AMBER ALERT: Missing 7 Year Old Somer Thompson Found Deceased in Landfill
Clay County, FL– Missing 7 year old Somer Thompson, last seen walking home from school on Monday after running ahead due to an argument with a friend, has been found by Police in the Georgia landfill used by the Clay County area. While officials will not confirm the childs identity prior to confirmation from the Medical Examiners Office, a source inside the investigation has told blinkoncrime.com that Somer’s family has been notified it is her.
Sheriff Rick Beasler said it is routine for Investigators to check garbage routes in a missing persons investigation, and the FBI is on the scene, which has been undisturbed, recovering the child.
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I am sooooo sad!! Prayers to Somer’s family
Unimaginable.
That poor family - and that precious little girl…she must have been so frightened.
I can barely let my mind even think about.
God bless you, sweet child - and hold you in the palm of His Hand.
how horribly tragic …. however, this family will at least have their child back. Cold comfort I’m sure.
Oh no, that is not the outcome anyone was hoping for. That is so terribly sad. I hope to God they catch these monsters quickly. Her poor family. It’s beyond words.
Prayers to Somers family and her twin. One can only imagine the heartbreak and anquish running through their souls right now.
This is truly so sad.. my prayers go out to the family and may justice be served…
That poor family.
I never realized how much of this is out there until I had children of my own. It is unimagineable.
God bless you little one. You didn’t deserve this, no one does. Someone please let the other children know it’s not their fault. No matter why she ran ahead it was probably inevitable. Some evil creature just chose her that day. I hope they burn in hell or in Old Sparky!
I’ll be praying for the siblings…
Oh my God.
Rest in peace Somer. You poor little baby.
My prayers are with her family.
I am so devastated to read this. I have been following the case since yesterday and was very hopeful she’d be found alive and well. I feel so sad for her, her family, and especially her twin brother and other siblings. This is the most awful news all day. I pray that they can find the evil person that did this to little Somer.
My heart is so broken right now. I lift all my prayers up to the family.
When will our judicial system change? Make these monster’s who take children face stiffer penalties. If a preditor takes and murders a child, he or she should be given the death penalty. If someone is already serving time for harming a child, DO NOT LET THEM OUT ON PAROLE. They will offend again! Something has got to stop this war on our innocent. Totally unacceptable a child cannot walk home from school in a group of kids and not be safe. This monster must have been watching her for some time and decided he or she needed her more than her family. Such a tragedy, this poor family. I pray they find peace and the siblings do not hold themselves or each other responsible. The only one to blame here is the monster who took her. May Somer rest in peace and dance with the angels…Thank you.
This is more than devastating, as I have heard that it was not Somer who was found but a young boy. I’m trying to clarify, now. The report initially said it was the body of a female, but later changed it to a boy. They did find a boy’s body, from what I understand, in the landfill. If anyone knows anymore, please …
Gavi-devastated.
I am so sad. There seems to be so much ugliness in this world. May God wrap his arms around this family.
Body Found in Search for Missing Girl By RON WORD, AP
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ORANGE PARK, Fla. (Oct. 21) – Authorities searching for a missing 7-year-old north Florida girl said they found the body of a young child in a Georgia landfill Wednesday, but it has not yet been identified.
Clay County, Fla., Sheriff Rick Beseler first said the body was a female, but then corrected himself and said he couldn’t yet confirm the gender. The parents of Somer Thompson, who has been missing since Monday, have been notified.
God Speed Little One.
On a side note. Last night I was watching Nancy Grace and they were talking to the Grandmother and she was so visibley upset, crying, could hardly breathe and my mind went to how Casey acted over Caylee. This is how someone should behave when this tragedy happens, unlike the party girl did.
Okay, from local police communication, it is a girl. They’re not sure it’s Somer, but think so.
From an inside source, it is her.
B
How do we keep our children safe anymore??? My heart is with this mother, grandmother and siblings.
Please let this child abuse stop!
Blink, Why does this always seem to be in Florida? What is wrong here. So upsetting about Somer - what a cute little girl.
I want to say something right now. I am so mad I can’t believe it. First, I am so embarrased to be a man in Florida. What is going on? I don’t understand this. Second, it has never crossed my mind to hurt a child, let alone rape or kill a child. If it HAS EVER CROSSED YOUR MIND, get HELP. If the thought has gone through your head, GET HELP. YOU ARE SICK! PLEASE, PLEASE GET HELP. The THOUGHT alone of abusing, raping or killing a child makes you MENTALLY ILL.
Boz-
this “disease” they have, imo, is incurable and not rehabilitative. The only protection is education to parents and children.
And, imo, a one stike policy.
B
how is it that a life is so carelessly tossed? ?
Blink — the birthmark?
Puking sick.
I don’t think I can even think about Casey Anthony right now.
What can we do Blink? This is one of those moments when you feel that you just have to do something, but all you have is your prayers to offer. I feel so helpless in the face of her family’s suffering. And you’re right Cindee. Heaven forbid but I wonder if the Anthony’s ever suffered so.
Run a search on the sex offenders in your area. Give it to people with kids you think are clueless to it’s existance. Offer if able, to carpool kids that are too close to bus, but too young to walk, or organize a parent committee to take turns.
Our babies are at risk, I dont care where you live. ( collective thought)
B
Somer has her angel wings now. God Bless
odd- three little girls missing/murdered all with birthmarks?
Caylee -shoulder
Haleigh- face and back
Somer- leg
guess birthmarks are more common than I realized.hmm
I will be praying for this family as well. So SAD!
Delete if you think it would be appropriate to do so, Blink.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe6hCOCOrM8
My prayers and thoughts go out to the Thompson family this evening. Gut wrenching anger has befallen me. Why Why WHy?
May flights of Angels take you to your eternal rest with God Somer.
#20 Absolutely, Blink.
#20. I am so sorry to keep posting, but I do want to address boz. Please, please, Boz, don’t be downing yourself! So, you’re a man. Women commit these heinous acts, as well! Look where Caylee is, and who knows about Haleigh, and so many others murdered by their own mothers! And if you want to assume rape, well then let’s do! Look at the myriad of middle school teachers (female) who’ve lured hormonal 13 year old boys into their bedrooms! This isn’t a gender thing! It’s sheer insanity! We are losing our moral fiber. We have devalued our children and I don’t give a hoots butt who agrees or doesn’t!
This is not your fault nor the fault of your gender, and I’ll bet that just in being you, for all of your strengths and passion, you prove that each and everyday.
Gavi
I agree - one strike. There is no reason for offenders to be given a second chance. They need to be removed from population.
I don’t understand what that will take. It seems either law makers don’t care because it’s not happening in their neighborhoods or you find out that they are guilty as well.
We have got a find a to protect our children and stop the cycle.
blink: My soul is tortured. I am putting my 92 year old mother in a nursing home as we type. My siblings have made my life insugnificant(sp). I have older siblings who have committed suicide, older siblings who have sexually abused there own children. I am the youngest of the lot and the sole responsibility for my my mother. Wrong! I never had children but should have had many. I have witnessed the Anthony’s at young girls high school sporting events and am disgusted. I’m sorry. Like I said, I’m devestated by yet another young child being killed (and probably raped) in our state.
I know, please find your faith, or ability to endure until then.
Peace and God Bless
B
Auh! Is there a war on our children? We must educate and keep reminding of the safety issues to protect our children. STOP HARMING OUR CHILDREN OR WE WILL BE LIKE SPECIAL FORCES - YOU WILL BE HUNTED,FOUND AND PUNISHED FOR HARM BROUGHT OUR CHILDREN.
Until then…………I respect you but when is that? Thanks Blink.
If marinadedave is pro Anthony what does it say about him being singdled out by Judge Stan?
I do not believe Dave is pro Anthony, he posted his thoughts on here about that and I take the man at his word.
B
This is a heartbreaking tragedy. Blink is so right…we must look at the information available to us in our states, cities, neighborhoods to know where people who have past records may live. As the grandmother of two beautiful granddaughters eight and four I constantly remind my daughter and son in law of these incidents. Many times we just do not think it will happen in our area or to our family…but no matter the walk of life…this is real and it is happening far too often. Even my own kids look at me with that little roll of the eye that says…mom you worry too much. In these days, friends, the world continues to harbor many deviants and unknowns and it is very sad that we can no longer let our kids ride bikes in their own neighborhoods. As parents and grandparents we must educate our kids about not going up to cars or listening to strangers who offer treats, etc. And we must tell them many times to get their attention. Then we also have the problem of the people in jobs of responsibilities to children abusing them. Teachers with young students, scout leaders with young scouts, church leaders….unreal that this type of behavior crosses all social circles and all walks of life. We have had programs for years in education that we utilize to teach character. One of the sections addresses innappropriate touching, etc. Sounds like too much sometimes to try to impart to a five or six year old child, but if done the right way may save even one from this type of abuse. I pray for this family to feel the hand of God on their shoulders this very minute.
BOZ - I am so sorry for what you are going through, and what you have been through. I don’t know if I’m allowed to leave an email address here, as it sounds like you need someone to talk to. I’ll wait to hear from blink (or someone who knows) regarding leaving my email. I have felt sick since hearing of this beautiful little girl, Somer. Know that you’re not alone Boz. Love, J
Sweet baby…may you rest in the arms of Jesus.
Sickness! I just can NOT get my brain around this! All I can do to cope with hearing this is to focus on the legal side of avenging this horrific crime which is why I love this site. It shows me what is being done to catch these pitiful freaks. Are there any suspects? Evidence?
Yes and Yes, but nobody is talking right now. As of last evening the scene was not finished being processed.
B
I was driving around last night, here in Greece the time was 11.00 pm, and I was thinking in Florida the time is about 4.00pm and where could this helpless child be and what have they done to her?
Im devastated. God bless his new angel.
[...] the body of 7 year old Somer Renee Thompson has been found in a Georgia landfill. Investigators have confirmed that the body of a young girl that was found in a Georgia landfill [...]
[...] the body of 7 year old Somer Renee Thompson has been found in a Georgia landfill. Investigators have confirmed that the body of a young girl that was found in a Georgia landfill [...]
Boz- I could not keep your comment, too graphic, I know you understand.
B
http://www.wftv.com/news/21389294/detail.html
Wondering if they will find the person who did this quickly, with them finding her lil body in a huge landfill, I am certain they will find evidence in the trash of the area in which she was dumped in, and that should hopefully narrow the search…
God be with her family at this sad time, let justice prevail, parents hold your babies close…my heart is breaking for these innocent little children, I will never understand this kind of crime EVER!
While the police chief is being dismissive of an attempted abduction in the same area a week or so earlier, is there any effort to find those predators? It seems too coincidental. This little girl got careless for about 15 minutes and ends up dead. It is a lot to ask a 7 year old, to be careful every single minute.
My heart breaks for this family, but we agree. Why dont people understand that children in these situations are easy targets for predators?
B
Oh my god Blink. What and the hell is going on in Flordia? It seems to becoming the kid killer Capital of the US. The kiddie offenders CAN NOT be rehabilitate these animals. How many more little children need to die at the hands of these animals. your right when you said its all over our country. But so some reason, Fl seems to be an attraction for them. They need to put these animals on a deserted island and let then fend for themselves. Stop the pussyfooting with them. THEY CAN’T BE SAVED. When is our criminal system gonna wake the hell up and realize what we seem to know. Maybe we need to have open season on sex offenders. Parents, please check out your area and know where the predators are PLEASE! you will be very surprised just where and how close they are to your children. I actually found 2 living with in 2 blocks of my home. I printed out his picture and posted it on EVERY street light post, mail box etc. And please keep in mind that these animals were living only 1 -2 blocks from 2 grade schools. Gee, he ended up moving……The people that are suppose to watch these animlas DON’T. They NEVER should have been allowed to live that close to a school let alone 2 schools.
KNOW WHO YOUR NEIGHBORS REALLY ARE! These are our kids. PROTECT THEM. For no one else will ……
BOZ: my heart goes out to you as well. you have been dealt a very hard blow. Seek help if you need it please. We are here for yeah. I know talk is cheap, but sometimes its a vent for us…Good speed….Take care of you…..you do matter!
My heart and prayers go out to this family. God bless this child. Gone to soon. Bless her always and keep her at your side.
God Blink, God help our kids…….
Please read this Boz. I hope you take some time today to focus on your own healing. God Bless.
B
Ms. Blink,
already sleuthing this one and I am puzzled (not a surprise) if I am not mistaken the child was taken in Florida found in Georgia, do you or anyone else know how or why the LE knew to check a landfill in a totally different state. I understand it was only 55 miles away but was there some kind of tip that led them there?
thanks!
http://us.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/10/21/georgia.landfill.body/index.html#cnnSTCVideo
I guess I found my answer!
I don’t understand something, in my NW FL area school bus drivers will not let a child off the bus without an adult resposible for one that young, even if there are siblings, they just don’t do that here.
Msg. to Boz-I take care of the elderly and let me tell you something, what you have been doing for your Mother is the greatest gift a child can give back to their parent. You can’t manage it anymore and your sibling are worthless, I see it all the time. Your Mom knows what you have done for her, don’t worry! Place her in a good facility, keep a close eye on her and take some you time and see a counselor for all that is bugging you. I’m sure guilt is one of those feelings that need working through. I promise it will help you understand things and lift some the weight off your shoulders. Remember this one thing…YOU are not like those that have made you feel insignificant. Much luck and God Bless Boz. Hug your Mom for me!
Dee, this must just be the landfill that is normally used for her neighborhood. I heard LE on one of the news stations this morning (either CBS, or HLN, not sure which as I had both on this morning)say that one of the detectives directed them to follow the trash trucks out of the neighborhood. He said they know they can check what is dumped immediately, but if they get there much later than that the trash from those trucks will be covered up by millions of pounds of trash and the chances of finding anything dumped previously is almost zero. So kudos to that detective - he is definitely “on the ball”!!
I was so upset to hear this news yesterday, I could not even comment. This makes me SO ANGRY. Prayers are nice — but, where is the OUTRAGE? “At least they have their child’s body back”– WTH?
This is somebody’s baby — their child, their little girl.
THIS CANNOT CONTINUE TO HAPPEN. WE NEED TO STOP IT. THESE SCUM OF THE EARTH CHILD PREDATORS NEED TO BE TAKEN OUT OF SOCIETY. YES, ONE STRIKE, PERIOD. WTH IS WRONG WITH OUR SYSTEM????
Looking up the sex offenders in your area does nothing. I look them up all the time. Yes, I know what areas they live in…what street they are on, even what they look like. And yes, there are a lot of them — too many to remember their faces. Too many to be out in society.
How does that help if they grab my child at the school bus stop, or from the school yard, or at football practice or “bowling club”? I am the most over-protective parent you can imagine. But, if there is a predator, watching MY child, I have no way of knowing that — or when they might strike.
So, what — our children can’t have lives because the child molestors need to have their rights? Where are our children’s rights? Why don’t they matter??
I have to warn my children about the bus-driver. Yes, he’s nice. Yes, we like him — BUT, he IS a stranger. We don’t really know him. And, about the “ice cream” man, who made sure he called my youngest son by name, and gave my kids free gum. I had to keep telling them — just because he comes here every day DOES NOT mean that we know him. He is a stranger. Don’t ever go too close to him. Don’t EVER step into his truck. Who, in the neighborhood would find the ice cream truck that comes through EVERY DAY suspicious? Nobody.
These are the things that we, as parents, have to think about every single day of our lives. Every moment.
I sent my 9 year old son off to school one morning. He leaves the house at 8 a.m. I got a call from the school at 10:00, asking if he was home that day. 10:00 — TWO HOURS TOO LATE. THANK GOD they were wrong. In the few minutes it took them to check and make sure he was there, it seemed like HOURS. I cannot even describe the panic and emotions and racing thoughts that went through my mind.
THIS CANNOT CONTINUE. WE SHOULD NOT HAVE TO LIVE THIS WAY. WHERE ARE MY RIGHTS? WHERE ARE OUR CHILDREN’S RIGHTS?
I AM OUTRAGED. AND, I INTEND TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT. I cannot just sit back and let this continue to happen.
Blink, I apologize if this comment is offensive to anyone. It is not my intention. I am just very, very angry.
Blink and everyone else who has responded to me, thank you. I am going to spend this evening around about 30- 40 young females. Monitoring what they do, watching and admiring their spirit, thinking of little Caylee, Somer, Haleigh, Nevaeh…. not getting a chance to do what these wonderful young girls are doing. Not only what they’re doing physically, but here it’s Senior night and the Seniors are honored for their physical and academic achievements. It’s a beautiful thing and something a parent should be very proud of. (and experience)
The Anthony’s don’t get this. KC didn’t even graduate let alone participate in extra-carricular activities. They’re disgusting parents. I wish I knew they were reading these posts.
If anyone is reading this who has a child, please make them get involved with these kind of things whether it be debate or wrestling, it will help them. I gaurantee that.
And thanks for the encouragement for helping with Mom. I’m doing the best I can. I know a lot of people have been through this. The hardest part is she does not know what’s happening. She is very angry at me. I sent her flowers for her bithday every year for 35 years and she doesn’t remember that. I’ve been through a lot. I can handle it. Thanks again.
I feel horrible for the family in this case,, but why was a child this young walking a mile from school to home?? that’s just too far for little kids and puts them at way too much risk for something like this to happen. There’s just too many evil people out there to take this kind of risk. I could see if the school was around the corner or across the street or even a couple blocks.. But a mile?
Prayers for the Thompson family..
#52 mjh - I share your outrage, your anger. There is no need to apologize for your post. Let me repeat your concerns, as they are mine, and should be everyone else’s as well:
“our children can’t have lives because the child molestors need to have their rights? Where are our children’s rights? Why don’t they matter??”
CHILD PREDATORS AND SEXUAL OFFENDERS CANNOT - C A N N O T ! - BE REHABILITATED. “CIVIL RIGHTS” GROUPS HAVE NO ARGUMENT FOR THESE SOB’S !
PLEASE CONTACT YOUR ELECTED OFFICIALS- DO IT NOW!!-
AND SUPPORT THE ADAM WALSH ACT !
God Bless Somer Thompson. I’m so sorry, sweetie.
Dear Boz, My prayers are with you. I am sorry for the heartache you have had to face in your life. I know your mother appreciates all the care you have given her past, present and future. Please take care of yourself.
Also, I am heartbroken over little Somer. I have a twin sister. My prayers go out to the family.
I have looked up the predators in my neighborhood and also where i used to work–which was in a very expensive area in Houston, much more “expensive” that where I live out in the country. And the very sad thing is, is that registered predators are in abundance everywhere. I am even more frightened about all the sickos out there that arent even on a list or havent been caught.
I have a soon to be 7 year old granddaughter that I cherish. When I saw little Somer’s picture my heart broke.
My granddaughter lived with us with her daughter and husband for about the first two years of her life until they were stationed in Key West in the Navy. So when I think of the Anthony family, I think of having a grand in the house from birth and holding her, caring for her and loving here. That’s one thing I dont understand about Cindy. I MIGHT go a few days without talking to my daughter but Never not “talking” to my grand even when she was an infant could hear her cooing in the background or not meeting or getting info on a sitter. Sorry, realized this was Somer’s blog, can delete this part if you want Blink
ALL: Having taken a “walk” through the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and pulling statistics per state, for the past two years, I am especially appalled by the numbers in Florida, which are much higher than elsewhere, though I did expect this to be the case. The reasons for this, however, escape me, but to think legislation? Budget cuts? Judicial leniency, in spite of such things as Jessie’s Act and Walsh’s law, neither of which seem to have curbed the problem. I’d be most interested to know what each state’s sentencing guidelines are, and impose indeed, One Strike You’re Out, nationally.
I also wonder how much it would take, and how many would involve themselves in a Neighborhood Child Watch, that would run much like our Crime Watch task forces operate within our neighborhoods. The states hire crossing guards to get our kids across busy streets, safely, how about helping to get them home safely, too? How many times have we heard of someone being assaulted or otherwise approached, while on their way home from school? Perhaps our counties need to hire more Citizen Patrols to canvas the areas where children are walking to and from school. This might be a determent to one who would approach or assault, to know that a patrol car might cruise on by at any moment. I’d be willing to pay higher taxes to institute the same. For that matter, getting rid of a few dozen earmarks would afford such a program quite easily, but we won’t even go there now will we?
Gavi
Blink: Is there a way to contact you before posting what you may not agree with?
Honestly Boz, I am 3 days behind in emails as it is, I just ask that we follow basic respect, and of course nothing offense. It does not matter if I agree with it or not, all opinions are welcome and encouraged.
B
thanks TallyHo, I remember the Lori Hacking case in UT her hubby dumped her in the same manner and I believe it took 4 months to find her body, it is so sad, these poor lil ones going missing and killed I can’t stand it, somethings around our nation need to change.
My thoughts and prayers go out to this child’s family. What a horrible tragedy.
When will laws get stiffer on this disgusting predators? When? How many of our children will it take for laws to be changed? These predators can never be rehabilitated. They need to be locked up forever away from our children. We need to protect the innocent and defenseless.
Moms and Dads, Grandma’s and Grandpa’s please keep tight watch over your kids. Make sure you do whatever you can to protect them..whatever it takes. These sick people are among us everywhere. Don’t for a second think that it can’t or won’t happen to your family.
God Bless this family and the many others who have gone through similar horrific tragedies like this.
#52 MJH, call it justified anger, and know that it’s this anger, this resentment that so oftentimes brings about change.
Yes I agree on the other.
I am almost certain the earlier abduction attempt will come in here soon. LE has way more than they are sharing based upon the quick retrieval of the body, etc. Wish this would help trigger some forward for Haleigh Cummings SOMEHOW.
B
Just a thought and probably in the wrong place: were the landfills checked quickly for Haleigh Cummings? When LE did not check that dumpster that the cadaver dogs hit on, I remember wondering that it took them so long to check an obvious site that was near to where Ronald C had lived before they moved to the trailer. What a horrible world when we need to check landfills for abducted babies.
If only we could get a NATIONAL law: the one strike law for sexual predators…
I thought I had read a report yesterday that the people in the other “abduction attempt” came forward after seeing the news. It was reported they had just stopped to ask if the girl was ok because it appeared she had fallen from her bike.
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I am thinking that the earlier attempt , and LE said they had found that vehicle and talked to the people, will be part as well. I also believe they have talked to over 70 other sex offenders in that area.
One thing about pedo’s ..they like to share info, they kibutz, they share videos, they share stories and they share pics. Yes they are their own little clan. If they have spoken to the right pedo..they know who did this.
Now that I have reported that sick info I’ll go cleanse my mind with some soothing music and prayer.
I am inclined to think this was not a stranger abduction. And agree that police know a lot at this point.
#52 NOT offensive at all. We as parents….we as normal responsible human beings…. we as caretakers of these children….Its has got to stop…..JUDGES need to stop letting the animals outa the zoo….Sometimes MJH anger is good…..IT OPENS PEOPLES CLOSED EYES SO THEY MAY SEE……Glad to hear your child was fine……God bless little Somer. RIP! sweet child……..
I urge all parents to look up your local sex offender listings….listed undedr local and state agencies. make it your job to search these animlas out…..before they search out your child……
Registered???? what the #@%#!)$ does that do? I am telling you that we should require chip inside & let us watch them webcam ! all day anyone anytime Ill take 2nd shift.
OR put them all on a deserted island *& let them fend for themselves! then they can just violate each other & live away from society- If I was president this would be manditory & it would stop at least repeat offenders. & so many kids’ deaths.
They need to be DYED bright orange so kids go running & screaming as soon as they are seen. When will this stop ? castration was proved unsuccessful in many European countries- they end up using anything to be the predator- its such a sickness that only a brain transplant could fix-
I share the grief and passion that others have expressed here, with a special nod to Boz. It is my conviction that we must send the message that, both personally and as a society, we will not tolerate harmful actions against a child. A simple formula - if you harm a child, you are going down. Period. That goes for sexual predators, be it a child or an adult as the victim. Sexual predators have the highest recidivism (relapse) rate of any criminal offense. It’s time we acknowledge that there is no rehabilitation and deal with them in the form of the harshest penalty possible instead of offering them a get out of jail free card.
I agree about the sex offenders. But remember, a bunch of these kids have been killed at the hands of their caretakers. People that were supposed to love and protect them. Please, don’t forget that either.
RIP Somer. I can’t say it enough. To you or any of the others.
This is really upsetting. My twins are only a little older than she was.
@Muse - I couldn’t agree more. Either LWOP or DP (depending on what the state allows).
I can remember as a young girl it wasn’t unusual for my friends and me to take our bikes out and ride 6 or 7 miles have a picnic and ride back. We’d be out all day playing and wouldn’t come in till dark. Our Mom’s weren’t worried they knew we were alright. Kids today can’t have the kind of freedom we exepierenced back then. Parents have to watch their kids every minute and then sometimes it’s not enough. Why is that????
This has become a nation that wants instant gratification, with no consequences. People want what they want and they want it now no matter how sick it might be. Our nation has no moral fiber and it began when prayer and bible study was banned from our schools. Our government and justice system is more concerned with protecting felons and their rights than protecting victims and children.
I don’t believe a sexual offender can be rehabilitated. But I do believe they know what they are doing and can control themselves. Personaly I think there would be a lot less of this going on if they had their winkie on the chopping block, and those pretty female teachers wouldn’t be so inclined to lure those boys to their bedrooms if they knew they’d have a giant SO tatooed on their forhead!
Sounds drastic I know but in my opinion you harm a child and you forfiet the right to be treated as a human being and should suffer the ultimate punishments and humiliation.
Casteration and tatoos along with prison. If not that then send them all away to an island. I hear Alcatrez is vacant.
My first post here on this website.
This is the most horrendous and horrific crime against an innocent child. It continues to happen time & time again. My hope is that the perpetrator of this crime is found and is fried, just like I hope that Casey Anthony fries for what she did to little Caylee.
I applaud the mother of little Somer that she had the courage to come on the news (live) and be HONEST about her feelings and the loss of her little child. UNLIKE the Anthonys who have NOT been honest, but chose to take a luxurious cruise instead.
Bless you, Mom of little Somer - we are behind you 100%. We hold you and your family in our thoughts & prayers. Unlike the Anthony family, whom I personally despise and view as liars and manipulators of the system to gain money from their slain granddaughter.
Rest in peace little Somer. Rest in peace little Caylee. Rot in hell to the monster who took Somer and murdered her. Rot in hell Casey Anthony & family.
Welcome Mr Zenga.
I agree Ms. Diena showed grace and poise in her and her family’s darkest hour. My heart breaks for them and I pray for their peace. I have no words.
B
Blink:
Thank you. And thank you for your website. I have no words either to express what Somer’s Mom is going through. My heart if heavy for them. I also pray that they find peace, and in their recovery fight for childrens’ rights and putting child sex offenders and child murderers in jail after ONE strike!!! (FOR LIFE - or fry them))
Many years ago, my wife and I lost our two-year old son to a tragic accident. We were devastated. We could never ever figure out why there continues to be heinous crimes against children. My wife spent her life trying to figure out the answers, especially after little Caylee was so brutally murdered and thrown away like trash by her own mother.
My wife recently died from the ravages of breast cancer. She fought the good fight for Caylee Anthony and many other missing or murdered children.
I intend to carry on her fight for missing and exploited and murdered children. And for my wife, I’ll be like a dog with a bone in the Caylee Anthony case, and for other missing & murdered children.
My heart and what strenght I have goes out to Diena Thompson the mother of Somer. This is one of the most horrendous, horrific and crule (HHC) crime and “Death Penalty” worthy charges for the perpetrator or perpetrators. My prayers are with the family. There are no words for an incident of this type. We as a society must take action to prevent this from happening again. We must contact our local, state and federal legislators and demand immediate legislation and funding to put a rapid stop to the war that has been waged againist our children.
I think Blink is right. One strike for harming a child.
hk, the odds are definitely on your side. Of the 357,000 kids that go missing each year, only like 300 or so are taken by strangers. Most are family members or people known to the family.
Regarding Florida. My hubby is from there. Sort of. His crazy mom took he and his sister away from his Dad and went down there when he was like 8. To this day, she is still always running from her problems in one way or another. Anyway, let me get to the point here: My husband says, “Nobody is actually FROM Florida. People who are running from something go there.” He is obviously speaking in generalizations, but still kind of interesting nonetheless. He grew up in South FLorida, so I’m not sure if his theory applies to northern Florida, I understand that upper portion is like a completely different state.
When I think of the great, carefree childhood I and my siblings had, I am sad that this is not the way today. While we could bike all day up and down our long block to visit friends, and then bike to another town when we got a little older, I shake my head at today’s youth that they cannot be so carefree. We played in the woods, climbed trees and made forts. Today, children have to avoid woods or any secluded area at all cost.
When we all became young adults, we learned that a female relative in our family was molested for years by a man who married into the family. I can say that when I learned of this, it changed the course of my life. We as a family were completely unprepared for this. We were too trusting and never thought that anyone, let alone someone in the family could betray that trust.
I have learned much in these years about sexual predators, not only because of my profession, but because I wanted to make sure that history would never repeat itself within my family again. To make a long story short, there is no cure for this affliction. I think Florida has a loop hole in a law that makes it easy for sexual predators to get away with more on-line predation. That leads to more acting out etc. etc.
We need some divine intervention not only in Florida, but all over this great country of ours. God cannot personally rewrite our laws, but our elected officials can and they should. We need stricter penalties, and they have to be harsh. This is shameful that every night when we turn on the t.v. there is another child that has disappeared from under our noses. And most of them turn up dead.
When we recently had an election for Family Court Judge, I made it my business to speak to her personally to find out where she stood in regards to protecting our children. We need to care about this and we need to be constantly vigilant. It starts with us and what we can do - even if it’s to offer a safe place for a child when school is out. It could make all the difference.
Somer started this dialogue - let’s not let her death be in vain.
Sue-
I am feeling what I cannot find words for. How gracious are you to share that?
Thank You.
Please Read, ALL
B
A couple of months ago I caught a glimpse of the cartoon series Family Guy, on this particular episode there was a couple of guys standing on the side walk talking (I don’t ever watch the show, I don’t know the characters, my 15 year old son was and he was laughing)so I sat down with him to see what was so funny, so the guys are talking and there was an old neighbor man with them, a young paperboy drives by on his bike and the old man makes a comment about the young boy about him coming to his house and some kind of other flirtatious remark, I can’t remember word for word what was said, all I can tell you I was outraged, I was sick and disgusted that a cartoon, made for adults, but draws children to it, would be so vulgar. Society is slowing starting to just accept this behavior as Normal, making jokes about it adds to that. The Family Guy is not allowed to be seen in my house and I explained to my son just how bad that was and why, I hope he understood. I guess there is really nothing more you can do but take personal responsibility for your kids and what goes on in your home, fight for stricter laws and boycott all the garbage out there. Sadly there will always be sick and twisted folks out there, I foresee it getting worse not better. The death of this little girl is just another terrible example of how bad things really are out there.
sue, I remeber those days well, we use to sleep outside in our front yard every summer night because it was to hot to sleep inside, sadly my children have never had a sleep out in the backyard party. It is pretty bad that little ones just can’t even walk home from school.
My prayers are with this family and every other family who has gone through this kind of thing, there is nothing worse then the loss of a little one. My heart is heavy.
Prayers to Somer’s mother. She is in agony - and another piece of $hitt snake has a one-way ticket straight to hell one day.
My heart is so heavy this morning. Heavy with sadness, hurt, anger and so many other things I cannot describe! The world has lost another innocent child, and another mother’s heart has been shattered by a senseless act of nothing more than plain evil. Seeing Somer’s mother, in such pain, yet remaining so strong. I just cannot imagine!
That used to be my neighborhood. Those used to be the streets that I walked on. That is where I lived when I had my 1st child. What has happened to this world of ours when this kind of behavior continues to be our daily news breaker? What does this say about the state of our country when this has become the rule, and not the exception?
WE have just got to change this, and now! As Somer’s mother said so clearly, this is NOT ok. Not one child should ever lose their life in such a horrendous way. 1 is 1 to many!
Write your legislatures, write your congressmen/woman, get behind a cause against these predators and see it through, and if that doesn’t work out, start a campaign of your own. Unless and until we, as parents/grandparents/society as a whole demand action against those who hurt our children, this will continue to happen. The time to start was yesterday!!!
May God wrap his loving arms around Somer’s family and friends and help them thru this horrible time. And may this be a daily reminder to all of us, our children are not safe anywhere anymore, and it’s up to us to find a way to take back our country and find a way to protect these innocent lives. Every one of us have the chance to take the anger & hurt that we feel over this horrific injustice and make a difference, for Somer and all the other innocent children who have been taken from us much to soon!
RIP sweet baby girl…
Blink,
I posted this before. A few years back I read where (I believe it was India) offered to take our most harden criminals and house them for 1/10th of the cost what it takes our country.
I truly believe that this should be looked at as a possible alternative for these son of a *#%#@!
I pray to God to hold this child and give her comfort for she is truly special.
#29:Gavriella: you have given me an idea by putting the link to that video here. Would you mind if I take this and make a huge leap of faith to jump start a project? I promise it will be in Somer’s honor, and will make you proud…If so, I’ll let you know asap when it’s finished!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe6hCOCOrM8
last nite i prayed that Somer’s case will be solved immediately, to bring whoever did this to justice and get them off the streets. it looks like that will probably happen soon because of how soon they found Somer. surely they will find dna? i wanted to say to boz (#34)that your comment made me sad and i wish you and your mom the very best.
How sad. The world has lost yet another little one at the hands of a violent narcissistic criminal. My heartfelt prayers go out to Sommer’s family and friends. Their lives will never be the same. As Sommer’s mother stated, I, too, hope the perpetrator is found, tried, and convicted of this hideous senseless crime.
These crimes, however, are not just a criminal justice issue but a societal issue as well. I am an advocate of community and state’s rights to protect and empower potential victims. Megan’s Law, the Amber’s Alert Act, the Victim Rights Amendment, and the Adam Walsh Children’s Safety and Protection Act are just some of the legislative means to protect the defenseless individuals within our society. Check out the Mark Klaas foundation website. Find out how your community and state are addressing these issues. A local business in the city of St. Louis (my closest city) is hosting three child safety events this weekend, which are offered through the Mark Klaas Foundation.
Certainly, the death penalty is an appropriate sentence for a violent predator. They have a high recidivism rate and cannot be rehabilitated. Unfortunately, research suggests that violent criminals are more likely to kill their victims knowing they will receive the DP sentence when and if they are caught. Catch 22. Check out the state legislative model on the Stop Child Predators website. It is a good piece of legislation.
I wish I could protect all the children, all the weak and defenseless members of our society. Hence, I cannot, but I can make a difference in my community. We all can. Shalom, Sharai
http://www.wesh.com/video/21402501/index.html
I have a terrile feeling this was done by a younger offender. I hope I am wrong.
Blink as you might remember my story, this brings back haunting memories.
this is starting to be a weekly - if not a daily occurrence!
How many would agree that we should make these animals ( perpetrators) ” Public Domain” Can I get an AMEN? I also should think when we are ” done” & if they are still breathing, that they be transferred to an uninhabitable island with all of the other Sicko’s & let them have their own society - Honestly, Im so disgusted by the news of this reoccurred, my idea doesn’t sound absurd to me in the least. & what ever happended to that little girl they found encased in cement ? was justice served ? Im just beside myself- feel like my hands are tied as I watch our ” judicial system” take care of criminals & their pathetic rights & they get out !! thats why they are called registered - this is complete ^&@)*!#
I have completed stated that all sexual perps should be sent away to do what they will some where remote to do their thing give them some food and water and let them have at it. Sadly my brother is one of them, that is why I POST HERE . to protect the innocent it hurts me to my heart in so many ways as my bro hurt my own children, sadly again I was the one who caught him and turned him in, he has been in prison for 15 years as of now but one day he will be out to commit more crimes against innocent children. I have cried all day in fear that one day he will be released and do this @#$%% AGAIN….
I DON’T KMOW WHERE TO GO WITH THIS…
I wish there was some place for me to seek support as a family member of a perp it is all about support for the victims, as it should be, but sadly I am a victim as well in a different sense and I don’t know where to seek support. My family is not ugly and messed up my bro was victimized by a neighbor and in turn is now a monster, My total fear is when and if he gets out of prison (serving a 20 to life sentence) will this be the outcome for him and some innocent child. I have cried all day over this as the memories of what he did haunts me, he hurt my children and many more, I was the one who caught him and turned him in, how can you find peace, there is none.
My heart is breaking all over again from the nightmare, I was involved in this with my own brother and don’t know where to place it. I am so angry and outraged this has to stop. I don’t know where to go what to say, this situation is the fear that is in my heart and mind everyday…please don’t judge me by this info I just need to release it. I am hurting and sad and scared, this happened 15 years ago and it feels like yesterday.
Please everyone fight to change laws to protect the lil ones, my bro was just a child when this happened to him by our neighbor and the perp is free to walk the streets, he created a monster within my brother and nothing happened to him my bro will sit in prison for 20 years as he should but this sicko is still out there, fight for the rights of children protect your babies the best you can!
bless this little baby and her family…my heart is so heavy i know to well the saddness and hurt in so many ways. my girls were hurt and he hurt others It is to much to bare at times. god be with these families and with me at this time, I need some love from him because I have no where else to turn.
thanks Blimk for giving me some place to vent and express my saddness and feelings. It helps me feel just a little bit better to let it all out.
much love to all!
opps Blink sorry the tears are falling
excuse the type o’s as i can’t see and type, thanks to all you who seek justice for the wrongs done to innocent children
sadly I know one day this will be the situation my family will face if and when my brother gets ot of prison, as hurtful as it is I hope he dies in there before he come out, and how to come to terms with that is beyond my relm of thinking but that is how I feel i would rather he dies in prison them a child dies at his hands.
Still reeling from the discovery of Somer, only to learn Elizabeth Olten, 9 y/o from Missouri, was found dead today. My heart breaks for the families of both these young girls.
Justice, fly just as high and as quickly as you can for the sakes of the children. You don’t need my permission, but you certainly have my support. I am at a loss for words today. Again. And I wonder how long it will be before it happens again, and again, and so with every fiber of my being I am screaming, “NOT ONE CHILD MORE!” I will say more, dear Justice, but not right now.
Gavi
Dee, I read your heartfelt post. I hear you. It must be heart wrenching for you & your family. I guess if you let it-it will consume you & you wont be effective or be of help to yourself & others. Maybe you could start some type of support for families like yourself, or place that hurt/anger into a organization that helps those who have been where you are. I hope your brother sees what hell that neighbor turned him to- perhaps we can pray he softens & wants to get help & help others instead of returning to society so he can destroy any soul he can find. I hope if he gets out- he lives so remote, its not even on a map. I wish they could be put to sleep like a lame horse-I really do.
Dee: Well, perhaps I will say more, having re-read Dee’s post, and feeling so much anguish for her, for you, Dee, and if I might make a suggestion, even because when my daughter was but five she was assaulted by the son of our very best friends and I was the one who turned him in. I, too, at but 8 years of age, was repeatedly assaulted by one of my mother’s many boyfriends, who’s wife had thrown him out because he had assaulted his own kids, and to think he was a King County cop. More recently my grandson’s young friend accused her step-grandfather of touching her where he shouldn’t have, and no one wanted to believe her, because she was only 7 and had a vivid imagination, but you bet I did, and it took all I had to convince her grandmother to at least consider the possibility. Come to find out, her husband had absconded from N.C. where he was on probation for guess what? Child molestation. He’s been extradited back to N.C. He’ll have to serve a mandatory 25 years, but I’m telling you, as everyone else will, that’s not long enough. But anyway, perhaps if you call your local rape treatment center they will know of a group you can take part in, for surely you are a victim as well. Too, where I went and thank God I did, though it was the hardest of all things I have ever done, was Life Skills International. But for Life Skills I might still be a victim. I had to learn how not to be.
You said something in your first few sentences that rather struck me, because back when I was studying to be a paralegal, so that I could better advocate for children through Guardian Ad Litem, having been a mess of a child myself whom “the system” had failed, one of the professors was a practicing Public Defender and said that all sexual predators and child molestors should be shipped off to a deserted island where — they could just have at one another - rather than to clog up our courts, jails and prisons. The way he saw it, given a few years they would all fall victim to every STD known to man as well as all of the heinous abuses that are so rampant among them. Within a few years they would all die off, slowly and agonizingly. Perhaps the notion isn’t so far fetched? Why should anyone who commits such a horrendous act be shown mercy when they have so well proven themselves to be merciless? I am considering Cooey, in particular, who buried Jessica alive.
I apologize for being so harsh but, I pray to God that Caylee was dead and that Somer was dead before they were thrown into the trash heap to suffer further pain and horror. I do believe, having worked the streets for so many years that God takes the spirit before the pain and horror become unbearable, and especially when it comes to children. Shock can be a welcoming thing.
I wish I could tell you not to grieve so over your brother. I can’t. You will. He’s your brother. What I can tell you is that you are not responsible for what’s he’s done, nor what he will do. I might suggest that if you have your doubts and concerns you might write to the warden where he’s imprisoned and express the same to him/her. My brother was in prison for DUI manslaughter at one point in time, and I developed a rather good relationship with the warden. He helped to ease my fears about a lot of things, but he had it right when he said that my brother would come out of prison only temporarily “rehabilitated”. I have to deal with that everyday.
Love and God’s peace to you, Dee.
Gavi
O Gav, O Dee-
I heart you both, I am so heartily sorry that horror befell you.
Turning to advocacy in light of that, well I am humble in your presence.
God Bless-
B
Blink, I am most humbled, honored and priviledged to be a voice, however small, of Blink On Crime. It all gets to be a bit emotional for me, so I ask that you forgive and sometimes bear with me. As for advocacy? With all that I am, I so highly recommend it! It’s healing. It’s having the ability to make right a few wrongs. Not always. But sometimes.
Gavi, Dee, and all other Blinkers,
Yes, I think we are all at a loss for words to explain the horror and devastation we feel for Somer and her family. It sounds to me like we are all in agreement that these SO’s cannot recover and should be put away for good right away. We all sit here and try to exchange our sick feelings about this situation which seems to really be getting out of hand, but seriously - IF WE ALL WANT TO DO SOMETHING, AND WITH ALL THE KNOWLEDGABLE CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS SITE, DOES ANYONE KNOW HOW/WHERE WE START?? Isn’t there a way to at least get the ball rolling towards reforming the law? I am not smart enough to do it on my own - wouldn’t know where to start, but I surely would listen to any ideas for ways I could help stop this insanity!
Somer’s mom immediately said We will find and get you, or words to that effect. She is clear headed and sees the big picture. Maybe her clear vision and willingness to speak her mind are the impetus needed to nudge our legislature to pass a fair law. No more three hots and a cot. All these bastards are owed is the chance to assume room temperature.
The Chinese shoot these kind of people, then bill their family for the bullet. As far as I am concerned that is not a human rights violation.
The sad thing is that no new law will be passed until a senator’s kid is found in the dump. It will be more revolving door prison when they catch this ooze that did this.
On a happier note, John Couey died.
Hit my bullseye. You have a way Red Ranger. Thank you for your devotion to this work.
B
Red, just loved the way you phrased your words in last post - Blink is right, you do have “a way” all your own, and BTW, have missed you around here!
I am sitting here at 440 in the morning, woke with a jolt, first let me say thank you all for your kindness, it helps is so many ways, even my family refuses to talk about the situation and I am kinda left in limbo over it, Blink thanks for giving me a place to share I know it is off topic a bit. when this kinda of things happen all kind of craziness runs in my my mind abut the what-ifs the whens.
you are all so kind and maybe I will get back on track. Whem things like this happen to a family there is always another family too hurting and riddled with shame and fear, I don’t think i could handle another one.
I will write some letters as I have in the past, I have not wrote the GOV in UT but will get to the Gov as well, anyone who will listen to me, now I understand why I live here in Europe to distance myself far far away
I pray for this family and many more and always will
thanks and much love to all of you, you healed me and brought me back and for that I am thankful!
Now lets go find this sucker.
Thanks again Blink!
If there is one consolation to my heavy, aching heart, it is reading this page and realizing I am not alone in my despair over the state of things. My hope is that there is a ground swell building that will lead to change. We need change in our laws -I agree with Blink, ONE strike- and we need this nationally. We need an organization that will concentrate on this one central goal, that will lobby for this change and educate the public. There was a time that drunk driving was not taken very seriously in our country and then along came MADD. We need an effort like that. I know that so many would throw in their full support. Until then I add my prayers for the victims’ families and for those who have shared their pain on this page. God bless you and heal you and make your suffering not in vain. Thank you, Blink, for your efforts and for giving me the opportunity to see that there are many others who feel as I do about this terrible scourge on our country. A crime against a child is the most completely indefensible evil.
What a terrible thing to happen to this poor little helpless girl. This just continues to demonstrate what a fallen world we live in. My prayers go out to Somer and her family. When is this ever going to stop. We need to make it mandatory if you take a child and put he or she through all that horror here is your sentence.
If the child is found alive and we find the person. Sentence life in prison no parole ever. If the child is murdered automatic death sentence without all these ridiculous appeals. That won’t stop all of it but hopefully it would certainly deter these monsters to think just a little more. With DNA clearly identifying the person are judges need to quit playing these games with the public defender and act quickly and decivesly. I am sick of these monster getting a full ride at the taxpayers expense for years while the appeal process just slowly moves along. In cases of confessions or cases of irrefrutable evidence of guilt they are sentensed and within 30 days excuted or put behind bars with hard labor for life. I would also design wallpaper of the chids picture or chidren the monster has attacked and place it on the cealing where they is it constantly. Why don’t judges have the fortitude to deal with these monsters the way they traeted their victims. I cannot bare to think think of the pain and fear these little precious kids must indure at the hands of these monsters. Meantime it happens so frequently we Americans read about it and maybe say a prayer but most just go on with there day. We are becoming acceptable of this and sure hope the person is caught but that’s it. I honestly can’t bare to think of the fear these kids experience not to mention what comes next. America wake up get involved and lets find a way to be in service to our kids and if you suspect someone let police know. we need more information published that explains how these monsters work.I was a victim and my sexual preadetor had a complete sytem for entice kids and he went to great links to just under police radar. He had bubble gum machines and would ask kids in the neighborhood to help him sort thru the coins looking for rare coins . I loved it until I found I was captured in this guys home and he could do whatever he wanted. I am happy to report this man is no longer on this earth after taking his own life with a 357 magnum he wanted nothing to do with prison. He knew full well he wouldn’t last two weeks in prison. Please America if the judges won’t do anything lets band together as a nation and make them do their jobs. Lets also put the pressure on our elected officalsto change the laws so these monsters don’t just sit in their jail cell while over worked public defenders file appeal after appeal to keep this monster alive. Look at Singapore they deal with things very swiftly and the results speak for themselves. Even places like London don’t have the magnitude of problems we do. Why is that? They enforce what they say and it’s done and that deters alot of people from creating horrible crimes. Of course our television programs don’t help things with cops and murder shows
giving these monsters ideas and almost the right to go out and perpertrate these crimes. I know there are things we can do to help in this effort we just need to band together and see it through. Thanks for the oportunity to send this message. the fryingguy
ANY FURTHER ABOUT NEVAEH BUCHANAN, JUST FORGOTTEN?
Bottomline, I can identify with your frustration. How we as a society respond to the violent acts within our communities is an indicator of our moral code of conduct. In the last three decades, there have been some vital changes made in society’s response to vicious crimes. The ratification of laws and changes in local policies are a work in progress, time and monies are vital for this type of continued growth. Individuals willing to volunteer or work within various areas of the criminal justice system, social work field, or local politics can be instrumental in initiating and working towards building a safer community. A good place to “get the ball rolling” is by checking out the websites of those who are currently involved in this process. I suggest perusing the Klaaskids Foundation website, the Stop Child Predators website, the Fund Adam website, and any of the links provided. These sites can give you a broader picture of past and current legislation and ideas for advocating child safety laws and policies within your own community. Volunteer work or pursuing a career within local agencies is another way to make an impact. Society will never totally eradicate criminal behavior but we can intentionally work toward protecting the weakest members of our communities, children and adults alike. Think about what you can do to “get this ball rolling.” Baby steps . . .
kyrasmommy - do you know something new?
To DEE & the other posters interested…. with the internet available & facebook & all of these tools do you think we could organize a 1 million person march to Washington DC? I am telling you I would hitch hike there if I had to! I m California- BUT I think a citizen’s wake up call is needed. We cant be passive & just watch our LAME justice just lock them up- we cant do this- solitary confinement bread & water- & Castration has been proven ineffective in past history to correct this- they still violate with objects -because they are mentally sick- with our without their appendages
$& we cant put them back in our neighborhood - knowing the URGE is like wanting to breath. A registry system doesnt stop the heinous crimes. Look at Jessica in Florida. She was taken & buried alive! he kept her for days in his closet- a registered sex offender- didnt stop him& Cops EVEN looked there! omg We need to organize a march to WASHINGTON DC - in all honesty- I DONT know where to begin. Can someone direct me?
Sharai, thank you for your kindness and the information as far as where to start…You are right, every single change for the better was started with an idea and a baby step….and I plan to take my first step TODAY. Hang in there, all of you and know that your support is very much appreciated.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wibyuGQlyo
this is totally off topic but i heard it today and it made my hert sing, listen if you like
opps heart
Human trafficking is a powerfully protected GLOBAL criminal cesspool - far far more money than the global drug trade. When I say POWERFULLY protected, I mean a string of POS up and down the chain, infiltrating even LE, which for the most part is heroically working against this evil. Almost every high profile case has such a sinister aspect nearby - not directly involved with the particular case of course, but sniff the air in the neighborhood and you’ll find it, hiding in some judge who pullled strings for his POS nephew, some mansion owning mobster who has a finger in the kiddie porn trade… that sort of thing. That being said, when the local crimes occur against neighborhood children like poor Somer Thompson, especially in FL and CA, people do not see the connection to the bigger network. The bigger network becomes conceptual at that point - BUT IT ISN’T. It’s what give the juice that empowers these rotted samples of inhuman DNA. This is what those walking maggots talk about, and personally, when these maggots are found, it is TIME TO RETURN to the day, when people DO TAKE THE LAW into their own hands, and together, give LE a day off, and burn these slimeballs alive in front of the victim’s house. I vote for that, that’s where MY money is going. And no better message to the powerful who provide protection to the network of slime they run. A few incidents like that, and America will start taking back its soul, cuz it sure as heck has none now, just talk to Jessica, just talk to Sandra Cantu, to Jaycee Lee Dugard, to hundreds of thousands of children horrifically murdered in this the “best country on earth”.
PS I know Jaycee Lee Dugard was not murdered, but for 18 years her life was taken, and the POS parole officers whose data is now sealed are involved.
Oh were they EVER involved!! Or should we say NEVER involved!! You’re so right, Sweetie, this case was total neglect on the part of many.
Lord have Mercy! This is out of control! Something has GOT to be done for these children to stop it BEFORE it happens. I Thank God my kids are grown up now, but still have a 6 yr old grandson who lives in NY, several states away from me and my daughter and SIL take him to school or walk him to the bus and he’s never left unattended. This world has gone insane.
I don’t mean to to offend any floridians, because I have no doubt most are great and decent people. But there seems to be a rash of this going on in FL. I would be concerned myself and be fighting somebody like hell, to do SOMETHING! Change some laws or crack down on sex offenders, etc… I haven’t read back yet, to find out if murderer was caught yet, but wondering if it is a sex offender, or family member…. God Bless her family!
Thanks Blink for all you do! I’m always looking for you on SM!
Have the authorities ruled out family and family friends in this case? Are they definitely looking for a stranger?
To my knowledge, they are not discussing who they have ruled out. Personally, I think this is a known offender, not making any allegations, but someone perhaps Somer did not have a reason to fear.
B
This rirl’s Mom broke my heart on the Today show on Friday while I was getting ready to leave the house. Heartbreaking. Heartbreaking.
That’s what I was thinking as well. Something doesn’t seem right to me, maybe its just a hunch, and I could be way off….
Lily- no I dont and I cannot understand why she has just been forgotten.
Hello everyone.
Hello B.
I missed you ya know (smile)
For the last few days I have been discussing this case with others at John Douglas’ MIndhunter Forums.
It’s very sad that someone had taken this beautiful little girl from her family, from the world.
It’s my opinion that she was contacted by the perpetrator at that renovated house and not abducted by someone driving around/trolling in a vehicle for a child victim that particular day.
I believe the evidence supports that this was someone who was in the area for some reason or the other and simply used this occasion for the opportunity.
He may have used a ruse of some kind to acquire her but he may have just as well grabbed her while she was walking along the sidewalk in front of this location.
It’s possible she may have had prior contact with her abductor/killer, but I doubt it was anything more han a passing.
Take a look at the route from her school to her home by using Google Street_Level View.
You can probably figure out the rest…
Christen
And I you, Christen (smile)
We agree.
What’s your take on the relevance of the armed robbery?
B
I am just expressing a little anger at the Somer Thompson case.You can google you’re home, you’re street and have all this info. Well what if we could get a law passed where cameras from satelight can see this evil and catch on camera.I mean what rights are we protecting. I would give up my rights to a camera that protects our sweet children.I don’t have anything to hide .So what if the LE could have EYES everywhere would that make a difference and what would it take to get this done….and please don’t talk about you’re rights when our children are being raped and murdered and don’t have any rights
butterfly rug????
Lost, what is the reference to the butterfly rug?
B
I thought someone had mentioned it here and I was wandering what it was about but I can’t find it now.It must have been in another forum I read sorry.MY BAD
Hi, B.
I have not had a chance to look into this situation as I’ve been very busy planning a trip to Northern California to check into some information concerning the Lindsay Cutshall/Jason Allen murders in Jenner.
I will, though, try my best to check out the story.
Thanks
Chris
One week prior to this abduction, there was an attempted abduction of a 5-year old girl by a Hispanic woman accompanied by two males in a vehicle.
This attempted abduction was approximately one block from the location where Somer Thompson was LS.
Info relating to this earlier attempted abduction is as follows:
Investigators say three people in a blue Nissan Sentra similar to the one pictured above tried to abduct a 5-year-old girl 10 days ago.
CLAY COUNTY, Fla. — In a parallel investigation to missing 7-year-old Orange Park girl Somer Thompson, the Clay County Sheriff’s Office said detectives were looking into an incident 10 days ago when three people in a blue Nissan Sentra allegedly tried to lure a girl into their car.
The Orange Park Police Department report said a 5-year-old girl on a bicycle was riding about one block from where Somer was last seen when she was approached by a vehicle driven by a Hispanic woman with two Hispanic men as passengers.
According to the report, the three approached the 5-year-old in the 1200 block of Ambor Circle Drive and told her to get into the vehicle. When she screamed and rode her bike in the opposite direction, the car sped off in an unknown direction.
“We have no reason to believe that that incident is connected to the
disappearance of Somer, but we cannot assume that it is not connected either, so we’re working on any leads we can follow up,” Clay County Sheriff Rick Beseler said.
April Boothroyd, the mother of the 5-year-old girl who was in an attempted abduction, and Shannon Pollett, the woman who stopped her vehicle during the abduction attempt talkedat a news conference Tuesday for missing 7-year-old Somer Thompson.
April Boothroyd, the mother of the 5-year-old, and Shannon Pollett, the woman who stopped her vehicle during the abduction attempt, appeared with Beseler at Tuesday morning’s news conference regarding Somer’s search.
“My daughter was where she was not supposed to be, walks away from the home, a car stopped her, lured her to the car, wanted her to get in the car,” Boothroyd said. “My daughter said no and started crying and fell off her bike.”Pollett said the girl was “screaming, no, no, no, and she was visibly upset.”
The car sped off when Pollett stopped, and she followed the girl home to tell her parents what had happened.
“My first question to the little girl was, ‘Do you know these people?’” Pollett said. “She said no.
My second question was, ‘What did they say to you?’ And she said they said to get in the car.
It was at that point I realized something wasn’t right, and when I turned around to look for the car it was gone.”Boothroyd called 911 to report what happened.
“A blue or black Nissan Sentra with a couple almost was (inaudible) her in the direction telling her to get into the car,” she told a 911 operator. “My
daughter Caylee turns around and starts screaming and crying and trying to get home. … My daughter says she has no idea who these people were. She does not know, she never seen them
before.”There was no search and no arrest, and it didn’t come up again until Somer went missing.
“It dawned on me that maybe I should ask them if they thought that it had anything to do, or if there was a report made from what happened last weekend,” Boothroyd said.
Beseler said the Orange Park Police Department looked into the matter.
“Once this incident occurred, it was filtered to us, and we immediately began following up on it,”Beseler said.
The police chief said they did disseminate the information but maybe should have put out a
Yet…
***”Special Agent Dominic Pape also spoke about the Blue Nissan which was seen at the scene 10 days prior to the disappearance of Somer.
He said the car was driven by a FDLE employee.The employee was at a football game and was leavingthe game and saw a small female child which almost got hit by a car.
The FDLE employee drove next to the child at the time and askedher “Are you ok?” The child replied that she couldn’t find her house, so the officer pulled into a driveway to help find the mother.
The child was able to find her house and let the FDLE officer know, so the officer left the scene.
Special Agent Pape didn’t release the identity of the FDLE employee because he didn’t want to be identified.”bulletin. He said he believes police followed procedures.
B., There’s undoubtedly a contradiction between the two versions given here!
Chris
Yep.
B
Clay County, Florida police seek help from ‘certain people’ in ‘finding Somer’s killer’
October 28, 4:05 PMTrue Crime
ORANGE PARK–Clay County Sheriff, Rick Beseler: “Yesterday was about Somer Thompson. Today is about her killer.”
One day after Somer Thompson was buried on Oct. 20 by her family, friends and community in Orange Park, Florida, Sheriff Beseler is addressing the public, seeking “attention to finding Somer’s killer and serving justice.”
In order to find the person responsible for the 7-year-old girl’s slaying–someone who then sent her body to a landfill–Sheriff Beseler is asking for help from “certain people.”
In his 10/28 message directed to “specific individuals,” the sheriff asked for “continued assistance” to apprehend the murderer of the North Florida first-grader, whose solemn funeral services held yesterday were perfused with purple symbols, and overcast in a community’s deep sorrow.
“While case investigators have received a tremendous response from the public,” Sheriff Beseler continues, “and hundreds of leads have been called in and followed to their logical conclusion, the investigators are requesting continued assistance from specific individuals in the community.”
In attempts to hasten progress in the murder case, Sheriff Beseler “believe[s] that there are individuals who have information pertinent to this investigation who have yet to come forward because,” he explains, “they did not feel their information was important or they were not sure it was relevant to this investigation.”
“Specifically,” the Clay County law official adds, “we are referring to people who may know or associate with the offender in this case.”
In “asking the public’s assistance in identifying persons who have exhibited changes in behavioral patterns,” Orange Park’s sheriff observes, “often, someone in the community will unknowlingly be associated with the offender of a crime, and may,” Beseler believes, “be in a position to observe behavioral changes in that person.”
As certain community members may be on a more intimate basis with such a person, Sheriff Beseler notes, some having close contact with a potential suspect will “recognize the changes, and may even question the person about it, but may not relate the changes to that person’s involvement in this crime.”
Providing a list of “behavioral changes, especially since 10-19-2009, … the sheriff suggests “people close to the individual responsible for this offense may have noticed one or more of the following behavioral changes/scenarios:”
Leaving the area unexpectedly for what seems like a very plausible reason (for work, to visit a friend or relative, etc.),
Missing work or other routine engagement(s), particularly on the afternoon or night of this incident,
Unexplained injuries, i.e., cuts, bruises, particularly on his head, hands or arms,
An unnatural interest in the status of this investigation, paying close attention to the media, talking about this incident with friends, family and co-workers,
A noted increase in nervousness and irritability,
Sudden shaving of facial hair and/or head hair, or, the growing of a mustache, beard, etc.,
No longer operating their personal or work vehicle for no obvious “reasons.” This might include suddenly keeping this vehicle in a shed or garage, covering … selling … reporting it stolen, giving it away, etc.,
An increase or decrease in the expression of religious beliefs,
Changes in routine sleep patterns,
Changes in the “usual” consumption of alcohol, drugs or cigarettes (an increase or decrease).
Although it is “important to note, “Sheriff Beseler continues, “that the exhibition of one or more of these behavioral changes alone is not indicative of one’s involvement in a crime,” Beseler goes on to say, “these behavioral characteristics or changes are being shared so that the public may be sensitive to them, and may bring forth helpful information.”
The Clay County Sheriff advises, “should you or someone you know have any information that may be important to the successful resolution of this crime,” he is requesting that people “please immediately contact the case investigators through [the Clay County Sheriff's Office] Tips Line at 1-877-227-6911.”
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This particular “profile” is basically for public consumption and what’s termed a “boiler-plate” profile.
It’s quite generalized and has been used in a multitude of cases involving rape-murders and murders.
B., Here is a partial profile that I have developed on the offender in this homicide.
I have omitted several key points of my original profile as I feel this is necessary to prevent any possible compromise of the case if this information does in fact turn out to be accurate, which I believe it will.
-Chris
Preliminary Assessment and Investigative Recommendations For Law Enforcement Concerning The Somer Thompson Abduction and Homicide
By Christen Allen Iman
Criminal Behavioral Analyst
October 22, 2009
1920 hrs.
The fact that this child was abducted in daylight hours in a relatively quiet and low-crime community is indicative of an offender who takes risks, in this particular case, high-risk.
From careful review of what little information has been made available through several local media sources, as well as review of the route taken by the victim through satellite and
street-level visulalization, this situation does not appear to be one involving an abduction scenario where the victim was abducted off the street by a person or persons who were trolling the area for a victim while using a vehicle.
It is apparent that the school district has provided cross-guards at various intersections some distance from the school grounds.
The last location where the victim was observed alive, walking on the sidewalk, was just East of,and in close proximity to the Grove Park Drive intersection.
There may have very well been a crossguard at this location, but this is yet to be validated.
The residence where the victim was last observed was at 1080 Gano Ave.
The residence was unoccupied at the time and had recently experienced a fire a few months prior.
This location would, of course, be a logical site for beginning a search for evidence relating to this victim’s disappearance.
There is a large metal refuse container at this location which contains refuse relating to the renovation process and which has not been removed to a landfill.
The probability that someone had abducted this victim by car from the street (sidwalk) in which she had been walking is low, as opposed to someone making contact with her in vicinity of this unoccupied
house.
It is my opinion that the offender made contact with the victim while in proximity to this location and while on foot, not in a vehicle.
He may have engaged her in conversation and/or used some kind of ruse to acquire her or merely grabbed her when no one was looking.
This is not the result of a team effort.
This is a lone male operator having very little to no prior contact with the victim..
1. He is caucasian.
2. Somewhere between 25 and 35 years of age.
Unmarried but may have been at some point in his past.
Presently living alone or with family a member.
3. He is relatively intelligent, may have some college-technical education but I don’t believe he is a college graduate.
4. He will be a resident of the community where the abduction had taken place or resides in an adjoining community very closeby.
5. He has access to a vehicle in good working condition.
6. Most probably employed as a manual laborer or services industry work.
7. He may be currently unemployed and have a spotty employment record.
(These kinds often do.)
8. The victim’s relatively small physical size and low weight would not pose much, if any, real difficulty for him to restrain or control.
9. He most probably would have restrained the child in some manner such as by binding with cordage (I’d suggest duct tape) and gagging her prior to sexual assault and transport to another location.
She will be nude when recovered.
It is, though, very possible that he did not transport her body to the landfill some 55-miles north, but simply placed her into a refuse container which was subsequently picked-up by a garbage truck and then taken to the landfill by this means.
10. A carefull analysis of the trash/refuse surrounding the victim recovery site may be helpful in ascertaining where exactly the child was placed into any such container after her death.
I.e., envelopes having addresses, bills, and other residential identifying materials, etc,
11. It is my personal belief that the offender did not transport the victim to the landfill but placed her body into a local garbage container.
12. It is also my belief that the Cause Of Death would most probably be due to asphyxiation.
I believe her small size may be suggestive of suffocation by hand over mouth and nose.
13. An interesting aspect is that she wore a red ribbon in her hair.
And this may suggest the offender may have used the ribbon as a ligature, and death will be attributed as being from ligature strangulation.
This is often observed in such cases involving sexual homicide.
The offender may incorporate this particular item into his fantasies.
The color of the ribbon and the fact it was worn in her hair will most probably have a psychosexual significance to the offender.
Whatever the outcome here, the red ribbon will serve an intimate role in this victim’s death.
He will not simply ignore it nor discard it unless it will somehow be attatched to the victim’s body.
14. My recommendation is that a careful review/background of the workers employed at the house being renovated be done.
15. Look for someone having a recent precipitating event/stressor in their life such as familial/relationship difficulties or breakup, employment termination, incarceration/release, etc..
16. I’d also check to see if anyone in the surrounding neighborhood has a prior arrest or conviction for either sexual assault or child sexual crimes.
This is not your everyday kind of pedophile/child molester..
This is someone who is extremely angry and lacking control in his everyday life and with others he comes into contact with.
17. Look for someone who may have prior involvement with the criminal justice system.
Specifically in the areas of child physical abuse/sexual crimes, assault/battery, domestic
violence, fighting in public/drunkeness, disturbing the peace, etc..
This anger and compulsiveness is apparent in his total disregard for the child victim here.
He obviously cannot control his desire to act out his aberrant sexual fantasies upon an innocent child. And his lack of compassion for her is expressed in the manner in which she was disposed of and shows he has no remorse for his crime, he’s a sociopathic personality type.
Most (99.7 percent) of pedophiles and child molesters do not kill their victims after committing sexual assault.
When they do, it’s almost always done in order to prevent the victim from reporting the crime and thus identifying the perpetrator.
In rare cases, it’s accomplished for the sexual gratification of the offender.
Without knowing for certain, the cause and manner of death of this victim, as well as anything relating to possible extra-trauma and/or “other” behaviors expressed at the scene of death/to victim’s body, I cannot offer a more detailed psychological analysis concerning this offender’s potential.
It is my opinion though, that if he is not identified and apprehended he will undoubtedly commit subsequent crimes of this nature.
This is someone who is living in the community who, on all appearances, is a man’s man.
Someone who will trys to project this image to others.
He will have been involved in normal heterosexual relationships and sexual encounters and not appear as someone deviant, except to the women who have been unfortunate enough to have interacted with him on a personal or intimate level..
17.He will have evidence of child exploitation/ pornography on his computer’s harddrive even if he believes he has deleted these.
18.There may be digital images or video tape evidence of his assault/murder victim.
Chris
C-
was not redacted or removed in any way. I am just not fast enough for you guys when I am working on a new case. A thousand pardons, friend.
B
Hi, B.
This morning I posted my profile on the offender responsible for the abduction and murder of Somer Thompson.
It was only half-hour ago.
But it’s no longer showing here on this topic.
Have you pulled it for some reason or the other?
Please let me know OK?
Thanks
Chris
Tis there
B
B.
On the topic dedicated to the four-men who were thought to have robbed the house where Somer lived, you asked me the following;
“agreed, thus why I reported it, how unusual is it for the CCSO to not just admit a clerical error? I am not liking the profile of the unsub here, thoughts when you can?
B”
I was just wondering why my post here contributing my redacted profile was removed?
Chris
Chris it was on here, I would never remove your post. Although I have a slight memory it was posted double and I deleted one of them. Are you referring to the inconsistency of the FDLE personnel?
B
Hi B.
No ma’am.
I was referring to a somewhat detailed criminal psychological profile of what we could expect to look for in Somer’s killer.
Can I repost it here again and have you take a look at it, and if you feel it is too graphic or othrwise inappropriate, we can discuss what you will publish of it?
Thanks
Chris
Hi again, B.
For Heaven’s sake.
I see it now and I apologize for botrhering you about it.
It just seemed strange that I saw it was posted before leaving your site then when I returned, it was no longer here.
I may turn out to be absolutely incorrect about this offender in the end.
But I’m giving it a whirl anyway because I feel confident about what I do.
Thanks again my dear friend.
Chris
As do I, so back I go to read. I am very interested in your feedback on the next case i post, it is your specialty.
B
Kenneth Kellem?????
Just because everyone needs to see this, I’m posting part of the original post here, too. We all need a happy ending, now and then. Sorry about this, repost, Blink.
http://www.wftv.com/video/21528403/index.html
nope, I would be fine if everyone views this, you will have some good tears instead of bad. Sometimes at least for me it recharges my batteries for the work that rarely has happy endings.
Now that they got this chance of a lifetime, I hope they take the opportunity to straighten out their lives better, and run background checks on anyone who watches this baby.
B
Hi, B.
Were you aware that Somer had actually entered the fenced yard of the house being renovated and reportedly spoke with one of the workers before, as he had told police, she left and was never seen alive again?
That’s very interesting is it not?
Now I *wonder* who that worker may have been??
Chris
I have not seen confirmation that Somer breached that fence in particular, but it was my personal assumption she would have had to for the *witness* to be believed.
“Kyle” the caller claiming to work with Vinson, said she stopped by to tell them that they were doing a good job.
This was unsolicited commentary- First Red Flag.
As the bulk of the current work that was being preformed was taking place inside the home, that made no sense to me.
Well, not in the context it was offered at any rate.
I would like an accounting of those who worked on that property, from installer to bug sprayer.
More importantly, I would like to know if they parked across the street at the OPAA, or park, as i believe that is where Somer met up with ill fate, and I believe that assault took place in that individuals vehicle.
Have you noticed the differences between what the landfill accepts where Somer was found, and the more local landfill?
Have you reviewed Morgan Harrington case, I thought for sure you would have been all over that
B
I saw this morning that examiner.com ran a story (3 hours ago) about Somer Thompson. They have since pulled it. You can still read a partial snippet on google news. I guess they are investigating George Vinson, a registered sex offender who was, at one point, working on the property. They have also seized a truck and trailer from his property. He is related to the companies owner, I believe his brother.
Still? I think that may be old, those items were confiscated prior to Somer being found.
B
Ah, thank you for the clarification.
Hi B.
Sorry I’ve been away on another case..
Here’s a little something I’d like to contribute for discussion if anyone would care to do this?
These are my most recent post’s on Minhunter Forums.
Posted: Tue Nov 17, 2009 6:51 pm
TIMELINE..
1.Somer leaves school with sister Abigail and her brother, along with others.
2.She has a little tiff and is confronted by her sister about this then separates from the others near Gano Ave. and Miller Street.
3. She’s last seen by her sister Abigail running West on Gano Ave. near Solomon Street.
(Abigail’s relative position must be at or somewhere near the Miller Street/Gano Ave. intersection)
It’s only 100-meters from Miller Street to Solomon Street.
Somer is also running (average estimate for her size/leg stride when running) at an estimated 3-4 miles per hour.
3-miles per hour is equal to 4.4 ft/sec.
4-miles per hour is equal to 5.9ft/sec.
100-meters equal to 328.0839895 feet.
328 feet divided by 4.4 equal 74.5454545 seconds
That comes out to approximately 1-minute, 14 1/2 seconds.
The same distance at 5.9m/h equal to 55.5932203
Less than 1-minute.
So she was only 1-1.15 minutes in front of her sister Abigail at the most.
If she were running at a very fast pace all the way to Solomon Street then we can estimate that it was 7-8 m/h.
Then it would be: 43.7333333 seconds before she reached Solomon Street.
And at Abigail’s rate of speed, estimated at say, 2 m/h, she would arrive at this same location about 164 seconds (2.75 minutes) later.
The difference being 121 seconds or 2-minutes after Somer arrived.
That’s not very far behind Somer and the distance is a mere 328 feet.
You can see down the west of Gano Ave., several blocks.
A block we are looking at here is actually less than 100 meters.
So if Somer was still “running” until she arrived at 1080 Gano Ave., where she was reported to have entered the fenced yard and back to the house in order to speak to worker(s) there, she would have only been approximately 2 minutes and 12 seconds later.
Abigail lost sight of her somewhere during her run along Gano near Solomon.
An elementary school student riding his bicycle home said he saw Somer near the tanks which are on the West side of Solomon Street.
She was still *running* according to this witness.
But the worker(s) at the renovated house didn’t suggest she was running but simply stated she came in the yard and up to the house to comment on their good work there.
She had apparently stopped running at this time.
She was also observed by another, female, student named C. Straham *walking* somewhere near Grove Park Drive, which is very near the renovated house.
But the cross guard at that intersection did not see her arrive.
The crosswalk guard was only 288.713911 feet to the West of this renovated house.
There were other children as well as cars on the road traveling to and picking up their children from school.
Yet, no one saw her?
Oh, a few did in fact see her as shown.
But somehow she disappeared within a minute or so and within a few hundred feet of others in front and behind her.
She was on the South side of Gano Ave., and not the side the playground and playing fields were on.
She disappeared at that house.
Chris
The Real Suspect Zero
Posted: Wed Nov 18, 2009 10:46 am
The purpose of my estimations and other analysis is to present to you my *theory* which is based on known facts, statistics, probabilities, as well as inductive/deductive reasoning and intuition.
Inference or estimation through extending or projecting known information..
(Definition:To reason from circumstance)
We know the following to be true/fact from documented sources:
After leaving Grove Park Elementary School approximately 2:50 pm-
1. Somer ran West on Gano Avenue from the corner of, or in proximity of, Miller Street.
2. She was observed by her sister Abigail running to/at approximately the intersection of Solomon Street when she lost sight of her.
3. She was observed running West on Gano Ave., in proximity of two tanks which are located on Gano Avenue on the West side of Solomon Street, by a student riding his bicycle.
4. She was observed at the house being renovated at 1080 Gano Avenue by at least one worker there at the time who told police she came through the fenced yard and up to the house to comment on the worker’s doing a good job.
5. This worker told police that after this she had left the house.
6. Somer was observed by another student in vicinity of Gano Avenue and Grove Park Drive
(which is 88 meters West (a few hundred feet) from this house being renovated.
7. The cross guard stationed at the intersection of Gano Avenue and Grove Park Drive did not recall Somer having crossed at that location.
They also did not note any kind of altercation or unusual activities or an abduction/abduction attempt, even though they had a clear view a block or two East where Somer’s siblings and other children were approaching.
Somer was never seen alive again.
The fact that Somer was wearing high-visibility clothing/a cranberry-colored jumpsuit with pink stripes on arms and legs and carrying bright pink book bag and lunch pack, as well as the visibility down the street would be unobstructed for at least several blocks (which are estimated at 90-100 meters length each) and that the practical distance one (with normal vision of 20/20 ) would be expected to be able to view another person down the street to at least 150-200 meters distance, and remember she is wearing clothing that in all likely hood, is more visible than many other colors of the visible spectrum (since red and associated colors such as orange have the longest wavelengths of the visible spectrum) and the fact that even though she may have been up to 2-3.5 minutes ahead of her sister, brother and others, she would have been visible if say someone had attempted to abduct her from the same side of the street the children were walking.
8. We know that the offender in this case had a very narrow window of opportunity in time and in distance.
9. We know that a number of people were in fact traveling along this same street at the time Somer was, as she had been seen by at least two witnesses on their way home at the time.
10. We know that she was both running/walking in a Westerly direction on the South side of Gano Avenue and not on the Park side (North)
11. We know the last time(s) she was seen was in close proximity to the renovated house (one witness places her within the grounds of that house)
12. We know she was not seen by the cross guard at the intersection just West of that house.
13. We know that she was found in the landfill and was apparently placed into some kind of local refuse container (either household garbage can, dumpster, or other kind of refuse container after her death)
14. We know from statements her father had made that police told him that “soot” was reportedly found on some of her clothing.
(SOOT definition: a black substance formed by combustion or separated from fuel during combustion, rising in fine particles, and adhering to the sides of the chimney or pipe conveying the smoke; especially : the fine powder consisting chiefly of carbon that colors smoke)
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/SOOT.
15. We know that she was not transported to the landfill via the Unsub’s own vehicle but placed locally into a trash receptacle and subsequently transported to the landfill(s) via a waste management truck.
To many people it would appear that this act is conducive with someone who committed this crime in haste, without planning or premeditation involved.
That the offender had done so as a result of spontaniety and opportunity, and suggests a disorganized characteristic.
After all, organized killers usually dispose of bodies in areas distant from the abduction location and they usually attempt to hide as well as place the body in locations that would ensure rapid decomposition which would hinder victim’s identification, et cetera..
It has been suggested that the offender may possibly have not had a vehicle for transporting the victim’s body somewhere else for disposal and this is why he simply discarded it in the refuse container for pickup.
There have been theories concerning the possibility that someone, some crazed lunatic or homesteaders who had been residing for several days in this house being renovated may have taken her or that someone else across the street stopped at the parking area of the playing fields and playground may have been waiting for the right time to snatch her away et cetera..
But any Unsub having the mobility, having a vehicle, for use in targeting the area just a few blocks West of a school, would also, logically, have taken the victim to another location in which they felt both comfortable and familiar, in order to assault or murder the abductee.
The police are believing this is a local perp, as opposed to someone scouring the state searching for victims to abduct.
I agree.
A local offender would have a good idea as to most locations that would serve his purpose well.
And he would already have his victim secured for transport.
How would this victim react to being abducted once they realized what was transpiring?
The perp would have to secure/restrain the victim in some manner as not to allow her not to bring unwanted attention to him and his vehicle.
Once he has assaulted/murdered his victim, then the disposal phase ensues.
Why not simply take the victim to a location that would ensure the body is never recovered and therefore there would be little chance of his being linked to this murder?
Why risk placing her into a local refuse container when this could be dangerous for a few reasons?
My analysis tells me that the one responsible for this child’s murder has considered a number of scenarios in his mind already.
It tells me that he placed her body into a refuse container as he felt she would be taken to the landfill and buried under tons of garbage and never discovered.
It tells me he considered his options in the disposal process and felt this would be the best and would not link him to her disappearance.
It tells me he’s more the organized-type than disorganized than we are giving him credit.
It tells me he couldn’t take her to his home and do whatever he wanted to her because there was a reason behind why he couldn’t do this, family, fear.
It is of course possible that there may have been another location, rather than his place of residence he had taken her in order to assault/kill her.
But then again, we are talking about the ability to transport and the ability to conceal his crime.
There will be more analysis later of course…
Christen
It takes approximately 2 minutes at 2 m/h walking speed to travel 100-meters.
You can see clearly between 100-200-meters distance ahead (1-2 blocks)
(we’ll use the median of 150-meters or 1.5 blocks, for analysis purposes)
This means you can normally see shapes of people and color of clothing worn between two and three minutes before you reach them.
By the time Abigail reached Solomon Street, Somer would have been in proximity to the intersection of Gano Ave., and Bay Circle, slightly more than one block to the west as the lengths of each block is approximately the same.
When Somer reached the 1080 Gano Ave. location, approximately 125 meters West of Bay Circle E., her sister still behind her and traveling at 2 m/h would arrive somewhere in close-proximity to the East side of Solomon street.
The distance between Somer and her sister is approximately 125 and 135 meters.
Clearly nothing would have obstructed her sister’s view along this straight route that would prevent her from observing an abduction of her sister.
And clearly something such as an abduction within the 88-meter distance to, and from front of the house loacted at 1080 Gano Avenue would have most probably been observed by the cross guard.
I also wanted to comment on the theory that was contributed on the possibility that people homestaeding within that burntout house may have been involved in her disappearance and murder.
The fact that the house was at the time being renovated and worker(s) were present at the very time and day Somer went missing seems to negate this possibility, as the house would not have been presently occupied by these unknowns during the time work was being done there.
These unknowns could not have taken her without some kind of struggle and where would they have done so considering they had no other “inside” location to accomplish their assault and subsequent murder?
Chris
I apologize to everyone.
I made a review of my earlier computations and realized quickly that something wasn’t adding up, I had made an error in my computations.
My mathematics abilities aren’t all that keen nor is my spelling and grammar.
When I stated: “The same distance at 5.9m/h equal to 55.5932203
Less than 1-minute.”
It was not 5.9 m/h but was instead 5.9 ft/second.
Anyway…
Somer running at: 4 m/h (5.9 ft/sc)
5 m/h (7.33 ft/sc)
6 m/h (8.8 ft/sc)
7 m/h (10.26 ft/sc)
Abigail walking at: 2 m/h (2.93 ft/sc)
2.5 m/h (3.66 ft/sc)
I’ll get back to correcting the estimated times it would have taken for each to reach the distances traveled from the corner of Gano Avenue to various intesections along the way to the house being renovated, and just how far behind the children were from Somer at each location when taking into account their relative speed.
Again… I apologize as I try to be as accurate as I possibly can.
Chris
I’m back..
And here is what I believe is a more-accurate analysis concerning distance/time computations.
*IF* Somer had, say, reached the end of the first block (intersection of Gano Avenue at Solomon Stree) at the same time her sister, Abigail, and the other children had reached the corner of Miller Street at Gano Ave., then Somer would be 1-block to the West (100-meters/328 feet distance)
When Abigail said she lost sight of Somer, Somer was near Solomon Street.
Abigail and the others would arrive at this same location, walking an estimated speed 2.0 m/h (2.93 ft/sc) approximately two minutes later.
Somer, running at an estimated speed of 6 m/h (8.8 ft/sc) would arrive at the next block West, which is Bay Circle E., approximately 37.27 seconds later.
Whereas Abigail and the others would now be approximately 98 feet (1/3 block) West of the corner of Miller Street and Gano Ave.
Therefore Somer is about 1 2/3 blocks ahead of the others.
*IF* Somer continued to run at a constant spped of 6 m/h then she will reach a location approximately 30-meters East of the house being renovated at 1080 Gano Ave 37.27 seconds later.
And arrive at the house aproximately slightly more than 10 seconds after this.
Her sister and the other children will now be approximately 29.3 feet closer, but still about 2-blocks from the house at this point.
It will take them another 4-minutes to reach the house.
They can clearly see people and color of cothing at a distance of 1-1.5 blocks a head which is between 2-3 minutes before reaching the loaction.
Therefore, we can surmise that *IF* Somer ran all the way to the loaction of the house, then her sister and the others who were walking, may have lost visual reference for 1-2 minutes.
The window of opportunity for her abduction when considering this data alone suggests Somer’s abductor/killer would have not had more than a few minutes at the most to accomplish the abduction before children would have arrived or at least seen the abduction taking place.
This analysis is only taking into account Somer’s sister and the other children with her, not various vehicles and pedestrian traffic along this very busy route just after school let out.
It also does not include the position of the cross guard at the intersetion of Gano Avenue and Grove Park Drive, just a short distance to the West of this house, and their visual field which would also be at least 1-2 blocks in each direction of this route.
Chris