Trench Reynolds: DBKP This Week in Crime - October 12-18 2008






October 12-18, 2008
Volume 32
Caylee Anthony, Tom Capano, Hans Resier, Ted Genter

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I'm Trench Reynolds.

I blog about crime.


This is DBKP's This Week in Crime for October 12-18, 2008.


I have a website called Bad Breeders which most people think is about dogs but it isn't. It's about various parenting travesties that have made their way to the media in one way or another.

Back when the story first broke I was covering incessantly about the disappearance of Caylee Anthony and the shenanigans of her mother Casey Anthony and grandmother Cindy Anthony. However when psychics and bounty hunters and the Nancy Graces of the world started getting involved it became way too much of a circus for me and I started a self-imposed embargo on Casey Anthony stories.

That was until I saw this article from CNN. It echoes what a lot of people have been saying that they can't convict Casey Anthony without a body. Personally I disagree. While it is a gamble it’s not impossible and more common that you think.

Off the top of my head I can name two cases where people were convicted without a body. The first is Tom Capano. He was a high profile attorney from Delaware who was having an affair wit the then Governor's secretary. He killed her and dumped her body of the Jersey Shore. The body of Ann Marie Fahey was never found. The second one that comes to recent memory was that of Hans Resier the famous computer file type designer who stood accused of killing his wife.. All of his supporters claimed that you can’t convict without the body of his wife Nina. After he was convicted he led police to his wife’s body.

There’s another case from New Orleans that I couldn't find a whole lot of information about but it sticks out in my memory. It that case. Ted Genter bragged that he killed a woman known only as Lydia that nobody could even prove existed. Genter was also convicted without a body after his cohort, William Morehouse, confessed. The victim turned out to be one Caryn Beth Capps.

I think the Caylee Anthony disappearance fits very well next to those other cases. The only thing that will free Casey Anthony is if Caylee shows up alive and well. I think the odds of that happening are slim and none and slim just left.


by Trench Reynolds
image: Trench Network

Baby Grace: Grandmother Believes Riley Sawyers is Baby Grace

Baby Grace UPDATE:

Is the identity of Baby Grace about to be determined?

Maybe the authorities are about to get a break in the Baby Grace case.

The grandmother of a little girl taken by her mother to Texas, after the mother met a man on the Internet thinks her granddaughter may be Baby Grace. This from Fox News Cleveland "Family Thinks They Know the Identity of Baby Grace"

An Ohio grandmother believes the toddler dubbed "Baby Grace" found in a blue plastic storage container on the Gulf Coast in late October could be her granddaughter because of a striking resemblance, MyFoxCleveland reports.

Sheryl Sawyers told the station 2-year-old Riley Ann Sawyers moved to Texas with her mother, Kim Sawyers, last summer, after meeting a man on the Internet.

Since Riley was born, she and her mother were living with Sheryl Sawyers, Riley's paternal grandmother; however, Sheryl Sawyers said neither she nor her son, Robert, have heard from Kim since she moved Texas.

The samples of DNA should determine whether Riley Sawyers ended up in a blue cooler, wrapped in plastic and washed up on a sandbar. Or whether she disappeared when her mother handed her over to "somebody from Ohio with papers".

The mother says she doesn't know who that person was.

DBKP reported last night that DNA samples from the father were taken and were on their way to authorities in Galveston, TX.

The identity of Baby Grace is still a mystery.

But maybe not for very much longer.

by Mondoreb

NEW: Baby Grace, Riley Sawyers: Possible Match

NEW! FBI Reward Comparisons

More Baby Grace stories
See Baby Grace news ticker in upper left-hand corner of this page.




Death by 1000 Papercuts Front Page.

Baby Grace: Police Follow Tip To Dead End

The number of leads police are running down has ballooned to 300, according to authorities.

The latest tip followed proved to be a dead end, but what was interesting was the information not given. Read this from the Houston Chronicle, "FBI to Announce Reward in Baby Grace Case":

"This is not Baby Grace," Galveston County Sheriff's Office Maj. Ray Tuttoilmondo said of the Spring girl. "I'm not going to get into the quality of the lead, but it's something we've got to look at."
He said the Spring girl had never been reported to authorities as missing.

A toddler is missing and not reported?

A commenter at the Houston Chronicle had the correct reaction:
ThataGirl wrote:

"He said the Spring girl had never been reported to authorities as missing."

And they don't have a problem with that? No one bothered to look for their missing child? What is going on with our society?

Exactly.

by Mondoreb
[image:shillpages]



Death by 1000 Papercuts Front Page.

Baby Grace: FBI To Now Announce $20,000 Reward

Someone must listened. The power of the suggestion.

Two days ago, we wrote a piece taking the FBI to task in the "Baby Grace" case for offering a reward that could only be found by digging into their website documents.

The story was tops on Google and apparently somebody listened: 36 hours later, the FBI has scheduled a news conference for later this morning to formally announce the reward.

Perhaps the reward will somehow help identify who this little girl is.

From the Police News:

The Galveston County Sheriff's Office and the FBI will hold a news conference this morning at 10:30 to update the media on the Baby Grace investigation and to formally announce the $20K reward posted by the FBI.

The press conference will be held at the Sheriff's office in the Criminal Justice Center.

Our original story:


FBI Offers $20,000 Reward But Issues No Press Release

The Madeline McCann Connection: What the Definitive Answer?

We’ve been following the story of Baby Grace, the little girl whose body was found on a small inlet on Galveston Bay. A fisherman discovered her October 29th encased in a blue plastic tote that came to rest on a sand bar.

The FBI has a reward of $20,000 for information leading to the identity of Baby Grace. It was tacked onto a poster released by the FBI. It is unknown what date the FBI put out this flier. Although the reward is on the flier, no press release was issued concerning the reward.

The Galveston County Sheriff’s Department has not released any further info on the Baby Grace case. The last known press release was November 12th when CBS News put out its story, “Police Flooded With Baby Grace Tips.”

Why isn't the local press pursuing this? Where's the Houston Chronicle?

The police are sifting through clues and tips; have they ruled any of the little girls they are considering out? There have been no new statements; this does not mean that parents of the missing girls across the country have lost interest in developments in this case.

Read the Rest of the story: "FBI Offers $25,000 Dollar Reward, But Doesn't Announce It".

by Mondoreb




Death by 1000 Papercuts Front Page.

Who Is Baby Grace - A Video Timeline

The video timeline of the case of "Baby Grace". Police found her body washed ashore near Galveston, TX a little over two weeks ago.

Police have named her "Baby Grace".

MORE On BABY GRACE:
Baby Grace: A Timeline
Contains story from the beginning and listing of Baby Grace coverage.



Death by 1000 Papercuts Front Page.

The Heartbreaking Story Of Baby “Grace”

She wore a little pinkish red shirt and skirt; her sneakers were white with little pink flower decorations that lit up. A little blonde girl somewhere between the ages of three and five, her body was stuffed in a storage bin floating on the salty blue green waters of Galveston Bay, her skull fractured. The Galveston County Medical Examiner’s Office has ruled that she had been dead for at least two weeks.

No one knows who she is or where she came from. The Galveston authorities have named her “Baby Grace” and have asked for anyone with information about this case to contact them.

Where are this little girl’s parents? No one has come forward to claim his or her precious missing little girl. To me, if her mother were alive, she would have gone to the police when her baby went missing unless, unless… the mother is involved in her baby’s death or the mother is also dead, perhaps the victim of foul play?

My prayers go out to Baby Grace and to the good people of Galveston who are faced with dealing with not only the heinous crime of the murder of an innocent little child but also the mystery of who she was and who the monster, or monsters were that did this to her.

by Little Baby Ginn
[image:oliver maerz]
NOTE: The phone number for the Galveston Police, Jamaica Beach station is 409-766-2100.



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