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Around the middle of this past week maintenance men at the West Bay Apartments in Columbus, Ohio made a gruesome discovery in their pond and one of the dumspters…body parts. Police, staff from the Coroner’s Office and anthropologists from Ohio State University all joined in the search for the rest of the dismembered body that was scattered throughout the complex, in the pond, trash bins and even in the brush around the complex.

Police won’t say what led them to Robert Knight’s apartment but once they arrived and he allowed them to search the place they found a head and both arms stuffed in his freezer.

The body belonged to Tracey Moore, Knight’s girlfriend, who was no stranger to his violence. Apparently this three-time loser had stabbed his girlfriend back in February of 2008 and punched her in the head after pushing her to the ground. When the case went to trial Tracey Moore never showed up and the charges were dismissed. This time around Knight finished the job he started last February.

Fifty-year-old Robert Knight has been in and out of jail in Ohio since 1979 on charges ranging from breaking and entering to kidnapping and assault. Let’s hope this piece of trash doesn’t get out this time.

Judging from the fact that Knight dumped his girlfriend’s body parts scattered around the apartment complex, so close to where he lived, he knew he would get caught. Perhaps he was even counting on it.

Source.

It’s getting to where a grown man can’t sit around nekked drinking a beer anymore in the privacy of his own home anymore. Hell, I might be nekked as I write this, having worked all day. Oh, wait a minute. Former Mayor of Gainesville Georgia, Mark Musselwhite, wasn’t in the privacy of his own home when he was arrested. Then I guess I’ll have to take back at least part of what what I said.

Police in Rabun County got a call last weekend about a man walking down Earls Ford Road, buck naked. Department of Natural Resources Park Ranger Brandon Walls, accompanied by  Rabun County Deputy Sheriff, paid a visit to the campsite of 43-year-old Mark Musselwhite yesterday and found him intoxicated and naked. According to the accounts I’ve read there were severeal alcoholic beverages and an unidentified female at the campsite.Musselwhite didn’t seem to think he was doing anything wrong. When the deputy and park ranger approached him he said “Hello” and asked them why he was being visited.

Musselwhite served on the Gainseville city council for six years as well as having been mayor and he lost a bid for a state senate seat back in 2006. He has also served as a deacon for the First Baptist Church in Gainesville.

Musselwhite has been charged with public indecency. You can find the DNR incident report here. A public indencency charge probably wouldn’t be the end of the world but once you start trying to throw around non-existent political clout and get beligerent with the cops…Most likely not a good move on his part.

What is it about summertime that has women leaving their children in locked cars in the hot sun? This is the third story of this ilk that I’ve posted in just the last month.

Krystal Whitehead had to pick up some hair coloring stuff from a beauty supply store last week. It was probably a quick trip in and out but she thought enough to pull her 11-year-old daughter out of the car to take inside with her, but left her 5-month-old son locked in the car with the windows cracked.

A Forsyth County Sheriff’s Deputy was patrolling the area and was alerted to the little boy by a shopper in the parking lot. The deputy found the baby in the car and got him out, summoning paramedics. In the meantime Krystal had gotten word that police were in the parking lot, which amazingly enough jogged her memory to the fact that she had forgotten her son.

The baby is OK. He was taken to the hospital and checked out, while his mother was arrested on charges of cruelty to children. I don’t know if she has gotten out on her $22k bond yet but as of this past Wednesday she was still sitting in the Forsyth County Jail.

Harlem, New York… CARLOS THOMPSON… New York cops say rapper Carlos Thompson handed a .38-caliber revolver to a 13-year-old boy and ordered him to murder another teen. Now, more than a year later, Thompson is in custody.
http://www.amw.com/fugitives/brief.cfm?id=55482

Stone Mountain, Georgia… DERRICK YANCEY… Newly-released surveillance video shows Derrick Yancey, a former sheriff’s deputy accused of killing his wife and another man, in his first hours on the run. Investigators say Yancey is seen buying a Greyhound bus ticket to California, but his whereabouts are now unknown.
http://www.amw.com/fugitives/brief.cfm?id=64701

Whitewater, Wisconsin… RICKY HOWARD… Cops in Whitewater, Wisc. say Ricky Howard is a perpetual danger to society. Throughout his life, Howard’s been in and out of jail, but cops say in December of 1999, he reached a new low when he violently raped a 12-year-old girl. Nearly ten years later, Howard is still on the run and police need your help to find him.
http://www.amw.com/fugitives/brief.cfm?id=63086

Garland, Texas… CESAR OROZCO… Authorities are searching for Cesar Orozco, a man who they say shot and killed 26-year-old Joe Castillo last March. Police suspect that Orozco killed Castillo because he thought he was seeing his ex-wife.
http://www.amw.com/fugitives/brief.cfm?id=64745

Nationwide… JOHN PARIGIAN… After being convicted of wire fraud, cops say Boston con-man John Parigian rented a plane and vanished into thin air – literally. Now, police are piecing together his trail, and believe he could be hiding out in New York or Massachusetts.
 
Atlanta, Georgia… VERNON COLEMAN… The U.S. Marshals and the DEA have teamed up to bring down the Black Mafia Family, a major drug trafficking organization. They were successful in arresting all but one of the suspects, and the only straggler is Vernon Marcus Coleman, known as Big Wu on the streets.
http://www.amw.com/fugitives/brief.cfm?id=64850
 
Anchorage, Alaska… JOHN PEZZENTI KILLER…On December 3, 2007, detectives were called to a two-story shack in Anchorage, Alaska, where they found a body, soon identified as acclaimed wildlife photographer John Pezzenti, Jr. With no signs of forced entry or robbery, cops say John knew who pulled the trigger, and they hope that AMW viewers can help solve the murder.
http://www.amw.com/fugitives/brief.cfm?id=58981
 
Nationwide… PATRICIA PARDO… In 2000, cops say Patricia Pardo stole the identity of 17-year-old Joanna Saenz. Eight years later, Pardo was arrested but quickly disappeared after posting bond. Now, Joanna is determined to fight back and help police track down the woman they say changed her life forever. This Saturday, AMW will put Pardo on national TV in hopes of bringing her to justice.

Houston, Texas… TIMOTEO RIOS… In April of 2008, 39-year-old Tina Davila headed to a Cricket store in Houston, Texas to pay her cell phone bill. But before she got inside, cops say she was attacked in an attempted carjacking by Timoteo Rios. With her 4-month-old baby in the backseat, Tina fought back, but police say Rios stabbed Tina in the chest, killing her at the scene. Cops say Rios escaped in his own car, but that this was just the beginning of a crime spree that lasted all afternoon.
http://www.amw.com/fugitives/brief.cfm?id=56339
 
Washington, D.C…. TOP COPS 2009… Once a year, the bravest and most heroic police officers — the nation’s TOP COPS — are honored in a ceremony hosted by AMW Host John Walsh. This year’s TOP COPS AWARDS showcased some truly inspiring stories, with the night’s top honor going to a Georgia Police Officer who single handedly stopped an armed robbery and saved the life of a cashier who was taken hostage. 

Cesar Laurean, the man accused of killing 20-year-old Marine Maria Lauterbach in 2007 showed up briefly in court this week and entered a plea of “Not Guilty”. While the prosecutor’s office is not very happy about it the judge set a tentative trial date of March 2010 because Laurean’s defense attorney claims to have eight pending murder trials between now and then.

Earlier this week Lashaunda Chantee Cooper decided she would take a quick drive down to the Wal-Mart in Marrietta, Georgia to do a bit of shopping shoplifting. As she tried to leave the store with her $25 worth of clothes security stopped and detained her, calling local police in the process. If you are thinking Lashaunda must have done something else to get her written up here at Shadowscope you would be 100% right.

Before she headed into the Wal-Mart Lashaunda (MySpace) parked her car and left her ignition keys in it with strict instructions to her getaway driver to stay in the car while she took care of her business.

When Marrietta police arrived and started to read Lashaunda her rights she explained to the officer that her children were still in the car. Police found her two boys, one and three years old. One of them only had a t-shirt on and there was only one car seat in the car, which neither was in.

Lashaunda is lodged in the Cobb County jail with no bond on charges of Child Cruelty and Shoplifting. Oh yeah, and violation of probation, which would explain the lack of bond. Lashaunda has a record which mainly consists of shoplifting, driving without a license and trafficking in cocaine which stretches back to 2002.

Be warned that if you head over to Lashaunda’s page you might find it even less intelligible than my writing. She’s one of those lovely ladies who think that ebonics is actually acceptable in their writing in addition to their speech and everything on the page has that ‘gangsta’ feel that I hate so much.

Thanks to Sprocket who left a comment in one of my other posts for pointing out this new to me. Obviously from the lack of posting I’ve been pretty busy this week but I wanted to update this story prior to going to work this morning.

A father and son fishing on the Raisin River Thursday about 12 miles from where Neveah disappeared discovered a little girl around noon who was buried in a shallow grave which was covered in quick drying cement on the riverbank.

The two men called 911 and once law enforcement showed up two hours later crime scene investigators were called in to the site. Police are still not confirming one way or another if it is Neveah but the family’s pastor says they are 99% sure it is the little girl. According to the Monroe News (which has several incorrect items in the article linked below) Neveah was still clothed in the same shirt and jeans she was wearing when she disappeared.

George Kennedy is still a person of interest in what has now become a murder case. One of the other men being investigated, James Easter, has been cleared of any involvement by the Sheriff and County Prosecutor.

Sources:
http://www.freep.com/article/20090605/NEWS05/906050449/Body+found+likely+Nevaeh
http://www.monroenews.com/article/20090604/NEWS01/906049991/-1/NEVAEH

Back in early November of last year I wrote about Robert Dale Paige. You can read the post I linked to but the gist of it was that a 16-year-old relative of his ran up a $2,000 cell phone bill. She allegedly approached Paige about taking nude pictures of her to pay off the bill and the dumb ass agreed.

Anyhow, Paige was sentenced on Tuesday to 15 years in prison for taking the photographs. He was found guilty of producing child pornography and possessing child pornography. The 15 years was for the production charge and he gets 10 concurrent years on the possession charge. The judge apparently felt the same way I do, telling Paige that “I was absolutely repulsed by what you did”.