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Crimestoppers: Reward upped in Terrilynn Monette case to $19,600

Detectives are working with the information they were given, but didn’t disclose any further details.
NOPD says there are no suspects or persons of interest in the case, but investigators have not ruled out anything.

Reward increased in Terrilynn Monette case

Reward triples in case of missing teacher

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LDWF to assist in search for Terrilynn Monette Wednesday...

12:36 PM CDT Apr 09, 2013
The department will use sonar equipment to search waterways and investigators will use special equipment to search wooded areas of New Orleans East where stolen cars have been found in the past.

Kudos to State Rep Austin Badon for making the request. :thumb:

Badon asks LDWF to aid in search for missing teacher

wwltv.com
Posted on April 9, 2013 at 12:39 PM
Updated today at 2:25 PM
Agents will re-search the lagoons in City Park and Bayou St. John, and they will also search he 17th St. Canal, according to Badon.

 

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LDWF joins search for J.P. teacher 40 days since she went missing

wwltv.com
Posted on April 10, 2013 at 6:28 AM
Updated today at 12:13 PM

Agents will use four-wheelers, trucks, boats and a plane to search remote areas across New Orleans, including New Orleans East and the West Bank. These out-of-the-way areas are common places that cars are dumped.

The article also says boats will be used to search City Park waters later today.

Video and article at the link

 

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Crimestoppers increases reward for Terrilynn Monette to $20,000; LDWF begins search in eastern New Orleans

by Helen Freund, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune
on April 10, 2013 at 11:00 AM, updated April 10, 2013 at 11:09 AM

Crimestoppers Executive Director Darlene Cusanza said Monday that the reward was "probably our highest ... we've had in our history, in any one case."
The department will use sonar equipment to search through the waterways in and around New Orleans, said Adam Einck, a Wildlife and Fisheries spokesman.

LDWF assisting in search for Terrilynn Monette; reward increased to 20K

WDSU
2:48 PM CDT Apr 10, 2013

The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries has begun looking for missing teacher Terrilynn Monette from Harvey on Wednesday morning.

article and video at the link

The department [LDWF] is using sonar to search waterways

More images at WDSU
http://www.wdsu.com/news/local-news/new-orleans/-/9853400/19698226/-/jhv31lz/-/index.html

 

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https://twitter.com/CunninghamWDSU/status/322079243892830208/photo/1

https://twitter.com/CunninghamWDSU

WDSU Update at 4:26 P.M.

Crews will be here through the weekend and into next week.

LDWF Capt. Mcmanus: "We'll be here until our services are no longer needed."

 

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State agency joins search for Terrilynn Monette

WVUE Fox8
Updated: Apr 10, 2013 9:56 PM CDT Written by: Natasha Robin

Wildlife and Fisheries agents spent much of Wednesday afternoon combing Lake Pontchartrain near West End. Their search is expected to be more extensive in the next few days.
"Our equipment ranges from fixed-wing aircraft to four-wheelers to every kind of vessel you can think of," says LDWF Capt. Stephen McManus.

More info at the link

Search for missing teacher expands to Lake Pontchartrain

WDSU
11:31 PM CDT Apr 10, 2013
Agents also searched a portion of City Park Wednesday on four-wheelers near the last place a red-light camera captured Monette turning left onto Marconi Drive off Harrison Avenue.

Video and article at the link

 

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April 15, 2013

WBOK-FM - Gerod Stevens on Terrilynn Monette
Audio

Fox8-Live - FBI to become more involved in search for Terrilynn Monette
Video

 

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Link to updated poster (sorry if already posted)


https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=144872099025965&set=a.131528327027009.1073741825.131527543693754&type=1&theater

 

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Search leads to fishing cars out of Bayou St. John

By Helen Freund NOLA.com The Times Picayune
on May 06, 2013 at 9:55 AM, updated May 06, 2013 at 3:49 PM
The search for missing second-grade teacher Terrilyn Monette continued Monday morning as a private salvage company began pulling cars out of Bayou St. John. The effort, which is spearheaded by State Rep. Austin Badon, has been ongoing since the week of April 9...

Tow company to remove cars from Bayou St. John

Updated: May 06, 2013 4:43 PM CDT Written by: FOX8Live.com Staff
La. State Representative Austin Badon says as many as 22 cars will be removed from the bayou.

More cars pulled from Bayou St. John in search for missing teacher

wwltv.com
Posted on May 7, 2013 at 10:37 AM
NEW ORLEANS -- For a second day divers and crews entered the waters of Bayou St. John early Monday looking for submerged vehicles in an attempt to find missing Jefferson Parish school teacher Terrilynn Monette.

 

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Search for missing schoolteacher to resume Sunday; officials call for nationwide search

nola.com - The Times Picayune
on May 11, 2013 at 7:48 PM, updated May 12, 2013 at 2:52 AM
by John Harper

"There's a couple of clues that will bring us back into Bayou St. John tomorrow morning," Badon said Saturday. "We have looked in the greater metropolitan area for her person and car and have found neither. What that says, through a process of elimination, is that there is a greater likelihood that she is not in the New Orleans area."

Toni Enclade struggles through Mother's Day with memories of her missing child, Terrilynn Monette

Huffington Post
Posted: 05/11/2013 9:21 am EDT
"I have to keep myself strong for her because if I don't do it, I don't think anybody else will," Enclade told HuffPost in a phone interview this week.

Enclade, 50, has made several trips from her home in Long Beach, Calif., to New Orleans to look for her daughter and to keep the search in the news. Her next trip is scheduled for May 17.

 

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Body of Missing Schoolteacher Identified by Coroner

June 10, 2013
The Orleans Parish Coroner’s Office has positively identified the body found in the car pulled from Bayou St. John last Saturday as 26-year-old Terrilynn Monette. Coroner’s investigators performed the autopsy this morning, and confirmed Ms. Monette’s identity through dental records provided by her family. Investigators say there were no signs of trauma to the body, so Ms. Monette’s death has been ruled a drowning.

As is standard, the Coroner’s Office will now have toxicology tests performed and the NOPD awaits those results.

NOPD’s Accident Reconstruction - Fatality Unit detectives will now try to reconstruct the circumstances that led to Ms. Monette’s death. Meantime, Third District officers are working to enhance any and all video that has been collected in this case.

Ms. Monette was first reported missing on March 2nd. She was last seen with friends early that morning at a bar in the 800-block of Harrison Avenue.

Hundreds of members of the New Orleans community came to the City Park area to assist NOPD to search for clues that might have given insight into Ms. Monette’s whereabouts, with no results. When her car was not found, NOPD’s efforts moved to search Bayou St. John, as well as Lake Pontchartrain. Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries boats with specialized sonar, divers, the Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office Helicopter, and a team of underwater recovery experts who drove to New Orleans from Texas, graciously offered their assistance and many hours to search for Ms. Monette’s vehicle.

Last Saturday, Slidell Police Officer Mark Michaud, who is a recovery diver, spotted Monette’s vehicle in Bayou St. John, near Wisner and Harrison Avenue. Once it was retrieved from the water, the car was relocated to the Coroner’s Office, where Ms. Monette’s remains were removed.

“On behalf of this police department, I want to express my sincerest condolences to Ms. Monette’s family, and assure them that our detectives will do everything they can to find the answers as to how this tragedy happened”, said Superintendent Ronal Serpas.
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Terrilynn Monette died of drowning, coroner confirms

Times Picayune
Naomi Martin
on June 10, 2013 at 4:02 PM, updated June 10, 2013 at 10:38 PM
Drowning was the cause of death for Terrilynn Monette, the missing West Bank teacher whose body was discovered in Bayou St. John on Saturday, according to the Orleans Parish Coroner's Office. There were no signs of trauma to her body, said John Gagliano, the coroner's chief investigator.

"On behalf of this police department, I want to express my sincerest condolences to Ms. Monette's family, and assure them that our detectives will do everything they can to find the answers as to how this tragedy happened," Police Superintendent Ronal Serpas said in a statement.

Map shows what is known about Terrilynn Monette's final moments

JUNE 8-9, 2013

Flowers and prayers for Terrilynn Monette

Search for Terrilynn Monette ends with discovery of her submerged car

Times Picayune
Ramon Antonio Vargas
on June 08, 2013 at 7:55 PM, updated June 10, 2013 at 9:47 AM
On the morning of Day 98, Michaud, the leader of the Slidell Police Department's dive team, went to Bayou St. John on his 17-foot boat during his free time. Scanning the waters with a portable sonar device, he found a submerged car close to a bridge at the corner of Harrison Avenue and Wisner Boulevard.

Terrilynn Monette's car pulled from the bayou

wwltv.com
Posted on June 8, 2013 at 1:54 PM
Updated June 9 at 1:52 PM
NEW ORLEANS – The car of missing Jefferson Parish schoolteacher Terrilynn Monette was pulled from a bayou near Harrison and Wisner Avenues Saturday around noon.

A body was found inside of the car in the driver's seat and Representative Austin Badon, who has been championing the search for Monette, said they are "100 percent sure" that the body inside is Monette, but that an autopsy by the coroner would be needed to confirm the fact.

Community reaction to Monette discovery

WGNO
June 8, 2013
For months volunteer dive teams conducted searches of area waterways and recovered more than a dozen cars.
But it wasn’t until Saturday afternoon, that a diver located Monette’s black Honda Accord.

“This area had been searched,” Badon explained. “We searched it extensively, but her car was missed.”

June 7, 2013
Family of Terrilynn Monette holds vigil

wwltv.com
Posted on June 7, 2013 at 10:39 PM
Updated Friday, Jun 7 at 10:41 PM
“The community should be outraged,” said Terry Monette, Terrilynn’s dad. “Definitely hearing that a person is trying to do something about the computer and is been taken off of it. I'm very upset about that.”

 

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Terrilynn Monette's School Plans a Book Drive to Honor Teacher

"Terrilynn just adores books as all teachers do to an exponential level. So we're planning a book drive to benefit children at Woodland West Elementary that she was so involved with," said principal Amy Hoyle

The school's address and drop off times are included in this article.

Outpouring of support continues...

A small bookshelf was set up at the door at Woodland West Elementary School in Harvey where Monette taught second grade.

Stickers in memory of Monette will be placed inside all donated books so the children who read them will remember her fondly.

“I hope to do what I think Terrilynn would want us to do: help the students continue learning, continue growing, continue thinking and books are the best way to do that,” Hoyle said.

Officer who found Terrilynn Monette honored by Slidell City Council

 

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Red-light camera footage, key decisions complicated search for Terrilynn Monette

Times Picayune
by Naomi Martin
on June 11, 2013 at 7:51 PM, updated June 11, 2013 at 9:47 PM
Badon noted that had Michaud just entered the water at Harrison Avenue but not fired up the sonar equipment until he arrived at the area where he was anticipating Monette to be, the teacher would likely still be under water.
"It's a message for all of us not to assume anything," Badon said. "We may not have found her as of yet."

http://photos.nola.com/4500/gallery/terrilynn_monettes_car_found_in_bayou_st_john/index.html#/8

 

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Finding peace for Terrilynn Monette and her family

By The Editorial Board, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune
on June 14, 2013 at 6:30 AM, updated June 14, 2013 at 8:12 AM
Armed with their map and a plan to search near Filmore Avenue and Robert E. Lee Boulevard, Officer Michaud was launching his 17-foot boat at the Harrison Avenue bridge. By luck, he turned on his portable sonar device right away.

"Fortunately, that's where he got a hit with the sonar," Rep. Badon said. Once he dove into the bayou, it didn't take long for Officer Michaud to identify several submerged vehicles -- and then to find the one with Ms. Monette's license plate.

Within a few hours, he had done what dozens of others hadn't been able to do.

Memorial service scheduled for Terrilynn Monette in California

Similar service will be held in New Orleans in July
3:15 PM CDT Jun 12, 2013

The service will take place at her alma matter, Wilson Classical High School, in Long Beach Calif. June 22 at 3 p.m.

 

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Family, friends pay respect to Terrilynn Monette in Long Beach

From staff reports
Posted: 06/23/2013 04:31:21 PM PDT
Updated: 06/24/2013 06:43:08 PM PDT

Family and friends memorialized the life of Long Beach native Terrilynn Monette, 26, Sunday at Wilson High School. (Sean Hiller / Staff Photographer)

Investigators return to site where Terrilynn Monette's car, body were found

WDSU-TV
2:09 PM CDT Jun 27, 2013
Police said they are reconstructing the scene to help determine the route Monette took before crashing into the water.
Police said the investigation surrounding Monette's death was ongoing.