AL AL - Heaven Ross, 11, Northport, 19 Aug 2003

[Kelly]

Heaven's website has been revamped and will have some new updates and photos posted soon. Please come and sign the guestbook. Thank you.

http://www.findheaven.net/

Kelly Jolkowski, Mother of Missing Jason Jolkowski
President and Founder,
Project Jason
http://www.projectjason.org
Read our Voice for the Missing Blog
http://voice4themissing.blogspot.com/

 

[Bobbisangel]

What a beautiful little girl. Beautiful website too, Kelly. I wish more people would go in and sign the guestbook. It would probably mean a lot to Shea's mother. The chance of this little girl still being alive are slim but if she were my daughter I would have to hope in order to survive. I can't even imagine being in the shoes of a parent with a missing child. I don't know if I could survive that.

I wish we could wave a wand and bring all of these missing children back home. It is just so sad to come into this site and read about another missing person or another murdered person. So many families in horrible pain. To many.

 

[Kelly]

I know for a fact that Beth is very comforted by the messages in the guestbook. I also know from my own experience that these mesages give hope.

We'll be adding some new photos soon too. Last night we added a new page with poems and remembrances.

Until we know the truth, I will have hope that Heaven is still alive.

Thank you for your kindness.

Kelly

 

[dannyodie]

did the police ever do dna test on the blood that was found in the car? if not they should have. it is my strong belief that the boyfriend is the most likely one to have done this. if not him then someone in that trailer park knows what happened, remember little jessica, abducted and killed just 150 yards from her home across the street. 50 yds to her bus stop! did no one see her? just to strange that the boyfriend got up as soon as she left, if it was to give her a ride to school because of a storm, why only offer her a ride to school and not the others which were awaiting the bus as well? I think the police have a good idea he is the one, but for them to not really work hard at proving this is an injustice to this childs family. either the hole in the bottom of the trailer was to dispose of ciggerettes or a place a small camera could have been inserted to view the inside of the bedroom. anything is possible, there is a common person that is involved in this case and he knew the family very well and she knew the person that picked her up.

 

[Kelly]

Heaven's mother, Beth, has been informed me that Heaven, along with 12 other children, will be featured on the Oprah Winfrey Show this Friday, September 30th.

The Oprah site indicates this day's show is about sexual harassment, so we are not sure if the listings of the missing children will be included on this show, or if it has been bumped. Little information has been provided to Beth.

Thank you.

Kelly Jolkowski, Mother of Missing Jason Jolkowski
President and Founder,
Project Jason
www.projectjason.org
Voice for the Missing
http://voice4themissing.blogspot.com/

 

[Bobbisangel]

Thanks for the info Kelly. I'm glad that this little girl's picture is still being shown. Shea has been gone for a long time without anyone seeing her somewhere. I wonder what became of LE talking to the guy that helped Shea's brother run away?

I still find it strange about the fire starting in Shea's bedroom. I believe the article said the fire was started in two places...the hole in the floor and in front of a recliner. It's odd that Shea's room was the only place that was set on fire. I can't really see a stranger going into the house with the family at home and setting a fire in Shea's room. To big of a risk of getting caught.

I'm surprised that someone in the trailer park didn't see the car that Shea got into that morning. Mobiles are usually fairly close together but it seems that no one saw a thing unless it was a vehicle that was familiar so they didn't really pay any attention.

I wish that something would break in this case and Shea would be found.

 

[Kelly]

Heaven's photo will be shown on an episode of the Oprah Winfrey Show this Tuesday. The topic will be sexual predators, and Shasta Groene's father will be interviewed.

Kelly

 

[Bobbisangel]

Heaven's photo will be shown on an episode of the Oprah Winfrey Show this Tuesday. The topic will be sexual predators, and Shasta Groene's father will be interviewed.

Kelly

Thanks Kelly. I'll be sure to watch that even though I don't often watch Oprah.

 

[Kelly]

Heaven's family and her story will be featured on a segment of the Montel Williams Show on Friday, October 14th. Please check your local listings as the time and station vary. Thank you.

Kelly Jolkowski, Mother of Missing Jason Jolkowski
President and Founder,
Project Jason
http://www.projectjason.org
Read our Voice for the Missing Blog
http://voice4themissing.blogspot.com/

 

[mysteriew]

WITHOUT A TRACE: Eleven-year-old Heaven LaShae Ross left home on Aug 19, 2003 to walk a few blocks to the bus stop, but she never made it. She vanished without a trace. EARLY SHOW correspondent Melinda Murphy takes us inside the search for the missing girl.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/1999/10/04/broadcasts/main64925.shtml?CMP=ILC-SearchStories

 

[PrayersForMaura]

The Search For Heaven

If you watched the hit CBS drama "Without A Trace" Thursday night, you may have seen the profile of a missing girl from Alabama, Heaven LaShae Ross.

As The Early Show correspondent Melinda Murphy reports, Heaven disappeared more than two years ago, and police are no closer to solving the case.

Heaven, nicknamed Shae, has been missing since Aug. 19, 2003, from Northport, Ala. She was last seen at her home at approximately 7 a.m.

She left home en route to a nearby bus stop, but vanished within 50 yards of her front door. Born on June 11, 1992, she was 11 years old at the time of her disappearance and is now 13.

..."You can't really explain it. It's not even like death. It's so much worse. It's so much more intense. Because you don't know," says Heaven's mother Beth Lowery. "I don't know if she's being beat up. I don't know if she's being sexually molested. I don't know if she's hungry. I don't know if she's warm. You just can't describe it."

...Heaven's older sister, Alex, was waiting at the bus stop near some mailboxes. But because it was pouring rain that morning, their stepfather decided to drive them to school.

"I probably left at 6:56, 6:55 and she left around like 7:00 and my step dad got there around 7:02, maybe, and he just came around there and was like, 'Where is Shae?' And I was like 'I don't know,' " Alex Lowery remembers.

The family called police almost immediately and they have been searching ever since, with no clues and no evidence.


More: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/12/23/earlyshow/main1161706.shtml

 

[PrayersForMaura]

Heaven LaShae Ross was last seen on the morning of
Aug. 19, 2003. (CBS/The Early Show)

_______________________________________________

Quote:
"She was like my shadow and I don't have my
shadow no more. She's gone."

​

Beth Lowery​

Heaven's mother​

________________________________________________

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005...in1161706.shtml​

 

[johnny]

What ever happened to the moms boyfriend?

 

[strach304]

I haven't read all 9 pages of this case but something did occur to me when I saw Shannon's name and pic so I don't know if it's been brought up here. Have they looked at Carlie Brucia's killer for any of these girls? On the website for Shannon there is a drawing of a poi seen in the area the day she went missing and that resembles the one that was issued for Carlie's killer at the time.

 

[amandab]

On the website for Shannon there is a drawing of a poi seen in the area the day she went missing and that resembles the one that was issued for Carlie's killer at the time.

OMG strach - that gave me chills. Where was Carlie's killer at the time Shannon was abducted? Does anyone know any kind of timeline? My apologies for possibly diverging from Heaven's thread here; it is worth considering if Joe Smith is responsible for more than we know, though....

 

[strach304]

I know at the time of his arrest he was being looked at for other crimes in the south not just Florida so that's why I posted hoping someone here more familiar would know if he was looked at. I clicked on a link here and got Shannon's info from Heaven's thread and I also wonder about him with Tabitha Tuder and Heaven as well. Carlie was 11 and grabbed off the street in broad daylight. You can bet with his background he's good for more than just Carlie so I hope someone here knows if he was looked at if not I may try and dig into it to see what areas he was in. It was definitely southern states.

Johnny do you know? Look at the police sketch on Shannon's site, it is very much like the one they released for Joe Smith, Carlie Brucia's killer in Florida.

 

[missacorah]

Heavens case has really struck a chord with me - such a beautiful child and a gorgeous name too!

Is there any new news? Are the mother and step father still together? I feel certain that the fire was started by someone who either lived at the van or was a comfortable visitor there?What was it that needed hiding?

 

[Kelly]

It is with great sadness that we announce that Heaven's remains have been found. Our thoughts and prayers are with her family at this difficult time.

Condolences for the family may be left in her guestbook at Find Heaven

Kelly

AP Wire | 12/19/2006 | Remains of missing 11-year-old Northport girl found in Holt house

Posted on Tue, Dec. 19,

Remains of missing 11-year-old Northport girl found in Holt house


TUSCALOOSA, Ala. - The remains of an 11-year-old Northport girl who disappeared in 2003 have been found in an abandoned house in Holt, authorities announced Tuesday.

Tuscaloosa County Sheriff Ted Sexton said the remains were those of Heaven LaShae Ross, who went missing Aug. 19, 2003, while apparently walking on a rainy morning to a school bus stop near her home in Willowbrook Trailer Park.

 

[SewingDeb]

Prayers for the family.

 

[Mrs_Norwood]

How sad that she has been found so close to Christmas. I can't imagine how sad they must be, but it also must bring closure to know that Heaven is at peace. RIP Heaven.