Jarred Harrell (mugshot from Clay County)
Clay County Sheriff Rick Besseler named a ‘person of interest’ tonight in the Somer Thompson case. The Sheriff says Jarred Mitchell Harrell, 24, was arrested in Meridian, Mississippi, and is currently being held on a $1 million bail. Harrell is not only a person of interest in the horrific abduction and murder of 7-year-old Somer Thompson, but he is also charged with 29 counts of child pornography. Harold formerly resided in the neighborhood where Somer was abducted last fall as she walked home from school.
According to the warrant released by the Clay County Sheriff’s office, Jarred Harrell was asked to move out of his residence on August 4, 2009 after his roommates found he was responsible for the theft of a roommate’s IPOD touch. It appears Harrell messed up when he left his computer, and a box of compact disks behind. According to the warrant, “While Jarred was gone the roommates got into Jarred’s computer and searched for child pornography. They searched after they had been told that Jarred had been caught viewing child pornography… They had found a compact disk in Jarred’s box of CD’s with the writing “don’t lose music” on it. A check of the compact disk revealed that there was a large quantity of child erotica and pornography on the disk. The computer was turned over to the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office the following day on 8-10-09. The computer was processed by the Office of The Attorney General Cyber Crimes Unit after a search warrant was obtained. The forensic processing of the computer revealed a large amount of child erotica and also child pornography. There were 24 pornographic images of children and 5 moves that contained child pornography.”
Please note, I left many disturbing details from the affidavit out of this post due to the graphic nature.
Remembering Somer Thompson
BACKGROUND
Stay tuned for more information as it develops…
: Somer Thompson was abducted on October 19, 2009, and just three days later, her body was found 50 miles away in a Georgia landfill. Investigators followed the trash from her neighborhood in Orange Park, FL the week she went missing to the landfill. Since then, more than one thousand tips have poured into “Team Somer,” a unit put together by investigators. At this point, Harrell has not been charged with murder, but it does seem that investigators are getting closer to finding answers about Somer’s case.
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my heart goes out to somer and her family. looking at that piece of sh*t gives me the chills that this is the ugly face baby somer may have last seen. it literally breaks my heart. i pray that justice will be served and some day these horrible pedophiles will be gone forever.
these cops r a joke only way they solve msot of these cases is informants or tips from public keystone cops
it took this long to find guy he lived in neighbor hood what were cops doing looking at porn themselves
i feel for the familes of these kids
think of the last time one of these cases were solved so mnay unsolved cases ill be happy when day comes we won’t need site like this but we all know too mnay nut’s are allowed to roam street’s and internet
making kid’s easy prey and those not aware easy victims
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