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Breeann Rodriguez Body Found: Authorities Believe Remains Belong to Missing 3-Year-Old
 Body of Missing Girl, 3, Found 
Aug 17, 2011 8:08 AM CDT

Body of Missing Girl, 3, Found

Authorities believe remains belong to Breeann Rodriguez

(Newser) - Remains believed to be a 3-year-old Missouri girl who went missing more than a week ago were found yesterday near a series of ditches where authorities say a neighbor is suspected of dumping her body after suffocating her with a plastic bag. A Missouri State Highway Patrol officer searching by...

FBI Investigating Death of 2-Year-Old Girl, Father

Dad took toddler after mom was awarded custody

(Newser) - The bodies of a missing 2-year-old Sacramento girl and her father were discovered last night in the man's vehicle, nearly a week after he took her during a child custody dispute, authorities say. Madeline Samaan-Fay and Mourad "Moni" Samaan, 49, were found dead in his green Toyota 4Runner...

3-Year-Old Vanishes Riding Bike

Pink bicycle with training wheels is all that's left behind

(Newser) - Another girl has vanished and the FBI has been called in again—this time to aid in the search for a 3-year-old Missouri tyke who disappeared as she rode her pink bike outside her home. BreeAnn Rodriguez vanished when her 5-year-old brother went into their home in the small town...

Celina Cass' Body Found Wrapped in Blanket

Stepdad Wendell Noyes checks into mental clinic

(Newser) - The stepfather of the 11-year-old New Hampshire girl found dead in a river earlier this week has checked himself into a mental health facility. Police probing the Celina Cass case have declared her death suspicious and have seized a pickup truck belonging to stepdad Wendell Noyes. The Cass home has...

Stepdad's Truck Seized From Dead Girl's Home

Police cordon off Celina Cass house

(Newser) - Investigators probing the death of 11-year-old Celina Cass have seized a pickup truck belonging to the girl's stepfather. Authorities, who have cordoned off the family's New Hampshire home, have labeled the girl's death suspicious, AP reports. Celina's body was pulled from a river earlier this week,...

Autopsy Can't Find Cause of Death in NH Case

Officials will keep investigating Celina Cass case

(Newser) - An autopsy conducted on the body of 11-year-old girl Celina Cass was unable to determine how she died, authorities said today. Senior Assistant Attorney General Jane Young said further study is required. Celina's death has been deemed suspicious, based on what divers found when they pulled her body from...

Family, Friends of Celina Cass Await Autopsy for Answers

With a criminal investigation pending autopsy results, NH town waits

(Newser) - Investigators hope an autopsy set for today on an 11-year-old New Hampshire girl will shed light on her disappearance and death. After nearly a week of massive searches and volunteers handing out fliers with photos of missing fifth-grader Celina Cass, residents in this small New Hampshire town are absorbing the...

Missing NH Girl Found in River

Celina Cass' death considered suspicious; autopsy set for tomorrow

(Newser) - Authorities say the body of an 11-year-old New Hampshire girl who disappeared nearly a week ago has been found in a river less than half a mile from her home. Divers found Celina Cass' body this morning near a hydroelectric dam that spans the Connecticut River between her hometown of...

Divers Search Pond for Sign of Missing NH Girl

Celina Cass, 11, was last seen one week ago, playing computer games

(Newser) - Divers searched a pond in northern New Hampshire yesterday for clues to the disappearance of 11-year-old Celina Cass , who was last seen in her bedroom last Monday night. State Fish and Game Department divers explored Back Pond for any sign of the fifth-grader; the small pond is less than a...

FBI Offers $25K Reward for Missing NH Girl

Celina Cass hasn't been seen since Monday

(Newser) - The FBI says it isn't giving up the search for 11-year-old Celina Cass of New Hampshire , who hasn't been since Monday night. The agency offered a $25,000 reward today, on top of a $5,000 reward offered by a private citizen, for information leading to the girl,...

FBI Joins Search for Missing NH Girl

11-year-old Celina Cass vanished from bedroom

(Newser) - The disappearance of an 11-year-old girl has left a small town in northern New Hampshire shaken and mystified. Celina Cass was last seen playing on a computer in her bedroom around 9pm Monday night. There's no clear indication that she ran away or was kidnapped, and there are no...

Thousands Sign Petition for 'Caylee's Law'

More than 250K have signed so far

(Newser) - Casey Anthony's not guilty verdict sparked Facebook outrage , a couple of Nancy Grace rants , and now a fast-growing petition for a new law. "Caylee's Law," thought up by Oklahoma mom of two Michelle Crowder, would require parents and guardians to report a child's disappearance to...

Elizabeth Smart Hired by ABC News

Kidnapping victim will discuss missing person cases

(Newser) - Elizabeth Smart knows firsthand what it's like to be kidnapped—and she'll soon be sharing that perspective as an ABC News contributor. She'll appear on Good Morning America and possibly other programs "when there are missing children or missing-person cases in the news," an ABC...

Dad Suspected in Missing Baby Case

Father may have left 'Baby Kate' somewhere, says mom

(Newser) - The search is on for a missing 4-month-old girl in Michigan whose father is suspected of kidnapping her, reports ABC News . Katherine Shelbie-Elizabeth Phillips has been missing since Wednesday when her father—21-year-old National Guardsman Sean Phillips—allegedly ran off with her following an argument with the infant's mother,...

Dumped Dead Boy Linked to Navy

NCIS asked to help identify tiny body found on rural road in Maine

(Newser) - The body of a young boy mysteriously dumped along a rural road in Maine may be linked to a Navy family, according to investigators. A blue pickup truck with Navy insignia embossed in or around the license plate was seen in the area and the boy, believed to be between...

Kate McCann: I Was Suicidal After Maddy's Kidnapping

New book reveals mother's shock, pain

(Newser) - In a new book, Kate McCann reveals that she felt suicidal after daughter Madeleine went missing in Portugal four years ago. "I had an overwhelming urge to swim out across the ocean, as hard and as fast as I could; to swim and swim and swim until I was...

Kids' Bodies Stuffed in Luggage, Dumped in Canal

Florida police trying to identify children's bodies

(Newser) - The bodies of two children have been found stuffed in luggage in a South Florida canal and police divers are searching the area in case there are more. A girl aged between 6 and 12 was found in a duffel bag in the canal near Boca Raton, and a boy...

Is Madeleine McCann in US?
 Is Madeleine McCann in US? 
Feb 18, 2011 12:19 PM CST

Is Madeleine McCann in US?

One sleuth believes pedophile ring took her to America

(Newser) - Nearly four years after her disappearance, an amateur investigator believes he knows where Madeleine McCann is: the US. Marcelino Italiano has told police that a Portugal-based pedophile ring likely snatched the little girl and smuggled her out of the country, and he tells the Sun he has been twice attacked...

Missing Va. Girl, Alleged Kidnapper Found in Calif.

Jeff Easley suspected in death of girl's mother

(Newser) - A 12-year-old Virginia girl missing for a week has been found on the opposite coast after authorities spotted Brittany Mae Smith in a San Francisco retail store with the man suspected of murdering her mother. "She is well and she is in good hands at this time," says...

3 Missing Mich. Boys Feared to Be in Danger

Suicidal father says he left them in care of woman police can't find

(Newser) - Police were searching today for three young brothers who haven't been seen since their father tried to hang himself, and investigators unraveling the man's strange story fear the boys are in grave danger. At the heart of the investigation is a perplexing account by the father, 39-year-old John Skelton, who...

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