GUILTY MO - Eddie Salazar, 8 months, Carthage, 4 February 2010

[Calliope]

Or, maybe not Tuesday:

Preliminary autopsy results could take two weeks in Salazar case
Mon Feb 08, 2010, 04:22 PM CST

CARTHAGE, Mo. -
Preliminary results from the autopsy of the body of little Eddie Salazar Jr. could take two weeks to come back from the Boone County Medical Examiner’s Office in Columbia.

Carthage Police Chief Greg Dagnan said the autopsy was finished as of 4 p.m. but the medical examiner’s office told him they wanted to run some specialized tests that could take two weeks to complete.

It was unclear at 4 p.m. whether this would delay the filing of charges in the eight-month-old baby’s death because Dagnan had not relayed this information to Jasper County Prosecutor Dean Dankelson.

Dankelson said earlier on Monday that he expected preliminary results on Tuesday and anticipated filing charges then.

http://www.carthagepress.com/news/x...-results-could-take-two-weeks-in-Salazar-case

Well, they better come up with something more than 'filing a false report' while they're waiting, because if he gets bailed out he's history.

Are they doing toxicology tests?

 

[wfgodot]

Autopsy results delayed in Carthage baby’s death

"[Chief Dagnan] said that does not mean that investigators who were present at the autopsy saw no obvious signs of a cause of death. He said the medical examiner simply wants to conduct additional tests to be certain before releasing any findings.

"How that might affect the investigation remained uncertain Monday."
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"Dagnan said later in the day that additional charges will be up to [the prosecutor]. Police have not said what evidence there is that the father may be responsible for the child’s death."
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"According to police, the older, preschool sibling of baby Eddie Salazar, who was present in the home the night of the baby’s disappearance, is a half brother. Yadira Aguilar is the biological mother of both children. Only the deceased baby was Eddie Salazar’s biological son."

Lengthy overview of case:
http://www.joplinglobe.com/local/local_story_039235518.html?start:int=15

 

[wfgodot]

Eddie Salazar enters not guilty plea in arraignment today
(February 11, 2010 11:51 am)

Eddie A. Salazar entered a plea of not guilty this morning at his arraignment in Jasper County Circuit Court on a misdemeanor charge of making a false report to police.
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Ulmer Funeral Home in Carthage has announced that visitation for the deceased child will be from 5 to 7 p.m. Friday at 1208 S. Garrison Ave. The funeral service will be 2 p.m. Saturday, with burial to follow at Park Cemetery in Carthage.

http://www.joplinglobe.com/local/local_story_042113311.html

 

[kbl8201]

i understand they are waiting for autopsy results, but what about obstruction of justice, corpse abuse?????????/

 

[wfgodot]

Baby Eddie's obituary
from the Carthage Press:

CARTHAGE, Mo. -
Eddie Salazar Jr., 8 months, passed away on Feb. 4, 2009, in Carthage.

He was born on May 25, 2009 in Joplin, Mo. Eddie was the son of Eddie Salazar Sr. and Yadira Aguilar of Carthage.

Eddie is survived by his parents; one brother, Christian Aguilar, of the home; paternal grandparents Juanita Chirinos and Octavio Chirinos of Carthage; maternal grandparents Adela Guzman of Carthage and Manuael Callejas of Carthage; paternal great-grandparent Rita Gonzales of Central America, Honduras and maternal great-grandparent Margarita Ortiz of Central America, Honduras.

Services will be at 2 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 13, 2010, at Ulmer Funeral Home Chapel. Visitation will be from 5-7 p.m., Friday, Feb. 12, 2010, at Ulmer Funeral Home. Interment in Park Cemetery.

Arrangements are under the direction of Ulmer Funeral Home.
http://www.carthagepress.com/newsnow/x196129656/Eddie-Salazar-Jr

The family is, evidently, Honduran in origin.

 

[wfgodot]

Father remains 'only' suspect
(w/arraignment video)

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Authorities continue to decline to comment on whether the father provided any other explanation of what happened to the baby or how his body wound up in the river. Investigators have said the mother was at work at the time and is not a suspect in the baby’s death.

“As far as we know, there have been no reported (domestic disturbances) between (Salazar and Aguilar), and no other reported incidents of child abuse or neglect,” Carthage police Chief Greg Dagnan said Thursday.

Dagnan declined to comment on whether the older boy remains in his mother’s care. He did say that he believes the mother is no longer staying in the house on Mound Street.
...

http://www.joplinglobe.com/local/local_story_042161141.html

 

[wfgodot]

Large crowd attends funeral for Eddie Salazar
(February 13, 2010 05:34 pm)

CARTHAGE, Mo. — More than 100 people attended the funeral of Eddie Salazar Jr. in Carthage on Saturday afternoon.

The 8 month-old boy was laid to rest in a baby blue casket at Park Cemetery, surrounded by dozens of his family members.

http://www.joplinglobe.com/local/local_story_044181812.html

 

[darlin gal]

There is no words.

The family chose to have an open casket. How hard that must have been for them.
http://www.joplinglobe.com/eddie_salazar_case/local_story_045092812.html?keyword=topstory

 

[JLMcKenna83]

oh my that teeny tiny casket is just heartbreaking.

 

[Kimberlyd125]

I just can't imagine.

It's so sad when a child dies of natural causes...cancer, SIDS, etc...

But, when a child dies at the hands of a parent???? It's so senseless.

Rest In Peace Baby Boy.

Prayers to the family.

 

[PMLsmom]

Bump - Lil Eddie was on the third page...Any updates?

 

[SondraK]

R.I.P. Eddie Prayers for the family. What a senseless, tragic death.

 

[CHICANA]

oh my that teeny tiny casket is just heartbreaking.

As darlingirl said "there are no words".
And the responsible didn't even look upset in court.

 

[Texas Mist]

Murder charges to be filed today against Carthage man who reported his infant son was abducted

Updated Feb 17, 2010 - 1:15 PM CST

Murder charges are expected to be filed in Jasper County, Mo. today against Eddie Salazar, Sr.

Earlier this month Salazar reported that his eight month old was abducted earlier this month.

An Amber Alert was issued for Eddie Salazar, Jr., whose body was found later in the Spring River east of Carthage.

Medical examiners have ruled the death of Eddie Salazar, Jr. a homicide.

The cause of death will not be released at this time.



http://www.koamtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=11939060

 

[gliving]

Eddie Salazar Sr. charged with 2nd-degree murder in baby’s death



A second-degree murder are being filed today against Eddie Salazar Sr., according to Jasper County prosecutor Dean Dankelson.

Dankelson said physical evidence and statements made by the father indicate he was responsible for the child’s death. The death occurred around 9:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 4, when the child was in the sole custody of his father. The child apparently died from blunt head trauma, according to autopsy results.

“I believe the child was dead before he ever went into the river,” Dankelson said.

The autopsy also indicated other bone fractures and a skull fracture, which authorities believe was inflicted that night.

Baby Eddie was the subject of an Amber Alert after his father told police on Feb. 4 that two men in masks broke into the family’s home at 227 E. Mound St. and abducted the child. Less than 24 hours later, authorities learned that the boy’s father fabricated the kidnapping story.

The baby’s body was discovered by searchers on Feb. 7 in Spring River, a half-mile downstream from a bridge on County Road 85, east of Carthage.

http://www.joplinglobe.com/local/local_story_048161627.html

 

[Kathee]

The father of an eight-month old baby found dead in the Spring River on February 6th has been charged with second-degree murder.

Probable cause statement here too.

http://crimesceneinvestigations.blogspot.com/2010/02/eddie-salazar-charged-with-murder-in.html

 

[wfgodot]

Salazar baby’s father charged in death
(February 17, 2010 10:47 pm)

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Dean Dankelson, the Jasper County prosecutor, said an autopsy performed by the Boone County medical examiner’s office found evidence of bone fractures, including a skull fracture suffered by the baby the night of his death. Dankelson declined to say what other bones had been broken or to discuss whether any of the fractures indicated previous abuse.

The autopsy determined the cause of the child’s death to be blunt head trauma and the manner of death to be homicide, the prosecutor said. He said the medical examiner does not consider the death to be a shaken-baby case.

“There would be other findings in a shaken-baby case that were not present here,” Dankelson said.

He declined to discuss whether the medical examiner believes the baby’s head was struck with an object or was swung against an object or hard surface.
...

http://www.joplinglobe.com/local/local_story_048172804.html?start:int=0

 

[CHICANA]

Salazar baby’s father charged in death
(February 17, 2010 10:47 pm)

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Dean Dankelson, the Jasper County prosecutor, said an autopsy performed by the Boone County medical examiner’s office found evidence of bone fractures, including a skull fracture suffered by the baby the night of his death. Dankelson declined to say what other bones had been broken or to discuss whether any of the fractures indicated previous abuse.

The autopsy determined the cause of the child’s death to be blunt head trauma and the manner of death to be homicide, the prosecutor said. He said the medical examiner does not consider the death to be a shaken-baby case.

“There would be other findings in a shaken-baby case that were not present here,” Dankelson said.

He declined to discuss whether the medical examiner believes the baby’s head was struck with an object or was swung against an object or hard surface.
...

http://www.joplinglobe.com/local/local_story_048172804.html?start:int=0

So he was beaten to death.

 

[mysticrose]

Autopsy on Eddie Salazar Jr. shows blunt force trauma, skull fracture

By John Hacker and Kevin McClintock
Carthage Press
Thu Feb 18, 2010, 10:49 AM CST

CARTHAGE, Mo. -
Eight-month-old Eddie Salazar Jr. died from blunt force trauma that fractured his skull and his father now faces one count of second-degree murder for causing that trauma.

Eddie Salazar Sr., 29, Carthage, is being held in the Jasper County Jail on a $100,000 bond for a misdemeanor charge of filing a false police report since police said he admitted to lying to them about baby Salazar Jr. being kidnapped by men in ski masks on Feb. 4.

Now he is being held without bond on a second-degree murder charge, filed by Jasper County Prosecutor Dean Dankelson on Wednesday, after investigators received the preliminary autopsy report from the Boone County Medical Examiner’s Office in Columbia

http://www.carthagepress.com/news/x...ar-Jr-shows-blunt-force-trauma-skull-fracture

 

[Kimberlyd125]

Autopsy on Eddie Salazar Jr. shows blunt force trauma, skull fracture

By John Hacker and Kevin McClintock
Carthage Press
Thu Feb 18, 2010, 10:49 AM CST

CARTHAGE, Mo. -
Eight-month-old Eddie Salazar Jr. died from blunt force trauma that fractured his skull and his father now faces one count of second-degree murder for causing that trauma.

Eddie Salazar Sr., 29, Carthage, is being held in the Jasper County Jail on a $100,000 bond for a misdemeanor charge of filing a false police report since police said he admitted to lying to them about baby Salazar Jr. being kidnapped by men in ski masks on Feb. 4.

Now he is being held without bond on a second-degree murder charge, filed by Jasper County Prosecutor Dean Dankelson on Wednesday, after investigators received the preliminary autopsy report from the Boone County Medical Examiner’s Office in Columbia

http://www.carthagepress.com/news/x...ar-Jr-shows-blunt-force-trauma-skull-fracture

I have no words. Rest in peace baby boy.