Dunkirk101
09-20-2006, 02:28 AM
Take a look at these :(
Dragged woman left mile-long blood trail, police say
DENVER, Colorado (AP) -- A woman was tied to a vehicle with a rope and dragged through suburban streets in a gruesome crime that left a trail of blood more than a mile long, police said.
Neighbors discovered the woman's body before dawn Monday about 20 miles south of Denver. On Tuesday, sheriff's deputies were still trying to learn her identity.
The victim's face was unrecognizable and an orange tow rope was found around her neck, said Nancy Foley, who lives next door to the house where the body was found.
"I was trying to sleep last night, thinking about how this poor lady was dragged, treated worse than an animal," Foley said. "She was really mangled."
Preliminary autopsy results indicated the woman died of asphyxiation and head injuries from being strangled while dragged by a vehicle, sheriff's spokeswoman Kim Castellano said. Toxicology results could take three weeks.
Castellano said investigators Tuesday detained several witnesses for questioning. No one had been arrested or identified as a possible suspect, she said.
A photo of an unidentified couple was found nearby, but investigators did not know whether it was connected to the death, Castellano said.
Investigators were checking missing-person reports for clues.
Authorities stepped up patrols in the once-quiet neighborhood, and residents were locking their doors at night, Foley said.
"It's a very safe neighborhood, or it has been, anyway," she said.
The blood was cleaned off the paved road, but traces remained, upsetting neighbors.
"We don't want to attract any more attention than what we're already getting. This is our little piece of heaven," Foley said.
link: http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/09/19/woman.dragged.ap/index.html
Heres another :mad:
Mom, son found dead in burning van
The last time Stephanie Lee's family heard from her, she was just minutes away from meeting her sister.
And even though Lee had been stressed out lately -- her boyfriend was recently arrested, her son's school year had just started and she was getting ready to move -- there wasn't a hint of trouble in her voice.
"Things were not going right with her, but she was exuberant, she was happy,'' her sister, Tanika Lee, said. "She sounded the same way she sounded every other day.''
That was at 9:30 p.m. Saturday. But Stephanie, a single mother, never showed up to meet her sister. More than a day later, investigators made a gruesome discovery -- Stephanie Lee and her 9-year-old son were dead inside a burning van in a South Side alley, relatives said.
The 28-year-old woman had been stabbed several times. Her son, Troy Law, had been bound with duct tape and gagged. They were found at 3:20 a.m. Sunday in the 7400 block of South Phillips Ave. in the South Shore neighborhood, just two blocks from Stephanie's home.
Calumet Area Detective Division Cmdr. Eddie Welch said an accelerant was used to ignite the van, a 1992 Chevrolet, but investigators believe both victims were probably dead before the fire was set.
Neither Welch nor officials at the Cook County medical examiner's office identified the victims Monday, but family members did.
Police check boyfriend link
Neighbors who gathered at the scene Monday stared down the alley, some with mouths gaping in horror, where the bodies were found. The heat was so intense it charred three nearby garages and melted aluminum siding.
The van is registered to Darnell Mack, Stephanie Lee's boyfriend, authorities and friends said. Mack has been in Cook County Jail since Aug. 31 after an arrest for possession of cannabis at his home in the 2600 block of East 78th Street, court records show.
Mack, 25, has three prior convictions for drug offenses, the records show. Investigators are checking to see whether drugs, including Mack's recent arrest, could have played a role in the murders, a law enforcement source said.
But it was only one theory, and investigators said that they were following several leads and talking to many witnesses.
Dad worried for her safety
Welch said investigators do not believe Lee was killed in her home. He also said it was possible that her son was killed because the killer or killers feared he would divulge their identity.
Lee's family was shocked by the brutality of the attacks and insisted she was not involved in anything that could have led to this.
Relatives and friends said Stephanie, known as "Pudgie," was a good, hard-working mother. She was a dietary aide at Somerset Place nursing home on the North Side. She attended South Shore High School and DeVry Institute of Technology and was handy, even installing phone lines and changing locks for her family.
Troy Law was a fifth-grader at O'Keeffe Elementary School, where he had tested into the gifted program, said principal Carolyn Townes.
Lee's father, Cedric Lee, said he had recently asked his daughter to move to his home in Waukegan to escape Chicago's crime. On Monday, he asked the public for help solving her murder.
"Please, somebody knows something,'' he said. "I would hate for anybody else to feel my pain.''
link: http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-van19.html
What in the world could drive any sane person to do such things :confused:
Dragged woman left mile-long blood trail, police say
DENVER, Colorado (AP) -- A woman was tied to a vehicle with a rope and dragged through suburban streets in a gruesome crime that left a trail of blood more than a mile long, police said.
Neighbors discovered the woman's body before dawn Monday about 20 miles south of Denver. On Tuesday, sheriff's deputies were still trying to learn her identity.
The victim's face was unrecognizable and an orange tow rope was found around her neck, said Nancy Foley, who lives next door to the house where the body was found.
"I was trying to sleep last night, thinking about how this poor lady was dragged, treated worse than an animal," Foley said. "She was really mangled."
Preliminary autopsy results indicated the woman died of asphyxiation and head injuries from being strangled while dragged by a vehicle, sheriff's spokeswoman Kim Castellano said. Toxicology results could take three weeks.
Castellano said investigators Tuesday detained several witnesses for questioning. No one had been arrested or identified as a possible suspect, she said.
A photo of an unidentified couple was found nearby, but investigators did not know whether it was connected to the death, Castellano said.
Investigators were checking missing-person reports for clues.
Authorities stepped up patrols in the once-quiet neighborhood, and residents were locking their doors at night, Foley said.
"It's a very safe neighborhood, or it has been, anyway," she said.
The blood was cleaned off the paved road, but traces remained, upsetting neighbors.
"We don't want to attract any more attention than what we're already getting. This is our little piece of heaven," Foley said.
link: http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/09/19/woman.dragged.ap/index.html
Heres another :mad:
Mom, son found dead in burning van
The last time Stephanie Lee's family heard from her, she was just minutes away from meeting her sister.
And even though Lee had been stressed out lately -- her boyfriend was recently arrested, her son's school year had just started and she was getting ready to move -- there wasn't a hint of trouble in her voice.
"Things were not going right with her, but she was exuberant, she was happy,'' her sister, Tanika Lee, said. "She sounded the same way she sounded every other day.''
That was at 9:30 p.m. Saturday. But Stephanie, a single mother, never showed up to meet her sister. More than a day later, investigators made a gruesome discovery -- Stephanie Lee and her 9-year-old son were dead inside a burning van in a South Side alley, relatives said.
The 28-year-old woman had been stabbed several times. Her son, Troy Law, had been bound with duct tape and gagged. They were found at 3:20 a.m. Sunday in the 7400 block of South Phillips Ave. in the South Shore neighborhood, just two blocks from Stephanie's home.
Calumet Area Detective Division Cmdr. Eddie Welch said an accelerant was used to ignite the van, a 1992 Chevrolet, but investigators believe both victims were probably dead before the fire was set.
Neither Welch nor officials at the Cook County medical examiner's office identified the victims Monday, but family members did.
Police check boyfriend link
Neighbors who gathered at the scene Monday stared down the alley, some with mouths gaping in horror, where the bodies were found. The heat was so intense it charred three nearby garages and melted aluminum siding.
The van is registered to Darnell Mack, Stephanie Lee's boyfriend, authorities and friends said. Mack has been in Cook County Jail since Aug. 31 after an arrest for possession of cannabis at his home in the 2600 block of East 78th Street, court records show.
Mack, 25, has three prior convictions for drug offenses, the records show. Investigators are checking to see whether drugs, including Mack's recent arrest, could have played a role in the murders, a law enforcement source said.
But it was only one theory, and investigators said that they were following several leads and talking to many witnesses.
Dad worried for her safety
Welch said investigators do not believe Lee was killed in her home. He also said it was possible that her son was killed because the killer or killers feared he would divulge their identity.
Lee's family was shocked by the brutality of the attacks and insisted she was not involved in anything that could have led to this.
Relatives and friends said Stephanie, known as "Pudgie," was a good, hard-working mother. She was a dietary aide at Somerset Place nursing home on the North Side. She attended South Shore High School and DeVry Institute of Technology and was handy, even installing phone lines and changing locks for her family.
Troy Law was a fifth-grader at O'Keeffe Elementary School, where he had tested into the gifted program, said principal Carolyn Townes.
Lee's father, Cedric Lee, said he had recently asked his daughter to move to his home in Waukegan to escape Chicago's crime. On Monday, he asked the public for help solving her murder.
"Please, somebody knows something,'' he said. "I would hate for anybody else to feel my pain.''
link: http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-van19.html
What in the world could drive any sane person to do such things :confused: