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Post by Admin on Aug 7, 2014 23:08:04 GMT
A child's body was found today near where 6-year-old Jenise Wright disappeared last week. Police are trying to identify the body. The remains were found near Wright's home in Bremerton, Washington. "Our unified investigative team have found what appears to be the remains of a child. The body has not yet been identified," said Earl Schmidt, incident commander at the Kitsap County Sheriff's office. "The body will be turned over to the Kitsap County coroners office who will conduct an autopsy. They will determine that cause and manner of death," Schmidt said. Jenise vanished on Saturday in Bremerton. The father of a missing six-year-old girl in Washington state was charged with molesting two young girls over a decade ago, it emerged today. James Aaron Wright has been co-operating with the investigation into the disappearance of his daughter Jenise, who was last seen by her family on Saturday going to bed in their mobile home in a rural section of Bremerton, near Seattle. It was not until the little girl missed dinner Sunday night that her parents called police, authorities said. Today it emerged James Wright, who goes by Jim, was arrested in 2000 on felony charges of child molestation in the first degree after an 8-year-old girl said he inappropriately touched them after a night of drinking. More than a year later, in June 2001, the charges were amended to include third-degree child molestation after a 15-year-old girl who was babysitting the girl during New Year's Eve 2000 said that Wright touched her breasts and put his hands down her pants. In court records filed in Whatcom County, Washington, the younger of his accusers said she had reported the incident to her mother who told her she would 'get a spanking' if she spoke of the incident again. The felony charges against Wright were eventually dropped, and he pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of assault relating to the older child, court records show.
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Post by Admin on Aug 9, 2014 13:45:59 GMT
Three weeks after her disappearance, police searching for Erin Corwin have checked out various locations near her home in Twentynine Palms, California, for evidence of foul play. "We are looking for a crime scene," says Capt. Leland Bolt from the San Bernardino County Sheriff's department. Corwin, 19, who was about three weeks pregnant when she went missing, said good-bye to her husband, U.S. Marine Cpl. Jon Corwin, and left for Joshua Tree National Park at about 7 a.m. on June 28. She never returned. On July 1, four search warrants were approved to search Erin's vehicle and home, and the vehicle and home of her neighbor, former U.S. Marine Christopher Lee, according to documents. The documents also stated there was probable cause that "a felony has been committed." According to court documents filed at a Joshua Tree courthouse, Erin and Lee – who is also married – were having an affair and planned a special day together. They were going to celebrate Erin's pregnancy and he was "going to take her hunting," approximately two hours away at an undisclosed location. Lee told officials, according to documents, that he went hunting in Joshua Tree National Park at about 7:30 a.m. June 28, but he was not with Erin. A search warrant was issued and Lee was arrested for possession of a destructive device, but was "not related to the disappearance." Police continue searching for Erin. "Although suspicious circumstances have existed from the inception of this investigation there is still not enough evidence to rule out that Erin Corwin could be voluntarily missing," officials say.
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Post by Admin on Aug 10, 2014 5:10:21 GMT
The body of a child found during the search for 6-year-old Jenise Wright has been confirmed to be hers. Authorities announced the tragic news at a press conference Friday evening in Washington while additionally revealing that her manner of death has been ruled homicide. "The manner of death is homicide, the cause of death is not being released," said Kitsap County Sheriff's Deputy Scott Wilson. Since the body's discovery Thursday in what authorities described as a "heavily wooded and thick brush area," officials have set their sight on anyone who may have been seen covered in mud over the weekend she disappeared. Law enforcement made contact with the suspect at 2:50 p.m. at his residence in the park, according to Smith, and deputies from the Sheriff’s Office and FBI took him into custody without incident. Forensic evidence connecting the suspect to the crime was confirmed by the Washington State Patrol Crime Laboratory earlier Saturday, said Smith, leading to an arrest warrant. Officials would not discuss the details of what evidence linked the 17-year-old to Wright or her exact cause of death. Investigators did take DNA swab samples from the park residents who volunteered them. It is not known whether the girl and the boy knew each other, Wilson said. “He is a member of the park, so you can expect in a small community like that, it was very small, it is a likelihood,” he said. Meanwhile, Wilson said authorities are collecting DNA cheek swabs from residents who volunteer them in the Bremerton-area mobile home park where Jenise lived. The samples could be used to eliminate suspects if investigators later come across DNA evidence, he said, adding the DNA collection might be expanded outside the mobile-home park. Wilson said Thursday there were no signs of forced entry at Jenise's home and no indication she was taken from her room. The girl's parents are cooperating with authorities, he said. Hundreds of people, including officers from 15 law enforcement agencies, searched for Jenise, going door-to-door at Steele Creek Mobile Home Park on the west side of Puget Sound, across from Seattle. They also pulled surveillance video from nearby businesses and checked in with sex offenders in the county.
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Post by Admin on Aug 11, 2014 14:20:33 GMT
A schoolgirl who went missing with a man twice her age has been found safe and well on the Isle of Wight. Police were "growing concerned" for the welfare of 15-year-old Rebecca McLean, from Southampton, Hampshire. Officers believed she travelled to the Isle of Wight with 33-year-old Michael Britten. They were last seen together on the island on Saturday morning. A Hampshire Police spokesman confirmed this morning Rebecca has been found safe and well on the Isle of Wight. A man has been arrested. Rebecca moved out of her home two years ago after being bullied at school, her mother said. She had been staying at a family friend’s house, where Mr Britten was also a lodger. However, a few weeks ago, social services decided to move her into new accommodation. Her mother said: ‘We only knew they had gone when my friend woke up on Wednesday and saw all their stuff was gone from the house. ‘Social services said she wasn’t allowed to stay there any longer and I think as soon as she heard that she chose to run off with Michael. ‘According to Facebook both their relationship statuses changed on the same day from single to in a relationship.’ Michael Britten declared publicly on Facebook that he was in a relationship on July 25. A Hampshire Police spokesman said: 'Rebecca is believed to be on the Isle of Wight with 33-year-old Michael Britten. 'The pair were last seen together in Ryde, Isle of Wight, yesterday morning. 'Police are growing concerned for their welfare.'
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Post by Admin on Aug 15, 2014 4:35:38 GMT
Two Amish girls who went missing in the rural New York town of Oswegatchie were found alive late Thursday after nearly a day of frantic searching, officials said. The girls — Fannie Miller, 12, and Delila Miller, 6 — were "dropped off from a vehicle" in the village of Richville on Thursday evening, St. Lawrence County District Attorney Mary E. Rain said. They walked to the nearest house, where they were greeted at the door by a man who "recognized who they were immediately." The man took the girls home, where they were met by deputies. There was no information immediately available on what happened to the girls or if there are suspects in their disappearance. The girls disappeared Wednesday after going to their family's roadside vegetable stand to wait on a customer in a white, four-door sedan at about 7:20 p.m. Wednesday. That’s where they were last seen before being located Thursday evening. St. Lawrence County Sheriff's Office Undersheriff Scott Bonno told NBC affiliate WPTZ nearly 50 officers had been searching for the girls. St. Lawrence County Sheriff Kevin White said earlier Thursday that it was a "very strong possibility" that the girls had been abducted, and that divers were searching the Oswegatchie River to "rule everything out." The return of the girls came just over 24 hours after the two were abducted from their home near Heuvelton, at the corner of route 812 and Mount Alone roads. The girls were kidnapped from the front of the family property, a vegetable stand, where they had gone to wait on a customer. Wednesday night, all day Thursday and into Thursday night, a massive search effort and investigation was underway, centered in Heuvelton. Friot reported late Thursday night that there was a "great sense of elation" among searchers, as word that the girls are ok spread. Authorities believed they were abducted by someone in a small, white, four door car, but Friot reported Thursday night the authorities are looking for a red Dodge Caliber.
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