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Post by Admin on Jul 15, 2020 22:08:49 GMT
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Post by Admin on Jul 15, 2020 22:08:58 GMT
AUSTIN, Texas – Military investigators searching for the body of U.S. Army Spc. Vanessa Guillen overlooked evidence that could have led to the discovery of her remains a week sooner – and brought resolution to her heartbroken family, the leader of a team of civilian searchers said Friday. The 20-year-old soldier disappeared from Fort Hood in Texas on April 22, sparking international attention.
Tim Miller, founder of the civilian group EquuSearch, said his crew discovered a pile of burned debris June 21 at a rural highway intersection about 20 miles away from Fort Hood and steps from the Leon River. Miller said he pleaded with Army officials to search the site more thoroughly that day. Military investigators, he said, instead focused their search on the nearby river. More than a week later, construction workers came upon Guillen’s remains in the very spot Miller said military investigators overlooked.
Investigation under scrutiny
Guillen’s family has criticized Army officials’ investigation since she disappeared from Fort Hood, alleging they failed to thoroughly search on and off post. Army officials did not immediately respond to requests for comment regarding Miller’s account of the search.
Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy ordered an independent review of the command climate at Fort Hood after Guillen's death raised questions about the treatment of women and Hispanic service members. If the review finds wrongdoing, action will be taken against officials at "any echelon," McCarthy said.
Among the items Miller said his crew found in the burn pile was the charred remains of a Pelican case, a hard-sided, watertight storage container commonly used in the military.
Army investigators suspect that Spc. Aaron David Robinson of Fort Hood used a Pelican case to carry Guillen’s body off post after he killed her with a hammer in an armory room April 22. Robinson died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound July 1 after Killeen police confronted him in their investigation into Guillen’s disappearance.
“If we had used ground penetration, we would have likely seen anomalies and stuff in the ground and found her one week prior to when she was found,” Miller said. “It would have been one week less of decomposition.”
Miller said his team pleaded with officials from the Army's Criminal Investigation Command, an organization more commonly known as CID, on June 21 to take a closer look at what his searchers found. “Army CID said the (burned) case is not the kind they use and that it doesn’t have anything to do with anything,” Miller said. Officials called in the Texas Rangers after the civilian searchers showed them photos of a Pelican case on Google, Miller said.
Authorities dug directly under the burn pile but did not find Guillen’s body, Miller said. They did not search areas around the pile of burned evidence. Miller said CID officials were uninterested in continuing to search near the pile because a dog trained to help find body parts, tissue, blood and bone walked right over it and did not alert handlers of any signs of human remains. The dog walked to the Leon River bank and alerted its handlers that it smelled something, he said.
“They relied on that one dog, and instead of searching the area a little more, they were sure (Robinson) threw (Guillen) into the river,” Miller said.
'I just really hope they are doing their job'
Army officials defended their search efforts, saying that by May 21, more than 500 soldiers from the 3rd Cavalry Division searched daily while the 1st Cavalry Division provided more than 100 hours of flight time to search on and off the installation.
A criminal complaint filed July 2 against Cecily Aguilar – the estranged wife of a former Fort Hood soldier and Robinson’s girlfriend who is charged with conspiracy to tamper with evidence in Guillen’s case – says she and Robinson attempted to dispose of Guillen’s body in multiple ways, including burning it and covering it in cement. She told authorities they used a machete-type knife to dismember the body, then buried it in several holes.
Miller said the ground did not appear to be disturbed, nor did he smell any odor. The EquuSearch leader said the smell was probably contained by concrete and other substances Robinson and Aguilar used to cover up the remains.
More than a week after the burn pile was discovered, odor led civilians who were building a fence on a property near the pile to Guillen’s remains. Miller said the fence workers smelled the decomposing remains after animals dug up three shallow graves less than 15 feet from the burn pile.
Authorities confirmed last week the remains were those of Guillen.
The soldier’s family has for months complained that the military bungled the investigation. The family said that Guillen was the victim of sexual harassment on base and that the Army was not transparent about its search. “I just really hope they are doing their job because, from my point of view, it looks like they are not,” Mayra Guillen said during a news conference in mid-June.
Attorney Natalie Khawam, who represents the Guillen family, announced the proposal of a bill named #IAMVANESSAGUILLEN, which would help protect military victims of sexual harassment and assault. Khawam, who worked on similar legislation in the past, will introduce a draft of the bill during a congressional news conference July 30 in Washington, which will be followed by a protest from the Capitol to the White House.
Military officials said their investigation has not produced any evidence of sexual harassment against Guillen in relation to her death.
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Post by Admin on Jul 20, 2020 4:38:58 GMT
FORT HOOD — Several hundred people — family, friends and fellow soldiers — attended the 3rd Cavalry Regiment unit memorial ceremony July 17 in honor of Spc. Vanessa Guillen inside the Spirit of Fort Hood Chapel at Fort Hood on Friday.
Lt. Col. Edward Gavin, commander Regimental Engineer Squadron, 3rd Cavalry Regiment, spoke at the unit memorial.
“This is difficult," Gavin said. "This is difficult to discuss because the tragedy of her loss has forever changed our squadron and it has forever changed her family. We wrestle with feelings of anger, depression, anxiety, fear, frustration and sadness. And, we have so many questions, some of which may never be answered.”
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Post by Admin on Jul 20, 2020 17:11:38 GMT
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Post by Admin on Jul 20, 2020 17:17:07 GMT
7/20/20 Leah Freeman
By Noelle Crombie | The Oregonian/OregonLive
July 20, 2020
A man whose 2011 manslaughter conviction was overturned because the Oregon State Police crime lab failed to disclose it had found another man’s DNA on the victim’s shoe filed a federal civil rights lawsuit Monday against police officials in the case.
The lawsuit filed by Nicholas McGuffin, 38, named multiple Coquille, Coos County and Oregon State Police law enforcement officials. He alleges that authorities manufactured and hid evidence in their case against him.
The lawsuit also names McGuffin’s daughter as a plaintiff. The girl was 3 years old when her father was convicted. The suit alleges that the girl, along with other members of McGuffin’s family, was harassed and publicly humiliated as a result of her father’s ties to the case.
McGuffin now lives in Portland and works as a chef.
Coos County and Coquille city officials did not immediately respond to requests for comment Monday, while Oregon State Police officials declined to comment.
McGuffin was convicted of killing Freeman, then 15. Freeman vanished June 28, 2000, after leaving a friend’s house.
One of her shoes was found by a cemetery in town that night; the other about a week later off a rural road. Her body was found five weeks later down a steep embankment. It was so badly decomposed, the medical examiner could not determine how she died.
Her boyfriend at the time was McGuffin. Then 18, McGuffin was investigated, but the case eventually went cold. No physical evidence linked him to the crime.
In 2008, local police put together a team of detectives to reinvestigate the case. They identified a dozen suspects, including McGuffin.
Two years later, the case went to grand jury and McGuffin was indicted.
In 2011, a jury found him guilty of manslaughter in a 10-2 verdict.
Last year, Malheur County Circuit Senior Judge Patricia Sullivan overturned McGuffin’s conviction because the Oregon State Police crime lab failed to disclose that it had found another man’s DNA on the girl’s shoe. The judge ruled that the crucial DNA information could have led the jury to acquit McGuffin.
He was released from prison in December.
McGuffin’s lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court in Eugene. He alleges that law enforcement authorities in Coquille botched the initial investigation into Freeman’s disappearance. The Coquille Police Department, the lawsuit alleges, failed to launch a search for the girl, rejected offers of assistance from other agencies and the officers involves lacked experience investigating major crimes.
Despite a lack of physical evidence or motive tying McGuffin to Freeman’s disappearance, police “decided to pursue McGuffin as a suspect, agreed to violate his constitutional rights in order to implicate him in Freeman’s abduction and murder, and began to deliberately fabricate evidence against McGuffin,” the suit alleges.
(McGuffin’s case was the subject of an extensive ABC News story.)
The lawsuit also alleges the investigators falsely reported that McGuffin failed a lie-detector examination when he had in fact passed the test. It also says the officers “fabricated results of the McGuffin polygraph examination to the public, through media outlets, in an effort to manipulate public opinion and implicate McGuffin in the abduction and murder of Freeman despite his innocence.”
The lawsuit also accuses Coquille police of suppressing evidence that would have supported McGuffin’s alibi.
Cold case investigators “fabricated” evidence against McGuffin and generated a “false” suspect profile that implicated the man in Freeman’s murder, the lawsuit alleges.
The lawsuit alleges that McGuffin was denied his constitutional rights to due process and a fair trial, that he was detained without probable cause and that authorities withheld evidence that would have cleared him of wrongdoing.
“Even after Nick was exonerated, and his presumption of innocence fully restored, the people responsible for his wrongful conviction are out in public and in the press calling him ‘guilty’,” Andrew C. Lauersdorf, one of McGuffin’s lawyers, said in a statement Monday. “They have really left Nick no choice but to file this lawsuit to reveal the truth about what they did to him, and, hopefully, persuade them to reopen their investigation and get to the bottom of what really happened to Leah. Today we start that process.”
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Post by Admin on Jul 26, 2020 22:36:37 GMT
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Post by Admin on Jul 26, 2020 22:37:56 GMT
7/15/20 Vanessa
Mural Honoring Vanessa Guillén
East Austin Mexican restaurant Joe’s Bakery is now the host of a mural honoring Vanessa Guillén, the Fort Hood soldier who was missing for three months until her remains were found earlier this month.
The artwork by artist Carmen Rangel depicts Guillén surrounded by roses, a dove, and hands in a prayer formation alongside text that reads “Justice for Vanessa Guillén” and “Rest in Peace.”
The restaurant asked people not to leave candles at the mural because of safety issues. The mobile mural will remain up for several weeks at 2305 East Seventh Street.
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Post by Admin on Aug 4, 2020 12:54:14 GMT
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Post by Admin on Aug 4, 2020 13:05:25 GMT
8/3/20 Susan Cox Powell
The grandparents of two Washington boys who were killed by their father in a premeditated explosion in 2012 were awarded $98 million from the state in a wrongful death lawsuit Friday.
A jury in Pierce County ruled that the state Department of Social and Health Services was negligent by failing to protect the two boys, Charlie Powell, 7, and his little brother, Braden Powell, 5, during a supervised visit with their father, Josh Powell, outlets including KOMO 4, King 5 and the Tacoma News Tribune report.
During that visit, when the caseworker came to Josh’s house to drop off the boys, he let the boys inside before slamming the door on the caseworker and attacking his boys with a hatchet, pouring gasoline on them and then killing them and himself in an explosion, PEOPLE previously reported.
As a result of the jury decision, the state has been ordered to pay the boys’ grandparents, Charles and Judy Cox, the $98 million, the outlets report.
"Nothing can bring back the boys, but this is the end of a nightmare, and it's gratifying to hear a jury tell the state they were wrong, and to award a verdict that will force them to change the culture at DHS to make sure this doesn’t happen to other children in the future," Charles said, King5 reports.
The grandparents filed the wrongful death lawsuit in 2012, saying that the state’s negligence contributed to the deaths of the boys, KOMO News reports.
At the time of their deaths in January 2012, Charlie and Braden Powell were in their grandparents' custody. Their mother, Susan Cox Powell, had vanished on Dec. 6, 2009 during a camping trip with her husband and young sons.
After her disappearance, the boys’ grandfather, Charles Powell, said he learned from law enforcement officials that Charlie had drawn a picture of the family minivan for a teacher and said, “Mom’s in the trunk. We went camping. And Mommy and Daddy got out, and Mommy never came back,'" PEOPLE reported at the time. But with no evidence to charge Josh, he was only considered a person of interest by police, PEOPLE previously reported.
In Sept. 2011, Josh lost custody of the boys after he was arrested on charges of voyeurism and child pornography.
On the day the boys died, they were scheduled for a supervised visit with their father and were picked up at their grandparents’ house by a social worker.
When they arrived at their father’s house, they went inside before Josh pushed the social worker away and locked the front door. Moments later an explosion rocked the house, which then burst into flames. By the time fire officials arrived, Josh and the boys were dead.
Just before the boys got to his house, Josh had sent an e-mail to his attorney that read, “I’m sorry, goodbye,” said officials at the time. He'd also given the boys' clothes and toys to Goodwill, authorities said. He sent his cousins and pastor instructions about what to do with his money.
A spokesperson for the Department of Children, Youth and Families, which broke off from DSHS about two years ago, said the agency's next moves are still up in the air. "Following the tragic 2012 murder-suicide of Josh Powell and his two sons, Charlie and Braden, DCYF plans to review the jury’s decision and determine next steps," the agent said in a written statement.
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Post by Admin on Aug 5, 2020 3:01:06 GMT
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Post by Admin on Aug 5, 2020 3:04:28 GMT
7/30/20 Vanessa
The attorney for a Killeen woman charged in the death case of Fort Hood Spc. Vanessa Guillen is asking a federal judge to impose a gag order in the case.
The case of Guillen has transfixed a local, national and international audience since the young Fort Hood soldier was reported missing earlier this year, her remains found last month in a remote area near Belton.
Guillen’s family and their attorney have held numerous protests and news conferences since Guillen’s disappearance on April 22, which has prompted the gag order request from the Killeen woman who is accused of helping a man cover up the homicide to ask the court to impose a gag order.
A federal grand jury earlier this month indicted Cecily Anne Aguilar, 22, on one count of conspiracy to tamper with evidence and two substantive counts of tampering with evidence. “Aguilar faces up to 20 years in federal prison for each count upon conviction,” according to a news release from the United States Attorney’s Office, Western District of Texas, on July 14.
Aguilar pleaded not guilty and is being held without bond in the McLennan County Jail.
Aguilar’s attorney, Lewis Berray Gainor, supervisory assistant federal public defender, said in his motion that the gag order should be imposed because the statements made by the family and their attorney, Natalie Khawam, could poison the jury pool and prevent Aguilar from receiving a fair trial.
The 14-page motion was filed on July 27. If granted by a judge, “trial participants, including the parties, witnesses, victim’s family and their attorneys” would be barred from “public communication.”
As of Thursday, no hearings have been set on United States Magistrate Judge Jeffrey Manske’s calendar in Aguilar’s case.
In his motion, Gainor asks the judge to impose a “narrowly tailored” gag order, prohibiting “statements or information intended to influence public opinion regarding the merits of the case but does not include statements regarding the general nature of any allegations or defenses” or information available in the public record.
The motion said that other means of ensuring a fair trial, such as “changes of venue, jury sequestration, voir dire and emphatic jury instructions” were insufficient because of the volume and nature of pretrial coverage.
“Ms. Khawam has repeatedly invoked dehumanizing tropes to condemn Ms. Aguilar as an animal or something less than human,” according to the motion, which includes numerous quotes from media reports, including some in which Khawam refers to Aguilar as “terrorist...murderer...sicko,” “savage,” and “monster...”
Gainor said in his motion that the “media campaign shows no signs of letting up.”
As part of the motion, Gainor includes statements made by “Facebook users who have commented on Ms. Khawam’s suggestion to treat Ms. Aguilar as though she were an Islamic State terrorist.”
“The users are people who could be potential jurors...(including) military personnel or family members of military personnel stationed at Fort Hood,” the motion states.
Aguilar’s attorney said that everyone is guaranteed a right to a fair trial. “The court has an affirmative constitutional duty to minimize the effects of prejudicial pretrial publicity,” according to the motion. “Intense publicity surrounding a criminal proceeding or ‘trial by newspaper’ poses significant and well-known dangers to a fair trial.”
Guillen’s remains were discovered on June 30 by contractors working along the Leon River near Belton.
The criminal complaint alleges that Army Spc. Aaron Robinson, 20, murdered Guillen on April 22 with a hammer and that Aguilar, his girlfriend, helped him attempt to “dispose of the body.” Robinson died on July 1 from a self-inflicted gunshot wound after he was confronted by Killeen police in north Killeen, officials said.
Aguilar initially lied to police to cover for Robinson, but later helped investigators by letting them record several phone conversations with him, according to court records.
“Robinson never denied anything they did to Vanessa Guillen and her body,” according to the complaint. “Aguilar continued to assist law enforcement with locating Robinson as he was on foot in Killeen” on July 1.
Aguilar allegedly told police several stories during multiple interviews starting on June 19, but police used cellphone records to determine that Aguilar’s location shortly after Guillen disappeared was not at her Killeen residence or at a Belton park, as she had stated.
“Aguilar’s cellular telephone location data was also analyzed and it revealed she and Robinson were near the Leon River together on April 23 and April 26,” according to the court records.
Police used that cellphone data to narrow down an initial search area near the Leon River, where on June 21 they said they located “a burn site with disturbed earth,” the criminal complaint states. “The soil … had an odor of decomposition (but) no remains were located.”
Guillen’s remains were located more than a week later by contractors.
On June 30, multiple law enforcement agencies searched the area and located “scattered human remains that appeared to have been placed into a concrete-like substance and buried,” according to the complaint.
That night, police said that Aguilar confessed that Robinson told her about killing the soldier in an arms room at Fort Hood by hitting her multiple times with a hammer.
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Post by Admin on Aug 5, 2020 15:18:30 GMT
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Post by Admin on Aug 5, 2020 15:22:27 GMT
8/5/20 Sierra LaMar
SANTA CLARA – More than five years after Morgan Hill teenager Sierra LaMar went missing in 2012, Antolin Garcia-Torres was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole on June 5, 2017.
The case started when Sierra went missing on her way to a bus stop in 2012. The jeans that she was wearing were found stuffed in a bag a few miles away from her home. Along with Sierra’s DNA on her clothing, investigators discovered DNA belonging to Antolin Garcia-Torres. After this discovery, the Santa Clara Sheriff’s Deputies arrested Garcia-Torres.
Later, it was revealed that Garcia-Torres could have been connected to at least one of the three Taser assaults and attempted kidnappings in the Safeway parking lot where he used to work. These three instances all happened in 2009. But the reason that his DNA was in the system was due to a prior arrest for a separate 2009 felony assault, for which he was never prosecuted.
But that is not the end of Garcia-Torres’ criminal history. Garcia-Torres has also been arrested for obstruction of a police officer, vandalism of a jailhouse cell, and having sexual intercourse with a minor.
But despite his past and his DNA on Sierra’s clothing, Garcia-Torres pled not guilty in February 2014.
Up until that point, Sierra’s body had not been found. Due to this, legal analyst Steven Clark stated, “Until Sierra’s body is found, [the defense] may take the approach that the DA hasn’t even proved that she’s deceased… And then [the DA has] to associate and prove that Mr. Garcia-Torres is the one who killed her.”
In May 2014, Santa Clara County DA Jeff Rosen announced that he would be seeking the death penalty for Garcia-Torres. But, that came with consequences.
“‘[There’ve] been instances like JayCee Dugard and Elizabeth Smart who were presumed to be dead but were later found alive. And you can believe that the defense is going to hammer that, and they’re going to say that the DA’s office is overreaching here. If there’s a death verdict, that’s a verdict that can never be fixed,” Clark said.
The trial was originally set to start on April 25, 2016, but was pushed back to January 2017. The search for Sierra’s body continued, with no luck.
With no body, no crime scene, and no weapon, the prosecution relied heavily on Garcia-Torres’ DNA.
However, the defense argued that “sloppy preservation from investigators led to cross-contamination.” If the DNA evidence was faulty, then the DA would have no case. But during the testimonies of the deputies in charge of the DNA evidence, they spoke against the defense’s accusations.
“As part of [the process to handle evidence], a deputy explained how he would change latex gloves each time he touched the contents of a bag that contained Sierra’s sweatshirt, jeans, and schoolbooks.”
During closing arguments, the defense also attempted to portray Sierra as a “distraught teenager, unhappy at home who ran away and could still be alive.” But the prosecution argued Sierra had no hidden life and that it was “unreasonable to think [that she] would run away without telling friends or connecting on social media.”
And after a five-month jury trial and more than five years after Sierra’s disappearance, the jury found Garcia-Torres guilty. He was also charged and found guilty on three additional counts for the attempted kidnapping charges in 2009.
After the guilty conviction, the jury also had to decide if Garcia-Torres should get the death penalty or spend the rest of his life in prison.
Sierra’s parents, two best friends, 10th grade English teacher, and older sister all gave statements, highlighting Sierra’s “goofy sense of humor and playful personality.” These statements were in an attempt to give Garcia-Torres the highest punishment possible.
Garcia-Torres’ mother, Laura Torres, also gave a statement, giving more insight into Garcia-Torres’ family history and him as a person.
Gabriel Hernandez, Garcia-Torres’ father, had a history of alcoholism and physically and sexually abusing his family members. He is currently serving a life sentence for sexually abusing a female relative from age 5 to 14. Garcia-Torres witnessed and experienced abuse from his father starting from a young age, which may be seen as “grounds for sympathy or as the pathological root of his criminality.”
Despite his criminal history, Torres described her son as a “loving and responsible son who took on a protective role in the family after his older brother Benny was lost to drugs, jail, deportation, and eventually death.”
The defense added that Garcia-Torres’ family history and his potential exposure to pesticides when he was younger could have had negative effects on his brain growth.
And although the jury found Garcia-Torres guilty, they recommended life in prison without parole.
This came as a surprise to the LaMar family and the Santa Clara District Attorney. In a statement during a press conference, Sierra’s father, Steve LaMar stated, “I would be lying if I didn’t say I am disappointed in the verdict. He’ll be able to live, Sierra won’t. He’ll be able to breathe. Sierra doesn’t. He’ll be able to eat every day, see his family, and we don’t have that. The crime I thought deserved the maximum sentence, not the minimum.”
Garcia-Torres is still serving out his sentence in prison, with no attempts to overturn his convictions, as of yet.
And, to this day, Sierra’s body, the murder weapon, and the crime scene have not been found.
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Post by Admin on Aug 7, 2020 22:38:00 GMT
ISAAC SMITH.
One of the most remarkable men in the history of West Virginia is Isaac Smith. At his death he was the oldest man in West Virginia, and probably the Southern States. He was born at Williamsport, Washington county, Pennsylvania, in the year of 1789, and lived to be 109 years old, which was but a few years back. He was a man of simple nature, kind, strong and always industrious. He lived until his death in Proctor Hollow, a ravine of five miles in length, running east and west through Wetzel county, in a small log cabin, about two miles from Proctor Station, on the Ohio River R. R. He erected the building with his own hands when he came to West Virginia with his family, sixty-nine years before his death. Then the country was a wide forest, with only a few families scattered here and there over the country. His nearest neighbor was a man by the name of Hogan, who resided with his family five miles further up the run.
Some of the older residents who remember him when he was forty to fifty years of age, say he could lift a barrel of whisky and drink out of the bunghole, and that he has often picked up two barrels of salt set one upon the other at a single lift. But of these things Mr. Smith never boasted. He had a smile for everyone and enjoyed a good joke as well as any person. He followed the occupation of keel boating on the Monongahela river until he was forty years of age, when he sold out his property and moved to West Virginia. When he settled at Proctor there were few if any Indians remaining, and the only thing to be feared was from wild animals, catamounts, wild cats and a few wolves. There was also plenty of wild game. Mr. Smith's father settled at Elizabeth, Pa., in the latter part of the last century. His name was Samuel Smith, and he married Sallie Watt, the result of which union was several sons, among them being the subject of this sketch. Isaac Smith received very little education, but learned the trade of keel boating at an early age, which he followed many years. He married Sarah Huston, and to them were born five sons, Robert, Charles, Thomas, Samuel and John. Mr. Smith made his home with his grandson, Albert Anderson, who lives on the old homestead, where his mother was born and raised.
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Post by Admin on Aug 23, 2020 16:02:33 GMT
Titus Tackett, 2/10/16
The search for a missing 3-year-old is over on a tragic note. The body of Titus Tackett has been found, and the circumstances surrounding this discovery are downright bizarre. Was the once-missing toddler murdered by some kind of predator, or was his body concealed after some kind of fatal accident? Authorities in Iron County, Missouri are working to find out the answers to these questions while an autopsy is pending. The Daily Mail reports that the discovery was made this afternoon.
Tackett vanished from the home of his grandparents on Tuesday night, sparking a frantic search and few answers. According to the boy’s grandparents, they had fallen asleep sometime before he disappeared. When the tot’s parents arrived at the home later in the night, they noticed that the front door was open. It was noticed at this time that the boy was missing.
@nbcnews some obviously put that boy in a van
— Mike (@drunkmike23) February 10, 2016
Another grandparent not watching there grandkid poor baby’s this is horrible prayers for the momma and daddy!!
Posted by Delana Pruitt on Wednesday, February 10, 2016
KMOV News reports that a volunteer searching for the lad is the one who made the heartbreaking discovery. Reports reveal that the 3-year-old boy’s body was concealed by being covered with a blanket in the back of the van, which was found in the area of Lake Killarney. It’s also being reported that the body of missing child Titusd Tackett was found within a mile of the home where he was last seen — the home of his grandparents.
Social media is giving this case a lot of attention, and the loved ones of the now-deceased child are being held under intense scrutiny by the public. This is partly due to the fact that authorities do not believe that this is the work of a random predator. In other words, they cannot confirm that someone entered the home and kidnapped the child as his grandparents slept.
Seriously? Don’t have kids if you aren’t able to deal with a child & there tantrums or whatever is wrong with them!
Posted by Brooke Nicole on Wednesday, February 10, 2016
Rest In Peace.. But there’s more to this story than anyone knows. How could this have happened in such a short amount…
Posted by Misty Blattner on Wednesday, February 10, 2016
Breaks my heart. It is our job as parents to protect those who can’t protect themselves. Things happen- but regardless…
Posted by Shannon Webb on Wednesday, February 10, 2016
So what happened to Titus Tackett? Was this 3-year-old boy abducted and killed, only to be left in a van to be discovered? Or was he killed in some other fashion by someone who is known to him and his family? There are numerous questions surrounding this case, but no concrete answers at this time. So far, authorities have declared that an autopsy must be performed to determine whether or not the child’s death is a case of foul play, but how else would he be covered with a blanket in a van?
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