GUILTY SC - Alice Donovan, 44, Conway, 12 November 2002

[Hermione]

I am glad to find the thread on this, I was going to bump it up if no one had gotten to it before me....it seems this may really be Alice, because the remains were found due to letters from one of the killers. I am betting, sadly, it's her, and I hate to say hoping, but I have been praying for her to be laid to rest and for her loved ones to have closure (well, second only to having Alice show up alive!)

I will keep checking for updates. I never forgot about her and have had her in my thoughts..

 

[Peter J.]

Death row inmate aids in search for his SC victim

By Jeffery Collins
Jan 30 2009

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Monica Caison figured it was worth a shot, so she fired off a letter, a single paragraph, to the man on death row for kidnapping and killing Alice Donovan during a two-week, 2,300-mile crime spree.
"You say you want to do the right thing," wrote Caison, the founder of a group that searches for missing people. "I'm here and I'm listening."…..”

Complete article at link:
www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/nation/6238530.html

I had the great pleasure of meeting Monica during the 2008 CUE “On the road to remember tour” When I met her she was dead tired; you could see it in her eyes, but you would never know it from the way she spoke.

We talked about the missing; I was wearing a Tee-shirt for Kara Kopetsky; missing May 4 2007, Belton, Missouri. Those we talked about including Amber Pennell, a 21 year old mother of two, who had just gone missing. Amber, who is from North Carolina, had vanished on the way home from work just a few days earlier and Monica told me she had been on the phone/internet to 2 o’clock in the morning getting the word out.


Before the tour was over Amber was found, and because everyone involved gave 110%; she was found alive.
Link to Amber’s picture and story:
http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/ind...ID=143252708&albumID=1810133&imageID=25548614

A Picture of Monica and Beth Profeta. Beth’s mother Mary Badaracco has been missing from Sherman, Connecticut since Aug. 20 1984
http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=viewImage&friendID=143252708&albumID=1911969&imageID=25604831

Side Note: I took this photo while sitting next to a photographer from the CUE center.

At one point when Beth was speaking I had to put my camera down; my eyes were filled with tears. I looked over and saw that the lady from CUE had put her camera down as well. Despite the fact that this must have been the 8th or 9th stop on the 2008 trip; she was crying also.

If you are interested you can hit the next prompt and see more pictures from the healing service For Mary held at Lourdes Shrine; Litchfield, Connecticut

 

[believe09]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090130...g_for_alice;_ylt=AsZXhym2e.NFWnVezoaMSyZvzwcF

COLUMBIA, S.C. – Monica Caison figured it was worth a shot, so she fired off a letter, a single paragraph, to the man on death row for kidnapping and killing Alice Donovan during a two-week, 2,300-mile crime spree.
"You say you want to do the right thing," wrote Caison, the founder of a group that searches for missing people. "I'm here and I'm listening."


He replied with maps and directions-volunteers and LE found remains scattered over a large area and are awaiting DNA tests on the bones to confirm the ID.

 

[mysteriew]

Monica Caison, isn't she with CUE?

I am so glad she did decide to write him. So many times we figure that if they went through the trial and didn't tell that they never would tell. I think they should wait 5-10 years then ask again. The worst they can do is refuse.

Prayers that this works out for Alice Donovan's family.

 

[Bobbisangel]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090130...g_for_alice;_ylt=AsZXhym2e.NFWnVezoaMSyZvzwcF

COLUMBIA, S.C. – Monica Caison figured it was worth a shot, so she fired off a letter, a single paragraph, to the man on death row for kidnapping and killing Alice Donovan during a two-week, 2,300-mile crime spree.
"You say you want to do the right thing," wrote Caison, the founder of a group that searches for missing people. "I'm here and I'm listening."


He replied with maps and directions-volunteers and LE found remains scattered over a large area and are awaiting DNA tests on the bones to confirm the ID.

Isn't that something! I'll give the man credit where credit is due. Now Alice's family can lay her to rest and the waiting to find her is over for them. I'm so glad.

 

[christine2448]

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Thread about this case in missing area.


Amazing that Monica was able to get this guy to communicate with her! We need CUE in every state![/SIZE]

 

[christine2448]

[SIZE=-1]cuecenter <cuecenter@aol.com> [/SIZE][SIZE=-1]Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 10:03 AM [/SIZE][SIZE=-1]To: cuecenter@aol.com
[/SIZE][SIZE=-1]Thank you to the following who help in the search and support services for CUE Center and endured much rain and difficult terrain. We are honored to have made this recovery and hope we can move onward to bring Samantha Burns home, pray that happens.


Inmate leads investigators to skeletal remains in Horry County
[SIZE=-1]WECT-TV6 - Wilmington,NC,USA
November 14, 2002, Alice Donovan of Conway was kidnapped from the town's Wal-Mart parking lot. Escaped inmates Chadwick Fulks and Brenden Bashman are on ...[/SIZE]


Police investigating if bones are of missing Horry County woman
[SIZE=-1]Myrtle Beach Sun News, SC - [/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]Authorities have located bone fragments in a wooded area of Horry County after receiving information from a man convicted of killing Alice Donovan. ...[/SIZE]
Hunt continues for remains in area Alice Donovan killer led searchers
[SIZE=-1]South Carolina Now, South Carolina - [/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]By Jody Barr The search continued Tuesday for more human remains believed to be those of Alice Donovan after the Wilmington missing person search group, ...[/SIZE]
Remains could belong to missing woman
[SIZE=-1]News14.com, NC - [/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]LONGS, SC -- Authorities continue to investigate on Tuesday after information from a death row inmate led them to a set of human remains. ...[/SIZE]
Chadrick Fulks leads searchers to bones in SC
[SIZE=-1]Huntington Herald Dispatch, WV - [/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]AP CONWAY, SC — Authorities say they are examining bones found by a search group though information given by an inmate on death row for killing a South ...[/SIZE]
HORRY COUNTY
[SIZE=-1]Myrtle Beach Sun News, SC - [/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]Tests are being conducted on human bones found in a wooded area in Longs, according to Sgt. Robert Kegler with the Horry County Police Department. ...[/SIZE]
Prisoners prompt search that turns up remains
[SIZE=-1]WPDE, SC - [/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]By Graeme Moore Horry County Police said Monday they had discovered human remains on Watertower Road near Longs on Saturday, and sources close to the ...[/SIZE]
Sources: Donovan killer led search crews to remains
[SIZE=-1]South Carolina Now, South Carolina - [/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]Sources close to the Alice Donovan case told News13 Monday that Chadrick Fulks sent letters and photographs of the area where human skeletal remains were ...[/SIZE]
Discovery of bones offers hope to daughter
[SIZE=-1]StarNewsOnline.com, NC - [/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]By David Reynolds After more than six years of looking for her mother, Jennifer Warner, 30, has been disappointed too many times. For years, authorities and ...[/SIZE]
Investigators may have a breakthrough in a six-year-old missing ...
[SIZE=-1]WECT-TV6, NC - [/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]WILMINGTON, NC (WECT) - Some remains found in Horry County could be connected to a six-year-old missing persons case. Alice Donovan of Conway was kidnapped ...[/SIZE]
Remains found in Horry County
[SIZE=-1]WPDE, SC - [/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]By Amanda Kinseth Detectives say adult bones were found in a wooded area off Watertower Road in Longs Saturday. Officers say they can't yet determine ...[/SIZE]






Donovan family prays remains bring peace
[SIZE=-1]Myrtle Beach Sun News - Myrtle Beach,SC,USA
Then Alice Donovan's younger daughter smiled and said she hopes the human remains found Saturday in that area would be those of her mother. ...[/SIZE]


Prisoners prompt search that turns up remains
[SIZE=-1]WPDE - Myrtle Beach,SC,USA
Galivant Ferry's Alice Donovan was abducted in 2002 from the Wal-Mart parking lot in Conway, but she has never been found. Two jail escapees from Kentucky, ...[/SIZE]

Sources: Donovan killer led search crews to remains
[SIZE=-1]South Carolina Now - South Carolina,USA
The founder of the CUE missing persons search group, Monica Caison, spent the past several months writing and receiving letters from Fulks, who currently ...
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Discovery of bones offers hope to daughter
[SIZE=-1]StarNewsOnline.com - Wilmington,NC,USA
Monica Caison, the center’s founder, said the Wilmington-based nonprofit has conducted numerous searches for Donovan, first with the hope of finding her ...
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[SIZE=-2]South Carolina Now[/SIZE]Remains could belong to missing woman< /A>
[SIZE=-1]News14.com, NC - Jan 27, 2009[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]LONGS, SC -- Authorities continue to investigate on Tuesday after information from a death row inmate led them to a set of human remains. ...[/SIZE]


Death row inmate guided searchers to woman's remains
[SIZE=-1]StarNewsOnline.com - Wilmington,NC,USA
When Monica Caison, founder of the CUE Center for Missing Persons, received a package from an inmate on death row earlier this month, she knew right away ...
See all stories on this topic [/SIZE]
Inmate leads investigators to skeletal remains in Horry County
[SIZE=-1]WECT-TV6 - Wilmington,NC,USA
Fulks sent letters and photos to Monica Caison of the CUE Center in Wilmington, saying he wanted to help find Donovan. The information led investigators to ...
[/SIZE]Hunt continues for remains in area Alice Donovan killer led searchers
[SIZE=-1]South Carolina Now - South Carolina,USA
Fulks, with the help of his attorney, sent colored photos to CUE founder, Monica Caison, on Jan. 18 with 24 different pictures of different areas of ...
[/SIZE]Death row inmate guided searchers to woman's remains
[SIZE=-1]StarNewsOnline.com - Wilmington,NC,USA
When Monica Caison, founder of the CUE Center for Missing Persons, received a package from an inmate on death row earlier this month, she knew right away ...
[/SIZE]Death row inmate leads authorities to remains
[SIZE=-1]News14.com - Charlotte,NC,USA
... is believed to have sent a letter and a map to the Wilmington-based Cue Center for Missing Persons with instructions on how to find her body. ...
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Fourth search underway for possible Donovan remains
[SIZE=-1]South Carolina Now - South Carolina,USA
Searchers from the CUE Center for Missing Persons and two FBI agents continued the search for remains thought to belong to Alice Donovan in a patch of Horry ...
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[SIZE=-2]South Carolina Now[/SIZE]Sources: Conway Police had convicted Alice Donovan killer map in 2006
[SIZE=-1]South Carolina Now - South Carolina,USA
Convicted Alice Donovan killer, Chadrick Fulks, sent a similar map to this to the Conway Police Department in 2006 detailing, in his own handwriting, ...[/SIZE]

Remains results may take a week
[SIZE=-1]Myrtle Beach Sun News - Myrtle Beach,SC,USA
Fulks sent the letter to Monica Caison, founder of the Community United Effort group, a Wilmington, NC, volunteer organization that searches for missing ...
See all stories on this topic [/SIZE]


[SIZE=-2]Search for possible Alice Donovan remains ends[/SIZE]Search for possible Alice Donovan remains ends
[SIZE=-1]South Carolina Now - South Carolina,USA
19, search crews from the CUE Center for Missing Persons found a human skull in a field off Watertower Road near Longs. On Jan. 25, searchers found a human ...
[/SIZE][SIZE=-2]Fourth search underway for possible Donovan remains[/SIZE]Fourth search underway for possible Donovan remains
[SIZE=-1]South Carolina Now - South Carolina,USA
Searchers from the CUE Center for Missing Persons and two FBI agents continued the search for remains thought to belong to Alice Donovan in a patch of Horry ...
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Daughters hope to bring closure to mother's disappearance
[SIZE=-1]Horry Independent - Conway,SC,USA
Monica Caison, founder of Community United Effort (CUE), a group out of Wilmington, NC, received a 24-page packet of color photos from one of Donovan’s ...
See all stories on this topic [/SIZE]


[SIZE=-2]Sources : Conway Police had convicted Alice Donovan killer map in 2006[/SIZE]Sources: Conway Police had convicted Alice Donovan killer map in 2006
[SIZE=-1]South Carolina Now - South Carolina,USA
18, the Community United Effort Center for Missing Persons search found a human ... dug up another human arm bone, according to CUE founder Monica Caison. ...
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Investigators may have a breakthrough in a six-year-old missing ...
[SIZE=-1]WECT-TV6, NC - 6 minutes ago[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]Alice Donovan of Conway was kidnapped from the Conway Wal-Mart parking lot on November 14, 2002. She was kidnapped by escaped inmates: Chadwick Fulks and ...


[/SIZE]Sources: Donovan killer led search crews to remains
[SIZE=-1]South Carolina Now - South Carolina,USA
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[SIZE=-1]Sources close to the Alice Donovan case told News13 Monday that Chadrick Fulks sent letters and photographs of the area where human skeletal remains were ...[/SIZE]
http://www.wmbfnews.com/Global/story.asp?S=9734653



Discovery of bones offers hope to daughter
[SIZE=-1]StarNewsOnline.com - Wilmington,NC,USA
For years, authorities and volunteers searched Brunswick County and neighboring jurisdictions for Alice Donovan[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]without success. ...[/SIZE]

http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/news/breaking_news/story/759302.html




CUE Center for Missing Persons
PO Box 12714
Wilmington, NC 28405
(910) 343-1131
(910) 232-1687
cuecenter@aol.com
www.ncmissingpersons.org






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[Fairy1]

Prayers to Alice and her family. May you all find the peace you deserve now.

 

[Tonia]

Human Bones Found in Longs May be Donovan's

For the last six years, she has been known as Missing Person Cold Case Network File No. 2233F00, but now Alice Donovan might be coming home.
Horry County Police, along with Conway City Police and the Federal Bureau of Investigations, may have missing evidence in the six-year-old abduction and murder of Galivants Ferry resident whose body was never found.
According to information released Jan. 27, HCPD responded to a wooded area off Watertower Road in the Longs section of the county where human bones were discovered.

http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=20258054&BRD=1164&PAG=461&dept_id=98756&rfi=6

 

[Tonia]

Group to comb W. Va. woods for Fulks&#8217;, Basham&#8217;s first victim

Convicted Alice Donovan killers, Chadrick Fulks and Brandon Basham pleaded guilty to killing West Virginia college student, Samantha Burns, after the pair escaped from a Kentucky jail in November 2002. Burns&#8217; body was never recovered but a search set for Monday has renewed hopes of finding Burns&#8217; remains.


The map and letter to Caison would lead her to where Fulks and Brandon Basham dumped Donovan&#8217;s body after the pair kidnapped her from the Conway Wal-Mart in November 2002.
The pair were convicted and sentenced to die in 2004.

On Jan. 28, Horry County Police crime scene technicians sent the remains and DNA samples from Donovan&#8217;s daughters off to Columbia in hopes to identify the remains.
The test results are due back within a couple weeks.

http://www.scnow.com/scp/news/local/grand_strand/article/donovan_search_group_to_comb_west_virginia_woods_for_fulks_bashams_first_vi/36171/

 

[Tonia]

Donovan daughter plans to witness Fulks, Basham execution

Convicted Alice Donovan killer, Chadrick Fulks, continues to send maps and letters to a Wilmington-based missing person search group showing where he and Brandon Basham left Donovan and Samantha Burns&#8217; bodies after the women disappeared in 2002. Donovan&#8217;s daughters said they plan to watch the US government carry out execution orders on their mother&#8217;s killers.

http://www.scnow.com/scp/news/local/grand_strand/article/donovan_daughter_plans_to_witness_fulks_basham_execution/36360/

 

[Sharedspirit]

"Alice Donovan's daughter Angie Gilchrist told WBTW-TV the first attempt to extract enough DNA from the bones found in January failed. Gilchrist says authorities told her they are now trying a different method."


"Fulks is also trying to lead searchers to the remains of missing Marshall University student Samantha Burns.

Crews have been searching an area in Wayne County for the remains the past two days."

http://www.wsaz.com/news/headlines/40777127.html

 

[OneSis]

Hello everyone! I'm new although I've read some of the threads on this forum from time to time. I am also a relative of Alice Donovan. I wanted to post an update just to let you know that the aforementioned DNA test with the expected date of March 5 proved inconclusive. They weren't able to acquire enough material. A second DNA test was mentioned in one of the above articles. It's that test that I want to update. Results are expected on March 18. That's tomorrow. We are all hoping, this time, for conclusive results. As a family, we are "sure in our hearts" that the remains are Alice's, but authorities are equally compelled to be certain. So, keep your fingers, toes, arms and all that you can (pray) that we receive confirmation so that we can proceed to the next step, a funeral and memorial. We are more than ready to put as much of this situation as we can, to rest, and say our final good-bye's to our loved one. One's life tends to be on hold until this final step is accomplished.

My heart goes out to those who've lost loved ones to murder/missing, and to those families who have loved ones which are unrecoverable in times of war.

Thanks for the great work you all do here!

 

[OneSis]

The dna results are delayed until possibly monday.

 

[Tonia]

More DNA testing needed on remains believed to be Alice Donovan

The human remains found in Horry County in January and believed to be those of a Galivants Ferry woman missing since 2002 will now be sent to Texas for further DNA testing, Horry County police Sgt. Robert Kegler said.

The bones will now be sent to the University of North Texas because it ``has had a higher success rate at DNA extraction of smaller bones,&#8217;&#8217; Kegler said. It is expected to take about a month before results from those tests are available.

http://www.thesunnews.com/news/breaking_news/v-print/story/850017.html

 

[Hermione]

Are there any updates for this? I am up in Brunswick County and have been keeping the family in my thoughts and prayers.

 

[Debbie Miller]

There has been nothing on any possible results with DNA testing. I suppose it is taking longer than usual.

 

[eeyorelrn]

Has anyone heard anything else about the DNA testing? Being from SC, I know here there hasn't been anything in The State newspaper recently, but I was wondering if maybe I had missed something (working nights makes me miss a alot).

 

[Debbie Miller]

There still hasn't been any news of the results, if any. I live right up the road from 378 (where the remains were found). I figured the results would be out by now. I was under the impression that they try to process these types of cases in the fastest manner possible.

We just have to wait.

 

[lonetraveler]

There still hasn't been any news of the results, if any. I live right up the road from 378 (where the remains were found). I figured the results would be out by now. I was under the impression that they try to process these types of cases in the fastest manner possible.

We just have to wait.

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I live in Wilmington, NC and I have been following this case since Alice Donovan was kidnapped and my heart goes out to the family. I hope and pray that the results come back very soon and that Alice can be laid to rest...