Defense Asks For Change Of Venue In Dismemberment Case

I thought I had posted a case about a woman, in AZ possibly, convicted of her husband or bf killing, just part of his body was ever located. If someone remembers his name please tell me. I've created a new label for partial remains missing that's why. Thanks!


Left: Mekole Harris

WHNS - SC, USA

Defense Asks For Change Of Venue In Dismemberment Case

Clarence Jenkins Appears In Court

POSTED: 10:01 am EDT August 18, 2009

GREENVILLE, S.C. -- The man accused of killing a woman and leaving her severed hands and feet on the steps of two homes last year was in court on Monday.

Clarence Jenkins, 24, and his wife, 20-year-old Carman Jenkins, were charged in connection with the death of 34-year-old Mekole Harris in April 2008.

Authorities said that Harris’ hands and feet were cut off, put in bags and placed in front of two homes in Greenville.

Clarence Jenkins was in a Greenville County courtroom on Monday as his attorney made a request for a continuance on the trial that was set to begin in November. His attorney said he would not be ready in time.


The defense also filed a motion for a change of venue.

The judge made no decision on either of the motions on Monday.

The remainder of Harris’ body has never been found.

http://www.deccanherald.com/content/20432/suri-turns-journalist-film-inspired.html

FBI Agents Resume Search Of Sea Gate Home

Left: Irena Malezhik

WCBS-TV New York - NY, USA

FBI Agents Resume Search Of Sea Gate Home

Neighbors Of Up-Scale Coney Island Community Shocked By Latest Developments
Irina Malezhik Has Been Missing Since Oct. 2007; Authorities Believe She May Be Buried In Basement

Reporting
Magee Hickey BROOKLYN (CBS)

(8/18/2009)
The FBI and New York City Police are continuing to search Tuesday for the body of a woman who vanished two years ago. Authorities are digging through the basement of a house in Brooklyn.

It was a tip to the FBI that led a team of agents and NYPD detectives to bring in a cadaver-sniffing dog and special, heavy equipment to search the basement of the Sea Gate home owned by Julia and Dimitriy Yakovlev.

The Sea Gate couple has already been charged with stealing the identity of the missing Russian court translator. Irina Malezhik had been working on Russian mob cases in federal court, so naturally her neighbors fear the worst.

"If she was involved with the Russians they'll never find her," Roz Lichtmann said. (more...)

'Jane Doe' now has Facebook page

The Reporter - WI, USA

'Jane Doe' now has Facebook page

By Russell Plummer • The Reporter • August 19, 2009

The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children gave Fond du Lac County’s “Jane Doe” a face.

Fond du Lac County

Mick Fink has vowed to be her voice.
And detectives now hope the world’s most popular open source database can help give her a name.
On Monday, a series of e-mails and a court order written by Fond du Lac County Circuit Court Judge Dale English paid off when “Jane Doe” got her own page on the Web site Facebook.
Three deer hunters found the body of a woman on Nov. 23, 2008, in a wooded area behind W4617 Skyline Drive in the town of Ashford. Since then, even with a reconstruction of her face, no solid leads have formed, said Lt. Bill Flood.
Detective Charles Sosinski announced during a June press conference he was creating a Web page for the woman on social networking Web sites Facebook and Myspace. (more...)

Found remains

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Examiner.com - MN, USA

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The Salt Lake Tribune - UT, USA

Judge clears perjury charges linked to McHenry teen's disappearance

Left: Brian Carrick

Chicago Daily Herald - IL, USA

Judge clears perjury charges linked to McHenry teen's disappearance

By Charles Keeshan Daily Herald Staff

A judge Wednesday cleared a McHenry man of allegations he lied to a grand jury when he denied telling a former friend he knows what happened to a 17-year-old high school student who vanished nearly seven years ago and is believed murdered.

McHenry County Judge Sharon Prather ruled that testimony from the friend, who claimed Mario Casciaro told him how the teen died and where his body was dumped, was not enough to convict Casciaro of two perjury charges.

"(Case law) dictates that the testimony of a single witness is sufficient only if that testimony is confirmed or corroborated by other evidence," Prather said. "The state has failed to do so. (more...)

Commentary: Still no answers on Depies after 17 years

Left: Laurie Depies

Appleton Post Crescent - WI, USA

Commentary: Still no answers on Depies after 17 years

August 19, 2009

There was plenty of big news in 1992. Milwaukee serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer went to prison for life. Hurricane Andrew blazed a trial of destruction in Florida. Bill Clinton ascended to the presidency. Riots broke out in Los Angeles after police officers accused in the Rodney King beating were found not guilty.

It also was the year Laurie Depies vanished from a Town of Menasha apartment complex.
The baffling case of the then-20-year-old Appleton woman captured the attention of the public and the media. And it remains a source of considerable interest today, the 17th anniversary of her disappearance.
The missing persons case has been investigated exhaustively by the Town of Menasha Police Department and the state Department of Justice. There have been intriguing developments and suspects have surfaced along the way, but the case remains unsolved. (more...)

Additional link: http://www.lauriedepies.com/

Cold disappearance case reopened by DA's office

That's great! I had seen from the Charley Project Mary's case had been added to the NCMEC but the investigation reopened that's even better.

Left: Mary Stuart

Times-Standard - Eureka,CA,USA

Cold disappearance case reopened by DA's office

Allison White/The Times-Standard
Posted: 08/19/2009 01:30:09 AM PDT

A nearly 32-year-old case involving the disappearance of a Honeydew woman and her two children has regained momentum, according to Humboldt County District Attorney's Office investigators who announced Tuesday they have new leads and are looking for more.

Mary Stuart, 32, and her two daughters, Fannie, 1, and Jessie, 2, disappeared from Honeydew on Dec. 10, 1977, after they left to get groceries. The family's station wagon was found a few miles from their home on Jan. 19, 1978, on an old logging road. Groceries were still in the car and the car's gas line was broken, according to a Jan. 20, 1978, Times-Standard story following the investigation.

The Humboldt County Sheriff's Office initially reported that there was no evidence of foul play and no sign of a struggle near the car, according to the story. (more...)