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LISA
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Sat Jul 19, 2008 2:26 am |
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Pfc. Jeneesa Lewis-Missing Texas soldier may be in danger
Police: Missing Texas soldier may be in danger
Saturday, July 19, 2008
By ALICIA A. CALDWELL, Associated Press Writer
EL PASO, Texas —
Police say a Fort Bliss soldier is considered in danger after she did not report for work Friday and evidence of foul play was found in her apartment.
Authorities were searching for Pfc. Jeneesa Lewis, 29, and her husband. The couple is believed to be together and police want to talk to Clinton Lewis, 34, about his wife's disappearance, El Paso Officer Chris Mears said.
People who know the soldier told investigators that she and her husband, who is not in the Army, have been having marital problems, Mears said.
Fort Bliss spokeswoman Jean Offutt said that when Jeneesa Lewis didn't report to physical training or work, soldiers from the 5-52 Air Defense Artillery Battalion, 11th Brigade went to her off-post apartment to check on her.
The apartment she shares with her husband was locked, prompting the call to police.
Neither of the Lewises was home. Mears said police found evidence of foul play but he would not elaborate.
Jeneesa Lewis has only been stationed at Fort Bliss for a few months and arrived at the post alone, Offutt said.
According to Army records, her children live in Tennessee. Further information on the children wasn't immediately available.
Lewis is the fourth young female service member to go missing in recent months.
In January, the body of Marine Lance Cpl. Maria Lauterbach was found buried in the backyard of a fellow Marine in North Carolina. Cpl. Cesar Laurean is charged with murder.
Last month, the body of Spc. Megan Touma was found in a motel near Fort Bragg, N.C. No arrests have been made in her death. Touma and Lauterbach both were pregnant.
Earlier this month, Army 2nd Lt. Holley Wimunc, a nurse at Fort Bragg, was found dead, and her husband, Marine Cpl. John Wimunc, 23, was charged with murder.
Copyright 2008 The Associated Press.
http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2008Jul19/0,4670,MissingSoldier,00.html
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| LISA
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Sat Jul 19, 2008 3:40 am |
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This undated image provided
by the El Paso Police Department shows
Pfc. Jeneesa Lewis. Police say a female
Fort Bliss soldier is missing and considered in
danger after she did not report for work
Friday, July 18, 2008 and they found evidence
of foul play inside her apartment.
(AP Photo/El Paso Police Department)
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| LISA
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Sat Jul 19, 2008 10:08 pm |
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Search continues for missing Fort Bliss soldier
Saturday, July 19, 2008
By ALICIA A. CALDWELL, Associated Press Writer
EL PASO, Texas —
A missing Fort Bliss soldier sent a text message about leaving her husband two days before she vanished, her sister said Saturday.
"Hey sis he's gone so when my check comes I'm going to buy a futon," Army Pfc. Jeneesa Lewis wrote in the text message Wednesday, said her sister, Tammy Skelton. "Yeah, he's gone. Had police go with me yesterday, it's all clear."
Authorities say that by Friday morning, Clinton W. Lewis had come back and taken off with his wife. Now her family is worried about the 29-year-old air defense artillery soldier and mother of three children.
Army officials reported Jeneesa Lewis missing Friday morning after she didn't show up at work and no one appeared to be in her locked apartment. When El Paso police arrived and went into the apartment the couple had shared, the place was a mess and there was blood, Skelton said.
"The only thing I know ... is my sister is neat as a pin, nothing is ever out of place," Skelton, 26, told The Associated Press from her home in Rogersville, Tenn. "The place was a complete wreck and they found blood."
El Paso police officer Chris Mears said Friday that officers found "evidence of foul play" inside the apartment but declined to give specific details.
Mears said Jeneesa Lewis is considered missing and endangered. He said police believe she may be with Clinton Lewis, who has not been charged and is also missing.
Skelton said she last heard from her sister in a text message sent at 4:56 p.m. Thursday. The two had been chatting about the soldier's plans to have the phone company come to set up a new line at the apartment.
Jeneesa and Clinton Lewis married two years ago, Skelton said. She described their relationship as tumultuous and said Jeneesa joined the Army "to make a life for her and her children without having to depend on anyone."
"She wanted to make a life with them. She wanted to stand on her own two feet," Skelton said.
Jeneesa Lewis' three children _ 4-year-old Clinton Jr., 7-year-old Gabrielle Buttry, and 9-year-old Toni Marie Buttry _ have been living with her mother in Tennessee since she joined the Army last year.
Fort Bliss was her first duty assignment and she planned to move the children to Texas once she got on-post housing, Skelton said.
"She had looked up the different schools and the different programs for the children," Skelton said. "She was excited about it. She was absolutely thrilled."
As the investigation continued Saturday, police have offered few new details. Skelton said she hopes her sister "has her wits about her."
Jeneesa Lewis is the fourth female service member gone missing in recent months.
A young Marine and two Army soldiers who vanished in North Carolina were later found dead.
http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2008Jul19/0,4670,MissingSoldier,00.html
Copyright 2008 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
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| gwen
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Mon Jul 21, 2008 7:27 am |
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Missing Fort Bliss Soldier Found Alive, Sister Says
Monday, July 21, 2008
EL PASO, Texas — A Fort Bliss soldier considered missing and endangered has been found hurt but alive, her sister said Monday.
Tammy Skelton said she talked to Army Pfc. Jeneesa Lewis on Sunday by phone, and her sister said she had been beaten and stabbed twice. Skelton said her sister "sounded tired, scared and weak."
Her husband, Clinton W. Lewis, has been jailed on an aggravated kidnapping charge. He was being held on $75,000 bond, according to jail records, which did not show if he had an attorney.
"Clinton had seen it on the news and decided to turn himself in," Skelton said in a phone interview from her home in Rogersville, Tenn.
Delores Pigeon, Jeneesa Lewis' grandmother, said Jeneesa Lewis called late Sunday to say her husband abducted her from her El Paso apartment last week, drove her to Nevada and then came back to El Paso to turn himself in.
"He took her into Nevada," Pigeon said. "She said she's in shock. She's got two big holes in her legs and she lost of a lot of blood."
Pigeon said the family was elated to receive the call from officials in El Paso late Sunday telling them what happened.
"I was just so excited last night to her voice," Pigeon said. "She has bumps and bruises all over. You don't always hear good stories, but thank God this is good."
El Paso police told the El Paso Times late Sunday that Jenessa Lewis, a 29-year-old mother of three, had been located and was speaking with detectives but offered few other details.
Jeneesa Lewis was reported missing Friday after she didn't show up for work at Fort Bliss, just outside El Paso. When soldiers from her unit found her apartment locked and no one apparently inside, they called police.
Skelton said police reported to the family that the apartment was a wreck and blood was found inside.
In the days leading up to her disappearance, Jeneesa Lewis was planning to leave her husband of two years, Skelton said. The soldier sent her sister a series of text messages saying that Clinton Lewis had left and had even sent a picture of that looked like it was taken from inside of a Greyhound bus.
"She left him an envelope with money and a note telling him to leave and not to come back," Skelton said. "She was so happy, saying he's 400 miles away."
By Wednesday afternoon, Skelton said, Jeneesa Lewis believed her husband was gone for good and started making plans to go back to her apartment and start over without him.
"Hey sis he's gone so when my check comes I'm going to buy a futon," Jeneesa Lewis wrote in the text message Wednesday, Skelton said. "Yeah, he's gone. Had police go with me yesterday, it's all clear."
But police believe Clinton Lewis, who is wanted in Tennessee on a warrant for not paying back child support and has a decade-long criminal history that includes an assault charge, came back to the apartment and then took off with Jeneesa Lewis.
She was last heard from in a text message at 4:56 p.m. Thursday when she chatted with Skelton about arranging the phone company to come out and set up a new line at her apartment.
Skelton said the pair met about a half-dozen years ago at a Tennessee night club. At first, Clinton Lewis seemed charming and fun, but the relationship soon became tumultuous and, Skelton says, abusive.
"He was all charm and fun then I guess," Skelton said. "He's a very likable person. He could walk up to you and you'd think he was the greatest thing since sliced bread."
The pair married about two years ago after a series of break ups and make ups. Skelton said her sister was often terrified of her husband but never reported the abuses to police and only recently confided in relatives about what Skelton says was really happening.
"She would never tell us the whole story," Skelton said.
Skelton said she constantly urged her sister, a mother of three young children, to leave Clinton Lewis.
"He told her that if she ever left him, he'd kill her. If he couldn't have her, no one could," Skelton said. "I've heard him say that myself, several times."
Skelton said her sister joined the Army last year to get away from her husband and start a new life with her children — 4-year-old Clinton Jr., 7-year-old Gabrielle Buttry, and 9-year-old Toni Marie Buttry.
The children have been living in Tennessee with Jeneesa Lewis' mother. The soldier planned to moved the children to Texas once she got a place to live on Fort Bliss.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,387023,00.html
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| AC
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Mon Jul 21, 2008 7:37 am |
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WOW, thank God she is alive. Thanks, Gwen!
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| LISA
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Mon Jul 21, 2008 1:39 pm |
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Thank you, Gwen, good news!
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| gwen
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Mon Jul 21, 2008 1:44 pm |
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Y/W. It really is great news.
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| tulsad
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Mon Jul 21, 2008 5:27 pm |
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Thanks, Gwen; great news!
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