The sadness takes such a huge toll on the officers involved. I remember the testimony of the FBI agent who found 3 year old Cupcake McKinney in landfill.
Retired FBI agent Stanley Ruffin described the horrific moment he found the decomposing body of 3-year-old Kamille “Cupcake” McKinney in a heap of trash at a Jefferson County landfill.
“I saw what I thought was a doll just laying there,’’ an emotional Ruffin testified. “And I realized it wasn’t doll.”
Through tears, Ruffin explained that they then placed Cupcake’s body in a bag.
“Well, it was hard,’’ he said. “Everyone involved in this was visibly affected.”
“I was involved in 9/11 and I thought that was one of the worst things I would experience in my career, until this,’’ he said. “I had never dealt with a child.”
“I was involved in 9/11 ... that was one of the worst things I would experience in my career, until this," a retired FBI agent testified.
www.al.com
The only good thing about it is that Cupcake was found. I have the same hopes that Quinton will be found. Cupcake was found in landfill 12 days after she went missing, and after just a few days of landfill searching. It has been a similar time from when Quinton disappeared. Less time = less rubbish to sort through.
My gosh, a child (or any victim) should never, ever end up in landfill.
Yes these cases of missing children found deceased at the hands of evil adults are all so heartbreakingly sad. I know the sadness and toll these cases take on me following them from a distance and cannot even imagine the sadness and toll it must take on the poor LE/investigators who work these cases up close and personal.
I followed Cupcake’s case and a few others here closely that absolutely gutted me once the details came out of how they were murdered and discarded like yesterday’s trash. It is evil and sickening beyond belief what some people are capable of doing to innocent little children and I always say never again will I open up another missing child’s thread but alas, here I am. I took one look at Quinton’s beautiful picture and he drew me in.
These are all awful cases with different, sometimes similar, circumstances. Having said that, being a Mother myself, I find the cases where a child is murdered by the person who birthed/brought them into the world to be particularly shocking, alarming and disturbing. There are a few “missing” children cases I followed here that the bio Mom ended up being found guilty of murdering their child and with each case the blow (pardon the pun) seems to come harder and my mind completely blown by the evil and depravity involved. Just when you think you’ve seen and heard the worse of what a Mother is capable of doing to their own child, another case comes along that is equally or even more disturbing. AJ Freund and Noah Tomlin are two of the more recent cases of Maternal filicide I followed here on WS. Both AJ and Noah had drug addict/addled Mothers with prior CPS involvement and documented histories/years of child neglect and abuse. The details of how little AJ and Noah met their deaths at the hands of their “Mother”, to include both boys being tortured before they were murdered, were absolutely gut wrenchingly horrific. Poor two year old Noah’s mutilated little body stuffed into a diaper box wrapped up in trash bags and discarded at a steam plant in Hampton, VA, left there to be thrown into the incinerator!
I was sickened to my core when I read the details of an officer describing the condition of his remains when found. For anyone that didn’t follow Noah’s case and decides to look up his thread here, a warning- not for the faint of heart. *Sigh*
Yes the only good thing about Cupcake, AJ, Noah, and many other located murdered children is at least they were found and I too am hopeful that little Quinton will also be found by the dedicated, determined, dogged LE professionals searching the landfill. My thoughts and prayers are with the searchers and I look forward to the day we hear they’ve found precious little Quinton so he can be laid to rest properly as he so rightfully deserves.
You deserved so much better Quinton.
RIP, sweet boy.
IMHOO
ETA-clarity
