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BREAKING: Child remains found in Maleah Davis search
BREAKING: Child remains found in Maleah Davis search
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We spoke with the sheriff in Hempstead County, Arkansas just moments ago. He says the remains found there will be flown to Houston for testing within the next few hours.
7:42 PM - 31 May 2019
We spoke with the sheriff in Hempstead County, Arkansas just moments ago. He says the remains found there will be flown to Houston for testing within the next few hours.
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HPD: Child's remains found in bag on Arkansas roadside could be Maleah Davis
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Friday morning, Vence's attorney Dorian Cotlar filed a motion prohibiting Quanell X from visiting Vence after learning the family’s former representative had beat him to the Harris County Jail. The facility at 701 San Jacinto Street does not generally allow inmate visits on Fridays, except for lawyers, ministers and sometimes community leaders.
“We know Quanell X as a community leader,” Harris County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Jason Spencer said. “When a community leader asks to visit an inmate, we generally allow it, as long as the inmate agrees to the visit.”
Quanell X claims that his visit with Vence — which Cotlar says happened around 9 a.m. — garnered a supposed confession.
“Quanell X completely misled my client,” Cotlar said. “I don’t know how he was able to get into the jail.”
“He said he was going to provide lawyers, that everything was going to be fine,” he said.
Cotlar added that details that Quanell X alleged to have learned from Vence did not happen.
“My client did not confess to Quanell. He did not use the word accident with Quanell,” Cotlar said. “I’m not sure why the DA’s Office and Texas Equusearch are giving validity to anything (Quanell) says.”
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"It's too complex of a case to be working on for free," he said, adding that he was privately attained. He said he received some compensation, but it wasn't enough.
[...]
Quanell X also told Vence that he was "going to be representing him," Cotlar said.
Vence was under the impression that his family had sent Quanell X after Burton withdrew and that Quanell X was taking over representation, according to Cotlar.
HPD: Child's remains found in bag on Arkansas roadside could be Maleah Davis
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Friday morning, Vence's attorney Dorian Cotlar filed a motion prohibiting Quanell X from visiting Vence after learning the family’s former representative had beat him to the Harris County Jail. The facility at 701 San Jacinto Street does not generally allow inmate visits on Fridays, except for lawyers, ministers and sometimes community leaders.
“We know Quanell X as a community leader,” Harris County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Jason Spencer said. “When a community leader asks to visit an inmate, we generally allow it, as long as the inmate agrees to the visit.”
Quanell X claims that his visit with Vence — which Cotlar says happened around 9 a.m. — garnered a supposed confession.
“Quanell X completely misled my client,” Cotlar said. “I don’t know how he was able to get into the jail.”
“He said he was going to provide lawyers, that everything was going to be fine,” he said.
Cotlar added that details that Quanell X alleged to have learned from Vence did not happen.
“My client did not confess to Quanell. He did not use the word accident with Quanell,” Cotlar said. “I’m not sure why the DA’s Office and Texas Equusearch are giving validity to anything (Quanell) says.”
[...]
"It's too complex of a case to be working on for free," he said, adding that he was privately attained. He said he received some compensation, but it wasn't enough.
[...]
Quanell X also told Vence that he was "going to be representing him," Cotlar said.
Vence was under the impression that his family had sent Quanell X after Burton withdrew and that Quanell X was taking over representation, according to Cotlar.
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This is what happened on Friday in the search for Maleah Davis
Remains of a child were found in a bag Friday near the search scene for Maleah Davis in Hope, Arkansas, according to law enforcement officials. There has been no identification made on the remains. Authorities said road crews found the remains in a garbage bag emitting a foul odor near Exit 18 in Fulton, Arkansas, which is about 14 miles southwest of Hope.
Houston Police Department homicide detectives went to Arkansas on Friday after remains were found during the search for Maleah Davis. Tim Miller, from Texas EquuSearch, helped arrange the plane to take the investigators. Miller, another person from EquuSearch and two detectives took off from the Rosharon airstrip around 3 p.m.
Joe Vence who is Derion Vence’s father, told KPRC 2 this afternoon that he hadn’t heard about his son’s reported confession to community activist Quanell X. “No, I haven’t heard that. But, how was he (Quanell) able to talk to Derion? He’s not his attorney,” Vence said.
This is what happened on Friday in the search for Maleah Davis
Remains of a child were found in a bag Friday near the search scene for Maleah Davis in Hope, Arkansas, according to law enforcement officials. There has been no identification made on the remains. Authorities said road crews found the remains in a garbage bag emitting a foul odor near Exit 18 in Fulton, Arkansas, which is about 14 miles southwest of Hope.
Houston Police Department homicide detectives went to Arkansas on Friday after remains were found during the search for Maleah Davis. Tim Miller, from Texas EquuSearch, helped arrange the plane to take the investigators. Miller, another person from EquuSearch and two detectives took off from the Rosharon airstrip around 3 p.m.
Joe Vence who is Derion Vence’s father, told KPRC 2 this afternoon that he hadn’t heard about his son’s reported confession to community activist Quanell X. “No, I haven’t heard that. But, how was he (Quanell) able to talk to Derion? He’s not his attorney,” Vence said.
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Investigators hope remains found in Arkansas answer questions in Maleah Davis case
WATCH LIVE: HPD weighs in as Maleah Davis search shifts
Investigators hope remains found in Arkansas answer questions in Maleah Davis case
WATCH LIVE: HPD weighs in as Maleah Davis search shifts
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Quanell X reveals new information on Maleah Davis' disappearance
Watch: Quanell X details conversation that may have led to Maleah Davis' body
Quanell X reveals new information on Maleah Davis' disappearance
Watch: Quanell X details conversation that may have led to Maleah Davis' body
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Neighbors react to recent updates about 4-year-old Maleah Davis
It is without a doubt that Maleah Davis, her beaming smile, has captured hearts across the world.
Her story has also broken those very hearts and tonight her the outside of her families South Kirkwood home symbolizes just that.
Covered with teddy bears, candles, posters signed by hundreds, the apartment she was last seen going inside of alive, has become a memorial.
"No 4-year old should go through what she went through," said one woman who came to add to the growing memorial.
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Article includes video with neighbor, JS
Neighbors react to recent updates about 4-year-old Maleah Davis
It is without a doubt that Maleah Davis, her beaming smile, has captured hearts across the world.
Her story has also broken those very hearts and tonight her the outside of her families South Kirkwood home symbolizes just that.
Covered with teddy bears, candles, posters signed by hundreds, the apartment she was last seen going inside of alive, has become a memorial.
"No 4-year old should go through what she went through," said one woman who came to add to the growing memorial.
[...]
Article includes video with neighbor, JS
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Search for Maleah leads to child’s body in Arkansas
FULTON, Ark. — A month-long search for 4-year-old Maleah Davis may have ended Friday along a tree-lined junction in southwest Arkansas after investigators found a child’s remains scattered along Interstate 30, where her mother’s ex-boyfriend confessed he dumped her.
Houston police said they could not confirm that the remains are those of Maleah — whose disappearance captured the nation’s attention — but indicated they believe they found the missing girl. The identify is pending the results of an autopsy.
“I was fearing there was never going to be an ending,” said Texas EquuSearch founder Tim Miller, whose volunteers had spent the month combing Houston for signs of the child. “There’s an ending. Certainly not the way we wanted it, not a scene we wanted to see, but unfortunately we can’t choose these things.”
A work crew mowing Interstate 30 near Fulton — about 330 miles from Houston — discovered a bloodied black garbage bag earlier this week, but they left it alone with the assumption that its foul odor was from a discarded animal. A mower earlier on Friday struck the bag, tore it open and scattered its contents, Hempstead County Sheriff James Singleton said.
Authorities turned their focus to the bag Friday morning after longtime community leader Quanell X announced that he had visited 27-year-old Derion Vence at the Harris County Jail and garnered a confession. The information he gleaned was enough to send investigators and Texas EquuSearch crews packing for Hempstead County.
By dusk, several law enforcement vehicles parked along the road and investigators searched for evidence along a grassy embankment. Miller said authorities would be flying the remains back to Harris County for an autopsy.
Miller wishes they could have reached the site “before the tractor and brush hog went over” the bag.
The grisly discovery in his jurisdiction confounded Singleton, a grandfather to two young girls. He said Vence had no known connection to the area.
“I have no earthly idea why he came to Hempstead County,” Singleton said of the suspect. “If you’re in law enforcement … you’re going to see horrible and cruel things. There’s a lot of evil in the world.”
The junction is about 20 miles from the Texas border and a five-and-a-hour trek from the Alief-area apartment in southwest Houston home where Maleah lived with Vence and her mother, Brittany Bowens. Maleah was last seen alive on April 30 at the apartment while Bowens was attending a funeral in Massachusetts.
Quanell had been speaking for Bowens during media interviews and court hearings in the wake of Maleah’s disappearance. Earlier this week, he said he is no longer representing Bowens, who could not be reached Friday.
Vence was a no-show to pick Bowens up at Bush Intercontinental Airport on May 3. He resurfaced at a Sugar Land hospital the night of May 4 to report Maleah missing and to tell police that three men attacked him and abducted her. On May 11, he was charged with tampering with evidence in connection with the missing girl.
Nearly three weeks later, after police Chief Art Acevedo disputed Vence’s account and characterized him as uncooperative, Vence allegedly told Quanell that he killed the girl and disposed of her body in Arkansas.
“He says it was an accident. And he confessed to me where he dumped her body,” Quanell said. “He felt like he was just totally overwhelmed, because Brittany wasn’t being the mother she should be being.”
Vence reportedly kept track of how long he drove and how far, he continued.
“He said that he pulled over in Arkansas, got out of the car, walked to the side of the road, and dumped the body off the road,” Quanell said, without indicating how the girl may have died.
HPD Executive Assistant Chief Troy Finner said he anticipates a murder charge in the case but would not elaborate. Vence has already been charged tampering with a corpse and is being held on a $45,000 bond.
The alleged confession was a point of contention for Vence’s newly-appointed attorney Dorian Cotlar, who filed a motion Friday morning prohibiting Quanell X from visiting his client at the jail.
The jail does not generally allow inmate visits on Fridays, except for lawyers, ministers and sometimes community leaders, officials said.
“We know Quanell X as a community leader,” Harris County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Jason Spencer said. “When a community leader asks to visit an inmate, we generally allow it, as long as the inmate agrees to the visit.”
Cotlar said his client was led to believe by HPD investigators on Friday that he no longer had a lawyer. His previous lawyer, Thomas Burton, had motioned to withdraw from the case on Wednesday. The motion was granted on Thursday and Cotlar was immediately appointed to the case, court records show.
Vence did not know that Cotlar was his new lawery and he was under the impression that his family sent Quanell to the jail to represent him. Quanell indicated that he would provide Vence with new lawyers and that “everything was going to be fine.”
“Quanell X completely misled my client,” Cotlar said. “I don’t know how he was able to get into the jail.”
Details that Quanell claimed to have learned from Vence during that brief jailhouse meeting did not happen, Cotlar continued.
“My client did not confess to Quanell. He did not use the word ‘accident’ with Quanell,” Cotlar said. “Quanell makes his living off of reward money.”
Burton had been privately retained but said he withdrew as counsel this week because Vence’s family could not pay for his services.
“It’s too complex of a case to be working on for free,” Burton said. He received some compensation, he said, but it wasn’t enough.
Burton also questioned Quanell X’s role in the case.
“It certainly appears he’s attempting to practice law without a license,” Burton said.
In a phone call, Quanell said he was not representing Vence or his family at the time of his visit. He said he went to the jail to see Vence because “I wanted to.”
“I felt like I needed to,” he said.
During the news conference at HPD headquarters, Finner declined to comment on Quanell’s visit.
“He’s been working with law enforcement for years,” Finner said. “I don’t know how he got there, or what was said when he was there. I know that he did get some information about the whereabouts of this little angel.”
Houston police said they could not confirm that the remains are those of Maleah — whose disappearance captured the nation’s attention — but indicated they believe they found the missing girl. The identify is pending the results of an autopsy.
“I was fearing there was never going to be an ending,” said Texas EquuSearch founder Tim Miller, whose volunteers had spent the month combing Houston for signs of the child. “There’s an ending. Certainly not the way we wanted it, not a scene we wanted to see, but unfortunately we can’t choose these things.”
A work crew mowing Interstate 30 near Fulton — about 330 miles from Houston — discovered a bloodied black garbage bag earlier this week, but they left it alone with the assumption that its foul odor was from a discarded animal. A mower earlier on Friday struck the bag, tore it open and scattered its contents, Hempstead County Sheriff James Singleton said.
Authorities turned their focus to the bag Friday morning after longtime community leader Quanell X announced that he had visited 27-year-old Derion Vence at the Harris County Jail and garnered a confession. The information he gleaned was enough to send investigators and Texas EquuSearch crews packing for Hempstead County.
By dusk, several law enforcement vehicles parked along the road and investigators searched for evidence along a grassy embankment. Miller said authorities would be flying the remains back to Harris County for an autopsy.
Miller wishes they could have reached the site “before the tractor and brush hog went over” the bag.
The grisly discovery in his jurisdiction confounded Singleton, a grandfather to two young girls. He said Vence had no known connection to the area.
“I have no earthly idea why he came to Hempstead County,” Singleton said of the suspect. “If you’re in law enforcement … you’re going to see horrible and cruel things. There’s a lot of evil in the world.”
The junction is about 20 miles from the Texas border and a five-and-a-hour trek from the Alief-area apartment in southwest Houston home where Maleah lived with Vence and her mother, Brittany Bowens. Maleah was last seen alive on April 30 at the apartment while Bowens was attending a funeral in Massachusetts.
Quanell had been speaking for Bowens during media interviews and court hearings in the wake of Maleah’s disappearance. Earlier this week, he said he is no longer representing Bowens, who could not be reached Friday.
Vence was a no-show to pick Bowens up at Bush Intercontinental Airport on May 3. He resurfaced at a Sugar Land hospital the night of May 4 to report Maleah missing and to tell police that three men attacked him and abducted her. On May 11, he was charged with tampering with evidence in connection with the missing girl.
Nearly three weeks later, after police Chief Art Acevedo disputed Vence’s account and characterized him as uncooperative, Vence allegedly told Quanell that he killed the girl and disposed of her body in Arkansas.
“He says it was an accident. And he confessed to me where he dumped her body,” Quanell said. “He felt like he was just totally overwhelmed, because Brittany wasn’t being the mother she should be being.”
Vence reportedly kept track of how long he drove and how far, he continued.
“He said that he pulled over in Arkansas, got out of the car, walked to the side of the road, and dumped the body off the road,” Quanell said, without indicating how the girl may have died.
HPD Executive Assistant Chief Troy Finner said he anticipates a murder charge in the case but would not elaborate. Vence has already been charged tampering with a corpse and is being held on a $45,000 bond.
The alleged confession was a point of contention for Vence’s newly-appointed attorney Dorian Cotlar, who filed a motion Friday morning prohibiting Quanell X from visiting his client at the jail.
The jail does not generally allow inmate visits on Fridays, except for lawyers, ministers and sometimes community leaders, officials said.
“We know Quanell X as a community leader,” Harris County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Jason Spencer said. “When a community leader asks to visit an inmate, we generally allow it, as long as the inmate agrees to the visit.”
Cotlar said his client was led to believe by HPD investigators on Friday that he no longer had a lawyer. His previous lawyer, Thomas Burton, had motioned to withdraw from the case on Wednesday. The motion was granted on Thursday and Cotlar was immediately appointed to the case, court records show.
Vence did not know that Cotlar was his new lawery and he was under the impression that his family sent Quanell to the jail to represent him. Quanell indicated that he would provide Vence with new lawyers and that “everything was going to be fine.”
“Quanell X completely misled my client,” Cotlar said. “I don’t know how he was able to get into the jail.”
Details that Quanell claimed to have learned from Vence during that brief jailhouse meeting did not happen, Cotlar continued.
“My client did not confess to Quanell. He did not use the word ‘accident’ with Quanell,” Cotlar said. “Quanell makes his living off of reward money.”
Burton had been privately retained but said he withdrew as counsel this week because Vence’s family could not pay for his services.
“It’s too complex of a case to be working on for free,” Burton said. He received some compensation, he said, but it wasn’t enough.
Burton also questioned Quanell X’s role in the case.
“It certainly appears he’s attempting to practice law without a license,” Burton said.
In a phone call, Quanell said he was not representing Vence or his family at the time of his visit. He said he went to the jail to see Vence because “I wanted to.”
“I felt like I needed to,” he said.
During the news conference at HPD headquarters, Finner declined to comment on Quanell’s visit.
“He’s been working with law enforcement for years,” Finner said. “I don’t know how he got there, or what was said when he was there. I know that he did get some information about the whereabouts of this little angel.”
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HPD: Child remains, clothes found in Arkansas 'lead us to believe it is Maleah'
A plane carrying Houston Police detectives and Texas Equusearch founder Tim Miller brought back remains of a child believed to be Maleah Davis, investigators said.
However, DNA tests are needed to confirm that suspicion.
“It was a sight you wouldn’t want anybody to see,” Miller said.
[...]
HPD detectives flew in based on a tip.
“There are some personal effects that lead us to believe it is Maleah,” Sgt. Mark Holbrook, an HPD detective, told KHOU 11 News.
[...]
Sheriff James Singleton immediately sent eight deputies to check it out.
[...]
After an hour of searching, Hempstead County deputies, Arkansas State Police and Arkansas Game and Fish officers got word that a crew picking up litter found a garbage bag covered in blood and worms 12 miles south. The crew found it three days ago, reported it to a supervisor but left it, according to Sheriff Singleton.
Before investigators found it, a separate crew mowing tall grass in the area ran over the bag.
HPD detectives know that the remains belong to a child. However, they could not confirm that it is Maleah until Harris County medical examiners run DNA tests.
The clothes, jewelry and clues around the bag were enough, though, for Hempstead County’s coroner to allow the remains to be flown back to Houston.
Miller, who paid for the plane that carried authorities and the remains, has no doubts it is Maleah.
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HPD: Child remains, clothes found in Arkansas 'lead us to believe it is Maleah'
A plane carrying Houston Police detectives and Texas Equusearch founder Tim Miller brought back remains of a child believed to be Maleah Davis, investigators said.
However, DNA tests are needed to confirm that suspicion.
“It was a sight you wouldn’t want anybody to see,” Miller said.
[...]
HPD detectives flew in based on a tip.
“There are some personal effects that lead us to believe it is Maleah,” Sgt. Mark Holbrook, an HPD detective, told KHOU 11 News.
[...]
Sheriff James Singleton immediately sent eight deputies to check it out.
[...]
After an hour of searching, Hempstead County deputies, Arkansas State Police and Arkansas Game and Fish officers got word that a crew picking up litter found a garbage bag covered in blood and worms 12 miles south. The crew found it three days ago, reported it to a supervisor but left it, according to Sheriff Singleton.
Before investigators found it, a separate crew mowing tall grass in the area ran over the bag.
HPD detectives know that the remains belong to a child. However, they could not confirm that it is Maleah until Harris County medical examiners run DNA tests.
The clothes, jewelry and clues around the bag were enough, though, for Hempstead County’s coroner to allow the remains to be flown back to Houston.
Miller, who paid for the plane that carried authorities and the remains, has no doubts it is Maleah.
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Neighbors react to recent updates about 4-year-old Maleah Davis
HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- It is without a doubt that Maleah Davis, her beaming smile, has captured hearts across the world.
Her story has also broken those very hearts, and tonight the outside of her families South Kirkwood home symbolizes just that.
Covered with teddy bears, candles, posters signed by hundreds, the apartment she was last seen going inside of alive, has become a memorial.
"No 4-year old should go through what she went through," said one woman who came to add to the growing memorial.
Many returned today with high emotions. The very home where investigators believe Maleah's life ended.
Continued at linkHer story has also broken those very hearts, and tonight the outside of her families South Kirkwood home symbolizes just that.
Covered with teddy bears, candles, posters signed by hundreds, the apartment she was last seen going inside of alive, has become a memorial.
"No 4-year old should go through what she went through," said one woman who came to add to the growing memorial.
Many returned today with high emotions. The very home where investigators believe Maleah's life ended.
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What happens next for Quanell X in the case of Maleah Davis
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Today, a Houston attorney is applauding his most recent work, if true, gaining the confession of the only suspect in her case.
"People make confessions to people that they know, or they'll make confessions to jail folks that are their cell mates in jail, that happens often, but when somebody who is a quasi-celebrity like Quanell X is able to walk in to a jail, talk to an inmate who's facing capital murder charges and get him to all but confess to this girl's death and certainly where the body is, this never happens," said attorney Steve Shellist.
[...]
"They'll subpoena Quanell X if this case goes to trial and say, 'What did he tell you?' And he will be allowed to say, 'Here's everything he told me.'"
Their jail house conversation may have been unconventional, but Shellist says it was certainly by the law.
"While some people may take issue with what he did, certainly the lawyer, it was not illegal. He was the client, was free not to talk to him. Vence didn't have to talk to Quanell, but he chose to talk to him and he's going to have to live with the consequences of that."
[...]
What happens next for Quanell X in the case of Maleah Davis
[...]
Today, a Houston attorney is applauding his most recent work, if true, gaining the confession of the only suspect in her case.
"People make confessions to people that they know, or they'll make confessions to jail folks that are their cell mates in jail, that happens often, but when somebody who is a quasi-celebrity like Quanell X is able to walk in to a jail, talk to an inmate who's facing capital murder charges and get him to all but confess to this girl's death and certainly where the body is, this never happens," said attorney Steve Shellist.
[...]
"They'll subpoena Quanell X if this case goes to trial and say, 'What did he tell you?' And he will be allowed to say, 'Here's everything he told me.'"
Their jail house conversation may have been unconventional, but Shellist says it was certainly by the law.
"While some people may take issue with what he did, certainly the lawyer, it was not illegal. He was the client, was free not to talk to him. Vence didn't have to talk to Quanell, but he chose to talk to him and he's going to have to live with the consequences of that."
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Potential witness claims she saw Derion Vence's car in Arkansas when Maleah Davis went missing
A potential witness in Arkansas says she was Derion Vence’s silver sedan back down a ramp late at night May 3.
For a month, Houston police detectives wondered where Vence went and what he did between that Friday, May 3 and 11:20 the next night.
That’s where the gap is.
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Authorities also said someone dropped him off at the hospital.
Who, why and what charges they’ll face are questions authorities will soon answer.
Potential witness claims she saw Derion Vence's car in Arkansas when Maleah Davis went missing
A potential witness in Arkansas says she was Derion Vence’s silver sedan back down a ramp late at night May 3.
For a month, Houston police detectives wondered where Vence went and what he did between that Friday, May 3 and 11:20 the next night.
That’s where the gap is.
[...]
Authorities also said someone dropped him off at the hospital.
Who, why and what charges they’ll face are questions authorities will soon answer.
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Remains of body believed to be Maleah Davis arrive in Houston
The remains of a child found in southwest Arkansas whom authorities believe to be Maleah Davis arrived in Houston Friday evening, according to the Houston Police Department.
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Investigators found a child's remains scattered along Interstate 30 in Arkansas, about 330 miles from Houston where Maleah Davis' mother's ex-boyfriend confessed he dumped her. A bloodied black garbage bag was discovered by a work crew mowing near the interstate near Fulton, Ark. A mower earlier on Friday struck the bag, tore it open and scattered its contents, Hempstead County Sheriff James Singleton said.
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Remains of body believed to be Maleah Davis arrive in Houston
The remains of a child found in southwest Arkansas whom authorities believe to be Maleah Davis arrived in Houston Friday evening, according to the Houston Police Department.
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Investigators found a child's remains scattered along Interstate 30 in Arkansas, about 330 miles from Houston where Maleah Davis' mother's ex-boyfriend confessed he dumped her. A bloodied black garbage bag was discovered by a work crew mowing near the interstate near Fulton, Ark. A mower earlier on Friday struck the bag, tore it open and scattered its contents, Hempstead County Sheriff James Singleton said.
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MALEAH DAVIS: Plane arrives in Houston carrying child's remains recovered from Arkansas
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It's not yet confirmed whether the remains belong to the little girl, however the remains arrived in Houston Friday night for further investigation.
The Harris County Institute of Forensic Science says they have the body of the child that was recovered, and is working to process the identification. They say the identification will take some time.
Houston police, who sent officers to Arkansas, said the remains are that of a child, but it's still not known if it is indeed Maleah.
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MALEAH DAVIS: Plane arrives in Houston carrying child's remains recovered from Arkansas
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It's not yet confirmed whether the remains belong to the little girl, however the remains arrived in Houston Friday night for further investigation.
The Harris County Institute of Forensic Science says they have the body of the child that was recovered, and is working to process the identification. They say the identification will take some time.
Houston police, who sent officers to Arkansas, said the remains are that of a child, but it's still not known if it is indeed Maleah.
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See exact area where remains believed to be Maleah Davis were found
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Along its embankments, trees are thick and the grass must be trimmed regularly. It was in this place where the plastic bag believed to include Maleah's remains sat on the side of the road for weeks.
Yet just a few miles away from this sad highway exit, the weekend was filled with joy and happiness.
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Maleah was no different than the kids screaming for joy at a children's party in McNab Saturday.
Parents are now left wondering how anyone could dump a child's body a short drive from so much happiness.
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Depending on autopsy reports, Vence's charges could be upgraded. But in McNab, where no one has ever met Vence or Maleah, they are simply left wondering why.
"I don't know what kind of man would do something like that," said a mother. "There's got to be something wrong with his head."
See exact area where remains believed to be Maleah Davis were found
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Along its embankments, trees are thick and the grass must be trimmed regularly. It was in this place where the plastic bag believed to include Maleah's remains sat on the side of the road for weeks.
Yet just a few miles away from this sad highway exit, the weekend was filled with joy and happiness.
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Maleah was no different than the kids screaming for joy at a children's party in McNab Saturday.
Parents are now left wondering how anyone could dump a child's body a short drive from so much happiness.
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Depending on autopsy reports, Vence's charges could be upgraded. But in McNab, where no one has ever met Vence or Maleah, they are simply left wondering why.
"I don't know what kind of man would do something like that," said a mother. "There's got to be something wrong with his head."
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Could Derion Vence's alleged confession hurt Maleah Davis case?
KPRC legal analyst Brian Wice says Quanell X's interview with the media about the confession Maleah Davis' stepfather, Derion Vence, allegedly made to him could hurt the case rather than help him get a stiffer sentence.
Q: Why do you think Quanell X's discussion about Vence's alleged confession of dumping the body of Maleah Davis could hurt the case?
Wice: Because if a judge concludes it was not a voluntary confession, it won't be admitted into court and the jury won't be able to use it. If the judge concludes it was a voluntary confession, that it will be allowed into court.
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Could Derion Vence's alleged confession hurt Maleah Davis case?
KPRC legal analyst Brian Wice says Quanell X's interview with the media about the confession Maleah Davis' stepfather, Derion Vence, allegedly made to him could hurt the case rather than help him get a stiffer sentence.
Q: Why do you think Quanell X's discussion about Vence's alleged confession of dumping the body of Maleah Davis could hurt the case?
Wice: Because if a judge concludes it was not a voluntary confession, it won't be admitted into court and the jury won't be able to use it. If the judge concludes it was a voluntary confession, that it will be allowed into court.
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What happens next for Quanell X in the case of Maleah Davis
Saturday, June 1, 2019 12:28PM
HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- Throughout the case of missing Maleah Davis, community activist Quanell X has played a role.
Today, a Houston attorney is applauding his most recent work, if true, gaining the confession of the only suspect in her case.
First representing the four-year-old's mother during press conferences, making allegations of abuse against Derion Vence, then separating from the family.
"People make confessions to people that they know, or they'll make confessions to jail folks that are their cell mates in jail, that happens often, but when somebody who is a quasi-celebrity like Quanell X is able to walk in to a jail, talk to an inmate who's facing capital murder charges and get him to all but confess to this girl's death and certainly where the body is, this never happens," said attorney Steve Shellist.
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Shellist says the conversation between the two is now subject to the investigation and is potential evidence.
"They'll subpoena Quanell X if this case goes to trial and say, 'What did he tell you?' And he will be allowed to say, 'Here's everything he told me.'"
Their jail house conversation may have been unconventional, but Shellist says it was certainly by the law.
"While some people may take issue with what he did, certainly the lawyer, it was not illegal. He was the client, was free not to talk to him. Vence didn't have to talk to Quanell, but he chose to talk to him and he's going to have to live with the consequences of that."
Saturday, June 1, 2019 12:28PM
HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- Throughout the case of missing Maleah Davis, community activist Quanell X has played a role.
Today, a Houston attorney is applauding his most recent work, if true, gaining the confession of the only suspect in her case.
First representing the four-year-old's mother during press conferences, making allegations of abuse against Derion Vence, then separating from the family.
"People make confessions to people that they know, or they'll make confessions to jail folks that are their cell mates in jail, that happens often, but when somebody who is a quasi-celebrity like Quanell X is able to walk in to a jail, talk to an inmate who's facing capital murder charges and get him to all but confess to this girl's death and certainly where the body is, this never happens," said attorney Steve Shellist.
[…]
Shellist says the conversation between the two is now subject to the investigation and is potential evidence.
"They'll subpoena Quanell X if this case goes to trial and say, 'What did he tell you?' And he will be allowed to say, 'Here's everything he told me.'"
Their jail house conversation may have been unconventional, but Shellist says it was certainly by the law.
"While some people may take issue with what he did, certainly the lawyer, it was not illegal. He was the client, was free not to talk to him. Vence didn't have to talk to Quanell, but he chose to talk to him and he's going to have to live with the consequences of that."