For those superstitious types out there, it came as no surprise that Friday the 13th yielded a tragedy.
PFC Kelly Bordeaux, an Army medic with the 44th Medical Brigade stationed at Fort Bragg, NC had been “going through it”.
While she was away at boot camp, just about the two largest shocks to the system one can get, with no ability to do anything about, landed at her doorstep.
Kelli’s Father Paul passed away unexpectedly on Friday May 13th, 2011 and her husband Mike Bordeaux cheated on her with a mutual friends wife in the couple’s marital bed.
Kelli’s family and friends decided not to tell Kelli about her father out of concern it would hamper her ability to complete basic training- a move she made as a newlywed to advance her ability to train for work in the medical field. A few days later she got the dreaded news.
While Kelli was at “basic” the knowledge that her husband Mike cheated on her and had begun drinking heavily caused her Mother Johnna to do some booting of her own.
Mike was given a one way ticket to California to return to his Mother’s home- and out of hers.
As Kelli settled into Army life, she decided to give her marriage to Mike another shot.
Perhaps her status as a soldier empowered her to think her increased level of discipline was transferrable via osmosis.
Mike and Kelli moved into an apartment in Meadowbrook and for a while the couple struggled to overcome the obstacles infidelity and Mike’s prior felony conviction for cocaine possession presented. Mike worked a part time job in construction in Spring Lake while Kelli was on base.
Kelli realized that she married Mike as somewhat of a “transitional guy” after a long term relationship with a fellow St. Cloud man, Justin Thompson. Kelli was committed to her career choice with the Army and while she believed he loved her, Mike was not ready for the level of responsibility she needed to support both her and their vows. (more…)
Snow Hill, MD- In August 2009 www.blinkoncrime.com began an investigative series on the disappearance of Delaware resident and Mother of three, Christine Marie Sheddy.
Sheddy had been missing since November 2007 following a phone call to her best friend Jimmy Quail who offered to pick up her and her two young sons immediately.
With the help of Christine’s Mother’s dogged determination, the investigative efforts led to the recovery of Christine’s remains buried on the grounds of a Snow Hill bed and breakfast.
Murder charges were filed against Justin Hadel on the day Christine was found, February 20, 2010.
Hadel was convicted and sentenced to life without the possibility of parole in September 2011.
It was through a failed plea obligation that Jr Jackson was able to be indicted by a grand jury yesterday and is now charged with first degree murder, as well as conspiracy to commit murder.
Tia Jackson, his long time girlfriend and cousin of Justin Hadel, is facing accessory after the fact charges in the removal and disposal of Christine Sheddy’s remains from the Byrd Rd farm where she was murdered.
Reached at the home where she and her husband Steve are now raising Christine’s children Haylie, Isaac and Zeke, Lynn Dodenhoff was not surprised in the least.
..”I told you Christine always had one more thing to say.. and today she did.
My family and I look forward to justice being served to all parties involved in my daughters murder..”
Dodenhoff began writing to Christine upon the advice of a grief counselor and shared her letter from yesterday exclusively: (more…)
Dallas, Tx- Home of The Cowboys! Death knell of 11 year old Johnathan Ramsey.
Johnathan Ramsey was the apple of nobody’s eye. In fact, he likely would have killed to have an actual apple.
His Father Aaron and stepmother Elizabeth starved the young boy by feeding him military rations until he was so gaunt he could not even eat that. He began eating his own feces.
According to police records, Aaron Ramsey confessed to limiting the boy’s meals to bread, water and sometimes milk, and confining him to his bedroom in the family’s Dallas home, the Dallas Morning News reported. The boy eventually stopped being able to walk and began to eat his own feces, police said.
It was not until his paternal grandfather, Edward Ramsey, who regularly called to speak to Johnathan and request to see him, began calling police out of concern that ANYONE bothered to look into this child’s whereabouts.
By March he was pretty clear he was getting the runaround and called detectives for help.
Detectives think Johnathan has been dead since August after being slowly starved to death for about a year.
Aaron Ramsey admitted finding his son lying “unresponsive” on the floor of his bedroom but denies causing his death.
He said he placed his body in a sleeping bag and dumped it in the storm shelter of an empty house nearby. He later buried it in a wooded area.
Aaron allegedly put him in his favorite t shirt and stuffed a dryer sheet in the sleeping bag to hide the smell.
What a guy.
Aaron Ramsey is a veteran. He does not appear to have missed many meals, nor does his wife.
I imagine a lifetime of three hots and a cot will cure the both of them of their ability to take from anyone ever again.
What is believed to the remains of young Johnathan Ramsey have been discovered and sent for autopsy.
Police searching for the body of missing 11-year-old Johnathan Ramsey have found skeletal remains that appear to be those of a child or small adult in a rural creek south of Dallas.
Johnathan had a brother, whom his Mother took to live with him in New Mexico when she divorced his Father in 2006.
Talk about drawing the short straw. This kid did nothing but, it seems.
Judy Ramsey Williams remarried and has not seen Johnathan in several years. Williams step mom Starla said it was not economically feasible given the 14 hour drive and Aaron was unwilling.
Aaron and Elizabeth Ramsey are currently facing felony injury to a child charges.
If they are not upgraded to murder I know a few Texans.
Tucson, AZ- Missing since Saturday morning around 8 am, six year old Isabel Celis was believed to be taken from the safety of her bedroom sometime after 11PM on Friday evening.
After Isa’s Mother Becky Celis left for work as a pediatric nurse at Tuscon Medical Center her Father told police he went to wake her at about 8am and she was not in her bed. The blinds in her room were askew and her window was open.
The screen to her window had been removed. Sergio Celis’s call t0 911 has not been released.
Early this morning, the FBI deployed a scent tracking dog and a cadaver canine to the Celis home. The family was then asked to make other living arrangements for the near future as the dogs produced evidence requiring further investigation.
Police Chief Roberto Villasenor would not reveal what was found at the home of first-grader Isabel Mercedes Celis.
Police have not said what that is, but sources close to the family not willing to be identified have confirmed to www.blinkoncrime.com that the specially trained cadaver dog alerted to the detection of cadaverine.
The home is now being treated as a crime scene.
Police have not ruled out the parents as possible suspects, nor have they commented on whether or not the residence of a sex offender in the immediate neighborhood has been searched after obtaining new warrants today that have been sealed. Another residence on the same street as the Celis family was searched this morning.
Late this afternoon, investigators headed to the landfill where the trash from the neighborhood was emptied Saturday prior to police having an opportunity to secure the scene.
Isabel’s disappearance is eerily similar to that of 10 month old Lisa Irwin , missing from her home since October 3, 2011 and has not been found.
Becky and Sergio Celis, Isabel’s parents have not spoken publicly about their daughter’s disappearance.
Fayetteville, NC- Stephan Wayne Cantrell, believed to be one of the bar owners of the Froggy Bottoms Bar, where Ft. Bragg pfc Kelli Bordeaux was last seen with Nick Holbert, has been arrested on local and Federal charges that are not related to Bordeaux’s disappearance.
Cantrell was arrested for for failing to appear at a 2001 court hearing for driving while impaired and has several warrants issued by the FBI for failures to pay over 0,000 in child support to different women.
As previously reported exclusively by www.blinkoncrime.com, the alcohol permit issued to the Froggy Bottoms Bar lists the name of Mandy Rai Murphy as it’s owner. Cantrell is listed at an address along with Murphy at 317 Lynn Avenue in Fayettville. Murphy is also listed as the principal owner of Poindexters Saloon.
Kelli Bordeaux was last seen early Saturday morning April 14 with Nick Holbert, an aggravated registered sex offender who is currently incarcerated for failing to register his change of address behind the bar.
Check back to BOC for updates to this developing story.
SoHo, Lower Manhattan, NY- I have never seen a picture of this cherub that did not mirror my smile in response.
Etan’s innocence emanates from his baby-toothed grin like a neon glow stick.
It is all I can see at the moment I gaze upon it in its Willy Wonka technicolor. Not the Depp version.
Patz was wearing similarly fluorescent sneakers when he left home for the last time.
Etan , named from the Hebrew meaning- strong, firm and impetuous- lived up to his name while he was alive for six short years.
Perhaps his everlasting gobstopper is metaphoric, and he is about to rise out of the fizzy lifting drink chamber at 127B, which is currently disguised as a dank concrete slab and former workshop of Othniel Miller.
I was 10 years old when he went missing. My Father hales from the Bronx.
My last business meeting on Prince Street was in 2005 with Madam Fabulosity Kimora Lee Simmon’s assistant James. Great guy.
We got reamed.
“You have to back off the retouch on that one, she looks like a dude.”
He was right. Scott , the oracle of fashion print- ad- retouch saved the day and I had forgotten we were in “that building”.
Got Milk For Missing?
Etan Patz is the case study the criminology enthusiast and true crime aficionados can regurgitate verbatim.
A word to the wise to those who may not say his name correctly in professional conversation- It is on the “things you must never do if you wish to be taken seriously” list. Colleagues will involuntarily cringe.
He was the first missing child featured on the milk carton.
Ironically and without public service calcium he disappeared just after his own breakfast on his way to meet his school bus at the corner of Prince and Broadway.
The unofficial suspect for the last 33 years has been Jose Ramos. Ramos is currently incarcerated for child rape in Pennsylvania and is due to be paroled in November.
Lisa R Cohen, a former abc reporter and emissary to the Patz’s wrote about Etan’s case following a 2004 civil victory where he and Etan’s Mom Julie were awarded about 2 million in a wrongful death action against Ramos.
AFTER ETAN may need a new epilogue.
What was not known publicly before the FBI began jack hammering the first quadrant of the Prince St building basement which housed his old workshop on Friday, was Jamaican national Othniel Miller was also on the short list of possible suspects in 1979.
Investigators renewed their acquaintance with Mr. Miller twice last week before securing a warrant which has been sealed.
The basement space was also home to a makeshift playgroup made possible by donated space from an adjacent gallery, and renovated by resourceful parent tenants. Shira Patz, Etan’s older sister, was a member.
Photo by Don Gangemi courtesy of NY Post
Miller was known throughout the neighborhood as a skilled carpenter and handyman. Ramos was considered a vagrant who mostly lived in a drainage ditch and managed to skirt multiple molestation allegations.
Miller paid Master Patz a dollar the day before he disappeared as he skipped down the block to tell his parents Stan and Julie.
“I want to spend this at the bodega tomorrow!”
Can’t you just hear that jubilant voice exceeding his height in volume in your head?
Etan Patz never made it to school on May 25, 1979.
May25th is now National Missing Children’s Day courtesy of Former President Ronald Reagan.
Which one would know if you lost the sibling battle to read the cereal box quiz and were therefore forced to hide your “slight” behind the milk; like it was AS interesting.
Reading the nutritional value of same aloud in retaliation over the voice of your sister notwithstanding, we both shut up.
In retrospect the yogurt moustache branding thing would have been preferable.
Mom enters upon the conversation battle void anomaly to remind us how lucky we were that Grammy and Poppa moved Daddy out of the city or we would never have been born.
She would never have agreed to live there no matter how much she loved Daddy. It was not safe for children.
“This happens in the city in big buildings because you can’t possibly know everyone that lives there.”
“Don’t ever take anything from or talk to a stranger and finish your breakfast or you will be late for the bus,” she scolded.
“What if he has a golden ticket?”, lamebrain in pigtails asked.
“Especially NEVER”, Mom replied.
On last Thursday afternoon, Othniel Miller was returned to his home by investigators walking with a cane he has been using since a multitude of strokes since 2008.
