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Saturday, April 08, 2006

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No Longer Missing

Adre'Anna Jackson Found

On December 2, 10-year old Adre'Anna Jackson's parents sent her off on a five-minute walk to see whether her school was closed because of snow. She never returned home.

Police had previously used scent dogs to try to track the girl's movements, investigated all the registered sex offenders in the area and called upon the expertise of FBI sonar and dive teams to search American Lake, where the girl was known to play. Among the places searched was a vacant, overgrown lot outside one of the back gates of Fort Lewis Army Post, located about two miles and across Interstate 5 from Adre'Anna's home. For years, the lot has been used as a local dumping ground and by transients who live there.

On Tuesday, two children found a skull and a portion of a spinal column while searching for snakes in a blackberry bush on the lot. On Wednesday, dental records confirmed that the skull is that of Adre'Anna.

According to police spokesman Lt. Bret Farrar, police dogs searched the lot immediately after the girl's disappearance but found nothing. The owner of the long-vacant lot, though, began clearing out underbrush and bulldozing there in the last few weeks.

"We don't know if she was buried there and the body was disturbed by the bulldozing, or if she was dumped there and we just couldn't find her ... or even if she'd somehow gotten back there and gotten hypothermia," Farrar said.

As a parent, I'm actually not sure which is more disturbing.

Although a cause and manner of death have not yet been established, police are treating the case as a homicide. Farrar said police have not yet focused in on any particular person in her death. He stated it will take "at least several days" to sort through what he estimates to be more than 1,200 pieces of garbage for evidence. "Hopefully, the crime scene will reveal something to us." [Seattle Times.]

Kate blogs at The Original Musings.

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posted by Kate at 12:29 AM