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Murder Suspect Could be Headed to Michigan

Police Fear Man Who Opened Fire on Own

Family May Be Headed North

Murder Suspect May be Heading to Michigan

Police say 35-year-old Paul Michael Mirhage opened fire on his own family in Jupiter, Florida, Thursday night just after the Thanksgiving dinner. They say he was an invited guest who walked outside and came back in and started shooting, killing his twin 33-year-old sisters; one of them was pregnant Mirhage is also accused of killing a 79-year-old aunt and a 6-year-old cousin who was already in her bed.

Police in Jupiter, Florida, and in Birmingham, Michigan, have put out an alert, because Mirhage is on the run and believed to be heavily armed. He may have lived in the Birmingham area for a short time within the past year or so, and may have seen a doctor here.

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When twenty-one-year-old Angelo Dangerfield's mother looked out the back window of their Cherry Hill home and saw a dead body, she called her son's name for help, but he didn't answer.

"By the time she got down there, someone else had called police. She got there; they were turning him over, and it was my brother," said Stacey Rawlings, victim's sister.

Dangerfield's family members describe the Southwestern High School graduate as a well-known community youth leader, very involved with programs like 4-H and determined to go to college one day.

"He was happy about life. He wanted to do something with his life. He wanted to move him and his mom from out this neighborhood," said Shawanda Rawlings, victim's cousin.

Dangerfield was walking his pit bull named Princess when he was shot early Wednesday morning.

"He's just an all around good guy," said the victim's brother-in-law.

Police say video surveillance cameras captured Dangerfield walking Princess but by the time the camera panned around once, he was on the ground.

"We know this was a good young man. We have a lot of homicides and shootings in Baltimore City where a lot of times the victims bring baggage along with them. In this case, this young man has no criminal history," said Det. Donnie Moses, Baltimore City Police.

The homicide marks the third high profile case of seemingly random violence in Cherry Hill this year.

In August, community activist Shirley Foulks was shot in the shoulder while sitting on her couch. In October, a 13-year-old was doing her homework inside her home when a stray bullet struck her.

The neighborhood has held many walks to protest the violence -- the very violence that took a young man's life.

"It's like a dream, a nightmare, not even reality, heartbreaking," said Shawanda. Anyone with information on this case is asked to call police.

When a veteran turns to crime

He has posttraumatic stress disorder; a VA counselor called him "broken."

HOLLIDAYSBURG, Pa. - When the envelope arrived, Windy Horner was talking with her husband, Nick - Windy on a cell phone, Nick in the Blair County jail.

Windy Horner did not recognize the return address. She feared hate mail; her husband is charged with killing two men and robbing a sandwich shop, and she blames his actions on posttraumatic stress disorder from his service in Iraq. Others do not agree.

Now, she wondered: Should she open the envelope? Go ahead, Nick Horner said.

The note was from a stranger, Laurie Claar. It was written on a card decorated with a rainbow and flowers, bearing the message, "Caring Thoughts Are With You."

"I'm not sure what to say to you all except I understand and you all are in my prayers," Claar wrote. "And I don't think bad of Nick as he needs help to deal with PTSD."

Her words reached a young couple sorely in need of encouragement.

"I could hear him tearing up in his voice," Windy Horner said of her husband. "It was like, 'Maybe we're not alone in this.' "

They were not. Claar, too, had been devastated by the war come home.

And so began the unlikely friendship of Claar, a 49-year-old grandmother of five, and Windy Horner, a petite blonde the same age as Claar's youngest daughter.

They are linked by tragedy, but also by a shared conviction that the military does an excellent job of keeping troops alive during combat - but not so well at keeping them healthy afterward.

On April 26, Claar sat in the darkness next to her son's grave, waiting for the clock to strike 11:04 p.m.

Exactly 25 years before, Matthew Claar had been born.

"I just had to be there at that time," Claar said tearfully.

More than seven months before his mother's vigil, fueled by guilt and PTSD, the Marine Corps veteran had pulled the trigger on the 9mm pistol in his mouth.

In Iraq, he hunted house-to-house for insurgents, including one Matt shot several times. "Even when Matt told me that, he was shrugging it off," said Matt's father, Roy "Bud" Claar Jr. "But I could see in his face there was more to it than he was letting on."

His four-year hitch ended in 2006. When he came home, he was moody and unpredictable. He was arrested twice for drunken driving in one 15-day stretch.

But he was not screened, diagnosed, and treated for PTSD until after he was treated at a VA hospital for a work-related injury, a few months before he killed himself on Sept. 21, 2008.

Laurie Claar was moved by newspaper accounts of the charges against Nick Horner, a 29-year-old Army veteran.

On April 6, prosecutors say, Nick Horner - a veteran of three combat deployments - banged on a rear door of an Altoona Subway sandwich shop and fatally shot the clerk who opened it, Scott Garlick, 19. Then, Nick Horner ran down the street and allegedly gunned down Raymond Williams, 64, a retiree gathering his mail.

On June 3, the Altoona Mirror published a hand-printed letter Nick Horner mailed from jail, apologizing for and attempting to explain what he had done:
"I'm not looking for forgiveness or simphy [sic]. I just want people to watch for PTSD cases. There are so many of them. This needs to stop!" Nick Horner wrote.

That day, Laurie Claar mailed the greeting card to the Horners.

Windy Horner called the cell phone number in Laurie Claar's card. After visiting her husband one day, she met one of Laurie Claar's daughters, Autumn Houck, 30, across the street from the jail, and followed her to the Claars' home in Hollidaysburg, seven miles from Altoona.

Windy Horner spent hours sharing pizza and doughnuts and stories about Nick Horner and Matt Claar with Laurie Claar's husband, children, and grandchildren.

They shared tales of frightful nights when Nick Horner and Matt Claar brandished guns and insisted on "clearing" their homes, room by room, military-style, looking for "enemies." Nick Horner, too, had been arrested for drunken driving since his return.

In Iraq, Nick Horner searched for roadside bombs, and Windy Horner said he was traumatized by children killed by the artillery that cleared the way for his Army unit.

Windy Horner said the Army took Nick Horner's gun away the last time he was in Iraq, in 2008, after he cleared his barracks there, too. He was discharged because of PTSD in January.

Back in the States, she said, Nick Horner sometimes attacked her in bed at night - as though she were an enemy - only to "wake up" or snap out of what seemed like a trance and not remember a thing.

That is one reason she believed Nick Horner when he told a court-appointed psychiatrist that he did not actually remember the shootings and robbery - though he has no reason to doubt them.

Months before his arrest, Windy Horner recalled, a VA counselor told her to get used to having a broken husband.

"She told me, 'Your husband died in Iraq. You're either going to have to deal with that or move on,' " Windy Horner said.

The prosecutor in Nick Horner's case, Blair County District Attorney Richard Consiglio, said that five million Americans have PTSD and that that "alone is not a defense to any crime."
And in a statement, the families of the victims said his trial "should be an examination of the criminal actions of Nicholas Horner and not a referendum on the military's handling of our country's soldiers."

Bric-a-Brac Walken and Madden: The Story of Thanksgiving

Two suspects in what police described as the "gruesome" killing of South Charleston resident James Andrew Gillespie are now in custody after each turned himself in to police in separate circumstances without incident Saturday.

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South Charleston Police Sgt. Michael Greathouse said a lawyer for Michael Thompson called early Saturday to say his client wanted to turn himself in. Greathouse was one of four officers who went to an address on Pinch Street in South Charleston to get Thompson.

"I don't know what connection the house had to anyone, but we were told he would be waiting on the steps," Greathouse said.

He also said the suspect, who is 18, had nothing to say, acting on the advice of his lawyer.

Police continued to search for the second suspect, Jimmy Eugene Thompson, 19, of 505 E St., South Charleston, hours after the first turned himself in.

But negotiations resulted in Jimmy Thompson turning himself in a few hours later. The two men are not related.

South Charleston Police Chief Brad Rinehart said that he and other officers had been negotiating with "mutual parties" to have the second Thompson turn himself in.

Rinehart said, "I want to reassure neighbors in that area that this was an isolated incident. The detective bureau has been working around the clock, and this shows their dedication."

Rinehart said Jimmy Thompson will be arraigned and likely taken to the South Central Regional Jail.

Police think both men knew Gillespie, who was found dead in his Macon Street home in South Charleston on Friday. 

Police say both men had been in the victim's home earlier in the day drinking, according to a report Detective A.R. Gordon filed in Kanawha County Magistrate's Court after the first suspect was arrested.

A witness told police the men "were going to steal the victim's prescription medication." According to the police report, as soon as the victim realized his prescription drugs could be stolen, one suspect punched the victim in the face.

The witness who later contacted police fled as soon as he saw a suspect punch the victim, according to the same report.

Detective J.D. Gray of the South Charleston Police Department said a medical examiner performed an autopsy on Gillespie on Saturday, but he declined to give details.

According to Gordon's report in Magistrate's Court, Gillespie had been beaten and stabbed numerous times. After an appearance before a magistrate, Michael Thompson was taken to the South Central Regional Jail where he was being held without bond on a murder charge.

Jesus Fabian Perales Accused of Killing 14-Year-Old Girl So She Wouldn't Report Rape

14-year-old Francisca Hernandez-Ramirez went missing last October after getting a ride home with two men.

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Last October, 14-year-old Francisca Hernandez-Ramirez was at a party in a house outside of Yakima. Why Hernandez was drinking and playing cards late at night when most girls her age were fast asleep is unknown. But more of what happened to Hernandez later that evening has now come to light after police arrested 22-year-old Jesus Fabian Perales and charged him with her murder.

According to investigators, Hernandez was found passed out in the bathroom by a man who she then asked for a ride home. The man and Perales were halfway back to Hernandez's house when she apparently began screaming that someone had raped her at the party. Not knowing what to do, the two men decided it'd be best if they dropped Hernandez in an orchard, with the oddly misguided hope that the young drunk girl would sleep off the evening and forget what happened to her.

When it came time to drop her off, investigators say the man waited as Perales escorted Hernandez out of the car. When Perales returned, he allegedly told the man that Hernandez was "good." A claim that would prove grossly untrue four months later, when Hernandez's body was found next to an irrigation ditch with her throat slit.

Perales fled the Yakima Valley for California shortly after Hernandez's disappearance. But investigators say they were tipped off last week that he was back in town. He's currently being held on $500,000 bond on suspicion of first-degree murder.

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Addison suicide-murders: Dad left message telling of his distress

Message doesn't cite money woes or marital problems, police chief says

A memorial takes shape at the Mangiantini family's home on Wisconsin Street in Addison. (Tribune photo by Chris Sweda / November 26, 2009)

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Thomas Mangiantini left a "somewhat distraught" note that offers a clue to why he fatally shot his wife and two sons before killing himself in their Addison home, police said Thursday.

Addison Police Chief Tim Hayden said the one-page, handwritten note discovered by police late Wednesday did not allude to any financial problems or troubles in the Mangiantini marriage, but he would not disclose the actual contents because he had not discussed it with family members. The DuPage County coroner, who performed the autopsies Thursday, said Mangiantini, 48, put a gun in his mouth after shooting his wife, Elizabeth, 46, once in the head. Mangiantini also shot his son Thomas Jr., 8, once in the head, and his other son, Angelo, 12, suffered multiple gunshot wounds in the head.

A preliminary police investigation indicates the family did not have issues with credit card debt or face the possibility of losing their home to foreclosure, Hayden said.

"He didn't mention financial problems in the note," Hayden said, refuting reports that Mangiantini had recently lost his printing job. But police and friends said his hours had been reduced and his wife had been laid off in the spring from Ford Motor Co.

"She had a severance period; following that she could have applied for unemployment. The father was still employed," Hayden said.

DuPage County records showed no filings for separation of marriage or prior domestic contact with police, Hayden said. Two guns were recovered from the scene, both of which police say Mangiantini used. Authorities have not determined to whom the guns were registered, Hayden said. Two shots were heard in the background of the desperate 911 call that Elizabeth Mangiantini made around 6:30 a.m. Wednesday.

"It was just a few short words. It was something to the effect of, 'Please help me. Help me, help me,' " Hayden said.

The boys were found upstairs in their beds in a shared bedroom. Thomas Mangiantini also was found in an upstairs bedroom, and his wife was discovered in a hallway downstairs. Hayden said she had no signs of defensive wounds.

Addison police continued to process the scene Thursday and plan to continue through Saturday, Hayden said, adding, "Something will reveal itself as the investigation moves along."

The family were members of St. Philip the Apostle Catholic Church in Addison, where prayers were offered for them during Thanksgiving Mass, said the Rev. Mark Jendrysik.

"Today, there were a lot of tears being shared before and after Mass," he said.

Jendrysik said the family regularly attended Mass and many church functions. Thomas Jr. and Angelo were in the religious education program.

"Angelo was always very active, involved in the discussions and eager to know more," Jendrysik said. "Tommy wanted to play the part of Jesus, because that's who he wanted to be like."

The deaths weighed heavily on neighbors, with some deciding to move their Thanksgiving meals to other locations, said next-door neighbor Dorothy Savaglio, one who made the change.

"We don't want to have the kids see the crime tape. We're supposed to be thankful today," she said, adding that it would be difficult to explain to children who knew the Mangiantini boys why they won't see their friends at school on Monday.

John Langton, superintendent of Addison School District 4, said Tommy was a second-grader at Fullerton Elementary School, and Angelo was in sixth grade at Indian Trail Junior High School.

Elizabeth Mangiantini was active in the PTA at Fullerton, Langton said.

"I know that once she lost her job, as difficult as that was for the family, I've had a couple people tell me that she was excited to be a stay-at-home mom," he said.

Tribune reporter Stacy St. Clair contributed to this report.

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Police said 17 relatives were in the house when the shootings were reported around 10 p.m. Thursday in Jupiter, a small, well-off beach town about 90 miles north of Miami that is best known as a home to celebrities including Michael Jordan and Burt Reynolds.

Jupiter Police Sgt. Scott Pascarella said officers were looking for Paul Michael Merhige, 35, of Miami. Merhige is a cousin of the 6-year-old victim, Makayla Sitton, and has no criminal record, police said.

The others killed were Merhige's twin sisters, Carla and Lisa Merhige, 33, and an aunt, Raymonde Joseph, 76, according to police.  Police say Lisa was pregrant but have not released how far along she was in the pregnancy.

Authorities said a fifth victim, Merhige's brother-in-law Patrick McKnight, was being treated at a hospital. His condition was not available.

Police across South Florida and the U.S. Marshals Service were searching for Merhige. Pascarella said Merhige is believed to be driving a blue 2007 4-door Toyota Camry with Florida license plate W42 7JT.

Pascarella said police received a 911 call from a neighbor shortly after 10 p.m. Police then received a second 911 call from someone within the home. Pascarella says the shootings took place inside the house.

"What led to this incident, we're not quite sure," said Pascarella. "It did not appear there was any altercation prior to this shooting."

Police said the home was owned by Jim Sitton, a photojournalist for WPTV-TV and father of the little girl killed. Sitton told WPTV his daughter was in bed when she was shot. He was at the party at the time of the shooting but was not wounded.

Yellow crime scene tape was stretched around Sitton's salmon-colored house, located in a well-kept subdivision of stucco homes. Several cars were parked in the driveway, and a crime scene van sat in front.

Sitton told local media that his daughter was supposed to perform Friday in a holiday production of "The Nutcracker."

"God packed a lot of sweetness into that little body," Sitton said. "She's just our life. I don't know how we are ever going to recover."

The relationship between Sitton and Paul Merhige was unclear, police said.

Phone calls to a number listed for Paul Merhige were not answered. A phone call to Sitton was also not returned.

Neighbors in the Palm Beach County community were shocked.

"Our kids walk the streets by themselves," said 67-year-old Nicole Kemp, who did not know any of the victims. "I thought it was the safest place to live. I guess it doesn't matter, if there's a maniac here."

It's unclear where the adult victims lived. Carla Merhige was a real estate agent in Miami, said a co-worker.

"She was a wonderful agent," said Joanna Sherman, a manager at Coldwell Banker Residential real estate. "She was very active in the community and in charities. She was just a genuine, beautiful individual. She always had a smile for everybody."

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Paul Michael Merhige shoots family on Thanksgiving in Florida.

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Paul Michael Merhige Had a History of Mental Illness Palm Beach Post Reports

A neighbor, Luis Sanchez, 56, who does handy man work for many of the families in the neighborhood, said he knew the Merhiges family well. He had done work at their home over the past six years. He reported that Merhige had a history of mental illness and suicide attempts.

The house is owned and lived in by Merhige's parents, Michael and Carole, their three children, Paul Merhige and their twins, Carla and Lisa, would visit often. The twin women were killed in the shooting by their brother, Paul Merhige. Merhige also shot and killed a six year old girl, a cousin, as she was sleeping at the house. Another relative, an aunt, was also killed.

Paul Michael Merhige Thanksgiving massacre killed four people and injured two others, one critically. All six people were relatives.

Luis Sanchez said, "They are wonderful people," when speaking about Merhige's parents. He goes on to say, "The fact is with this they have lost all three of their children all at the same time and I can't imagine how painful that must be for them. The fact that the twin sisters came into life together and then died on the same day too; my God!"

Paul Michael Merhige was an honors student when he attended the University of Miami in the early 1990's. According to the Miami Herald archives, he was a top scholar on the National Advanced Placement (AP) test. He also earned scholarships playing football in high school.

His educational achievements bear an eerie similarity to what was known about the Fort Hoot Shooter. They are both very bright and highly intelligent men, who did unspeakable acts to the people close to them.

Sanchez referred to Paul Merhige as "a conflictive person." The newspaper did not elaborate on this comment. A search by the newspaper had produced no findings that Paul Merhige had ever been treated for mental illness. There was nothing in the story to substantiate the claim. The only reference to Merhige is that he "was a very conflicted person.

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The front of Annette Sykes house is beginning to look ready for the holidays. There are Christmas lights around the sides of Haleigh’s great-grandmother’s home, as well as red ribbons on all the trees. Those ribbons have been there long before the lights went up. They serve as a constant reminder that this family will never be whole until Haleigh is home.

Haleigh Cummings - A holiday without Haleigh

“It was hard for her birthday, it’s hard today with it being Thanksgiving…it’s hard to give thanks without her here,” said Sykes.

“Without her here---it just won’t be the same,” said Sykes.

Annette says a typical Thanksgiving when Haleigh was home would consist of everyone going to a family member’s house, eating, and enjoying each other’s company.

“She would be at her Papa Jeff’s…he always cooks a big Thanksgiving dinner…just enough to feed an army basically. She’d be there with the other grandchildren, playing around, screaming and hollering. You know, basically having a ball,” said Sykes.

This Thanksgiving, the family will not be together. Annette says she may stop by her daughter’s house. She says Haleigh’s father Ronald is spending the holiday with friends. She says it’s sometimes easier for him to cope with memorable days like Thanksgiving without family around because they remind him too much of Haleigh.

“We try not to say anything with Ronald around because he’s so torn up. He just saying he doesn’t know how he’s going to get through it. And I can understand why,” said Sykes.

“It is really, really hard for him. He desperately wants his little girl back. He needs her and I know she needs him. I know how close they were, she’s daddy’s girl and she needs him back,” said Sykes.

Annette said anytime there is a holiday or special day that was memorable, it is very difficult for everyone who knew Haleigh. But, she says the worst has yet to come because Christmas was Haleigh’s favorite holiday.

“All holidays are terrible…but with Christmas coming up, you know, that’s a kid’s special time anyway. If Haleigh’s not here it won’t be Christmas,” said Sykes.

Annette made a plea to whoever has any information in the abduction of Haleigh. She said she doesn’t so much care about punishing whoever did it. She just wants Haleigh home.

“The main the thing that we want and have wanted for months now is just for Haleigh to be home. We had hoped that by now we’d have a really great thanksgiving with her here with us”, said Sykes.

“Please have a heart, have a soul, have a conscience, whatever it takes to bring our baby back home to us. Her dad needs her desperately. Her brother needs her, we all need her, and I know she needs us. I don’t care anymore, we just want Haleigh home…it’s not that we wouldn’t like to see them punished, but if we can get Haleigh back, I don’t care. We need her back. We want her back more than anything,” said Sykes.

The Putnam County Sheriff’s Office says it continually conducts interviews with potential suspects in this investigation. It says the reward to bring Haleigh home is $30,000. If you have any information that can lead to Haleigh Cummings, call the Putnam County Sheriff’s Office at 386-329-0800. You can also remain anonymous and call in tips to Crime Stoppers of Northeast Florida at 1-888-277-TIPS.

Caylee Anthony, Haleigh Cummings: Cases' key similarities, differences

Eight months later, Caylee Anthony and Casey Anthony remain squarely in the spotlight. Yet only a few weeks after Haleigh Cummings disappeared, interest in her case is dwindling.

"It was deja vu all over again," said Bob Longo, news director for WESH-Channel 2.

During the following days, the pack of satellite trucks parked near Haleigh Cummings' home in tiny Satsuma rivaled the media turnout after Caylee's remains were found in December near her home in east Orange County.

But soon, reporters on the latest missing-little-girl story began leaving Satsuma.

It wasn't deja vu after all.

Haleigh's story is fading after three weeks, but the Anthony saga has remained in the headlines for almost eight months.

The contrast between the tents and trailer in Satsuma where Haleigh's family pleaded for her return and the Anthonys' suburban home points to one of the reasons Haleigh's story is fading from the headlines, said Roy Peter Clark, senior scholar at the Poynter Institute.

"I think the greatest difference between the Caylee story and the Haleigh story is social class," said Clark, whose institute is a school for journalists in St. Petersburg. "I don't believe that working-class Americans get a very fair shake in the news media in general."

Only a handful of reporters remain in this isolated community north of the Ocala National Forest — even though investigators said Haleigh was abducted and they think she is alive.

Expect more coverage in the months leading up to October's trial for Caylee's 22-year-old mother, Casey Anthony, who is accused of killing her daughter.

"Any missing child is a tragedy and a cause for great alarm and concern," said Bob Jordan, news director for WFTV-Channel 9. "Every one of those kids is news, but that does not translate into equal news interest."

Strange twists stand out

Photos of a scantily clad Casey Anthony, reports about her romantic life and the stories she told about a nanny who abducted her daughter — a story investigators don't believe — are drawing readers.

So are other details, including the serious charges against the young mother, frequent courtroom battles and the behavior of her parents, George and Cindy Anthony.

The photos and videos of Caylee also captivate viewers.

The case also has provided bizarre twists and turns, beginning when Casey Anthony was arrested after claiming Caylee had been missing for 30days.

"When she was questioned about that, her effect was so flat and unemotional that it called our human experience into question," veteran Orlando defense attorney Cheney Mason said.

Then, Mason said, a "circus" ensued: California bounty hunter Leonard Padilla injected himself into the situation. Casey Anthony was in and out of jail. Protesters routinely amassed outside the Anthony home demanding justice.

"There is constant fuel for the fire," Mason said.

The Haleigh case hasn't offered as many twists and turns. News crews scrambled recently after cadaver dogs hit on a scent in a dumpster. But the container was searched and nothing was found.

Most media coverage of Haleigh's disappearance has revolved around her family's pleas for her safe return.

Fewer leaks, less to say

"The return of Haleigh is the most important thing, but we also have a crime involved somewhere with her disappearance," Capt. Dick Schauland of the Putnam County Sheriff's Office said.

"We're trying not to jeopardize the criminal investigation or possible future prosecution."

For Orlando media, coverage also has been hampered because Satsuma is far away — a two-hour drive for some — and because Putnam County isn't considered part of its market.

Jordan, WFTV's news director, and Steve Hyvonen, news director for WKMG-Channel 6, had different opinions about the Anthony case: Hyvonen said that the story continues to generate strong ratings and that WKMG viewers are clamoring for more coverage, while Jordan said his station is no longer seeing the rating spikes that occurred early on in the case, and that he thinks viewers might be getting sick of the story.

The directors said their stations have received little viewer feedback about the Haleigh story.

"We have been up there just because it's such a significant story," Hyvonen said.

"But as each day goes by without a new development, it get a little lower as far as where it plays in the newscast."

Haleigh Cummings case: Misty Croslin's dad will be questioned

Hank Croslin Sr., 41, father of Misty Cummings was arrested Tuesday and accused of doctor shopping.  He is being charged for withholding information from a practitioner and has been booked into the Putnam County Jail.

It is being reported that Croslin Sr. got approximately 300 Oxycodone and Hydrocodone pills from three different doctors between April and May 2009. That is a lot of pills for that period of time for one person to have if you ask me. Apparently none of the doctors knew about Croslin having prescriptions from other doctors at the time. It is said that this practice is known as doctor shopping which is considered a third-degree felony. His bail has been set for $7500.

As we all know Hank’s daughter, Misty Croslin, who is the last person to have seen Haleigh Cummings, has given authorities a lot of inconsistent statements on what happened the night they reported little Haleigh Cummings missing on February 10, 2009. Since there is still so much about that night that needs to be clarified the Putnam County Sheriff’s department are planning on questioning Croslin Sr. about Haleigh’s disappearance to see if there is anything he knows that they don’t already know about. They have said that his arrest Tuesday is in no way related to the investigation of Haleigh Cummings.

I know some will say this news has nothing to do with finding Haleigh, but does it? Perhaps one day when the right one gets arrested they will finally crack or slip and tell something that will help the investigators put that final piece to this puzzle together and find out where Haleigh is.

I still can’t convince myself that this precious little girl is gone forever. My heart keeps telling me someone has her and is taking care of her. Maybe it is because as a mother I just can’t accept she may no longer be alive but I still feel she is and I pray to God that my feeling is right. If I am wrong she still needs to be found where she can be laid to rest properly. We need to know what happened to Haleigh.

Is she lying in the swamps somewhere? Is she being held prisoner somewhere and bad things happening to her? Was she sold to someone? If she is alive is she being well taken care of? We want to shout out to the world… WHERE IS HALEIGH?

Keep her in your prayers as well as all the other children in my list which includes Caylee Anthony (found dead), Adji Desir (remains missing), Haleigh Cummings (remains missing), Somer Thompson (found dead), Elizabeth Olten (found dead) , Masaraha Ross (remains missing), Alex Mercado (drowned) Rebecca Marie Allen (found alive), Sandra Cantu (found dead), Anthony Holland (found alive), Shaniya Davis (found dead), Hassani Campbell (remains missing), Giovanni Gonzalez (reported dead), Neveah Buchanen ( found dead) and Shannon Dedrick (found alive) and now Angel Miguel Perez (found safe).

When I sit down to eat Thanksgiving Dinner tomorrow I will be thinking about these children and their families. I will be praying day after day for them but I will say a special one for them tomorrow.

Simon and I would like to wish each and every one of you and your families a very Happy Thanksgiving. Don’t forget to tell your children you love them and give them a hug.
Jan Barrett

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Stop the abuse and murder of the children in the U.S.

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Authorities in Putnam County want to interview Hank Croslin Sr., 41, about what he knows about the about events the night Haleigh was last seen, the Gainesville Sun is reporting.

The girl, then 5, vanished in Febuary.

The elder Croslin was arrested Tuesday and accused of "doctor shopping," the newspaper said.

"Even though this arrest is not related to their case, investigators in the Haleigh Cummings investigation intend on questioning Hank Croslin Sr. to determine if he has any knowledge of the events that took place the night Haleigh Cummings went missing," the Putnam County Sheriff's Office reported in a statement Wednesday, the newspaper said.

Although it is the Thanksgiving long weekend we will be running our regular Sunday program to look at the events in the search for missing Florida child Haleigh Cummings.
The panel is still being finalized but on the ‘for certain’ list is Simon and Jan Barrett, ace reporter for WSKY 97.3 TJ Hart, and investigator William Cobra Staubs. I am also hoping that we will be joined by crime writer Denny Griffin and investigative journalist Levi Page.
Another of the Croslin family found themselves under the bus this week. Hank Croslin Sr. was arrested on charges of doctor shopping. It is alleged that he obtained over 300 tablets of oxycodone and hydrocodone from at least three different doctors. The interesting aspect of this is that the arrest was made by FDLE rather than PCSO. While there may be no significance to this, one has to wonder the rationale. FDLE have stated that while Hank Croslin Sr’s activity has nothing to do with the search for Haleigh Cummings they will take the opportunity to talk to him about the case.
Scuttlebutt that hit my radar today concerns father Ronald Cummings, one would think that in his time of loss he would seek solace in his family, apparently though he opted to avoid his family on Thanksgiving.
Does Crystal Sheffield have a new MySpace page? If she does, then things may not be well in her relationship with Chad.
Was the comment left here on BNN really by Teresa Neves? The jury is out on that one. It certainly came from the heart, and if it is legitimate it was truly a plea with feeling and we here at BNN heard you loud and clear.
It was also pleasing to see that the Nancy Grace program gave 15 minutes to the the story on Thanksgiving Day, while the cast left something to be desired, at least the subject was given some air time. And for that we should be grateful.
Haleigh Cummings has been missing since February, Law Enforcement maintains that her disappearance was not a stranger abduction. A family member or close friend had to have been involved. But who? None of us in the press are privy to the investigation, in fact extracting information from them is akin to having a root canal performed by someone with a Black & Decker power drill.
I am sure that Law Enforcement is as frustrated as we are. I’ll make an offer that I have made before. Give us something to chew on. We can shake the trees, and that is what is needed.
There are several of us in the press that will not let this case become cold. Lets try and resolve the Haleigh Cummings mystery.
Another subject that we will be discussing is the capital murder case against Casey Anthony. Casey Anthony is accused of killing her young daughter Caylee Anthony. Although her defense team make mumbling noises about how they are being paid, or if indeed they are being paid at all. One thing is very clear, money abounds. Who is the money bags paying for this defense? I have some theories, but, at this stage I think that I will avoid that subject.
One of the ‘esteemed’ defense lawyers is Andrea Lyon. Ms Lyon brags that she has never lost a Capital Crime case. This is good for the defendant, but maybe not so stellar for the family of the deceased. Earlier this week a story surfaced, Ms. Lyon was giving a lecture, and explained that there are:

Always killers on the jury, and there are some, the ammunition they need to go after people… juries go about persuading people to kill.. and protect your live people from the killers.

 
 
 
VIVAnews - Gempa berkekuatan 5,3 skala Richter menggoyang wilayah Nusa Tenggara Timur. Gempa bersumber dari kedalaman 25 kilometer.

Menurut laman Badan Meteorologi dan Geofisika, Sabtu 28 November 2009, gempa tercatat terjadi pada pukul 07.04. Gempa berlokasi di 188 kilometer Barat Daya Waingapu-NTT, 255 kilometer Tenggara Raba-NTB.

BMKG merilis gempa yang terjadi pada posisi 10,76 Lintang Selatan dan 118,97 Bujur Timur.tidak berpotensi tsunami.

Movies

The Hunger - a vampire flick with David Bowie and Susan Sarandon. Its opening scene shows a view of a dance club with a caged Peter Murphy singing "Bela Lugosi's Dead."
Rocky Horror Picture Show - a cult classic musical with Tim Curry as a flamboyant transvestite. A little too strange to be described. Most small independent film theaters will have a Rocky Horror showing night now and again where people come dressed as the characters. There is a stage area where players mimic the movie as it plays. A caller leads the standard interjected addition of lines, and the audience participates in the scenes by throwing rice at the wedding scene, squirting squirtguns during the scene where it's raining, dancing during the "Time Warp" song etc. Quite a fun event.
Hellraiser (and all of the sequels) - Some horror flicks hit it big with Goths, some don't care for them at all.
Dracula - from Bela Lugosi's version to the Francis Ford Coppola version, it tends to be a big classic (as well as the book).
Heathers - an eighties movie with Winona Ryder, Christian Slater, and Shannen Doherty that offers a black humor about high school and killing.
The Crow - starring Brandon Lee (who was accidentally killed during filming). A classic truly for its dark themes of murder, revenge, love, urban decay. Dark aesthetics in the film with shots of a graveyard and an elaborate church.
Edward Scissorhands - with Johnny Depp, a movie about a misfit with an unusual hedge-trimming genius who seems a bit out of place in the picture perfect suburbia.
The Nightmare Before Christmas - catchy tunes like "This Is Halloween" and classic characters like Jack the Pumpkin King and Sally make it a big hit with Goths.
Beetlejuice - with Geena Davis, Winona Ryder and Michael Keaton. Winona Ryder's character is a Goth classic, the spooky girl Lydia.
Batman Returns - I think that the wintertime atmosphere and the sleek sexy fetish inspired catwoman costume make this movie gothic. It had a darker feel than all of the following sequels.
The Craft - 1996 film with Neve Campbell. This wasn't that good of a movie, and it has more to do with witchcraft than gothic. However, it is one of the few movies that has a goth chick as a main character, not that she is portrayed in a realistically Goth way.
Gothic - not what you might first think, its true to the original gothic literature movement. It is a movie about the night that Mary Shelley first came up with the idea for Frankenstein. Full of ghost stories, hallucinations, horror and madness.
The Lost Boys - with Corey Haim, Corey Feldman and Keifer Sutherland, it's one of the classic 80's teenage renegade vampire flicks, with an even better soundtrack.
A Clockwork Orange - A twisted film based on the novel concerning society, violence, the government, mind control and conditioning.

Some of the popular gothic style traits:

• anything black (White or any dark colors like navy blue and deep red are also popular but less common.)
• silver jewelry
• pallor (This could be because some Goths want a sort of undead look; or they want to embody the Victorian aesthetic that says pale skin is a sign of nobility; or because tanning causes skin cancer. In general, Goths view paleness as much more aesthetically pleasing than being tan, whether or not they have a reason why.)
• dyed hair (Black, very light bleached blonde, red, or purple are fairly common.)
• black and white makeup -- white foundation, black lipstick, black eyeliner
• thin, plucked eyebrows or shaved off and drawn in eyebrows
• bondage and fetish fashion -- leather, PVC, latex, rubber, vinyl and bondage gear, corsets
• crushed velvet or regular velvet
• poet's shirts -- a few ruffles around the cuff, the collar, and the front (They are usually white.)
• chokers -- a dog leash with spikes, a bondage collar, or a velvet ribbon tied around the neck
• ankh (Egyptian symbol for everlasting life)
• the Eye of Ra (also, Eye of Horus, an Egyptian symbol. The symbol's popularity with Goths is partly due to the fact that it is on the cover of the "Vision Thing" CD by The Sisters of Mercy.)
• pentacle (The pentagram is a five pointed star -- a pagan symbol for fire, earth, air, water, spirit. The pentacle is basically a pentagram with a circle around it. These terms are often used synonymously. Since the pentacle is associated in some people's mind with Satansim, some Goths may wear a pentacle to shock people, or as a part of their Theatrical Satanism.)
• wearing lingerie that shows (garters, teddy, bustier, slip, camisole)
• opera-style capes or cloaks
• opera length gloves, either satin or latex (shorter length gloves as well, usually vinyl)
• crosses (Christian symbolism)
• fishnet tights or shirts
• black and white horizontal striped tights like the Wicked Witch of the West
• chains (as a belt, necklace, part of the outfit, whatever)
• spikes/studs (usually attached to a leather jacket or to a collar, belt or bracelets)
• tattoos (depends on the person)
• piercings (Usually not as excessive as punks, goths might have a few piercings, if any. Tongue, nose and nipple piercings seem most common. It depends on the person.)
• pointy toed shoes, buckle boots, high heels, combat boots or Doc Martens
• wearing band T-shirts, having band stickers on your car, notebook etc.
• a short A-line haircut or ratted out, hairsprayed, chaotic hair, sometimes hair extensions
• a leather jacket (often with designs painted on it), black trenchcoat, black vinyl raincoat-looking jacket, or velvet jacket
• a box (A cross between a small purse and a lunchbox, usually black with silver hinges and a briefcase-like handle. They are usually decorated with band stickers. Guys and girls alike carry them.)
• Some Goths tend to look like: Robert Smith (of The Cure) -- ratted up hair, smudged red lipstick, black makeup for eyeshadow; Siouxsie Sioux (of Siouxsie and the Banshees) -- short black ratted hair (or a sleek A-line haircut) and the makeup done very precisely with pointed angles; Death (the Sandman comic book character) -- designs drawn around the eyes, tousled black hair, always wearing an ankh; Eric Draven (character in the comic book and movie The Crow) -- white face with black vertical lines drawn above and below the eyes, black lipstick drawn extended past the edge of the lips in long smiley face sort of lines, black trenchcoat; Andrew Eldrich (of the Sisters of Mercy) -- always wearing sunglasses, short slick black hair, leather pants, a leather jacket with an open shirt; Bettie Page (1950's bondage pinup queen) -- long wavy black hair with short, curled-under bangs, very thin drawn in eyebrows, and dark red lipstick.
• Vampire archetype -- Lestat or Louis from Anne Rice's novels The Vampire Lestat and Interview with the Vampire or a Dracula influenced look. The vampire archetype look also contains some commonalties with the vampire-free Victorian aesthetics: elaborately designed hair, ruffled shirts, long skirts, velvet, opera capes, corsets, vests. Punk archetype -- ripped tights, chains and spikes, a leather jacket, boots, ratted hair, defiant attitude. Tortured artist archetype -- a bohemian influence, wearing all black, maybe kinda beatnik, wearing sunglasses all the time, maybe a beret, thin, tired-looking, a notebook carried around at all times, can be seen reading alone in coffee shops. The tortured artist look may be a little more avant-garde, but it is not quite as clearly defined fashion-wise. It is made more by how someone acts than how they look.

A fishnet shirt and vinyl or leather pants with some sort of boots and other various accessories.
A white shirt (sometimes with the collar folded up to cover the neck), black pants, a black vest, boots or dress shoes.
Some of the guys will wear makeup, skirts, corsets or heels. It's not really meant to be cross-dressing because they are not actually trying to look like women. Gothic tends to be a very androgynous thing, where some of the straight guys like to look or dress feminine, either to challenge social gender barriers, to show that they have an open mind, or as just a fashion thing.

A cleavage-enhancing corset top with a long, flowing or tutu-like skirt.
A crushed velvet dress with either boots or heels.
A fishnet shirt with a black bra underneath, a bondage belt (or some other type) and either 1) a short vinyl skirt 2) a long velvet skirt 3) tight leggings or stirrup pants usually made of vinyl or crushed velvet.
Fishnet stockings with a vinyl dress, bondage gear, high heels or heel boots.

Hi Everyone.
Not sure what to say about myself, Sorry  I dont get to much time to come on here, have 4 little ones that take up most of my time, got interested in the paranormal by mistake and now am hooked big time, deeply into Angels, Past lives, Karma and everything Egyptian.  I am always working on new  healing treatments and working with magical energies...
Do think it's great to have a place where you can share and talk about everything, Look forward to getting to know everyone better, been a customer of DeeDee for years....
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Source: Merhige had history of mental problems

"In fact, I was going to call them yesterday to wish them Happy Thanksgiving, but I didn't do it," he said.

Sanchez said only Mehrige's parents, Michael and Carole, lived in the house, and the three children often visited.

"A friend of mine called this morning to tell me about this and I said that can't be true," said Sanchez, who is originally from Peru. "But he said it was. I began to cry and then I began to pray. In don't understand what happened.

"They are wonderful people," he said of the parents. "The fact is with this they have lost all three of their children all at the same time and I can't imagine how painful that must be for them. The fact that the twin sisters came into life together and then died on the same day too; my God!"

Merhige was an honors student at the University of Miami in the early 1990s, joining the school's Alpha Lambda Delta honor society, according to Miami Herald archives.

At the Gulliver Preparatory Academy, he was an top scholar on the national Advanced Placement (AP) test and graduated with a 5.16 grade point average. He also earned scholarships while on the football team, kicking a winning 45-yard field goal in September 1991 to beat rival Westminister Christian, and played on Gulliver's baseball team as well.

In 1986, the Miami Herald reported, Merhige, then an 11-year-old catcher, was one of 16 players from three South Florida Khoury Leagues to play a series of games in Japan.

Today, Sanchez called Paul Merhige "a conflictive person."

He said he had done work for Paul at his apartment in nearby Coral Gables.

Lisa Knight joined Coldwell Banker Real Estate as a Realtor-Associate in August 2007, according to her page on the Linkedin business social network. She previously worked for Miami-Dade County courts before obtaining her MBA from from the University of Miami.

"Lisa is truly a gifted person with the talent to make anyone around her smile," Jackye Clayton, who had worked with Lisa Knight, said on a Linkedin recommendation. "She is smart, honest and loyal. I have never met someone so brave with such poise and grace."

Sanchez said Carla worked for the county, possibly in foster care.

He said he last saw Paul about five days ago at the parents' house but sensed no problems between them.

Sanchez said he was told by his clients in the neighborhood that police started knocking on doors on the street at about 5:30 a.m. Friday.

" I guess they were looking for Paul."

No Florida public records indicate Merhige has been involuntarily committed.

Under Florida law, anyone with a history of being involuntarily committed to a mental institution, or judged incompetent or mentally defective, from obtaining a firearm permit.

But the law is silent about people voluntarily treated for mental illness.

First On Fox: Tax Lien Put On Gosselins
Couple Owes Money On House

Scott Bomboy and Paul Ruppel, MyFoxPhilly.com

PHILADELPHIA - The tax man is after Jon and Kate Gosselin in Lancaster County over a $2,700 unpaid water bill.

Court records show the county has placed a tax lien on the Gosselins’ house on Andrew Avenue in Elizabethtown, Pa.

The municipal tax lien was filed in the Prothonotary Office for $2,691.75 plus fees and interest for a “water tapping fee” in Upper Mount Joy Township.

According to the couple's arbitration agreement, Kate Gosselin is responsible for paying for water and sewer bills out of a joint checking account. This is a different account that Jon Gosselin was accused of withdrawing money from.

The same agreement says the couple has a $15,000 a month debt obligation related to their two houses and each parent must contribute $7,500 a month.

The house was built in 2006 for Jon and Kate Gosselin, but they bought a second house last year in Wernersville, Pa., for $1.1 million without selling the house in Lancaster County.

The Elizabethtown, Pa., house is still on the market.

Both Jon and Kate Gosselin are defendants in the case.

In October 2009, MyFoxPhilly.com first reported that the family also may have a mortgage on the Elizabethtown house, according to county records.

The brick Cape Cod in Elizabethtown, Pa., was bought by the Gosselins for $280,000 in 2006.

According to Lancaster County deed and mortgage records, the mortgage on that house was $193,000 from the National City Mortgage, and the mortgage obligation was for Jonathan and Katie Gosselin (not a family trust).

The most-recent check of county records show that the mortgage has not been satisfied, as of October 5.

The documents for their current houses were filed in Berks County in October 2008.

Their current $1.12 million estate in Wernersville, Pa., was actually purchased in the name of estate lawyer William R. Blumer as part of a Revocable Trust Agreement last October.

The trust is registered to the same address used by Jon and Kate Gosselin in their divorce case. Such a purchase by a trust is common in estate planning when couples wish to avoid probate issues.

But the 6,000 square-foot house and its 24 acres weren’t paid for entirely in cash in October 2008. There is a mortgage that is quite substantial.

The mortgage with Susquehanna Mortgage is also in the name of the estate and it is for $720,000 over 10 years.

As of October 5, the mortgage had not been paid off.

It is unknown if the Gosselins or the trust paid into the principal on the loan in the past 12 months

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