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yellowhammer
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Thu Apr 03, 2008 7:01 pm |
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Alabama boy missing since March 24th-Spring Break
Search Called Off for Missing Teen Jeffrey Blake Stone
Last Edited: Thursday, 03 Apr 2008, 4:13 PM CDT
Created: Thursday, 03 Apr 2008, 3:45 PM CDT
Jeffrey Blake Stone.
ATTALLA, Ala. (AP) -- Ground and aerial searches resumed earlier on Thursday in Etowah County for a 15-year-old boy who disappeared on March 24th, but the search has been called off for the day.
Etowah County Sheriff Todd Entrekin said Jeffrey Blake Stone is 6 feet 2, weighs 155 pounds with blonde hair and blue eyes.
Entrekin said in a statement today, sheriff's deputies, volunteer firefighters and dozens of volunteers concentrated the search around a three-mile radius near Stone's residence in Attalla. The boy's stepmother told authorities that Jeffrey, a student at Sardis High School, left home by foot at about 12:30 p.m. and has not been heard from or seen since that time.
Authorities set up a command post at Anchor Baptist Church in Attalla.
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| Siddalee
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Thu Apr 03, 2008 8:44 pm |
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How sad, this is the first I've heard about this boy. They just can't give up yet!
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| yellowhammer
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Thu Apr 03, 2008 11:24 pm |
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| Siddalee wrote: | | How sad, this is the first I've heard about this boy. They just can't give up yet! |
I live in Alabama and this is the first I have heard of him. I wonder if that is because this is much like the Ben Standford case where he was found dead of self inflicted wound in Georgia? And, this is very near where he was from but no one in the family is into politics so the media doesn't think he is important. 
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| yellowhammer
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Fri Apr 04, 2008 9:57 pm |
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This child is getting very little publicity in Alabama. I am having to scour the internet to even get information. He is a beautiful, blue eyed, blonde that obviously is not important enough to get national attention. He's 15 years old and still considered a child. His step-mom said he was upset when he left and had left before.  Doesn't warrant to be on the missing persons list or even the list seeking information of the FBI.
Teenager's family pleads for information, safe return
By Lisa Rogers, Times Staff Writer
Published April 4, 2008
Michael Jones, chief investigator with the Etowah County Sheriff’s Department, explains the search grid to searchers before they embark on an extensive search for Jeffrey Blake Stone.
LITTLETON — Jeff Stone struggled to hold back tears as he pleaded for his son to come home.
Jeffrey Blake Stone, 15, has been missing since March 24. At least 100 people searched about a 3-mile radius near the Stone’s home on Littleton Cutoff Road, where he was last seen.
“All we want is Jeffrey back,” Jeff Stone said as he spoke to reporters at a command post set up in the fellowship hall at Anchor Baptist Church on U.S. Highway 278 West, where it intersects with Littleton Cutoff Road.
“After 10 days of a severe emotional roller coaster, our family just wants Jeffrey back,” Stone said. “All we ask is that anyone who knows where he is or has seen him to contact police.”
There has been no sign of Jeffrey Stone since he left his home at 909 Littleton Cutoff Road about 12:30 p.m. March 24.
He was reported missing by his stepmother, Lynn Stone. His father was at work when he left.
Lynn Stone told authorities that he left walking about 12:30 p.m. when he became upset after she asked him to clean his room. His dogs were following him but since have returned home.
She told authorities he has left home before but usually returns a short time later.
Etowah County Sheriff’s Department investigators have been searching for Jeffrey Stone since he was reported missing.
There have been several calls of sightings of the blue-eyed, blond, 6-foot-2-inch, 155-pound teenager, a student at Sardis High School. However, those sightings so far have proved false.
Investigators decided to do a ground search Thursday, starting in the area where the teenager was last seen, Sheriff Todd Entrekin said.
“This has been a very tough area to search,” Entrekin said. “It’s a very rural area, with thick brush, briars and undergrowth. People have come back with their clothes torn and scratches on them.”
He said the terrain has steep hills, caves and ravines.
“The terrain is just about every type you can imagine,” he said. “If he has run away and didn’t want to be found, it would be a good area to hide.”
About 80 percent of the 100 or so who searched were volunteers on horseback, four-wheelers and on foot, Entrekin said.
“Nobody has found anything that ties back to this boy,” Entrekin said.
Entrekin said the investigators decided to do the search on Thursday because some rain and storms possibly were moving into the area this weekend.
It is believed that Jeffrey Stone took no money or food with him when he left.
“It’s not normal for a 15-year-old to go missing this long without some type of contact with family or friends,” Entrekin said. “We’re not ruling out anything. We’re looking at every angle.”
Horseback riders with Sheriff’s Department mounted units came from Mobile and DeKalb counties to assist in the search, along with volunteers from the Etowah County Rescue Squad and the communities’ fire departments — Ivalee, Sand Valley and Gallant.
The search got under way just after 8 a.m., and searchers returned to the church fellowship hall about noon for a meal provided by Gadsden Christian Fellowship. Rural Metro Ambulance was on standby, and assistance also was provided by Gadsden-Etowah County Emergency Management Agency, Etowah 911 and the FBI.
“Everybody has done a great job today,” Entrekin said. “A search of this magnitude wouldn’t be possible without everyone’s help. It’s a great show of cooperation from many agencies and individuals who have one goal in mind — bringing this young man home.”
Entrekin asks that if anyone is helping Jeffrey Stone hide and keeping his whereabouts secret, to please contact the Sheriff’s Department.
“His family just wants him home,” Entrekin said.
Stone was wearing a light T-shirt under a plaid long-sleeved shirt. He had on a light-brown Carhartt jacket, black shoes with red trim around the soles and a baseball cap.
Anyone with any information about Stone’s whereabouts is asked to contact the Sheriff’s Department at 546-2825.
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| CherokeeKid
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Fri Apr 04, 2008 10:52 pm |
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This is sad that he gets little TV coverage. At least, he is listed on the front page of AMW and more details here:
http://www.amw.com/missing_children/brief.cfm?id=54436
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| CherokeeKid
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Sat Jul 19, 2008 12:25 am |
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Community Searches For Missing Ala. Teen
Jeffrey Stone
Police say on March 24, 2008, 15-year-old Jeffrey Stone left his home on foot and vanished.
He was last seen leaving his home located at 909 Littleton Cutoff Road in Attalla, Ala. wearing a light colored t-shirt under a plaid long sleeve shirt with a light brown Carhartt jacket, black shoes with red rim around the soles and a baseball cap.
Police have received many tips about possible sightings, but none of them have panned out. They searched local surveillance cameras, but did not come across any clues to further the search.
On July 1, 2008, his body was found in a freezer across the street from his home. 
http://www.amw.com/missing_children/case.cfm?id=54436
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| CherokeeKid
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Men charged in slaying
By Lisa Rogers, Times Staff Writer
Published July 3, 2008
Two men charged with murder in the death of Jeffrey Blake Stone had planned for weeks to kill him, Etowah County Sheriff Todd Entrekin said.
“They killed him for no other reason than for getting the rush of killing someone,” Entrekin said during a news conference Wednesday.
Nathaniel Wayne Lee, 19, 1176 Littleton Cutoff Road, and Troy Andrew Smiley, 22, 1084 Anna Drive, both near Attalla, were charged with murder Wednesday.
Stone, 15, a student at Sardis High School, often visited at Lee’s home about a quarter-mile from his own.
Stone’s remains were found in a freezer at Lee’s house about 6 p.m. Tuesday, Entrekin said.
Stone had been missing since March 24, a day he was out of school for the Easter holiday. He left his home walking about 12:30 p.m. When he did not return within a couple of hours, his father and stepmother began searching for him.
Within a day, they were passing out fliers and searching all through Etowah County, following any lead they could. They asked Lee to pass out fliers at Gadsden State Community College, where he was enrolled.
Most of those fliers were found in Lee’s house, Entrekin said.
“This is a very sad time for the family of Jeffrey Stone, as well as the community in which he lived,” Entrekin said. “Our prayers go out to them. This murder was a cowardly act of two individuals who took the life of a 15-year-old simply for thrills.”
Investigators now believe when Stone left home, he went to Lee’s house — a large brick home on more than 100 acres that Lee inherited after his father’s death a few years ago.
Lee lived there alone, but Smiley often stayed over.
Entrekin said Lee and Smiley were close friends.
“They hung out together and smoked dope together,” Entrekin said.
Lee and Smiley were there shooting for target practice — something Lee did often, Entrekin said.
“Once they got him over there, they shot him,” Entrekin said.
Entrekin said the investigation shows that Stone did not realize he was about to be shot.
“They had planned this senseless murder for weeks,” he said.
Entrekin said they apparently chose Stone because he was over there often.
Investigators got a tip Tuesday morning that led to a shallow grave on a logging road just off Rocky Hollow Road near Gallant.
There was evidence at the shallow grave that led to a search warrant at Lee’s house.
Entrekin said Stone was killed in the woods behind the house and then initially buried at the area on Rocky Hollow Road, about 12 miles away.
Entrekin said Lee and Smiley apparently went to the grave a couple of weeks ago and moved the remains to the chest-type freezer. The body apparently was wrapped in a tarpaulin and placed in a plastic Rubbermaid box.
“Apparently they thought the body was exposed and they were afraid someone would find the body,” Entrekin said.
District Attorney Jimmie Harp said for now Lee and Smiley are being held without bond on murder charges. The penalty for a murder conviction is 99 years to life, Harp said. A judge could set bond, he said.
Harp said he knows of no reason at this point in the investigation that charges will be upgraded to capital murder — the only charge in which the death penalty is applicable.
“Unfortunately, a kill for the thrill is not applicable to capital murder,” he said.
For a capital murder charge, the victim must be younger than 14, a law enforcement officer in the line of duty, murder in the commission of another crime such as robbery or the murder of two or more people.
Harp said Lee and Smiley had been people of interest early on and were questioned.
“But we had to have enough evidence and probable cause to execute a search warrant,” Harp said. “We have to make a case we can win. It wasn’t until yesterday that we had probable cause to go forward.”
Harp said Stone’s father and stepmother, Jeff and Lynn Stone, have worked diligently searching for their son and hoped to find him alive.
“But they suspected foul play and passed on every tip they could to investigators,” he said. “It’s a very sad day for them. It’s the worst news ever a parent could hear.”
Harp said the details of the case also have been disturbing to investigators.
“I don’t understand it,” he said. “It scares me to death. It’s hard to digest that somebody would actually take someone’s life for the thrill of it. It’s very disturbing.”
http://www.gadsdentimes.com/article/20080703/NEWS/993349165/1017/NEWS
This undated picture provided by the Etowah County Sheriff's Department shows Nathaniel Wayne Lee, 19, charged with the murder of Jeffrey Blake Stone, 15, whose body was found in a freezer, Tuesday, July 1, 2008, near Attalla, Ala. Stone had been missing since March 24.
This undated picture provided by the Etowah County Sheriff's Department shows Troy Andrew Smiley, 22, charged with the murder of Jeffrey Blake Stone, 15, whose body was found in a freezer, Tuesday, July 1, 2008, near Attalla, Ala. Stone had been missing since March 24.
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