I dont' think she was in a garbage bag. I can't find that anywhere. If she was in a garbage bag, how did the boys that found her see that her hands and feet were bound with red tape? They couldn't. They pulled back the tarp and saw her legs, feet, and head in a Walmart bag.
The 911 calls and comments by the boys and the mother showed that Alanna was found with a tarp over her, in a black garbage bag, with a plastic bag over her head, from what I can tell.
The girls only similarity is that they have dark hair and a fringe. :moo:
Either way, it doesn't feel like the same perp to me. Opal was well hidden enough that she wasn't found for months, and Amber has never been found.
Whoever dumped/dropped Alanna was disorganised and in one heck of a hurry. The crime was perpetuated locally not in some far off corner - he/she has to have murdered her locally, but where? :cow:
I totally agree that its someone who lived with someone, or someone on some sort of timetable/schedule who had limited time for some reason. There's that workplace thing again.
ETA: painter, decorator, someone doing work in the area, Alanna said hello, he was in uniform and seemed safe maybe.
Well, I think there's more in common than just brown hair and a "fringe".
Similarities?:
1. Dark hair.
2. Heavy bangs.
3. Female.
4. Somewhat close in age.
5. All went missing within half an hour drive of one another.
6. Went missing outside of a home.
To me Alanna and Amber have very similar smiles. These kids are all a "type". Do I think they are all victims of the same killer? I have no idea. I think it's clear LE is heavily focused on Alanna's home and I don;t blame them. Also, I always thought Opal's murder was solved.
But it's not a silly theory, IMO.
I dont' think anyone has ever suffocated because of a Walmart bag. I even googled it and found nothing. In the past I tried to use them to clean out my cat litter box and they all had tiny holes and leaked. They might be horrid for infants choking on them, but they are not airtight. I seriously doubt the Walmart bag was the cause of Alanna's death (suffocation).
I'm not sure that lack of cases of suffocation with a specific brand of shopping bag logically eliminates the possibility that Alanna, with no obvious COD, found dead with a bag on her head, was not suffocated by that bag.
Plastic shopping bags suffocate pretty easily. I use walmart bags for my cat litter. Yeah, sometimes they leak. Mostly they don't.
There is a reason every single plastic bag has a warning on it about keeping it away from children and pets:
One hundred and ten cases of suicidal suffocation using a plastic bag were identified in the files of the Office of the Chief Coroner of Ontario, Canada, between 1993 and 1997.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10855966
Methodology. A total 2178 case summaries from the US Consumer Product Safety Commission's Death Certificate File were reviewed. A computerized database was created for information about the infants, products, and patterns of suffocation. Mortality rates were calculated based on the US population younger than 1 year old.
Results. The most frequent causes of suffocation were 1) wedging between a bed or mattress and a wall and 2) oronasal obstruction by plastic bag.http://www.pediatricsdigest.mobi/content/103/5/e59.full
Dozens of children (mostly infants) die every year because of plastic bags:
Dry cleaning bags, because they are large and extremely thin, are the most dangerous bags around the house. Gargage bags and
thin plastic grocery bags are also dangerous around infants. http://www.marshallbrain.com/cp/plastic.htm
Sachs, 33, whose last known address was in Parkland, was taken into custody Wednesday on the count of first-degree murder in the death of Jeffrey Blaugrund, according to the Broward Sheriffs Office.
Blaugrund was found dead with a plastic bag covering his face, Hurley said, and the Broward County Medical Examiners Office determined Blaugrund died of asphyxia.
http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/...ling-Ordered-Held-Without-Bond-185546912.html
The mother, Vivian Miranda, 39, was arraigned here today in the death of her daughter Charity Miranda Martin,
who prosecutors said was suffocated with a plastic bag. Mrs. Miranda's 20-year-old daughter, Serena Miranda Martin, was also arraigned today and has been charged with holding Charity down while their mother suffocated her.
http://www.nytimes.com/1998/01/21/n...er-offers-account-of-killing-in-exorcism.html
It wasn't until the following day that the family learned Travis had been killed.
He had been suffocated, found with a plastic bag covering his head, officials told his parents. Who killed him, and why, are still under investigation.
http://www.mydeathspace.com/article...a_plastic_bag_and_an_investigation_is_ongoing
Further details of her frenzied rampage were revealed on Tuesday. Police said she shot her estranged husband, a 44-year-old carpenter, with two rounds fired into his head and neck
and murdered her son by first knocking him unconscious and then putting the bag on his head. The father and son were found lying next to each other on a bed in her apartment, police said.
"The child was found to have suffered massive trauma to the head from blows with an unknown object," the Lörrach police department said in a statement. "The child lost consciousness as a result. He was then asphyxiated with a plastic bag."
http://www.spiegel.de/international...suffocated-son-with-plastic-bag-a-718728.html
Police say Hatcher was suffocated in his sleep with a plastic shopping bag. Police found him lying in bed with a plastic shopping bag next to his head.
Scratches on his face, and marks from the department store shopping bag were evidence to police that foul play was involved.
Charged with first degree murder is Hatcher's daughter-in-law 32-year-old Rebecca Lynn Hatcher. She lived with Hatcher while his son, her husband, is in prison.
http://www.wvva.com/story/19126851/...s-strangled-with-plastic?clienttype=printable
Beata Slomiana's body was discovered 10 days after her death
A man who suffocated his girlfriend by putting a plastic bag over her head has been jailed for 10 years.
The body of Beata Slomiana, 33, was found at her home in Ballards Lane, Finchley, north London, in September last year, 10 days after she died.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-16220256
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