapes, which he says have been destroyed.
“They [the Suffolk County Police Department] don’t have the originals, it turns out,” Ray said. “They revealed this for the first time after three and a half years of litigation. The state police had the originals and apparently they got destroyed."
He said he didn’t receive any transcripts or analysis of the tapes.
“The court required that they give that to me,” Ray told Oxygen.com. “They now admit that they don’t have them. They never made them. They said they never created transcripts and they never did any add-on analysis of the voices. It’s shocking. For a major investigation, it’s kind of odd.”
Ray said he is going to need technology to decipher some of the audio elements on the tapes.
Gilbert’s death has not been officially linked to the Gilgo Beach serial killings, but theories have been put forth that her death could be connected. Gilbert was even the main focus of “Lost Girls,” a recent Netflix film which depicted how Gilbert’s family, along with the families of some Gilgo Beach victims, sought justice for their loved ones.
Police have previously claimed that Gilbert may have died of natural causes, with officials theorizing at the time that Shannan may have been the victim of an accidental drowning, according to NBC New York. The Suffolk County Police Department previously told Oxygen.com that a medical examiner has ruled her cause of death as inconclusive.
While she is not officially considered a victim of the Long Island serial killings, she is included on the victim list of the Suffolk County Police Department's site dedicated to the investigation. Ray has long disputed the previous claim of natural death.
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Post by Admin on May 17, 2020 3:50:01 GMT
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Post by Admin on May 17, 2020 3:51:28 GMT
5/15/20 Vanessa Guillen
By Heather Osbourne
Posted May 15, 2020 at 3:28 PM
It’s been more than three weeks of agony for the family of U.S. Army Pfc. Vanessa Guillen, a soldier last seen at Fort Hood near Killeen.
Mayra Guillen, the soldier’s older sister who lives in Houston, said she and her family have yet to receive any information regarding the disappearance.
Last week, Mayra Guillen waited inside a rental home with her parents and siblings in Killeen while investigators continued searching for Vanessa Guillen at Fort Hood.
U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Command officials on April 27 announced a $15,000 reward for any information leading to Vanessa Guillen’s whereabouts.
The 20-year-old soldier was last seen at 1 p.m. April 22 in the parking lot of the Regimental Engineer Squadron Headquarters at Fort Hood, officials said.
The soldier’s identification card, wallet and the keys to her car and base apartment were later found in the armory room where she had been earlier in the day, Army officials said.
Mayra Guillen said because investigators have yet to provide any theories regarding her younger sister’s disappearance, she has tried to work out a few of her own.
She said she believes it is highly unlikely that Vanessa disappeared on her own. Her sister showed no signs of suicidal behaviors or conflicts between family or her friends, Mayra Guillen told the American-Statesman.
She said her sister was very loyal to the chain of command in the U.S. Army, so if someone did take her it could have been a supervisor.
“It would have been obvious if she was forced into a vehicle,” Mayra Guillen said, noting her sister was last seen in the middle of a workday. “It had to have been someone she couldn’t say no to. I’m asking to investigate her chain of command.”
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Post by Admin on May 19, 2020 22:16:02 GMT
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Post by Admin on May 19, 2020 22:18:31 GMT
5/18/20 Dominic Davy
A man's body found Monday morning on the Susquehanna River bank in the Town of Campville has been identified as 30-year-old Endicott resident Dominic Davy, who has been missing for over a month.
Police say the cause of death is undetermined, consistent with drowning. There is no indication of criminal activity or blunt force trauma. But the autopsy is not complete, and is pending toxicology or other tests. Police say the investigation is pending the completion of the autopsy results and are not releasing any further information.
Davy was found near the Les Wagner Rowing Center in the Town of Owego. Troopers responded to the area shortly after 7:30 a.m., and the body was located near the northern shore of the river.
The body was not immediately identified, but an autopsy held Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Binghamton identified the body as Davy.
An investigation was conducted at the scene of the recovery by Endicott Police, New York State Police and the Tioga County Coroner's Office. Members of the State Police Underwater Recovery Team also assisted with the efforts.
For more than a month, police in Endicott have been searching for the whereabouts of Davy, an adjunct professor at Binghamton University and a Ph.D. student in BU's College of Community and Public Affairs. He was last seen around 4 a.m. April 10, leaving a residence on Moss Avenue in Endicott.
Davy's brown Jeep was found that same day unoccupied on the 400 block of River Terrace in Endicott. He is an Army veteran, and was known to go out for morning run and workout around the time he was last seen.
More than a dozen of Davy's students have shared a YouTube video, where they talk about what he means to them. One student said, "He was selfless, he lit up a room as soon as he walked into it, he always put the needs of his students first, he always had his students' backs, and it's our time to have his, so let's bring Dom home."
Davy was in the video, with footage from a class he was instructing remotely. He said it was nice seeing everyone's faces and hearing their voices, and encouraged anyone struggling to reach out to him.
A Facebook page, titled Help Bring Dom Home, garnered nearly 7,000 followers and was created in an attempt to spread the word about Davy's disappearance. A $2,000 reward was offered for information leading to his return.
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Post by Admin on May 19, 2020 22:42:31 GMT
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Post by Admin on May 19, 2020 22:51:16 GMT
5/19/20 Dominic Davy
Dominic Davy, an adjunct professor at Binghamton University and a Ph.D. student in BU's College of Community and Public Affairs, was found dead in the Susquehanna River on Monday after he had been missing for more than a month.
“Our hearts go out to the family and friends of this young father and veteran whose students have called him selfless and inspirational,” said Binghamton University President Harvey Stenger. “His loss is a loss for our entire campus community.”
Laura Bronstein, dean of the College of Community and Public Affairs, said Davy was an extraordinary individual. “He touched the lives of so many people in our community, and because the coronavirus pandemic leaves us without our ability to be close and console each other, the suffering is exacerbated," Bronstein said.
A public Zoom event is being planned for those who are mourning the loss.
A PayPal account has been created to help support his partner and his children. As of Tuesday morning, more than $16,000 has been donated.
A Facebook page, titled Help Bring Dom Home, garnered nearly 7,000 followers and was created in an attempt to spread the word about Davy's disappearance.
"We are gracious and endlessly thankful for the overwhelming amount of love and support we have received," a post read Monday. "Rest in power, Dom."
In a YouTube video, dozens of Davy's students shared what he means to them. One student said, "He was selfless, he lit up a room as soon as he walked into it, he always put the needs of his students first, he always had his students' backs."
Other students said of Davy:
"Dom's funny, smart, empathetic, kind, funny, compassionate but most of all, Dom is one love." "He made me love going to class. He also made it clear to always check in on your loved ones because mental health is very important." "Dom has inspired me to bring passion and love into everything that I do." "I'm so lucky to have had him as a professor and I'm forever grateful for that. One love." "I don't think anyone understands how amazing Dom is." "He radiates joy and inspires hope for a better future."
Davy's disappearance and recovery
Davy was last seen around 4 a.m. April 10, leaving a residence on Moss Avenue in Endicott. Davy's brown Jeep was found that day unoccupied on the 400 block of River Terrace in Endicott.
River searches were conducted by police, and residents were encouraged to check any business or residential cameras that may have showed Davy the morning of his disappearance.
He was an Army veteran and was known to go out for morning runs and workouts.
New York state troopers responded to the area of Les Wagner Rowing Center in the Town of Owego shortly after 7:30 a.m. Monday, and the body was located near the northern shore of the river.
An investigation was conducted at the scene of the recovery by Endicott police, New York State Police and the Tioga County Coroner's Office. Members of the state police Underwater Recovery Team also assisted with the efforts.
Police said the cause of death is undetermined but the autopsy is not complete. There were no signs of blunt force trauma.
Resources for those mourning
For those in need of counseling services, the Binghamton University Counseling Center, Dean of Students Office and CARE Team are offering support.
Students who would like to speak to someone should reach out to the counseling center at 607-777-2772 or the Dean of Students Office and CARE Team at 607-777-2804.
Faculty and staff seeking assistance should contact the Employee Assistance Program at 607-777-6655. An off-campus coordinator can be reached after hours by calling the 24-hour EAP call line at 1-800-822-0244.
The Binghamton University Interfaith Council is also available to students, faculty and staff via email at buic@binghamton.edu.
To reach someone after hours or for emergencies, students should call 911 or the counseling center after-hours counselor or 607-777-2772 and selecting option two.
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Post by Admin on May 28, 2020 14:00:41 GMT
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Post by Admin on May 28, 2020 14:01:27 GMT
5/26/20 Kyron Horman
June 4 marks 10 years since Kyron Horman was reported missing from Skyline School in southwest Portland.
A new book written by a Seattle-based author, claims authorities should have been able to make an arrest in the boy’s disappearance.
Desiree Young, Kyron’s mother, has been working with true-crime author Rebecca Morris to publish a book titled “Boy Missing: The Search for Kyron Horman.”
The book claims law enforcement failed to arrest Kyron’s stepmother, Terri Horman, who was the last person to see him.
In the book, Young claims investigators had enough evidence to charge her.
Terri’s Attorney told KATU she would not comment on the book.
The Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement. “We remain just as dedicated to this investigation as we did 10 years ago.”
KATU spoke with Norman Frink, a former member of the district attorney’s office who was involved in the grand jury investigation.
“The quality of proof necessary for an arrest and prosecution just wasn’t there,” Frink said.
Desiree says she believes the investigation was through, and she hopes the book will put pressure on the people responsible for her son’s disappearance.
Desiree says she is planning on holding a vigil on June 4.
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Post by Admin on May 28, 2020 16:44:34 GMT
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Post by Admin on May 28, 2020 16:45:16 GMT
Gannon Stauch 5/28/20
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — A judge has agreed to postpone the preliminary hearing in the case against Letecia Stauch, the woman accused of killing her 11-year-old stepson Gannon Stauch.
Stauch’s defense attorneys filed a motion on May 12 requesting that the hearing be postponed due to complications caused by the coronavirus pandemic. The two-day hearing was originally scheduled for June 5 and 8.
During a preliminary hearing, prosecutors lay out their evidence against the defendant, and a judge decides whether the evidence is sufficient to bring the case to trial.
On May 19, a judge issued an order postponing the hearing. Stauch’s June 5 appearance will remain on the docket, but will be changed to a status conference “to determine the best method for proceeding forward in light of current conditions,” according to the order.
In the order, the judge also addressed several other topics brought up by the defense in their May 12 motions.
In response to the defense’s concerns about the jail’s video visitation policy, the judge said the jail has since changed its policy. In documents filed May 21, the defense said they are now able to communicate with Stauch via video visitation, so they are withdrawing their original motion requesting video access.
In their May 12 motions, the defense also said they have not been provided with some important pieces of discovery, such as an autopsy report and DNA results. The judge ordered lawyers for both sides to address that issue at the June 5 status conference.
In their May 12 motions, the defense also said that due to pandemic restrictions, they have not been able to travel to various locations in Colorado, South Carolina, and Florida to conduct investigations. In response, the judge’s order said “counsel can still conduct investigations either over the phone or by other electronic methods.” The judge said the defense should be prepared to address these claims at the June 5 status conference.
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Post by Admin on May 28, 2020 18:49:15 GMT
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Post by Admin on May 28, 2020 18:50:03 GMT
5/28/20 LISK
One of the victims in the Gilgo Beach murders now has a name — 20 years after her disappearance, police said Thursday.
Suffolk County police revealed that Jane Doe #6 was Valerie Mack, who went missing in 2000 when she was working as an escort in Philadelphia.
Mack, who also went by Melissa Taylor, was 24 years old when her family last saw her in the area of Port Republic, NJ, police said.
That same year, her partial remains were uncovered in a wooded area near Halsey-Manor Road in Manorville, according to police. Additional remains from the woman were found 11 years later near Gilgo Beach.
“For two decades, Valerie Mack’s family and friends were left searching for answers and while this is not the outcome they wanted, we hope this brings some sense of peace and closure,” Suffolk County Police Commissioner Geraldine Hart said. “We will continue to use every investigative tool available to aggressively investigate these murders.”
This was the first time a New York state law enforcement agency was able to ID partial remains with genetic genealogy, cops said.
The body was identified last week and cops released the name Thursday.
Eleven bodies found near the beach in 2010 and 2011 are believed to be connected to the murders.
FILED UNDER GILGO BEACH , LONG ISLAND , SERIAL KILLERS , 5/28/20
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