missing child
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As More Questions Arise, Police in Louisiana Say They Are Investigating Quawan Charles' Death as a Homicide
Nearly two weeks after police told the family of 15-year-old Quawan Charles that his body was found in a sugarcane field in Loreauville, La., the Iberia Parish Sheriff’s Office is now saying that it is investigating the death as a homicide, but The Root has learned that new developments in the case are raising even…
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Kamille ‘Cupcake’ McKinney: Frantic Search After 3-Year-Old Is Kidnapped at a Birthday Party
Worried family members were among dozens of people gathered Monday night in Birmingham, Ala., to pray for the safe return of a 3-year-old girl who was abducted from a birthday party Saturday night. Two “persons of interest” were taken into custody by police Sunday night in the disappearance of Kamille “Cupcake” McKinney, but the child…
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Medical Examiner Confirms Remains Found in Arkansas Are Those of 4-Year-Old Maleah Davis
Decomposed remains found in Arkansas late last week have been confirmed to be those of 4-year-old Maleah Davis, the Houston child reported missing from Texas in early May by her mother’s then-fiance, who was subsequently arrested in connection to the case. As KTRK ABC 13 reports, police in Fulton, Ark., Friday said a road crew…
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Derion Vence Allegedly Confesses to Dumping Body of Maleah Davis; Police Find Human Remains [Corrected]
Houston-based activist Quanell X, leader of the New Black Panther Nation, claims in a report by KHOU that while visiting Derion Vence in jail Friday morning, Vence allegedly confessed to dumping five-year-old Maleah Davis’ body on the side of a road about 20 miles outside of Hope, Ark. Police later found human remains in the…
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Maleah Davis Likely Dead While Cooperation Wanes, According to Houston Law Enforcement
Houston police believe Maleah Davis, the 4-year-old girl last seen near a highway in Houston, has been killed, according to CBS News. Now, they need help finding and identifying her body. “She deserves to be found, she deserves to be recovered and she deserves to have a proper burial,” Chief Art Acevedo said at a…
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Derion Vence Arrested in Connection with Maleah Davis’ Disappearance
Twenty-six-year-old Derion Vence was arrested Saturday near Houston in connection with the disappearance of 4-year-old Maleah Davis, who has been missing since May 3. According to police, Vence was charged with tampering with evidence, specifically a human corpse. “At this point in time those are the charges we have filed and I can’t say any…
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Mother of Maleah Davis Now Believes Ex-Fiancé Bears Responsibility for Disappearance, Police Say His Story Doesn't Add Up
According to outlets including the New York Post, little Maleah Davis, the 4-year-old Houston child last seen May 3, was in danger before what her stepfather characterized as abduction at the hands of three hispanic men. Police issued an Amber Alert for Maleah Sunday. Sgt. Mark Holbrook of the Houston Police Department’s Homicide Division told…
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Man Charged in Murder of 9-Year-Old Trinity Love Jones Was Dating Jones’ Mother, According to Police
Prosecutors in Los Angeles have charged 38-year-old Emiel Hunt with the murder Trinity Love Jones, the 9-year-old girl whose remains were found in a duffel bag near a horse trail in Hacienda Heights, Calif. Hunt briefly appeared in a Pomona courtroom Tuesday, according to CBS Los Angeles. He remains behind bars with a bail set…
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Texas Father Who Reported His 3-Year-Old Daughter Missing Believed to Have Dumped Her Body: Report
Sometimes the sum of the story is just this: Jesus Effing Christ. A missing toddler in suburban Dallas apparently did not wander off, but died in front of her father by choking, and he then dumped the 3-year-old’s body in a culvert, authorities say. Wesley Mathews reported his daughter, Sherin Mathews, missing on Oct. 7.…