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| 1993 Parsons, Andrea G. July 11,1993; Port Salerno 10 YO | |
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| PorchlightUSA | Nov 25 2006, 11:11 PM Post #1 |
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http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/p/parsons_andrea.html Andrea Gail Parsons Top Row and Bottom Left: Parsons, circa 1993; Bottom Right: Age-progression at age 18 (circa 2001) Vital Statistics at Time of Disappearance Missing Since: July 11, 1993 from Port Salerno, Florida Classification: Non-Family Abduction Date Of Birth: May 12, 1983 Age: 10 years old Height and Weight: 4'11, 80 pounds Distinguishing Characteristics: Brown to blonde hair, hazel eyes. Parsons has pierced ears. Clothing/Jewelry Description: A dark-colored shirt, jeans or jean shorts and clear plastic sandals. Details of Disappearance Parsons was last seen at approximately 6:00 p.m. on July 11, 1993 near her family's residence in the 4800 block of southeast Ebbtide Avenue in Port Salerno, Florida. Her mother's boyfriend gave her permission to walk to a friend's residence on Flounder Avenue and the Port Salerno Grocery Store on Salerno Road. Two witnesses observed Parsons walking towards the business shortly afterwards, which was two blocks from her home. An employee at the store told authorities that Parsons purchased potato chips and candy with some change she had, then departed the business. She may have been collecting empty soda cans near Commerce Avenue and Seward Avenue at the time of her disappearance. Her friend said that Parsons never arrived at her home. She has never been seen again. Claude Davis, a Port Salerno resident who was convicted of child molestation in an unrelated case, was considered a suspect in Parsons's disappearance. Davis told authorities that Parsons died after an accidental fall on the night she vanished. He claimed that he panicked afterwards and put her body in a dumpster, and never reported the incident until November 1993, four months after Parsons was last seen. Investigators arrested Davis shortly afterwards, but the charges against him were dropped due to a lack of evidence. Davis later claimed he was not involved in Parsons's case, but he knew who took her. When police asked him to take a lie detector test, he refused. The porch of Davis's residence was burned down in April 1994. He claimed that the arsonist was a person who thought he was involved in Parsons' disappearance. Davis had just been released from prison for unrelated molestation charges at the time of the fire. Davis is currently serving a prison sentence for violating the terms of his probation. He was not allowed to have contact with his victim, who is now an adult. Davis claimed that he was repairing her parents's vehicle and told the victim to leave the area at the time. The presiding judge did not agree with Davis's account and sent him back to prison in July 2000. He has never been charged in Parsons's disappearance due to a lack of evidence connecting him to her presumed abduction, but he is the only suspect who was never eliminated. Authorities believe that Parsons was abducted and murdered, but there is little evidence to support any theory. A landfill in Martin County, Florida was searched in December 1993, five months after Parsons disappeared. Investigators were looking for her remains at the time, but the search yielded few clues. Parsons's case remains unsolved. Some agencies may classify Parsons as an Endangered Missing person. Investigating Agency If you have any information concerning this case, please contact: Martin County Sheriff's Office 407-220-7170 Source Information The National Center For Missing and Exploited Children Child Protection Education Of America Nation's Missing Children Organization America's Most Wanted The Stuart News The Miami Herald The Palm Beach Post The Tampa Tribune Texas Department Of Public Safety The Child Seek Network Charley Project Home |
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| PorchlightUSA | Nov 25 2006, 11:12 PM Post #2 |
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| PorchlightUSA | Nov 25 2006, 11:14 PM Post #3 |
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| PorchlightUSA | Nov 25 2006, 11:14 PM Post #4 |
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| PorchlightUSA | Mar 22 2008, 08:56 AM Post #5 |
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The Palm Beach Post July 13, 1993 Edition: MARTIN-ST. LUCIE Section: A SECTION Page: 1A SALERNO GIRL, 10, MISSING AFTER TRIP TO STORE Author: JILL TAYLOR, Palm Beach Post Staff Writer Dateline: PORT SALERNO Article Text: Bored with television, 10-year-old Andrea Parsons took a fistful of pennies to the store two blocks from her home to buy some potato chips and candy around 6 p.m. Sunday. She didn't come home. Family, neighbors and Martin County sheriff's deputies searched all day Monday, but found no sign of the Port Salerno Elementary School fourth-grader. "She would not just stay away on purpose," her mother, Linda Parsons, said after a sleepless night. "Our rules are to check in and be home before dark," the worried mother said, chain-smoking cigarettes and sipping cold coffee. "She would be home if she could be. It just gives me chills to think . . . " Parsons said-- not finishing the thought she had tried to force from her mind all day. Sheriff's Capt. Bill Snyder said deputies and detectives were interviewing every friend and neighbor, hoping the girl decided to stay with someone else and forgot to tell her mother of her plans. Investigators were checking reports Monday night that Andrea was seen around 9:30 p.m. Sunday, but the last confirmed sighting was around 6 p.m. when she stopped at Port Salerno Grocery on Salerno Road. Sue Solomon was running the register. She remembers Andrea had 50 pennies and a dime. She counted out the change and bought two bags of potato chips and a dime's worth of candy. The girl was alone and there were few people in or outside the store, Solomon said. Solomon was shocked to hear of Andrea's disappearance-- and like many other Port Salerno mothers-- said her kids won't be going out unsupervised until Andrea is found. "I know what that mother is going through. It's scary. I'm still shaking just talking about it," Solomon said. Solomon does know what it's like to wait and worry. Her fisherman husband was missing for two days last summer before his body was found in the Intracoastal Waterway. He had fallen from his homemade fishing boat and drowned. Mary Timmerman, who works with Andrea's mother at Winn Dixie, said she saw the girl sometime after 6 p.m. walking along Commerce Avenue-- apparently on her way to the store. "She waved to me. She seemed fine," Timmerman said. Linda Parsons, 40, was at work when Andrea went out. The girl's father is deceased. Parsons' boyfriend, Pat Daniels, 37, was home with Andrea at the small house on Southeast Ebbtide Avenue. Daniels said he was watching a program on The Discovery Channel and Andrea was bored. She asked for and was given permission to go visit a friend and walk to the store. She never went to the friend's house. After the family reported Andrea missing at 11 p.m. Sunday, sheriff's officials searched with police dogs, a helicopter, patrol cars and deputies on foot. Monday afternoon deputies were handing out fliers with Andrea's picture and description and store owners were taping the "missing child" posters to their windows. Andrea is 4-foot-11, 80 pounds with long brown hair and hazel eyes. She was wearing blue jean shorts, a dark shirt and clear plastic sandals. As Linda Parsons stood in a neighbor's driveway, talking about her missing daughter, a boy rode up on his bicycle, waving a flier and asking, "Have you seen this little girl?" Parsons quietly explained she is the girl's mom and thanked the boy for his help. |
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| PorchlightUSA | Mar 22 2008, 08:58 AM Post #6 |
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The Palm Beach Post November 18, 1993 Edition: FINAL Section: A SECTION Page: 1A NEIGHBOR: MISSING GIRL IS DEAD SUSPECT CHANGES TALE, SAYS HE DUMPED ANDREA PARSONS IN TRASH Author: JILL TAYLOR Dateline: STUART A neighbor who belatedly came forward and said he saw several men stuff 10-year-old Andrea Parsons into a car the night she disappeared is in jail after he walked into the sheriff's office Tuesday night and said he was with the girl when she died. Claude Davis, 57, told Martin County sheriff's investigators he was collecting aluminum cans with the Port Salerno Elementary School fourth-grader on July 11 when she hit her head inside a trash bin and died. He said he drove around looking for help, then dumped her body in a Phipps Park trash bin. Davis, a county worker with a clean criminal and work record, is charged with false imprisonment. In Florida, it is against the law for an adult to ``confine'' a child younger than 13 without their parent's or guardian's knowledge. Andrea's body has not been found but searches are planned in several areas - including the Martin County landfill. Investigators are skeptical of Davis' latest story, but they do believe Andrea is dead. ``This case is not closed by any stretch of the imagination,'' Martin County Sheriff Robert Crowder said. ``There is an escalated phase of the investigation that is just beginning.'' Andrea's mother, Linda, until now quite vocal about her daughter's disappearance, remained secluded with family and friends in a duplex off Kanner Highway throughout the day. ``What this did is it took away this ray of hope that she had,'' said Patrick Sessions, whose daughter, Tiffany, disappeared in Gainesville in 1989. Sessions has given the family support throughout their ordeal. Davis, who is a mower operator for the Martin County roads department, was held at the Martin County Jail on $250,000 bail Wednesday. False imprisonment is a felony punishable by up to five years in prison and a $5,000 fine. Investigators towed the mobile home Davis lived in, his Ford van and a car from his property early Wednesday and all three will be searched for evidence. \ ``He is not admitting that he did anything that caused her death. . . . He is merely saying that he was with her when she became injured,'' Crowder said in a news conference Wednesday afternoon. Davis, who lived in the small trailer behind the house where he was born on Ebbtide Avenue, became a suspect when he walked into the sheriff's office four days after Andrea disappeared and told detectives he saw several Hispanic men force the girl into a large, old car almost in front of her house, investigators said. The fact that he waited so long to come forward made investigators suspicious and they began asking about him and keeping track of his movements. At least one co-worker said Davis appeared obsessed with Andrea's disappearance. At times, Davis would claim to have inside information on the case. He once told a co-worker that Andrea's body had been found in Indiantown and that she had been mutilated. Davis went to the sheriff's office around 7 p.m. Tuesday and told lead investigator Gary Bach a different story. He said he was at Port Salerno Grocery on July 11 and saw Andrea in the parking lot. He told Bach the girl asked for a ride home. Davis told investigators he said no at first, then invited her to come with him on his aluminum can collecting rounds. He said she was crawling around in a trash bin and fell somehow, hitting her head. Davis said he tried to revive her, but could not. He said he drove around looking for help but panicked because he knew she was dead. He said he drove to Phipps Park and dropped her body in a trash bin. Some friends said they believe Davis was telling the truth about witnessing the kidnapping and think the latest story is fiction. ``He couldn't have kidnapped that little girl. He said he seen her kidnapped,'' said Bill Brewer, a friend for 15 years. But others believed the charge could be true. ``Lots of times, he just didn't seem all there,'' said June Ford, whose mother-in-law lived with Davis for several years. ``I didn't think he would go that far.'' Although she was not up to interviews Wednesday, Linda Parsons sent word through Sessions that Davis was no friend of the family and Andrea did not spend any time with him. Searches, investigations, lab tests and interviews are expected to continue for days or weeks. Without explanation, Circuit Judge Marc Cianca sealed investigators' complaint affidavit - the one the sheriff's office used to persuade him to issue an arrest warrant for Davis. It's not clear what other evidence or information investigators might have. Adam Walsh Center Executive Director Nancy McBride, who has worked with the family from the first day, answered the door at Parson's duplex Wednesday morning. And while Andrea's family and friends may be closer to knowing what happened to the hazel-eyed girl who dreamed of becoming a veterinarian, it isn't over for them, McBride said. ``Linda wants to know where her daughter is.'' |
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| PorchlightUSA | Mar 22 2008, 09:04 AM Post #7 |
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Fort Pierce Tribune (FL) November 18, 1993 Edition: St. Lucie County Page: PG Arrest in Parsons case, suspects tells police Andrea died collecting cans Steve Quinn Arrest in Parsons case, suspects tells police Andrea died collecting cans Steve Quinn Tribune Staff Writer Robert York Tribune Photographer Linda Parsons sat outside the home last summer where she last saw her 10-year-old daughter Andrea Gail. She has since moved. Steve Quinn MARTIN COUNTY -- Detec" tive Gary Bach and FBI agent David Von Holle arrived at Linda Parsons' apartment in Stuart at 1:30 a.m. Wednesday with the news she had been dreading for four months. Her 10-year-old daughter, Andrea Gail, was dead, they said. And the Port Salerno man who told investigators four days after Andrea disappeared that he saw her get into a car with several Hispanic men was arrested in connection with her death. Claude Davis, 56, of 4799 S.E. Ebbtide Ave., a neighbor of the Parsonses, told detectives Tuesday night that Andrea is dead and that he was collecting cans with her the day she disappeared -- July 11 -- and that she fell climbing out of a garbage bin and was knocked unconscious. Davis, a grass cutter for the roads maintenance division of the Martin County Public Works Department, was booked into the Martin County Jail on $250,000 bond under a charge of false imprisonment of a child under 13. Davis is also the subject of another criminal investigation involving children, Sheriff Robert L. Crowder said. Crowder would not elaborate. Bach said investigators do not have enough evidence for additional charges, including murder. ``This investigation is not closed by any means,'' Crowder said to scores of media represen tatives at a Wednesday afternoon news confer ]ence at the Holt Law Enforcement Center in Stuart. ``The escalating phase has just begun.'' Just how Andrea died and the circumstances of her death are unclear, investigators said. They have not found her body. And other friends of the family said Linda Parsons was not aware that her daughter even knew Davis. ``We are working with the assumption that yes, she is dead,'' Crowder said. ``To do otherwise would maintain false hope. She probably is not alive.'' Initially, Davis told detectives he waited to come forward with information that he saw Andrea get into a gold-colored Oldsmobile with several Hispanic men because he feared retribution. But detectives questioned his motive and have been investigating his story ever since, the FBI's Von Holle said. ``We were skeptical from the beginning,'' Von Holle said. ``It didn't appear to be a logical occurrence. We discovered discrepancies in his story as the investigation continued.'' Crowder said investigators are equally skeptical about portions of Davis' most recent story because of what they called ``conflicting statements.'' They would not say what those conflicts were. Bach said he has interviewed Davis several times since Davis first contacted him. Bach said Davis voluntarily went to the Sheriff's Office about 7 p.m. Tuesday for another meeting, then gave Bach and Von Holle this account: Davis said he was with Andrea on July 11, collecting cans in Port Salerno, but did not specify where they were. Andrea hurt herself and knocked herself unconscious while trying to climb out of a trash bin, he said. He said he tried to revive her but failed. Davis said he put her in his van and took her to the Port Salerno Fire Department, but no rescue personnel were around and there was no one at the department. Davis said he then went to the Winn-Dixie grocery in Port Salerno, about a quarter-mile south of Ebbtide Avenue, looking for Andrea's mother, who was working in the deli department, but could not find her. He said he then panicked and drove Andrea's body to Phipps Park, about five miles to the west near Florida's Turnpike, where he placed the body in another trash bin. After Davis told investigators his story Tuesday night, Bach arrested him at 11 p.m. under a state statute that forbids taking a child under 13 without a parent's consent. Acting on advice from Chief Assistant Public Defender Mark Harllee, Davis has said nothing further to authorities since his arrest, Detective Bach said. ``I don't want him to say anything more about the case until we've talked to him,'' Harllee said. ``It's too early for us to talk about it, because the case is very new to us.'' Bach said there is no trash bin at Phipps Park, but he is looking into Davis' story that a bin was there in July and Davis' reported trips to Winn-Dixie and the Fire Department. Bach also said investigators will search a landfill on State Road 714 where Martin County contractors dispose of garbage. Investigators still need to examine Davis' trailer home, van and gold Ford, which have been impounded, Bach said, and taken to the Indian River Regional Crime Laboratory in Fort Pierce. Davis lived in the trailer home behind the single-story house he grew up in on Southeast Ebbtide Avenue. For nearly three weeks after Linda Parsons reported her daughter missing, Andrea's disappearance merited enough attention to be featured on the television show ``America's Most Wanted.'' As more time elapsed without results, Linda Parsons searched for new ways to keep the public's eye on the missing child: rewards, billboard notices, bumper stickers, fliers in English and Spanish. Meanwhile, Bach and Von Holle said they continually researched Davis' possible involvement with Andrea the day she disappeared. ``This investigation has been proceeding,'' Von Holle said. ``I think (Davis' statement Tuesday) is predicated by the evidence we have collected in the investigation.'' But Von Holle would not detail evidence from the investigation. Linda Parsons, who last month moved from her Port Salerno home, did not appear at Wednesday's news conference and would not comment. Instead, a representative of the West Palm Beach-based Adam Walsh Foundation who has become a friend of Parsons' spoke on her behalf. ``She respects you (the media) for the job you've done, and she asks that you respect her feelings,'' said Patrick Sessions, whose daughter, Tiffany, disappeared four years ago from Gainesville while attending the University of Florida and has never been found. ``The last 24 hours for her have been hard. This (news) takes away a ray of hope she had that Andrea is still alive. To have a confession without knowing where Andrea is, is frustrating.'' After Davis was arrested, Bach and Von Holle awoke Linda Parsons with a 1 a.m. Wednesday phone call to tell her they were on their way to her Stardust Place apartment. There, they told a distraught mother the news that shattered her belief that Andrea one day would come home. ``There were some hugs and some tears,'' Bach said. ``Linda and I have built a relationship over the last four months. Three days didn't go by when we didn't talk. She knew a lot more about what was going on than she was given credit for.'' |
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| PorchlightUSA | Mar 22 2008, 09:05 AM Post #8 |
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Palm Beach Post, The (FL) July 8, 2003 Edition: MARTIN-ST. LUCIE Section: A SECTION Page: 1A SEARCH FOR AREA GIRL HAS GONE ON FOR 10 YEARS Author: JILL TAYLOR Palm Beach Post Staff Writer Dateline: PORT SALERNO This summer, trees festooned with yellow ribbons signify prayers for the safe return of American troops serving in foreign wars. But 10 years ago, yellow ribbons in Port Salerno reflected an anxious community eager for the safe return of a 10-year-old girl. She had disappeared a block from her home on the sweltering evening of July 11, 1993. That summer, Andrea Parsons' face smiled out from "missing" fliers in hundreds of store windows and even a couple of roadside billboards. There was Andrea with her pet rabbit. Andrea walking a Shetland pony at the flea market. Andrea trying to look grown up in a school picture. It was long before the widespread use of the Internet, or Amber alerts and detailed DNA analyses. Word was spread person to person and with fliers that little boys on their bicycles tacked to telephone poles and trees. A U.S. 1 billboard that displayed a Volkswagen-size portrait of Andrea in the year after she disappeared now plugs Buy Owner do-it-yourself real estate sales packages. Her story was featured on America's Most Wanted TV shows, and workers with the Adam Walsh Center camped out at her modest wood-frame home on Ebbtide Avenue. Has anyone seen this child? No one has. She hasn't been found, and no one has been charged in her disappearance and presumed murder. That doesn't mean no one is looking. Last year the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children created an "age progression" from a photograph of Andrea, using a computer program to add years and makeup to show her as she might look as the 19-year-old young woman she would have been in 2002. And Martin County sheriff's detectives recently dug around an area where tipsters said there might be some evidence. As with dozens of other excavations over the years, it came up empty. "We're very fortunate we still have people calling in," said Sgt. John Silvas, who fields leads as they come in. "I'm sure there are people that know something. They need to call us with that information." Andrea's mother, Linda, lives in North Florida now. She wouldn't recognize her old neighborhood, and most of the people who live there now have never heard of her missing daughter or what she has endured every time there is a lead that fizzles or a tip that fades. "I still think she's alive out there somewhere. I have to believe that," she said last week. She doesn't begrudge the joy of Elizabeth Smart's family or others who have been reunited with their missing children. She just wishes she could experience it. "I'm happy for them. It's just the greatest thing. Dang. How great would that be?" she said. Investigators identified former neighbor Claude Davis, now age 66, as a suspect after he first claimed to have witnessed Andrea's abduction and later said she died accidently while helping him collect aluminum cans for recycling. But he never was charged and detectives later focused on a Davis family friend who had a history of violence and once claimed he was present when Andrea was killed. That suspect also had a history of drug abuse and his stories changed so many times it became clear that nothing he said would be enough for charges without another witness or physical evidence to back it up. With the advances in technology, investigators believe they could make huge strides if they could find even partial remains of the missing girl. But after searching at several locations, including the landfill after Davis reported her body was left in a trash bin, they had nothing but indications from cadaver dogs that a body may have been at a location at one time. Still, Silvas is hoping that publicity about the anniversary will jog a memory or bring forward someone with information. "We're still throwing the net out there," he said. And while the posters have disappeared from the stores and the telephone poles, there is still a poster with 10-year-old Andrea and the 2002 age-progressed Andrea on the bulletin board in the sheriff's office lobby. It will remain there until she is found. |
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| PorchlightUSA | Mar 22 2008, 09:11 AM Post #9 |
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Dayton Daily News (OH) July 27, 1993 Edition: CITY Section: NEWS Page: 1A MOTHER SEEKS HELP TO FIND GIRL MISSING DAUGHTER HAD LIVED IN DAYTON Author: Adrianne Flynn and Gary Kane COX NEWS SERVICE Darlene Jurich is going to hit the streets this morning. The Kettering woman has to. Her niece and her sister need her. Jurich is going to post flyers around the Dayton area bearing the picture of her 10-year-old niece, Andrea Gail Parsons, who has been missing since July 11. Authorities believe Andrea was abducted as she walked home from a convenience store in Port Salerno, Fla., on July 11. Now, the family is trying everything - even posting fliers in the Dayton area - to find her. "That's just it. You never know. You never know where she'll be. It doesn't hurt to try," said Jurich, who returned last week from seeing her sister in Florida. Jurich's sister, Linda Parsons, moved from Dayton to Port Salerno, Fla., in September, with Andrea, her 12-year-old half-sister, Josette "Niki" Howard, and Parsons' boyfriend, Pat Daniels. Andrea's disappearance July 11 has baffled Martin County Sheriff's investigators and the FBI. They got their first indication of what happened five days later when a witness stepped forward and said he saw a carload of men abduct the youngster just 25 yards from her home. Authorities are still searching for the car. Parsons hasn't returned to her job as deli clerk at a Winn-Dixie since Andrea disappeared. She isn't likely to go back any time soon, Jurich said. "She wants to stay right there at home in case she gets a phone call. She will never leave that house until Andrea comes home." Parsons, who has another sister in Bellefontaine and an 18-year-old son, Jason Howard, in Dayton, said she's counting on her friends and former neighbors in Dayton to help out. Any little bit of information might be helpful, she said. "I wake up each morning feeling exhausted, like I spent the whole night looking for her," Parsons said. "She's going to come home to me. I'm sure of it." America's Most Wanted television show aired information about the case on July 16, prompting 50 telephone calls with tips. Reporters from all over Florida have kept the case in the news for more than two weeks. And the Adam Walsh Center, named for another child who was abducted in Florida, is working with the family. Parsons was leaving for work the afternoon of July 11 when she last saw her daughter. Andrea scampered out to the sandy driveway, opened the door of the family's white station wagon for her mother, then leaned inside with a goodbye kiss. About 5:30 p.m., Andrea asked Daniels for permission to walk to the grocery store and visit a friend. Daniels sent her off with a handful of pocket change. On the way, Andrea stopped briefly at a young friend's house. She waved to Mary Timmerman, her mother's co-worker. She then cut across the parking lot to Port Salerno Grocery. She bought two bags of potato chips and candy. "I thought it was odd that she came by herself," said Sue Solomon, who worked a cash register that day. "She usually comes in with her sister." Her sister was visiting relatives in Tampa. Daniels said he began to worry about Andrea as it grew dark. At the time, family had no telephone and Daniels had no access to a car, so he began to scour the neighborhood on foot. Parsons left work at 10:10 p.m. and was stunned to find her daughter wasn't home. "Hysterical isn't the word for it," she said. After frantically searching the neighborhood - which she called a "crack neighborhood" - she notified the Martin County Sheriff's Office at 11 p.m. Investigators asked Parsons and Daniels some tough questions. "I was questioned by 12 detectives and one FBI agent. I was their No. 1 suspect," Daniels said. "They tried to make me mad to test my reactions. They threatened to get the (state) to take away our other little girl. "Here we are going through this trauma, and they were looking at us as suspects." The case sparked an intensive search. Five days after Andrea was reported missing, a local resident walked into the sheriff's office and said he saw the young girl snatched off the street. Four or five men in a battered Oldsmobile cruised behind Andrea, the witness said. The vehicle stopped along a wooded lot roughly 25 yards from her home. A man weighing about 200 pounds and wearing a cowboy hat lumbered out of the back seat, grabbed Andrea and forced her into the car. Andrea didn't scream or struggle, the witness said, she just looked surprised. |
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| PorchlightUSA | Mar 22 2008, 09:13 AM Post #10 |
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The Palm Beach Post January 30, 1994 Edition: FINAL Section: A SECTION Page: 1A SUSPECT'S RECORDINGS MENTION ANDREA PARSONS Author: JILL TAYLOR Dateline: STUART Tormented by thoughts of losing the 15-year-old girl he loved, Claude Davis said he believed he could win her back if he could find Andrea Parsons, the 10-year-old Port Salerno girl who has been missing since July. Authorities suspect Davis is connected with Andrea's disappearance. Davis gave investigators a statement Nov. 16 that Andrea was dead. He said he was with her collecting aluminum cans when she fell, hit her head and died instantly. In tape recordings released last week, the 57-year-old Martin County grass-cutter speculated that she was killed by someone enraged over lost love. ``Probably somebody keeps getting rejected by other women,'' Davis said. ``What makes him destroy them is that mad rejection part. Deep inside he wants a woman, yet he hates them.'' The comments are among a series of conversations Davis had with Susan Copus, a neighbor who worked with authorities to secretly record Davis in the weeks before his November arrest in connection with the case. Many of the tapes are inaudible - obscured by background noise or too faint to make out words. Copus is working with detectives to translate the recordings. But some tapes are very clear. Hours before Davis went to the Martin County Sheriff's Office Nov. 16 to tell his story, he was sobbing his love for the 15-year-old girl he believed jilted him for a younger man. Davis said the girl seemed to be afraid of him after Andrea disappeared and he believed by finding Andrea's body or solving the case, he could win the girl back. ``I love that girl,'' he cried. ``I'm going to lose (her) one way or the other.'' Davis also described visions of Andrea mutilated and dumped in the woods but speculated she was killed by drug smugglers, convenience store robbers or mad scientists. He speculated he might have been responsible for her death, but then backed off. In the end, he said he dreamed he was there when she died. But it wasn't murder, he said. ``If it did transpire, it was an accident. I did not kill the girl. I did not cut her up. There was no rape involved.'' So far, with no body and no witnesses, authorities have yet to find any evidence to prove Davis wrong. Some details of his story don't check out. He said he went to the fire department for help when Andrea supposedly fell and died, but no one was there. Computer rec-ords show crews were there all night. He said it all happened before dark, and he went to Winn-Dixie to look for Andrea's mother. But Linda Parsons didn't leave work until after 10 p.m., and no one recalls anyone asking for her. He said he first saw Andrea after he bought snacks from Bucky's Grocery and she came out of the store to ask him for a ride. The clerk on duty that day said she knows Davis and she doesn't remember seeing him in the store. She does remember Andrea. A friend and neighbor, Copus was concerned about Davis' relationship with a 15-year-old girl and worried he was involved in An-drea's disappearance. Copus, who works for the Martin County Health Department, agreed to work with investigators and carried the tape recorder for several weeks as she and Davis talked. He has not been formally charged in Andrea's disappearance. But detectives have publicly questioned the accident story and said the case is under investigation as a homicide. Meanwhile, Davis is jailed under $100,000 bail on charges he molested the 15-year-old twice when she was 14. He originally was jailed Nov. 16 on charges of false imprisonment in connection with Andrea's disappearance, but those charges have not been pressed. The cases - of Andrea and of the 15-year-old - appear unconnected on the surface. But the tape recordings released as evidence in the molestation case are filled with references to finding Andrea's body as a way to repair his relationship with the girl. Davis apparently had a strong belief in psychics. Under the direction of investigators, Copus told Davis a psychic named Sherry believed he had the answer to Andrea's fate. With ``Sherry'' encouraging him through Copus, Davis checked more than a dozen wooded areas and went back to an area near Interstate 95 at least six times after he reported visions and strong feelings that Andrea was nearby. All the locations were searched by investigators, many with specially trained dogs, but nothing was found. On Nov. 16, Davis told Copus he was beginning to wonder if he was involved. ``I can't really say that I did it. Is there another person in me? Is there something wrong here?'' he asked. ``Or did I get so mad at (the 15-year-old) . . . that I wanted revenge?'' He said the can-collecting accident story came to him in a dream. He said he wasn't sure if it really happened, but he recalled details he could not remember from his other ``visions.'' Investigators have interviewed the 15-year-old and her family. All have refused to cooperate, although the girl told prosecutors in a Dec. 30 interview that Davis raped her twice and she was afraid of him. She went to prosecutors to ask them to drop the molestation charges against Davis. She said he was a close friend of her parents and helped the family financially. With him in jail, they struggled over the holidays, she said. ``I just want the whole thing to be dropped,'' she said. ``My family, we've been really close. But now it looks like I'm going to have to get my stuff and move out because of the whole thing.'' She said Davis forced sex on her twice and beat her several times, but she didn't want to prosecute. ``It wasn't right, but I ain't worried about it no more.'' Although the 15-year-old does not want to testify, prosecutors are proceeding with the case based on taped statements she made to a former boyfriend and various statements Davis made to Copus about kissing and touching the girl. In one conversation, Davis told Copus that the girl's parents would not allow her to press charges and planned to keep her confined to the house. ``And I guess there are gonna be a couple of girls work her over. Not to mess up her face, but teach her a lesson,'' Davis said a week before his arrest. In taped talks with her former boyfriend, the 15-year-old girl said her parents forced her to go out with Davis because they depended on money from him to help the family. Davis told Copus several times that he gave the family a lot of financial help and that he sometimes suspected the girl was being used to tie him to the family. Asked if any charges against the girl's parents are possible, Assistant State Attorney Steve Levin said nothing has been ruled out in the investigation. DAVIS ON TAPE Claude Davis was secretly tape-recorded by a friend and neighbor, Susan Copus, who lived on the same street as Davis and Andrea Parsons. Davis often spoke of a 15-year-old girl he is charged with molesting. In October, Davis told Copus he had strong feelings that Andrea's body was somewhere off Jack James Road near Interstate 95 and he began to suspect investigators were following him. They were. In another conversation, Davis talked of a vision of a man cutting Andrea's body to pieces. `It could be some mad doctor from Mexico,' he said. After investigators interviewed co-workers, Davis complained they were asking questions about the girl. `My relationship with her should have nothing to do with the abduction of (Andrea),' Davis said. `They're looking for a child molester.' In many conversations, Davis insisted his attraction to the 15-year-old girl doesn't mean he is attracted to all young girls. `Suppose I am in love with her. That doesn't mean I did anything to any other girls.' He talked of suicide. On Nov. 3, Davis first mentioned the possibility that Andrea was not murdered. `I got a feeling it might have been an accident or something. That she really wasn't raped,' he said. `My head's getting so messed up, I'm about to start accusing myself, thinking I really did it.' In the next two weeks, Davis became worried that his van and Copus' telephone were bugged. He talked to a lawyer for advice. Midmonth, Davis appeared to have reconciled with the girl and her family. He talked less and less about Andrea. Investigators and Copus applied more pressure, telling Davis the psychic `Sherry' could no longer protect him from evil spirits if he would not make an effort to find Andrea. Copus spoke into the microphone before meeting Davis for the last time: `November 16. 5:25 p.m. It's showdown time.' Within two hours, Davis was making a statement to investigators, and before the night was over, he was under arrest. |
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| PorchlightUSA | Mar 22 2008, 09:14 AM Post #11 |
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The Palm Beach Post July 25, 1993 Edition: FINAL Section: A SECTION Page: 1A Topics: Index Terms: ARTICLE CHILD KIDNAP MISSING PSALERNO 'SHE'S GOING TO COME HOME' ANDREA PARSONS' MOTHER HOLDS FIRM IN BELIEF HER DAUGHTER WILL RETURN Author: GARY KANE Dateline: PORT SALERNO In a stuffy rear bedroom of her cramped mobile home, Linda Parsons sat on her daughter Andrea's bed and whispered The Lord's Prayer - a bedtime moment they shared many times. Only this night, Andrea wasn't in her bed. The wispy 10-year-old hadn't slept in her bed several nights. Yet, she seemed to be everywhere. She smiled from store windows and passing cars, from TV screens and newspaper racks. Her smile is tentative, frozen in posters declaring her missing, pleading for help. Two weeks have passed since Linda Parsons last saw her daughter. ``I wake up each morning feeling exhausted, like I spent the whole night looking for her,'' she said, clutching an ever-present plastic cup of instant coffee. ``She's going to come home to me. I'm sure of it.'' Andrea's disappearance July 11 baffled Martin County Sheriff's Office investigators and the FBI. They got their first indication of what happened five days later when a witness stepped forward and said he saw a carload of men abduct the youngster just 25 yards from her home. Authorities are still searching for the car. The family's hopeful vigil briefly turned nightmarish Saturday: a diminutive body was found partially buried along a rural road near Hobe Sound. Investigators rushed to the scene. Parsons waited for news she dreaded to hear. And then, an incredible denouement - a medical examiner determined the body was not Andrea. The vigil continues. On most days, Andrea attended summer school at Port Salerno Elementary, where she had just finished the fourth-grade. She needed help with math. Her mother religiously drove her to and picked her up from school, although it's within walking distance. ``This is a crack neighborhood,'' Parsons said. ``I can point out the crack houses and the crack whores. We didn't know it was like this when we moved here.'' Parsons moved into the neighborhood in October with her daughters Andrea and Niki, 12, and her boyfriend, Pat Daniels, who is Niki's father. The dark Blue Chevy they drove from Dayton, Ohio, is parked like a junked car in the back yard. Its trunk was one of the first places investigators searched. The family pays $100 a week in rent for the aging mobile home, to which a slat-wood room addition has provided a third bedroom. It sits on an unshaded lot on Southeast Ebbtide Avenue, a dead-end road with a mix of houses and trailer homes in various states of upkeep. Whites, Hispanics and blacks live in the area. Mother and daughter left home early in the morning on Sunday, July 11. By 7:30 a.m., Andrea popped out of the car at the gates of the B&A Flea Market, just south of Stuart on U.S. 1. ``I was really glad to see her because I needed help lifting boxes that day,'' recalled Cheri Tate, 19, who sells clothes, jewelry and assorted household items from a booth at the market every weekend. ``She's helped me a lot and we got to be close. She's like the little sister I never had.'' A GOODBYE KISS The highlight of Andrea's day at the market came when a woman strolled by with three pit bull puppies. Andrea begged to cuddle one. She loves animals, her family said. Stray cats, dogs, rabbits, even hermit crabs have become pets. Andrea left the market after using her earnings to buy a gold-plated unicorn necklace and automobile air freshner. Her mother picked her up about 2:40 p.m., and Andrea surprised her with the gifts. When they got home, Parsons carved a watermelon in the back yard. Andrea then climbed into bed for a nap, while her mother prepared for another night-shift at the Winn-Dixie deli. As Parsons headed for the front door, Andrea scampered out to the sandy driveway, opened the door of the family's white station wagon for her mother, then leaned inside with a goodbye kiss. It was the last her mother saw of her. The sweltering day drove Andrea inside the mobile home, where Daniels, her mother's boyfriend, was watching television. A fan near the color television pushed the air-conditioned mix of oxygen and cigarette smoke around the tiny living room. At one point, Andrea grabbed her roller skates and went to a neighbor's house to skate in the driveway with 3-year-old Latonia Jones. ``They didn't skate but five minutes. It was too hot out,'' said the toddler's mother Jennifer Jones. Andrea returned home, where Daniels was watching a nature program on The Discovery Channel. He noticed that Andrea was uninterested. About 5:30 p.m., she asked permission to walk to the store and visit a friend. He sent her off with a handful of pocket change. Andrea stopped at Latonia's house and asked if the child could go with her. ``I said no because I didn't think Andrea was old enough,'' Jones said. Thank God I said no.'' Andrea walked about two blocks. She waved to Mary Timmerman, her mother's co-worker, as she strolled along Commerce Avenue. She then cut across the parking lot to Port Salerno Grocery, which the locals call ``Bucky's.'' She bought two bags of potato chips and some candy. ``I thought it was odd that she came by herself,'' recalled Sue Solomon, who worked a cash register that day. ``She usually comes with her sister.'' Her sister was visiting relatives in Tampa. Daniels said he began to worry about Andrea as it grew dark outside. The family has no telephone and Daniels had no access to a car, so he began to scour the neighborhood on foot. Parsons left work at 10:10 p.m. and was stunned to find her daughter wasn't home. ``Hysterical isn't the word for it,'' she said. Parsons didn't bother to change out of her Winn-Dixie uniform. She frantically drove through the neighborhood, stopping people on the street, shuttling among the houses of Andrea's friends. At 11 p.m., she called the Martin County Sheriff's Office. Investigators combed the neighborhood and started asking Parsons and Daniels some tough questions. ``I was questioned by 12 detectives and one FBI agent. I was their No. 1 suspect,'' said Daniels, twisting the edge of his long moustache. ``They tried to make me mad to test my reactions. They threatened to get the (state) to take away our other little girl. ``Here we are going through this trauma, and they were looking at us as suspects.'' Daniels, an unemployed construction worker, said he has had a few run-ins with the law. He served time in a Nebraska prison on an auto theft charge two years ago, he said. ``But I've tried to straighten out my life since I got back together with Linda,'' he said. CASE PROMPTS INTENSIVE SEARCH Daniels met Parsons about 15 years ago after she divorced her first husband, Larry Howard. Parsons and Howard have a son, Jason, who is 18 and lives with his father in Dayton. Daniels and Parsons separated after Niki was born and Linda married Garland Parsons, a tugboat crew member in Texas, who was Andrea's father. Parsons died of a heart attack about two years ago in Tennessee just after his divorce from Linda became final. Daniels and Linda Parsons exchanged letter while he was in prison. After his release about a year ago, they moved to Florida, where Daniels has lived off and on through the years. Daniels thinks of Andrea as his own daughter, and she calls him Daddy. He has felt helpless since her disappearance, he said. The case sparked an intensive search. Specially trained dogs sniffed through thickly wooded lots and along the surfaces of drainage ponds. Divers, helicopters and infrared sensors were employed - to no avail. Fliers bearing Andrea's picture were printed and distributed. Searchers concentrated on an area north of the Parsons residence. The area includes an industrial park, a condominium complex under construction and extensive stretches of fields and woods. WITNESS SAYS GIRL WAS ABDUCTED They searched along the railroad tracks near Dixie Highway. They searched Mosquito Creek and Manatee Pocket. They even checked a strip of scrub land where a murder victim was dumped in the mid-1970s. Five days after Andrea was reported missing, a local resident walked into the Sheriff's Office and said he saw the young girl snatched off the street. Four or five men in a battered Oldsmobile cruised behind Andrea as she returned home from the store that day, the witness said. The vehicle stopped along a wooded lot roughly 25 yards from her home. A man weighing about 200 pounds and wearing a cowboy hat lumbered out of the back seat, grabbed Andrea and forced her into the car. Andrea didn't scream or struggle, the witness said. She just looked surprised, he told investigators. ``My little girl is tough for her age. I grew up on the streets, and I taught her how to street fight,'' Parsons said. ``She took karate lessons when we lived in Dayton. If someone was going to take my daughter that way, they probably used chloroform.'' Investigators withheld the witness' tip from the news media for nearly a week. ``We didn't want to alert the suspects,'' said Capt. Bill Snyder of the Sheriff's Office. But area law enforcement agencies didn't find the car. Investigators released a description of the vehicle Wednesday and hoped someone would call with another tip. REWARD FUND SET UP FOR TIPSTERS The witness described the car as a late 1970s or early 1980s Oldsmobile with a beige or light gold body and a black top. The car's right front fender is dented and its headlamps don't match. Investigators lamented the reluctance of the witness to step forward. Parsons said she was just thankful for any information that might bring her daughter home. The witness, who knows Parsons, saw the incident while driving by the scene, police said. He shied away from reporting the abduction for fear of possible retribution by the suspects and to avoid the publicity, Snyder said. To entice other tipsters, the Adam Walsh Child Resource Center set up a reward fund. Contributions can be made at any Great Western bank. A fund has also been established to help Parsons and Daniels with household expenses. Parsons has taken a leave of absence from her $5.25-per-hour job. Yellow ribbons decorate the street signs on Ebbtide, the mail box and front door to the family's mobile home and a blossoming hibiscus bush in the front yard. Boxes of fliers, written in English and Spanish, are stacked against an inside wall. Items topple from the family's refrigerator at times because friends have donated so much food. Linda Parsons lets no visitor leave without a hug. She's that grateful for the support of her family and community. She holds back the tears when the TV news cameras roll, which happens for noon and evening broadcasts almost every day. But wads of tissue paper dropped on the floor near a pair of roller skates betray her feelings. ``I have to be strong, and I have to believe that my daughter's coming home,'' she said. ``We're survivors.'' |
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| PorchlightUSA | Dec 16 2009, 10:04 PM Post #12 |
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http://www.tcpalm.com/data/cold-cases-data...pe=&CPIorderBy= Victim Parsons, Andrea Gail Gender Female Victim's age 10 City where body found County where body found Date found City missing from * Port Salerno County missing from * Martin Date missing * 7/11/1993 Location where body found Never found Summary Andrea Parsons disappeared July 11, 1993. She walked a few blocks from her home to Bucky's grocery store to buy chips and candy. Anyone with information is asked to call Treasure Coast Crime Stoppers at 1-800-273-8477. |
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| PorchlightUSA | Jul 1 2010, 08:09 PM Post #13 |
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Martin County Sheriff's Office Sergeant John Silvas 516-220-7000 or 516-220-7060 cid@sheriff.martin.fl.us%20 Agency Case Number: 9309069-/-93-091 NCMEC #: NCMC781548 NCIC Number: M-659485827 |
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| PorchlightUSA | Feb 8 2011, 03:15 PM Post #14 |
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http://www.journalgazette.net/apps/p...template=apart Sgt. Charles Berry had hoped to identify Jane Doe's body, her bones stored in a cardboard box in the evidence room next to his office, before he retired. It's been 10 years since a hunter found the teenager's body in Indian Creek, and Berry, a crime scene specialist with the Madison County Sheriff's Office, hasn't given up yet. "You think someone would miss a teenager," said Berry, who's eligible to retire next year. "I find myself looking every time I see a missing child poster. I don't know if it has become a habit or a mission." An entire shelf of Berry's office is dedicated to Jane Doe, with 4-inch binders full of dead-end leads and, maybe, just maybe, a possible match for Jane Doe. The sheriff's office has compared the girl's DNA and dental records to more than 40 missing girls from as far away as Hawaii and Canada. A raccoon hunter found her bones, wrapped in plastic sheeting, off Indian Creek Road near Alabama 53 and Jeff Road in October 1997. She wasn't wearing clothes. Forensic scientists believe she's a young white girl, between 15 and 17 years old. She was about 4-feet-10 to 5-feet-1. Weight and eye and hair color are unknown. Investigators found about 95 percent of her skeleton beside the creek. She had probably been there for a year to a year and a half, said Berry. Dr. James Lewis, a Madison dentist and forensic odontologist, said Jane Doe had received some type of dental care in her life. It's a sign that someone cared for her at one point, but it hasn't yielded any new information, he said. "This case has been run through the NCIC (National Crime Information Center), and we've come up with nothing," he said. "The problem with that system is, unfortunately, some of the missing children don't have dental records. "Chances are she's in it somewhere, but she doesn't have dental records in the system." And she doesn't have a name. At least not yet. "At first, when you find someone, you want to know who she is and who did this," Berry said. "The biggest thing now is to find out who she is and get her back to her family." He's gotten so close. Racheal Dawn Hayson, a missing 16-year-old from Missouri, had a similar physical description but DNA samples and dental records didn't match. That letdown came in March. Now, Berry is waiting for DNA from the mother of a missing Tupelo, Miss., girl named Leigh Marine Occhi. The 13-year-old girl has been missing since 1992, when she was possibly abducted from her home in her nightshirt and green-and-yellow boxer shorts. "Really and truly, that's the last (lead) I've got right now," Berry said. It comes in bursts, said Berry. Sometimes other agencies who see the posting on the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children will call him, and sometimes an interested citizen phones in a tip. Lauren Johnson, a social worker in Huntsville, has been trying to feed tips to Berry when she comes across a possible match. Johnson heard about Jane Doe a few years after her body was found, and she hasn't been able to shake the thought of her. She's even had dreams about Jane Doe, finally prompting her to set up a MySpace page in her honor. "When I got out of college and got my first job, a lot my clients lived off Highway 53, and I had to drive past the site numerous times a week," she said. "Every time I would think of her." Berry said he's not planning on retiring anytime soon, but when he does, he's passing the case on to someone he trusts. He spends at least a few hours each week, pouring over the thick binders and stuffed folders on that cold metal shelf. And each time, he pulls out the first binder, glancing briefly at the reminder neatly printed under a picture of a bullfrog fighting for its life. "Don't ever give up." |
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| PorchlightUSA | Oct 12 2012, 10:25 AM Post #15 |
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http://www.tcpalm.com/news/2012/sep/07/por...to-be-at-state/ Port Salerno missing child case to be highlighted at state event Sept. 10 By Keona Gardner TCPalm Posted September 7, 2012 at 2 a.m. .PrintAAA. Age progression showing Andrea Parsons at 29. A computer simulation shows what Andrea Parsons might have looked like at 18. Andrea Parsons as shown shortly before her disappearance. PORT SALERNO — Linda Parsons search into the 19-year-old disappearance of her daughter has taken her to death row and back. "To me it seems like yesterday," Parsons, 58, said. "It certainly doesn't feel like it's been that's long." Andrea Parsons was 10 years old when she disappeared on July 11, 1993, after buying penny candy and chips at Bucky's Port Salerno Grocery store, about two blocks from her home. Her case will be one of 17 highlighted at 10 a.m. Monday in Tallahassee as part of the Florida Missing Children's Day event sponsored by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. The program takes place each year to recognize missing children, to educate citizens on safety awareness and to honor individuals in the state who have made a difference in the life of a child. "I can't say no to another chance to put her case out there," said Parsons, who has moved out of the state and requests her current location not be disclosed. "It's something that I will never quit doing. You never know if that one person may see it." Parsons said her near two decades-long search for answers led her to Florida's death row. In late June, she wrote to convicted murderer Eugene McWatters, dubbed the "Salerno Strangler" for the 2004 murders and sexual assaults of three women in Martin County, asking if he knew anything. Parsons knew McWatters would have been a teenager at the time of her daughter's disappearance, but still ... "You really don't have a choice," she said. "You will do anything for answers." McWatters, 34, wrote her back saying he didn't know anything. The day Andrea disappeared she got money from her stepfather and then walked from her home to the store. She paid the clerk and started walking home on the east side of Commerce Avenue. At 6:10 p.m. she waved to people she knew in a car. That was the last time anyone saw her. Detectives did arrest a suspect in the case, Claude Davis, after he said he saw men put the girl in a car and later said he dreamed he was collecting cans with Andrea when she fell and hit her head. Charges against Davis was dropped in May 1994 for lack of evidence. In a July 2010 interview Davis, now 75, continued to say he wasn't involved in Andrea's disappearance and doesn't know where she or her body could be found. Though years have passed, the case is far from closed, said Sgt. Jason Ward, supervisor of criminal investigation of the Martin County Sheriff's Office. "You never close a case like this," Ward said. "We put fresh eyes on it all the time." That's the hope Andrea's sister, Josette Howard, has for Monday's event. "It feels really good to keep her case out there," said Howard, 31, of Orlando. Howard was 12 years old and vacationing in Tampa with her mother's family at the time of her sister's disappearance. Just two weeks before the incident, the family asked for both girls to come on the trip but Andrea stayed behind with her mom. "I try not to make up 'what ifs' because it is nothing you can do about it," Howard said. "I try to think that me not being there was a blessing. If I was there, what if my mom would have lost both her daughters?" |
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| tatertot | Dec 1 2012, 05:33 AM Post #16 |
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http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/11/30/man-a...test=latestnews Man arrested in 1993 disappearance of 10-year-old Florida girl Published November 30, 2012 FoxNews.com Nearly 20 years after 10-year-old Andrea Parsons vanished from her Florida neighborhood a convicted felon has been arrested and charged with her murder. 42-year-old Chester Duane Price was arrested Thursday and charged with killing Andrea, whose body has never been found. The arrest comes after Price voluntarily returned to the area to give testimony to a grand jury in the case, The Palm Beach Post reports. Martin County Sheriff Robert Crowder said in a news conference Thursday detectives were led to Price after a team was assigned to review the evidence in the case last year. “The resolve to find Andrea and get answers surrounding the circumstances of her disappearance has never wavered,” he said. Price has an extensive criminal history dating back to 1991. He lived in the same county as Andrea at the time of her disappearance, and deputies said they had their eye on him from the beginning, according to The Palm Beach Post “We were aware of him from the beginning of the investigation … He was one of our people of interest,” Crowder told TCPalm.com. Andrea vanished on July 11, 1993 after making a trip to a convenience store. She had been home with Pat Daniels, her mother's boyfriend at the time. He told authorities he had given her permission to walk to the store and to visit a friend because she was bored. She never returned. The Palm Beach Post reports Andrea's neighbor, Claude Davis, told investigators he had seen men stuff Andrea into a car the night she disappeared. He then said he had been collecting cans with the girl when she hit her head on a trash can and died. He said he drove around looking for help, but eventually dumped Andrea's body in a trash bin. Davis was charged with false imprisonment but the case was dropped in 1994 due to lack of evidence. He later served nine years in prison on unrelated charged, and told The Palm Beach Post in 2000 he did not know where Andrea was. Crowder said Price and Davis knew each other, but declined to provide more details. Price is charged with first degree murder and kidnapping of a child under the age of thirteen. He remains in custody at the Martin County Jail with no bond. |
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