Brittany Mae Smith (left) personal photo - Jeffrey Easley (right) booking photo
1) Brittany Mae Smith vanished a little over a week ago from Roanoke, Virginia. Investigators said the 12-year-old was taken by 32-year-old Jeffrey Scott Easley. Easley met Brittany’s mother on the Internet.
2) Brittany’s mom, Tina Smith, was found dead inside her home on December 6 when she didn’t show up for work. Last week the Medical Examiner released the autopsy and ruled the case an official homicide. An Amber Alert was issued for Brittany.
3) Jeffrey Easley was charged with abduction and credit card fraud, and a nationwide manhunt ensued.
4) On Friday, December 10, a Good Samaritan recognized Brittany and Easley in San Francisco, California. The pair was panhandling in front of the store. The tipster said she remembered Brittany from HLN’s Nancy Grace show. Authorities say the tipster ran into the Safeway and asked the clerk to call police.
Jury selection will begin today in the Chandra Levy murder case. Ingmar Guandique, the man charged with killing Chandra, is on trial. Opening statements may be heard as early as this Thursday. The 28-year-old illegal alienfrom El Salvador pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder and other charges.
Guandique was already serving a ten-year sentence in California for attacks on two other women in Rock Creek Park. In 2002, Chandra’s remains were found in the same park where the attacks occured. Investigators believe Chandra was murdered on May 1, 2001. At the time of her death, Chandra was interning at the Federal Bureau of Prisons and was having an alleged affair with Congressman Gary Condit (D-Calif). Condit was never named a suspect.
The FBI needs your help tracking down Adam Yahive Gadhn who investigators believe may have major ties to Al Queda. Gadhn was indicted in the Centeral District of California for material support to Al Qaeda and treason. The FBI said, “The charges are related to Gadahn’s alleged involvement in a number of terrorists activities, including providing aid and comfort to Al Qaeda and services for Al Qaeda.”
Authorites say Gadhn is known to have scars on his chest and right forearm, he speaks Arabic and English, known to use a string of aliases:
Abu Suhayb Al-Amriki, Abu Suhail Al-Amriki, Abu Suhayb, Yihya Majadin Adams, Adam Pearlman, Yayah, Azzam the American, Azzam Al-Amriki
The Rewards for Justice program is offering a $1 millon for information leading investigators to Gadahn. Please contact the FBI if you have any information.
Norma Lopez MISSING (photo of the shirt she was wearing the day she vanished)
Time is ticking on and one month has passed since teenager Norma Lopez was abducted and killed in Moreno Valley, California. Since then, regular classes have resumed at Valley View High and the hunt to find her killer is still active. Police told me Norma left her summer school classes at Valley View and was supposed to meet her sister, but she never made it to the location. Investigators believe she may have taken a short cut from Dracaea Avenue leading out to an area on Cottonwood Avenue, but somewhere in between authorities believe she was kidnapped. In fact, some of her personal belongings were found in a field, and there were signs of a struggle. Investigators believe she was taken against her will and may have been thrown into a newer model green SUV. That vehicle was seen fleeing from the area at a high rate of speed. Deputy Nieburger told me that that vehicle may not necessarily be connected to the murder, but the driver may have seen something. The area where Norma’s body was found is about three miles away from where she went missing, and her remains were in an open field on top of the ground.
UPDATE: The remains found in Malibu Canyon Monday have been positively identified as Mitrice Richardson. The official cause of death has not been released… Stay tuned for more on this case.
Mitrice Richardson was only 24-years-old when she disappeared in Malibu, California on September 17, 2009. This beautiful woman is a California State Fullerton graduate, and was set to begin a doctoral program. She was arrested around 10 p.m. the night before she went missing for not paying an $89.00 tab at Geoffrey’s restaurant. Investigators in Malibu released the young woman around 1 a.m. without any identification, money, cell phone or a vehicle to drive. According to the websitedesigned to find Matrice, she does suffer from mental and health issues. There were at least two possible sightings the next morning, but they didn’t pan out. Early on, nearly 300 volunteers turned out to search Malibu canyon for Mitrice, where they covered nearly 18-square-miles. This was the fourth search conducted for her.
Recently, Mitrice may have been spotted in Las Vegas. This is a lead investigators are looking into, but so far this beautiful woman has not been found.
If you have any information about Mitrice, please contact the Los Angeles Police Department, Detective Steven Eguchi: (213) 485-2531
Norma Lopez MISSING (photo of the shirt she was wearing the day she vanished)
Norma Lopez vanished in broad daylight four days ago in Moreno Valley, California and now there is an all out search to find this beautiful teen. Police told me Norma left her summer school classes at the Valley View High School and was supposed to meet her sister, but she never made it to the location. Investigators believe she may have taken a short cut from Dracaea Avenue leading out to an area on Cottonwood Avenue, but somewhere in between authorities believe she may have been kidnapped. In fact, some of her personal belongings were found in a field, and there could be signs of a struggle. Investigators believe she was taken against her will and may have been thrown into a newer model green SUV. That vehicle was seen fleeing from the area at a high rate of speed.
For the last 10 months the FBI believes an elderly man has been robbing banks. Most of the hits have been in San Diego County, and one in Riverside County. His latest heist was at a Bank of America in Temecula, California. If you take a close look at the photos, the suspect looks like someone’s grandpa, but the FBI says this grandpa is a gun-wielding bandit. He is known to carry a small caliber pistol inside a leather case, and has threatened tellers that he will use it if they don’t cough up the cash. Once he gets what he wants, the suspect walks out of the bank.
Agents believe the white male is between 60-70 years old, he’s fairly tall, standing about six feet, and weighing just less than 200 pounds.
From the FBI’s website:
“The Geezer Bandit is believed to be responsible for robbing the following banks:”
Police in Sacramento, California are reaching out to the public for help. Over the weekend, Tatiyanna Conrad, 13, went missing around 2 p.m. on Saturday. Her mother reported her missing to authorities late Saturday night. Police say they are concerned because Tatiyanna does not have a history of running away. Sometimes she is known to walk up to the Raley’s shopping center on Folsom Boulevard, but that is about as far as she travels from her apartment complex on Occidental Drive.
School began this morning, and Tatiyanna is nowhere to be found. She is on the taller side, about 5’7”, weighs about 130 pounds, and waslast seen wearing a black shirt with gold writing that says, “This is my shirt.”
If you have any information, please contact the Sacramento Police Department: 916-264-5471
A female dubbed the “Starlet Bandit” has hit 10 banks in California. The FBI links the suspect to 10 robberies since 2008, eight of which were the last two weeks. The name “Starlet Bandit” was given to her because of her initial robberies in Hollywood, and the large glasses she wears. In many instances the bandit carries a cell phone decorated with jewels. Over the last couple years, authorities say, it appears the “Starlet Bandit” has gained weight, and has been seen fleeing from banks in a white Toyota Avalon with a male driver.
INFORMATION FROM AN FBI RELEASE:
The Starlet Bandit is further described as follows:
Gender: Female
Race: White
Age: 20-28
Height: 5’5” to 5’7”
Weight: 140 – 170 lbs
Clothing: Baseball cap, black sunglasses, beige hooded sweater, and jeans
Please call the FBI if you have any information: (310) 477-6565
More than 200 brand new photoswere finally released by the NYPD this week in the Rodney Alcala serial killer case. Investigators are hoping to identify all of the people in the photos. Authorities in California released an initial stash of pictures last month to the public out of whichmore than 20 women have been identified and are said to be doing well. At that time, another batch was sent off to the NYPD cold-case squad, but wasnot immediately made public.
All of the photos depict women, girls and young boys. Along with being on death row for five murders, police say Alcala is a suspect in two other cold-case killings in New York. Cornelia Crilley, 23, was raped and strangled in 1971, and her case was never solved. Also, Ellen Jane Hover, 23, disappeared in 1977. Her bones were found in a grave a short time later. Alcala may have been the last person to see her alive.
Michelle Sigona is a crime fighting, victims advocate extraordinaire, but for Michelle -- the good fight doesn't stop there. In her spare time, she is a volunteer firefighter -- and now, she is tackling the issues and cases that mean the most to her....
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