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victims cry
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Fri Jun 05, 2009 10:31 pm |
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I am not defending the mom, but one thing i want to say. GK, the SO that she said was like a father figure to Neveah, was convicted of a misdemeanor (pled down to one) of raping a 15 year old behind a gas station. I believe his other accusation was a 13 year old
I find it easy to see how an ignorant woman who has had her own issues with LE might believe GK if he told her that it was consensual but "she changed her mind" or some other bs and have no worries about Neveah around him.
In fact if it comes down to it, apart from the piss poor judgement overall of having anything to do with any criminal let alone an SO, she would likely be right even if she had thought he raped the 15 year old. Especially when i am guessing she probably was sexually active at that age and so were many of her friends given what we seem to know of her history.
SO's have their victim types and rarely deviate from them. Just as most of us in our 40's could not imagine lusting over a 90 year old man sexually, a guy who is into teens is unlikely to ever want anything to do with a 5 year old sexually. And a man who rapes adult women is unlikely to want a 5 year old. A pedophile will almost never be caught raping an adult etc. (sex yes, if married etc. but not as a victim choice) Age, sex, hair color etc. are regularly used to profile and narrow down potential suspects.
SS you are right it is heartbreaking, i just wish more people remember what you said, it happened years before and centuries before too, we just were not as aware, instead of it being more dangerous now. apart from inner city gang areas where kids get shot by drive by shootings where nothing the parent does can change it - that is a new phenomenon - child stranger murders have not increased and iirc have decreased over the years.
Child abductions have increased but only because of parental abductions, 50 years ago and more, divorce was almost unheard of so obviously the "need" to abduct your own child was not nearly as high. They are included under child abduction stats tho.
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Wonderful post, VC, and it is GREAT to see you with us on RU.
Hugs, girl.
 
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Sat Jun 06, 2009 9:07 am |
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Pair of fishermen recount their grim find near river Raisin
Concrete covered body; autopsy results awaited
By MARK REITER
BLADE STAFF WRITER
NEWPORT, Mich. - Lowell Kirk believes God took him and his stepson to the remote River Raisin bank where they found the body of a child who could be 5-year-old Nevaeh Buchanan.
The night before he and Guy Bickley made the gruesome discovery, Mr. Kirk, 72, said he prayed that the little girl would be found.
"I believe this is what He wanted; for us to find her," Mr. Kirk, a former Newport resident who now lives in Cleveland, Tenn., said Friday. "Finding her was in His hands. I just asked that she be found." --->>
Authorities said concrete covered the body in a shallow grave, but the body was not encased in the substance.--->>
Mr. Kirk, a retired auto worker, and Mr. Bickley, 51, a construction laborer, had been fishing for about 2 1/2 hours on the river bank Thursday when Mr. Bickley kicked loose the fresh concrete he had been standing on to discover a patch of a child's skin.--->>
Mr. Bickley and Mr. Kirk, who are both avid anglers, had never fished that stretch of River Raisin before Thursday.
Mr. Bickley had eyed the spot many times as he drove back and forth from his home to Dundee, where his 15-year-old son attends school.-->>
The pair had nearly caught their limit of crappie, sucker, and bullhead when Mr. Bickley said he used his shoe to loosen the concrete he had been standing on while casting from the bank. He said concrete covered about a 2 1/2-feet by about 1 1/2-feet area that was about a foot from the water.
"It was almost like somebody poured it and it leveled. It was very crudely applied. At least the top of it was," he said.
Both men said they had noticed an odor they believed was a decaying fish or animal. The more concrete Mr. Bickley took up, the worse the flies and odor got, they said.
"I was the one who was standing on her. What a terrible thing," Mr. Bickley said.--->>
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| LovelyPigeon
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| victims cry wrote: | | I am not defending the mom, but one thing i want to say. GK, the SO that she said was like a father figure to Neveah, was convicted of a misdemeanor (pled down to one) of raping a 15 year old behind a gas station. I believe his other accusation was a 13 year old --->> |
A boyfriend who is a father figure is not a healthy sign IMO.
The mom obviously had and has issues of her own. The grandmother had custody of Nevaeh at the time she disappeared.
Nevaeh's maternal grandmother, Sheri Buchanan, who had custody of the girl, told WWJ that clothing on the girl's body matched what the girl was wearing when she disappeared, but they're waiting for DNA testing as a formality.
"They told me they can not be for sure until the DNA testing comes back, and me and my son (are) going to go identify her," she said.
http://www.wwj.com/Community-Await-Autopsy-Results/4538106
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| Isanah
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Sat Jun 06, 2009 9:50 am |
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Article published June 06, 2009
Pair of fishermen recount their grim find near river Raisin
Concrete covered body; autopsy results awaited
NEWPORT, Mich. - Lowell Kirk believes God took him and his stepson to the remote River Raisin bank where they found the body of a child who could be 5-year-old Nevaeh Buchanan.
The night before he and Guy Bickley made the gruesome discovery, Mr. Kirk, 72, said he prayed that the little girl would be found.
"I believe this is what He wanted; for us to find her," Mr. Kirk, a former Newport resident who now lives in Cleveland, Tenn., said Friday. "Finding her was in His hands. I just asked that she be found."
Monroe County Sheriff Tilman Crutchfield said yesterday that he had "reasonable suspicion" that the body taken from the riverside was Nevaeh - because of similarities in age and gender.
Authorities said concrete covered the body in a shallow grave, but the body was not encased in the substance.
"In my opinion, it is a very sick or disturbed person [who did this]," Sheriff Crutchfield said of the perpetrator.
"We are looking for a person who was able to abduct and murder an innocent 5-year-old," the sheriff said.
An autopsy was scheduled to be performed yesterday at the Wayne County Medical Examiner's office in Detroit. Results have not been released.
Mr. Kirk, a retired auto worker, and Mr. Bickley, 51, a construction laborer, had been fishing for about 2 1/2 hours on the river bank Thursday when Mr. Bickley kicked loose the fresh concrete he had been standing on to discover a patch of a child's skin.
Monroe County Sheriff's detectives were called and they reached the popular fishing spot about 3 p.m., removing the body.
Nevaeh went missing May 24 from her North Macomb Street apartment in Monroe.
The girl, who would have started kindergarten at Hollywood Elementary School in September, was the focus of an intense search that began with an Amber Alert.
A task force of local, state, and federal investigators worked around the clock to locate the girl, taking phone calls at a command center, and checking into more than 1,000 leads and tips.
Authorities searched the Charlotte Arms apartments, where Nevaeh lived with her mother, Jennifer Buchanan, and grandmother, Sherry Buchanan, as well as adjacent woods and neighborhood, and hundreds of acres of rural Monroe County.
Divers and sonar were used to comb the bottom of a man-made lake and 105-acre quarry on South Dixie Highway, near the motel room of a convicted sex offender and friend of Jennifer Buchanan.
Mr. Bickley and Mr. Kirk, who are both avid anglers, had never fished that stretch of River Raisin before Thursday.
Mr. Bickley had eyed the spot many times as he drove back and forth from his home to Dundee, where his 15-year-old son attends school.
He took his stepfather, who made an impromptu visit on May 26, to test their luck.
The river at the bend near Dixon is three to four feet deep and about 30 feet wide, they said.
The pair had nearly caught their limit of crappie, sucker, and bullhead when Mr. Bickley said he used his shoe to loosen the concrete he had been standing on while casting from the bank. He said concrete covered about a 2 1/2-feet by about 1 1/2-feet area that was about a foot from the water.
"It was almost like somebody poured it and it leveled. It was very crudely applied. At least the top of it was," he said.
Both men said they had noticed an odor they believed was a decaying fish or animal. The more concrete Mr. Bickley took up, the worse the flies and odor got, they said.
"I was the one who was standing on her. What a terrible thing," Mr. Bickley said.
They said they immediately called 911 and waited about two hours for the sheriff's detectives to arrive. They left the scene and were interviewed later Thursday night by FBI agents and investigators.
With the recovery of the body, investigators turned their attention to combing the crime scene, about seven miles west of Monroe.
"Right now we are focusing on the crime scene," said FBI agent Andy Arena.
Sheriff Crutchfield said investigators returned to the site yesterday to search for evidence, including putting divers in the water. He said there was no obvious physical sign of trauma to the body.
Mr. Bickley said remnants of a fire were at the fishing area, which was below a steep bank.
Both men said they saw a partially burned latex surgical glove near it.
He also recalled seeing a dark colored, small pickup parked along the road when he drove past the area two days after Nevaeh was reported missing.
Neither Sheriff Crutchfield nor Mr. Arena would discuss any evidence that was recovered.
Yesterday, nearly 24 hours after he made the gruesome discovery, Mr. Bickley said the impact of what occurred was sinking in.
"It brings me to tears to think about it. I wish somebody else would have found her. I really do," he said.
"We all got kids. I kept thinking about mine. I don't want to see anything like this again."
Mr. Kirk agreed.
"It was hard. It is going to take awhile to get over it," he said.
Contact Mark Reiter at:
markreiter@theblade.com
Mnay different article/Video links about the case:
http://toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090606/NEWS16/906060377/0/BUSINESS03
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Missing Michigan Girl's Mother Says She Is 'Completely Innocent' After Body Found
MONROE, Mich. — As investigators await test results on a child's body found by a southeastern Michigan river, the mother of a missing 5-year-old girl says she's "completely innocent."
Monroe County authorities said Sunday they're pursuing leads as they wait for DNA evidence to confirm the body is that of Nevaeh Buchanan, reported missing May 24.
The child's remains were discovered Thursday next to the River Raisin.
Jennifer Buchanan tells the Detroit Free Press she "didn't have anything to do with" her daughter's disappearance and doesn't know who would want to harm her child.
Buchanan's mother got custody of Nevaeh after Buchanan was found guilty of breaking into homes to support a drug habit.
The three were sharing an apartment in Monroe, Mich.
On Friday, authorities said the body found encased in cement by fishermen belongs to a child the same size, gender and age of the missing girl and they had "reasonable suspicion" it is Nevaeh. A shirt resembling the one she was wearing when she vanished also was discovered.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,525333,00.html
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Amid suspicion and public scorn, Jennifer Buchanan denies killing daughter Nevaeh
In a cramped apartment, a portrait of a little girl is propped up on an old TV set, framed by candles.
It is a darling picture, taken at preschool.
Jennifer Buchanan faces the makeshift memorial, saying she can't imagine why anyone would have taken Nevaeh Buchanan, her 5-year-old daughter.
She begins to tell the story of the final moments when, she says, she thought Nevaeh went off to play with a friend.
And then was gone.
It's a story Buchanan has not told in so much detail before. And it's a story investigators are still scrutinizing.
Nevaeh's disappearance, for now, remains a mystery -- two weeks after she was last seen outside her Monroe apartment, just three days after a body, whose identity still is unconfirmed, was found encased in a concrete grave along a riverbank.
The search continues for the person who could have done this to a pretty girl who loved trucks and motorcycles, crayons and macaroni and cheese.
A girl whose life may have ended three days after she raced across a stage and -- all smiles -- grabbed her preschool certificate.
As suspicion swirls, mother tells her story
Down a flight of stairs, inside a dingy two-bedroom apartment, Jennifer Buchanan gave an account of her final moments with her daughter. She spent those precious minutes on a brown couch, watching reruns of "Jon & Kate Plus 8."
In the story Buchanan tells, 5-year-old Nevaeh walked barefoot across the old brown carpet, worn and stained, and headed for the front door.
"Mom, I'm going upstairs to Austin's house to play a game," Buchanan remembers her daughter saying.
It was about 6:30 p.m. on May 24, the day before Memorial Day. Nevaeh walked out, the door shut and that was the last time Buchanan says she saw her daughter.
"I trusted her enough for her to actually go," Buchanan told the Free Press last week in a 2 1/2 -hour interview, discussing everything from her relationship with two sex offenders to how it feels to be suspected in her child's disappearance.
Austin Kuhn, 8, and Nevaeh lived in the same building in the Charlotte Arms apartments and played together nearly every day. A child could probably run from Nevaeh's apartment to Austin's door on the second floor in less than 10 seconds.
She was wearing knee-length jeans and a baby blue, red-and-white striped shirt with a V-neck white collar. Potty trained, but with a habit of waiting until the last second to use the bathroom, Buchanan said, Nevaeh had just had an accident and changed her clothes.
Buchanan didn't get up from the couch to make sure her daughter made it safely up the stairs. She sat there, she said, watching "Jon & Kate Plus 8."
About 20 minutes later, a girl Buchanan described as a tattletale knocked on the door.
"She looked right at me and says, 'Nevaeh is on her scooter in the road,' " Buchanan said. "She said the road, but I knew she meant the parking lot."
Buchanan was angry at her daughter and said she looked for her flip-flops so she could go out to find her. A moment later, another girl knocked.
"Is Nevaeh home?" Buchanan remembers the girl asking. "And I said, 'She has to be upstairs at Austin's, but she is either out back, or out front, or upstairs at Austin's.' "
Buchanan said she poked her head out the building's back door and glanced at the parking lot where Nevaeh used to ride the scooter. She wasn't there. She looked at the sandbox where she often played. Not there. She glanced at the nearby school playground. Nothing.
"Nevaeh!" she said she screamed.
Buchanan planned to punish her daughter with a time-out. "I was going to yell at her and to tell her to stay out of the road," she said.
She doesn't believe in spanking. "I'm a time-out mom," Buchanan said.
She said she started knocking on doors. Nevaeh wasn't in Austin's apartment.
"I looked everywhere," she said. "I spent at least 45 minutes looking."
The panic started to grow.
She said she told the apartment manager her daughter was missing, circled the building and came around the other side, where she found the purple and green scooter Nevaeh often rode.
"My heart sank," she said, "and my stomach went into knots."
Somebody called the police, and an Amber Alert was issued.
'It's like a nightmare'
Investigators don't know what happened that day or how Nevaeh vanished. They've questioned Buchanan extensively, and the public has turned its attention to her, the choices she has made, the friends she chose.
Over the last two weeks, Buchanan says she has lived at the epicenter of a horror story.
"It's like a nightmare," she said Wednesday morning, starting to cry. "I can't wait to wake up."
She spent several days with friends searching all over Monroe County -- in the woods, by the quarries, in abandoned buildings -- sometimes returning to the same spot five or six times, whistling, stopping to cry, stopping to scream and wondering what was next.
She yelled her daughter's name until she was hoarse.
On Thursday afternoon, fishermen discovered a body covered in concrete about a foot from the River Raisin in Monroe County.
Though it hasn't been confirmed, the description of the child's body fits Nevaeh.
'She was always a good baby'
A tomboy who loved motorcycles and trucks, Nevaeh, whose name is heaven spelled backward, didn't like dresses and was content to watch "The Jungle Book" over and over.
"I'd get a headache from it," said Sherry Buchanan, Nevaeh's grandmother. "I'd say, 'OK, that's enough, Nevaeh.' And she'd say, 'Just one more time, Grandma.'
"I never had any trouble with that kid. She always called me grandma. Sometimes, she'd slip up and say, 'mommy.'
"I'd say, that's OK. Don't worry. She was always a good baby."
Sherry Buchanan was granted custody of Nevaeh after Jennifer Buchanan was convicted in 2006 on a first-degree home invasion charge. She had been breaking into homes to support a drug habit.
For the last 2 1/2 months, Sherry, Jennifer and Nevaeh Buchanan have lived together in the two-bedroom apartment.
Nevaeh named all of her stuffed animals. The black Lab is Tank. Her favorite, a beagle, is named Harley.
"Harley went to school with her," Sherry Buchanan said. "Harley went to bed with her."
Harley still smells like Nevaeh.
When she disappeared, her grandmother got comfort in sleeping with Tank. Jennifer Buchanan slept with Harley.
"I'd give anything in the world to have her come running through that door," Sherry Buchanan said.
'This is horrible'
In the eyes of some, Jennifer Buchanan quickly transformed from a sympathetic figure into a villain as word got out that she was friends with two convicted sex offenders.
The cable TV show "Nancy Grace" focused last week on 24-year-old Buchanan and her relationships with George Kennedy and Roy Smith, both of whom are from Monroe.
Court records show Smith, 48, was convicted of third-degree criminal sexual conduct after a woman said he raped her twice in his car in 1991. Kennedy, 39, was convicted in 2002 of raping a 15-year-old girl behind a gas station.
Grace interviewed Nevaeh's father, Shane Hinojosa, 22, of Toledo, who hasn't seen his daughter in three years.
"What can you tell me about your daughter being exposed by her mother to a registered sex offender?" Grace asked incredulously. "In fact, more than one."
"Oh, I'm furious," he replied.
On another show, Grace asked a psychologist about the case.
"This is horrible," the psychologist said. "The mother's judgment is atrocious. How could she be with a sex offender and have a little girl in the home? It's just horrible."
A short time later, another guest slammed Buchanan: "Mom is a title of honor. She doesn't deserve that honor. She was never a mother."
The voices and opinions screamed an unsubstantiated accusation: Jennifer Buchanan was to blame.
'They don't ... know me'
Back in Michigan, Buchanan said she was being attacked by people who had never met her.
"I feel like everyone has a lot of negativity about me," she said. "They don't personally know me. ... I feel like everyone is putting me in the category of ... parents who actually did harm their children. ... It's very frustrating."
Grace, she said, "is completely wrong. ... I didn't leave her playing outside. She was supposed to be playing upstairs on that day at that specific time."
Both Kennedy and Smith are now in jail on possible parole violations. Neither has been charged in connection with Nevaeh's suspected death, but Buchanan said she doesn't know what to think about them anymore.
"As for the guys, I don't know," she said. "I didn't think it was a crime to have my child around someone. Honestly, no matter who you come across, you don't know who and what they are. You don't know if they are labeled as a sex offender unless you look their name up."
Buchanan said she knew of Kennedy's criminal past.
"I gave him a second chance. I was just befriending him. I confronted him about it. To my knowledge, he was honest to me about it," she said.
"As for Roy, I only knew him for a couple of months. Because he knew George and they had some kind of classes together, I figured Roy had the same offense against him."
She had known Kennedy a couple of years. "If George wanted to do that, he would have done it a little sooner," she said. "That's the way I feel. But I could be wrong."
'I'm completely innocent'
Buchanan said she met with police and the FBI at least four times. One interview lasted about five hours.
"I feel like they are putting me under the spotlight," she said. "I feel like they are pointing fingers at me, like I did something intentionally."
She doesn't have a lawyer and says she doesn't need one.
"I'm completely innocent," she said. "I didn't have anything to do with my daughter's disappearance. I don't do drugs. I hardly ever drink. I don't owe anybody any money. I have hardly any enemies. I don't understand who would come up and take my child."
Last week, Buchanan gave police permission to search her home.
The detectives took part of her computer and, she said, they asked her what Web sites she has visited recently.
Buchanan also was interviewed by behavioral specialists from the FBI. "They were asking me about my background and what" Nevaeh "was like," she said. "They went all the way back to how I felt when I was pregnant."
'She meant the world to me'
Nevaeh didn't trust strangers. And Buchanan said she didn't think her daughter would have gone silently, without at fight.
Two weeks before her daughter's disappearance, they were at a Relay for Life event at Bedford High School in Temperance.
"We were walking, and people were passing out candy. She would take no candy from anybody," Buchanan said.
Nevaeh must have put up a fight or known the person who snatched her.
"I want to know what happened," Buchanan said. "I'm racking my brains on how this could happen."
Nevaeh's beauty made strangers stop and stare. "Random people would come up to me and compliment me on how beautiful she is," Buchanan said.
She said she has wondered "numerous times" whether her daughter was abducted for her beauty.
Nevaeh finished preschool three days before she disappeared.
"She was very excited to graduate," Buchanan said. "She ran, literally ran like a track runner, across that stage to get her certificate. I was so proud of her.
"She meant the world to me. I adored her. It's hard, just talking about her."
Neighbors described Nevaeh as shy. "She was adorable, a cute little girl with a ponytail," said Haley Jennings, 39, who lived on the second floor of Nevaeh's apartment complex. "Kind of timid. ... Her voice was real soft. She was real fragile, real precious.
"She kind of clutched close. She wasn't one to wander."
Everyone in the apartment complex has grown suspicious, Jennings said. She is upset thinking that the person who took Nevaeh is still out there. "It's petrifying."
Little voices
On Friday morning, the day after the body was found, TV crews gathered in the parking lot, waiting for Buchanan to come out of her apartment.
Neighbors talked about their grief, sharing their fears, showing their anger as police searched for a killer.
At a makeshift memorial in front of the apartment, a candle flickered in the breeze and a pinwheel spun round and round.
Screams could be heard in the distance. Children ran around a school playground, yelling and screaming and laughing and clapping, so full of life. So full of innocence.
Little voices in the wind.
Just like Nevaeh.
http://www.freep.com/article/20090607/NEWS05/906070501/Jennifer+Buchanan+denies+killing+daughter+Nevaeh
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| Hannie wrote: | How can a mother of a young child befriend sex offenders? Is she crazy or what?  |
Doesn't make any sense, does it?  I'm still wondering if the mom will be charged with child endangerment. I hope so, she deserves to spend the rest of her life in prison. 
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| Christine wrote: |
Doesn't make any sense, does it? I'm still wondering if the mom will be charged with child endangerment. I hope so, she deserves to spend the rest of her life in prison. |
Well ,It's confusing ! When J. Buchanan was in prison her mother Sherrie Buchanan was given custody of Neveah ,so who was responsible for her welfare& safety?????
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Sherry Buchanan wasn't given custody of Neveah. She stepped in and took and was granted custody as a proactice measure when Jennifer was sent to prison. This came from the father of Neveah in the very beginning. I still find the mother suspect. I have to say this, though, I don't agree w/ her letting sex offenders around her daughter, however I don't think either of them had anything to do w/ her disappearance and they need to take that out of the equation altogether. Also, if the mother is innocent, she doesn't deserve to go to prison. Stupidity is not justifiable cause for imprisonment.
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| Ber wrote: | | Sherry Buchanan wasn't given custody of Neveah. She stepped in and took and was granted custody as a proactice measure when Jennifer was sent to prison. This came from the father of Neveah in the very beginning. I still find the mother suspect. I have to say this, though, I don't agree w/ her letting sex offenders around her daughter, however I don't think either of them had anything to do w/ her disappearance and they need to take that out of the equation altogether. Also, if the mother is innocent, she doesn't deserve to go to prison. Stupidity is not justifiable cause for imprisonment. |
Well said, and I totally agree.
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Family of Missing Michigan Girl Wait for Autopsy Results; Pathologist Says Cause of Death Difficult to Determine
MONROE, Mich. — The family of missing 5-year-old Nevaeh Buchanan is waiting for the results of an autopsy to determine if the body found by a southeastern Michigan river last week is that of the little girl.
Authorities said Monday the identification hinges on DNA results, the Detroit Free Press reported.
The child's remains were discovered Thursday next to the River Raisin. Clothes found on the body matched those Buchanan was wearing when she was reported missing on May 24.
On Friday, authorities said the body found encased in cement by a fishermen belongs to a child the same size, gender and age of the missing girl and they had "reasonable suspicion" it is her.
A pathologist told the Free Press Monday that determining the cause of death may be difficult, especially if reports saying there were no gunshots, stab wounds or broken bones are true.
"You would have a lot of problems," Werner Spitz told the newspaper. "You would not find evidence of drowning, you would not find bruising, you would not find strangulation."
He said that because of the high temperatures, the decomposition process would've been sped up.
"In this weather, even if she was dry at this time of year, you would find a lot of difficulty in finding evidence of blue-and-black bruising marks, abrasions or skin injuries," Spitz said. "Drowning is a difficult diagnosis to make when the body is fresh, so you can imagine what it would be like now."
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,525434,00.html
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| Ber wrote: | | Sherry Buchanan wasn't given custody of Neveah. She stepped in and took and was granted custody as a proactice measure when Jennifer was sent to prison. This came from the father of Neveah in the very beginning. I still find the mother suspect. I have to say this, though, I don't agree w/ her letting sex offenders around her daughter, however I don't think either of them had anything to do w/ her disappearance and they need to take that out of the equation altogether. Also, if the mother is innocent, she doesn't deserve to go to prison. Stupidity is not justifiable cause for imprisonment. |
Exactly. 
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HLN is reporting that the body encased in cement has been confirmed by DNA testing to be that of Nevaeh Buchanan.
May God hold this 5yr old in his loving arms.
She deserved a better life!  
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| LovelyPigeon
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DNA test makes a positive ID: It's Nevaeh's body
BY AMBER HUNT • FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER • June 9, 2009
Michigan State Police have identified the remains of the little girl found Thursday in a shallow grave in Raisinville Township as 5-year-old Nevaeh Buchanan, the Monroe County Sheriff's Office announced today.
The police's Northville crime lab used DNA to verify that the remains were indeed those of Nevaeh, who disappeared May 24 from outside of her Monroe apartment complex.
The announcement ends five days of speculation, during which law-enforcement agents and Nevaeh's family acknowledged they were looking for the girl's killer, while at the same time holding out hope that the remains proved to be someone else.
Officials still haven't released the cause of death in the case, which has generated national attention and prompted the Michigan Department of Corrections to send two convicted sex offenders back to prison for violating their paroles by being friends with Nevaeh's mother, Jennifer Buchanan.
Cathy DeWilde, Nevaeh's great-aunt, said the news has devastated her sister Sherry Buchanan, who is Nevaeh's grandmother.
"I knew it, and my husband knew it, but I couldn't get it across to my sister because she raised the baby," said DeWilde, 55, of Monroe. "It's hard to explain how I knew, but I was just praying to the Lord that they'd send someone to find the body so we could bring her home."
Funeral arrangements are still pending.
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| Isanah
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Tue Jun 09, 2009 6:37 pm |
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| Schmerty wrote: | HLN is reporting that the body encased in cement has been confirmed by DNA testing to be that of Nevaeh Buchanan.
May God hold this 5yr old in his loving arms.
She deserved a better life! |
How very sad how these senseless crimes against children keep happening on such a regular basis.
Navaeh was not encased in cement, the cement was placed upon the area that she was buried. Let's hope they find some DNA upon the beer can that was found in the grave. In addition, I hope that whoever did this is sweating up a storm. Perhaps someone that knows this person will get a clue. I tend to think the guy that did this had hoped she would not be found at all, or at least not anytime soon. Anyone know what kind of awards that are being offered for information about who did this crime?
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| gwen
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Tue Jun 09, 2009 6:52 pm |
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Kennedy, Smith to complete original sentences
The two convicted sex offenders taken into custody in relation to the disappearance of Nevaeh Buchanan have been sent back to prison to finish their original sentences, according to the Michigan Department of Corrections.
George Kennedy, 39, and Roy Smith, 48, are awaiting screening at the Charles Egeler Reception and Guidance Center in Jackson.
The men will be evaluated medically and psychologically, given a security-risk rating, then shipped to a holding facility until bed space opens up in an appropriate Michigan prison, said John Cordell, a spokesman for the MDOC.
Cordell said Kennedy and Smith waived an internal hearing and admitted they violated their paroles by being in contact with Nevaeh's mother. Neither was supposed to have contact with anyone who had children.
"There was a lot of evidence" that the two men had violated the conditions of their parole, Cordell said today. "There was nothing left to say in a hearing."
The men were named early on by authorities as persons of interest when Nevaeh went missing May 24.
Neither Kennedy nor Smith has been charged in connection with that case. Each previously had been convicted of a sex assault: Smith of third-degree criminal sexual conduct, for which he was sentenced to 15-50 years in prison; Kennedy of fourth-degree criminal sexual conduct, for which he served more than a year in prison.
Kennedy violated the parole of a second-degree home invasion conviction, for which he got 2-15 years.
Smith and Kennedy could spend the next 35 and 13 years, respectively, behind bars for their association with Nevaeh's mother.
http://freep.com/article/20090609/NEWS05/90609059/DNA+test+makes+a+positive+ID++It+s+Nevaeh+s+body
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Tue Jun 09, 2009 6:55 pm |
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Nevaeh's family 'devastated' at confirmation of body
Steve Pardo and George Hunter / The Detroit News
Monroe -- Family members of Nevaeh Buchanan today thanked the community for their help and said funeral arrangements are underway now that a body found on the bank of the River Raisin has been identified as that of the little girl.
"I want to thank everybody who was with us through the whole ordeal," Nevaeh's uncle, Mike Buchanan, said outside Charlotte Arms Apartments, where Nevaeh lived. "I hope everyone continues to pray for us. We feel a lot of sadness, but at the same time happy because of the help our family got."
The Rev. Dale Hayford of Crosswalk Community Church, who led vigils and searches for Nevaeh, said family members mostly expected that the body would be confirmed to be hers, but that confirmation was painful nevertheless.
Nevaeh's mother, Jennifer Buchanan, who appeared on CNN's "Nancy Grace" show on Monday night to talk about the case, apparently was inside the apartment and did not appear to comment.
The family is dealing with it "the same way anyone in this situation would. They're hurting," Hayford said.
Funeral arrangements are pending. Diana Lawson, Nevaeh's great aunt, said the funeral will be held at the Merkle Funeral Home in the city. "Right now I don't know what to say," she said "I'm just devastated."
The Monroe County Sheriff's Office issued a press release Tuesday afternoon confirming that the body was Nevaeh's. A cause of death has not been released. The girl had been missing since May 24.
Tissue samples were sent for special testing because Nevaeh had no fingerprints or dental records on file, forcing authorities to rely on time-consuming DNA identification.
Other evidence testing in the case is continuing at the Michigan State Police lab in Northville.
State Police Capt. Mike Thomas, who is in charge of all the forensic labs in the state, wouldn't specify on Tuesday what other evidence is being looked at, but said "giving this a priority has pushed other cases, including homicides, back some."
Meanwhile, the Michigan Department of Corrections has confirmed that George Kennedy and Roy Smith, both convicted sex offenders who know Nevaeh's mother, have recently moved from the Monroe County Jail to the Charles Egeler Reception and Guidance Center in Jackson.
An acquaintance of Smith's described to The Detroit News on Tuesday how FBI agents questioned her at Smith's home shortly after Nevaeh disappeared May 24.
Meg Vogan said she was watching television at the home of Smith, who is her daughter's friend, when there was a knock at the front door. Four men and a woman were standing on the porch.
The four men identified themselves as FBI agents. The woman was a parole officer. They were there to question Smith, but they ended up interviewing Vogan and her daughter, too, she said.
"They came in and took us all into different rooms," said Vogan, 55. "They started asking me a bunch of questions I didn't understand: 'Where did you sleep Sunday?' 'Where did you wake up?' 'When you went to the restaurant with Roy, did he pay cash or use a credit card?' I didn't know what it was all about."
Police told The Detroit News last week that Smith, 48, was an "associate" of Nevaeh's mother. He is in custody on an unspecified parole violation and has been listed as a person of interest in the case, now in its third week. Vogan said she isn't sure what to believe, although she claims Smith spent most of the last two months with her and her 24-year-old daughter before his arrest last week.
"There were a few times when he wasn't with us, but he was never gone for long," Vogan said. "Basically, he was with us all the time."
Vogan said the case has been gnawing at her. She said Smith acted "kind of weird" in the days after Neveah was reported missing.
"The day before the FBI came to his house, we went to Birch Run, and his phone was ringing off the hook, but he wouldn't answer it," she said. "If he did know something about (Nevaeh's disappearance), he wouldn't tell. He always talked about how he wasn't a snitch."
The day after she was questioned at Smith's home, Vogan said two FBI agents showed up at her residence the next evening.
"They asked a bunch of questions about (Smith)," she said. "Also, they were asking the same questions they had asked me the night before; I think they were trying to see if my answers would be the same."
Vogan said her daughter, whose name she asked not to be used, was picked up for probation violation a few days after the FBI questioned her and is in the Monroe County Jail. Vogan said since Smith had courted her daughter for about two months.
http://detnews.com/article/20090609/METRO/906090432/Nevaeh-s-family--devastated--at-confirmation-of-body
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| LovelyPigeon
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Thu Jun 11, 2009 6:16 pm |
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Also, investigators are looking into new leads that might help solve the murder of five-year old Nevaeh Buchanan.
A Monroe couple has come forward, telling police that they helped two men pull their car out of a muddy bank along the River Raisin. The riverbank was in the same area where Nevaeh's body was found, and the car was pulled from the bank just hours after Nevaeh disappeared.
Police are also scrutinizing a gas station surveillance tape where convicted sex offender George Kennedy, 39, was seen the night the girl went missing. He and acquaintance Roy Smith, 48, are now in a Jackson prison on parole violations. Both have been questioned by police about the death but neither has been charged.
While her body has been positively identified, a cause of death for the five-year old hasn't been determined. Police are still asking anyone who fished in the River Raisin near where her body was found to call their tip line at 734-243-7070.
- http://www.wwj.com/10-000-Expected-To-Say-Goodbye-To-Nevaeh/4579250
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Thu Jun 11, 2009 6:46 pm |
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Public welcome at funeral home for Nevaeh visitation
Steve Pardo / The Detroit News
Monroe -- Funeral directors at the Merkle Funeral Home prepared for what will undoubtedly be a busy day as the community readied for today's visitation for Nevaeh Buchanan.
The girl's now-familiar picture sits next to the tiny coffin inside the funeral home on North Monroe Street. There are photos arranged in two collages in the back of the visitation room -- pictures of Nevaeh as a baby, covered in birthday cake and with schoolmates.
There are also separate photos of her smiling, holding signs of the month. There's a picture of her holding January and February, March and April and even May.
Nevaeh, 5, went missing in the evening of May 24 from the Charlotte Arms apartment complex where she lived with her mother and grandmother. Her body was found last week in a shallow grave along the banks of the River Raisin by two fishermen.
Brian Merkle, manager of the funeral home, said there has been an outpouring of support from the community. He's heard from people from 30 states expressing their condolences.
The support is a reason family members decided to allow the visitation and funeral to be open to all, he said.
"They really felt they had an obligation to make the service public," Merkle said. "I really give them credit for that."
Visiting hours will be from noon to 8 p.m. today and tomorrow. Funeral services begin at noon Saturday at the Stewart Road Christian Ministries Center, 1199 Stewart Road. Burial will follow immediately at St. Joseph Cemetery, 909 N. Monroe.
http://detnews.com/article/20090611/METRO/906110464/Public-welcome-at-funeral-home-for-Nevaeh-visitation
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Sat Jun 13, 2009 11:20 am |
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Hundreds attend funeral for 5-year-old Monroe girl
Santiago Esparza / The Detroit News
Monroe -- Hundreds of people have lined up outside the church where services are being held for 5-year-old Nevaeh Buchanan.
Her funeral began at noon at the Stewart Road Christian Ministries Center.
The girl went missing May 24 from her apartment building and was found June 4 on the banks of the River Raisin.
The community poured out and search teams tried to find the little girl. Her disappearance attracted national attention.
Saturday morning, Nevaeh's hearse was connected to a three-wheel motorcycle. The hearse was black and had chrome spook wheels, matching the motorcycle.
Grief has built all week long this in community as neighbors have come to grips with Nevaeh's death. Her body was found encased in concrete.
On Tuesday, the body that had been found at the river bank was confirmed to be Nevaeh's.
"I'm just devastated," Diana Lawson, Nevaeh's great-aunt, said on Tuesday.
Lawson and other relatives on Tuesday thanked the community for its help.
"I want to thank everybody who was with us through the whole ordeal," Nevaeh's uncle, Mike Buchanan, said outside Charlotte Arms Apartments, where Nevaeh lived. "I hope everyone continues to pray for us. We feel a lot of sadness, but at the same time happy because of the help our family got."
The Rev. Dale Hayford of Crosswalk Community Church, who led vigils and searches for Nevaeh, said family members expected the body to be hers, but the confirmation still hurts.
Lora Burns, a 50-year-old Monroe resident, attended Thursday's visitation with her daughter, Dawn, and 4-year-old grandson, Wayne.
"It's just so sad. It's been so terrible," Burns said.
Like hundreds of others, Lora helped search for 5-year-old Nevaeh after the girl disappeared May 24 from the Charlotte Arms apartment complex, where she lived with her mother and grandmother.
Police are still investigating her death.
Burial will be at St. Joseph Cemetery, 909 N. Monroe.
Church officials said the family would not allow media interviews on the church grounds at Saturday's funeral.
http://detnews.com/article/20090613/METRO/906130388/Hundreds-attend-funeral-for-5-year-old-Monroe-girl
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Tue Jul 14, 2009 5:25 pm |
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This is so sad, where does this wickedness come from?
Sleep and dream in peace Nevaeh, 
5-year-old Nevaeh may have been buried alive, autopsy results reveal
Dirt in lungs reveals clues to girl's death
July 14,
Nevaeh Buchanan – the 5-year-old Monroe girl who was kidnapped, killed and buried on the banks of the River Raisin under a layer of concrete – might have been buried alive, results from an autopsy indicate.
The girl’s cause of death has been ruled asphyxiation; the manner, homicide, a source told the Free Press.
Testing on the girl’s body, including her lungs, show that she died after inhaling dirt. Nevaeh’s body was discovered June 4 by fishermen 10 days after she disappeared from outside of her Monroe apartment complex.
The disappearance prompted a region-wide search that turned up empty. It wasn’t until a father and son felt recently poured concrete crumbling beneath them as they fished on the riverbank that the girl was discovered.
Officials said her cause of death wasn’t immediately apparent as she had no outward signs of trauma. Nevaeh was either held down in dirt until she quit breathing or she was buried alive, the source told the Free Press.
Nevaeh was laid to rest a month ago Monday after a funeral attended by hundreds.
No one has been arrested in the slaying. Anyone with information is asked to call 734-243-7070.
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Heartbreaking!
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