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    a grave no more than 3 feet deep. Publicly released autopsy reports said that the little girl, Jessica Lunsford, who dreamed of being a fashion designer and Olympic swimmer, had managed to tear two fingers through the garbage bag before suffocating to death. Reports say that a neighbor, 46-year-old John Couey (who was drug hazed) broke into the family's unsecured mobile home at 3am and kidnapped Jessica, covering her mouth and telling her to keep quiet. He held her captive for more than a day and

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    Task 1: Using the ITT Tech Virtual Library, locate a news account or other written account of the crime: the abduction and murder of Jessica Lunsford. Kruse, Michael. (February 17, 2009 Tuesday). Only Ruins left where Jessica was killed. St. Petersburg Times (Florida), retrieved from www.lexisnexis.com/hottopics/inacademics Jessica Lunsford was found wrapped in two black trash bags buried in a shallow sandy hole in the yard at 6647 W Snowbird Court. Task 2: Create a mock crime scene scenario based

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    Mariah Woods sparked a nationwide Amber alert when she disappeared from her room after her mother, Kristy Woods, put her to bed on Sunday. Police, the FBI and community members came together to scour the area where the North Carolina three-year-old girl vanished from, as previously reported by Dearly. Sadly, The frantic search for the missing three-year-old girl came to a tragic end though, when her body was found in a North Carolina body of water on Saturday. Her mother's live-in boyfriend

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    In the killing of Jessica Lunsford, who was only a nine year old third grade girl from Homosassa, FL, John Couey was the main suspect since the beginning of the case since in fact he was a sex offender who was living right across the street from Jessica at the time of her disappearance. He kidnapped her in the middle of the night and February of 2005 and brought her back to his home and he raped her. After he was done sexually assaulting her, he buried her alive in a plastic bag in his own backyard

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    On May 30, 2005, Natalee Holloway disappeared while on a high school graduation trip to Aruba. She was a student at Mountain Brook High School, honor student and a member of the National Honors Society. Dedicated to her education, she received a full paid scholarship to the University of Alabama, where she was set to peruse a medical degree. She excelled in every extracurricular activity that she was involved in, including her schools dance squad. Holloway was born October 21, 1986 in Clinton, Mississippi

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    Anna Garcia is a 38-year-old Hispanic female, weighing 165 lbs.; standing 5'4 (64 inches) tall. She was last seen in a grey sweater, walking her dog at 6:30a.m the morning before, by her neighbor, Doug Greene. The same neighbor called police at 9:45a.m claiming that Anna's dog had been barking for approximately two hours and that Anna wasn’t answer the door or calls. She was found DOA lying in her hallway at her house. The body was found at 9: 56 am when police officers broke down her door. The body

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    Lunsford Murder Case Jessica Lunsford was a nine year old girl who was abducted from her grandmother’s house, taken right from her own bedroom on February 24, 2005. There was little sign of a struggle in the child’s room, the only things that were missing were her stuffed animals that her father won for her from a county fair. The last time that the grandmother, Ruth Lunsford, last saw her granddaughter when she put her to bed the night before and hadn’t noticed anything. The abductor and murderer

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    f the case: The victim, Jessica Lunsford was abducted from her home, raped, held captive, and murdered by John Couey in February of 2005. Couey abducted Lunsford and took her to his half-sister's trailer less than 100 yards from Lunsfords residence. Couey forced Lunsford to hide in his bedroom closet while he was away for work. Dorothy Dixon, Couey's half-sister denies that Lunsford was ever in her home and gave the police permission to search her home and property. On March 19th, 2005 police searched

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    Part One Of Red Roses and Pink Lips Taeyeon sunk herself into the waiting chair as she waited for her turn to get styled. They had another photo shoot for Elle today, but somehow things moved slower this time. There were no warm touches or cute giggles distracting her from all the waiting. All she was left with was a makeup artist with a face too smug and unfriendly touches as she played with the soft features of Taeyeon's skin, dabbing on the foundation a bit too roughly. She was left alone

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    “Why don’t we stop here for tonight?” I offered, once I thought we would be safe enough at least for now, since the smoke was blowing away from us. Jess immediately sat down and took off her backpack, and I did the same. “Oh thank goodness! I thought you were never going to stop!” she said, exhausted. The last rays of the sun peaked through the mountain tops, giving the sky a deep orange and the clouds an ominous purple to it from the ablaze. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ We both sat in the unkempt grass

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