CA - Hasanni Campbell, 5, Oakland, 10 Aug 2009 - #5

[WhyaDuck?]

Yes, it is important he wasn't wearing the sweatsuit at the store, because to me it seems whatever happened could've been the next day, or the following one, etc., even early on the 10th before LR went to the salvage yard. I think whatever injuries are on him LR's "defense" would be that the perp who abducted him inflicted them. I've always been curious if JC was working at the store those days between Hasanni last being seen at Walmart and the 10th? MOO

I'm curious about that, as well. Do you folks think she is the type to be at work all day Monday waiting for LR to come and start the drama?

I think there is merit in the theory that Hasanni was ailing due to some accident or injury, and LR came at 4 to tell her he had finally died, and this was the time. That would explain the "hysterics."

 

[WhyaDuck?]

This is completely O/T, but I know that there are some folks around here who used to be over at the Tori thread. We have lost a brilliant, dedicated sleuther, Pepperfritz, who was tragically killed in an accident recently.

R.I.P. Pepperfritz. She will be missed.

Websleuths Crime Sleuthing Community

 

[eyes4crime]

Does anyone know when trash pickup is in Ross' neighborhood or around the NH? TIA

 

[Columbo]

My guess is that LE knows Hasanni is not alive - either from the CSI of the car or something we haven't been told yet.

Remember - The DA has to prove 'beyond a reasonable doubt' that Ross and perhaps Jennifer murdered this child. A jury has to be convinced...so they may know Hasanni was murdered but can't prove who did it!!! Same with Casey Anthony...decomp in the car but remember the car had been towed away and was out of sight for a week or two....anybody could have put a body in that car while unattended (according to defense). mho

I think you are right. They can't prove who did it yet. If they don't know that, they certainly can't convince a jury.
Although--I'm wondering why JC was arrested as an accessory then?

 

[panthera]

I'm curious about that, as well. Do you folks think she is the type to be at work all day Monday waiting for LR to come and start the drama?

I think there is merit in the theory that Hasanni was ailing due to some accident or injury, and LR came at 4 to tell her he had finally died, and this was the time. That would explain the "hysterics."

I don't know if she could pull that off at work all day ~ meaning, it seems like she'd give off some clue that something wasn't right, like being overly nervous, or whatnot. I also can't imagine why if it were just an accident all this cover up including disposing of his body somewhere and staging an abduction. I'm leaning more toward something happening (at LR's hands)after she went to work on the 10th and LR came up with this scenario on his own. Maybe JC is totally in the dark as to what happened? MOO

 

[panthera]

Does anyone know when trash pickup is in Ross' neighborhood or around the NH? TIA

Good question but I think that would be for disposing of some kind of evidence, not his little body since it's a residential area and that would be way too risky. MOO

 

[WhyaDuck?]

I don't know if she could pull that off at work all day ~ meaning, it seems like she'd give off some clue that something wasn't right, like being overly nervous, or whatnot. I also can't imagine why if it were just an accident all this cover up including disposing of his body somewhere and staging an abduction. I'm leaning more toward something happening (at LR's hands)after she went to work on the 10th and LR came up with this scenario on his own. Maybe JC is totally in the dark as to what happened? MOO

Yes, I lean more towards foul play... but an accident due to negligence is also a pretty steep thing with a foster child, so they might have panicked.

But I really don't know that JC is all there enough to pull off an act like this. She can't even pretend to be sad very well - how could she cover up the enormous amount of nerves and panic she would have felt?

I thought at first that maybe she pulled the "I'm pregnant" bit and spent the day in the washroom or something, but I really think we would have heard from her co-worker by now if that was the case.

But, really, why haven't we heard more from the co-worker(s), anyway?

 

[eyes4crime]

I think you are right. They can't prove who did it yet. If they don't know that, they certainly can't convince a jury.
Although--I'm wondering why JC was arrested as an accessory then?

I doubt Jennifer was involved with the murder - I don't think she knows details, although she may be suspicious or wondering. That may be why she was arrested - they were hoping she would give up something. I think Ross has ways to convince her of just about anything. mho

I think this was premeditated and maybe LE thinks so also...so the DA could very well be going for a murder I charge...they would need an airtight case. imo

 

[panthera]

Yes, I lean more towards foul play... but an accident due to negligence is also a pretty steep thing with a foster child, so they might have panicked.

But I really don't know that JC is all there enough to pull off an act like this. She can't even pretend to be sad very well - how could she cover up the enormous amount of nerves and panic she would have felt?

I thought at first that maybe she pulled the "I'm pregnant" bit and spent the day in the washroom or something, but I really think we would have heard from her co-worker by now if that was the case.

But, really, why haven't we heard more from the co-worker(s), anyway?

The only ways I can see her being involved is if she's so afraid of LR that she's become totally emotionless or she's cold hearted enough to have actually participated in whatever happened to Hasanni. I think LE believed when they arrested her that she knew something about what happened and was covering up for LR. But it could be that LR doesn't trust her enough to tell her the truth. I'm sure LE has interviewed her coworkers but don't intend to release any information. MOO

 

[pudd]

This is completely O/T, but I know that there are some folks around here who used to be over at the Tori thread. We have lost a brilliant, dedicated sleuther, Pepperfritz, who was tragically killed in an accident recently.

R.I.P. Pepperfritz. She will be missed.

Websleuths Crime Sleuthing Community

OH NO!! I really appreciated Pepper's posts on the Tori threads. How awful.

 

[panthera]

I doubt Jennifer was involved with the murder - I don't think she knows details, although she may be suspicious or wondering. That may be why she was arrested - they were hoping she would give up something. I think Ross has ways to convince her of just about anything. mho

I think this was premeditated and maybe LE thinks so also...so the DA could very well be going for a murder I charge...they would need an airtight care. imo

I agree about the possibility of it being premeditated, especially taken together with the text msg. 10 days earlier. At the very least Hasanni seemed to be a big inconvenience to LR. MOO

 

[WhyaDuck?]

The only ways I can see her being involved is if she's so afraid of LR that she's become totally emotionless or she's cold hearted enough to have actually participated in whatever happened to Hasanni. I think LE believed when they arrested her that she knew something about what happened and was covering up for LR. But it could be that LR doesn't trust her enough to tell her the truth. I'm sure LE has interviewed her coworkers but don't intend to release any information. MOO

BBM

Very likely why they aren't giving sound bites to the press. (Or the boss has gagged them.)

 

[pudd]

Sorry to wander OT with my last post. I'm still in shock.

But to Hasanni:

1. the child seat/whatever they bought at Walmart - maybe it was for the new baby? They'd gotten custody of Hasanni and Aaliyah when Aaliyah was what, about 9 months old? So maybe they didn't have newborn baby stuff?

2. LR was saying that the dropping off the kids thing was routine, and had been for "months" - how long would a medical assistant's course last, and when would it start? Just thinking, now is the beginning of the new school year, so new courses would be starting now. Or was there such a thing as mid-semester entry or are the short courses that are run throughout the year?

 

[eyes4crime]

Yes, I lean more towards foul play... but an accident due to negligence is also a pretty steep thing with a foster child, so they might have panicked.

But I really don't know that JC is all there enough to pull off an act like this. She can't even pretend to be sad very well - how could she cover up the enormous amount of nerves and panic she would have felt?

I thought at first that maybe she pulled the "I'm pregnant" bit and spent the day in the washroom or something, but I really think we would have heard from her co-worker by now if that was the case.

But, really, why haven't we heard more from the co-worker(s), anyway?

Hi WhyaDuck! You have done a fantastic job with the threads - here's to you!

About the co-worker...Shuz only employs two people...doesn't it seem strange she would be working with someone at the time Ross arrived? :toast:
:toast:

 

[WhyaDuck?]

Sorry to wander OT with my last post. I'm still in shock.

But to Hasanni:

1. the child seat/whatever they bought at Walmart - maybe it was for the new baby? They'd gotten custody of Hasanni and Aaliyah when Aaliyah was what, about 9 months old? So maybe they didn't have newborn baby stuff?

2. LR was saying that the dropping off the kids thing was routine, and had been for "months" - how long would a medical assistant's course last, and when would it start? Just thinking, now is the beginning of the new school year, so new courses would be starting now. Or was there such a thing as mid-semester entry or are the short courses that are run throughout the year?

BBM

If it was the Nautilus, it wasn't for the newborn, as it is a pretty big thing. Possibly moving the toddler up to that and putting the newborn in the one they used when she was little?

I think the big stroller they had in the living room is the "travelling system" type, which comes with one of those little newborn "pumpkin seats." I don't recall if this was attached to the stroller in the video, though.

(And I understand - I am numb from the news about Pepper, too...)

 

[WhyaDuck?]

Hi WhyaDuck! You have done a fantastic job with the threads - here's to you!

About the co-worker...Shuz only employs two people...doesn't it seem strange she would be working with someone at the time Ross arrived? :toast:
:toast:

Only two? Yikes. Was it open on weekends at all? I am not surprized that the manager would have an employee there so she could take care of other stuff, but there only being two employees is a bit strange.

I am not sure why a manager would be there from early morning until closing, anyway - most managers of places I have worked at had regular 9 to 5 hours, with the lackies (like moi) working the crap hours. Having someone else there would only make sense if her shift ended at 5 and the employee's shift went until closing, with an overlap.

It's a bit strange. Who worked on weekends?

ETA: Thanks for the "cheers."

 

[Angel Who Cares]

UPDATED: Missing Fremont boy's foster father calls police investigation "irrelevant" after release from jail
Posted: 09/01/2009 09:02:51 AM PDT
Updated: 09/01/2009 07:51:12 PM PDT
<snipped>
Louis Ross, foster father of Hasanni Campbell, described jail as "hell" and refused to answer questions about the police investigation into the boy's disappearance after he was released from jail tonight.

Ross was released from Santa Rita Jail in Dublin at 6:30 p.m. wearing black sweatpants, a white hat and white long-sleeve shirt. He was unshaven and visibly angry. Asked what it was like in jail, he said: "One word: hell."

He said he and fiancee Jennifer Campbell, the boy's foster mother and aunt, would continue looking for the boy, who Ross reported missing Aug. 10.

"As long as I have got breath in my body, we will search for Hasanni," he said.

Ross was arrested at the family's Fremont home Friday. He said he was told to step out of his house, identify what he was wearing and put his hands up. He waived his rights and talked to police for a little while Friday afternoon and then asked to speak to attorney John Burris, who has been counseling Ross, 38, and Campbell, 30.

"I told the same story I told to the detectives," Ross said tonight. "They got the same story, but they weren't happy with that story. They wanted something else."

Several times while speaking to the media after his release, he called the police investigation "irrelevant."

"We are going to do what we need to do as parents," he said. "We don't care what (the police) do."

Campbell, while awaiting Ross' release from jail tonight, said that after her neighbors told police that they hadn't seen Hasanni for three weeks before his reported disappearance, she produced a receipt showing that the family had gone shopping at the Wal-Mart on Aug. 6.

Campbell said police have told her that they have evidence that the couple is implicated in this crime but that they will not say what it is.

"I don't know what type of evidence they plan to come up with," she said. "I know I am innocent, and I know Louis is innocent."

Campbell said she last saw Hasanni around 7 a.m. Aug. 10 while the boy was still sleeping. She said she kissed him goodbye and went to work. "It's been a living a nightmare ever since," she said.

She said that when she returned to her house Monday after being released from jail, every room was a mess from a police search conducted Friday after the couple's arrest. A couch was flipped over, things were pulled out of dressers and cupboards, Hasanni's clothing out of the closet and some of her paperwork was missing. "Everything is everywhere," she said. "They went through every single room."

Investigators, who are treating the case as a homicide, said today they have no substantial open leads and will not be conducting any more searches for Hasanni unless they receive new information.

"We believe we have a case, and there is a lot of information we can't make public while the investigation is open," said Oakland police spokesman Officer Jeff Thomason. "But the video we're releasing is big. This is the last time anyone other than our two suspects confirmed Hasanni was alive."

Thomason said the Oakland police investigation has not included searches in Monterey, where Ross lived until about nine months ago according to a former housemate.

"There are probably only two people who know where Hasanni is, and those are our suspects," Thomason said.

Burris said he has lined up criminal lawyers to defend the foster parents should charges be filed in the future.

The 1-year-old girl was taken into protective custody after Hasanni's disappearance. Campbell went to court today and learned that her parental rights are being severed and that the girl will be put up for adoption. "I basically will never see her again," she said.

Frame grabs of a video show Hasanni Campbell at a Fremont Wal-Mart on Aug. 6, the last confirmed sighting of the boy before he was reported missing Aug. 10 by his foster father, Louis Ross. Hasanni is in the front of the shopping cart basket.

Acting police Chief Howard Jordan makes some brief statements at a news conference at the Oakland Police Headquarters on Tuesday about the release of Louis Ross.

Jennifer Campbell, right, Louis Ross, center and attorney John Burris leave Santa Rita Jail on Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2009, in Dublin, Calif. Ross was released from the jail after being arrested Friday by Oakland Police on suspicion of murder in the case of his missing foster child Hasanni Campbell, 5. Jennifer Campbell, also arrested Friday, was released from the jail on Monday. The Alameda County district attorney's office said there was insufficient evidence to hold either one.

Louis Ross talks with reporters after leaving Santa Rita Jail on Tuesday September 1, 2009 in Dublin, Calif. Ross was released from the jail after being arrested Friday by Oakland Police on suspicion of murder in the case of his missing foster child Hasanni Campbell, 5. Jennifer Campbell, at right, also arrested Friday, was released from the jail on Monday. The Alameda County district attorney's office said there was insufficient evidence to hold either one.

VIDEO: Oakland Police Release Video Of Hasanni 1:44
http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid1870899437?bctid=36558193001

Article:
http://www.insidebayarea.com/top-stories/ci_13245654

:angel:

 

[eyes4crime]

ONLY 13 minutes (8.6 miles)to LANDFILL on AUTO MALL PARKWAY - FREMONT


5997 Roxie Terrace, Fremont, CA 94555-3633 (Ross' home)
End:

7010 Auto Mall Pkwy, Fremont, CA 94538-3117 (nearest land fill that I cd. find)...
Total Distance:

8.6 mi
Total Time:

13.233 minutes

1. Start out going EAST on ROXIE TER toward TUPELO ST. 0.06 mi
2. Turn RIGHT onto TUPELO ST. 0.08 mi
3. TUPELO ST becomes WINSLOW TER. 0.2 mi
4. Turn LEFT onto KAISER DR. 0.04 mi
5. Turn LEFT onto ARDENWOOD BLVD. 0.5 mi
6. Merge onto CA-84 E via the ramp on the LEFT. 0.84 mi
7. Merge onto I-880 S toward SAN JOSE/FREMONT. 5.43 mi
8. Take the AUTO MALL PARKWAY exit, EXIT 15. 0.29 mi
9. Turn RIGHT onto AUTO MALL PKWY. 1.14 mi
10. Arrive in 7010 Auto Mall Pkwy, Fremont, CA 94538-3117

 

[elepher50]

This is completely O/T, but I know that there are some folks around here who used to be over at the Tori thread. We have lost a brilliant, dedicated sleuther, Pepperfritz, who was tragically killed in an accident recently.

R.I.P. Pepperfritz. She will be missed.

Websleuths Crime Sleuthing Community

I remember Pepperfritz very well from Tori's thread - RIP Pepperfritz you will be sadly missed.

Eleph

 

[WhyaDuck?]

"Campbell said she last saw Hasanni around 7 a.m. Aug. 10 while the boy was still sleeping. She said she kissed him goodbye and went to work. "It's been a living a nightmare ever since," she said."

Ever since 7 am on Monday, huh???