Category Archive for : ‘ABDUCTION KIDNAPPING’

UTAH FAMILY’S FORMER HANDYMAN DIES #1373 (Abduction/Kidnapping)

Newsday

9/1/02

Fourteen-year-old Elizabeth Smart was reportedly taken from her home at gunpoint on June 5th between 1 and 2 a.m. Police said that an intruder forced open a window at Elizabeth’s home and went into the bedroom where the teenager and her 9 year old sister slept. Police said the gunman warned the younger girl her sister would be harmed if she told anyone, and she waited two hours before alerting her parents. One of 1,200 volunteers searching for the girl reported

A statewide effort to prevent kidnappings will begin Monday as officials distribute videos and child identification kits throughout Connecticut.  Many local police departments and Department of Motor Vehicles branches will have the emergency packets available to parents this week.  Each includes spaces to keep recent photos of a child, hair for possible DNA sampling, an updated description and fingerprinting information.  This new awareness campaign, dubbed Connecticut’s first Child Abduction Prevention Week, comes after a rash of high-profile kidnappings across the country.

(Newington, Connecticut)

Police issued a statewide Amber Alert yesterday for 10 year old Nicole Timmons.  She was reported missing from her home after 7 a.m. when her mother did not find her in her room.  Nicole is 4 foot 6 with long brown hair and was last seen when her mother put her to bed Monday night.  Lt. John Wallace said information he wouldn’t reveal makes us believe that this was possibly not a walk-away, that some sort of foul play or abduction is involved.  Authorities are looking for Nicoles’ father, Ralph

New York Times

Javier Sickler was arrested after authorities found him attacking an 11 year old girl. The girlwas abducted from her bedroom, raped and beat in the backyard of her suburban Salt Lake City home.Sickler is a former high school classmate of the girl’s father. She is listed in criticalcondition.

(Utah)

Jessica Cortez, a 4 year old who disappeared from a park during the weekend, was found safe yesterday at a medical clinic.  Police chief Martin Pomeroy said he could not yet fill in the gaps about where she had been for the last two days.  She appeared dirty and disheveled, he said.  A woman who brought the girl to the clinic was taken into custody.  The chief said it was too early to call the woman in custody a suspect.  Jessica had been at Echo Park with her parents and

Paula Lynn Roach, a 24 year old former state correction officer, is being held on a charge of aggravated kidnapping.  She allegedly abducted 1-month old Nancy Crystal Chavez from a Wal-Mart parking lot, dragging the child’s frantic mother across the pavement as she clutched the abductor’s car trying to rescue the baby.  The kidnapping was videotaped by a surveillance camera.  The grainy image shows the infants mother, Margarita Chavez, placing her children Nancy, a 2 year old and a 6 years old in a minivan about 4:30 p.m. local time