Here's the whole press conference. Names are phonetic.
EARL: I want to thank each and every one of you for coming back today. I want give you a brief update on our recovery efforts of the body, and I want to give you some addition information where we're going. I appreciate you guys have been very patient with us and not pushing us to give out information that might compromise the investigation, and I truly appreciate that, so thank you very much for not pressuring us to give out information that might do that.
Our evidence response team, they continue to process the location where the body has been recovered. We also continue to gather evidence throughout our community, because every piece of evidence that we're able to recover contributes to the overall success of this case and to the recovery of Jenise and finding out what happened to Jenise.
We are coordinating with the Kitsap County Coroner's Office on the recovery of the body. They will make a positive identification. It is anticipated that positive identification on the body will be tomorrow at some time, I don't know an exact time. The autopsy is being scheduled for tomorrow; I don't know what time it will be completed. My anticipation is that it will take several hours for that to be completed. The coroner's office, they will determine the manner of death and give that to us once they completed that. We have gotten to this success -- to the degree of success because of the community and our law enforcement partners, everybody coming together in this community. We have had over 375 personnel that have been assisting on this case throughout the week. And the federal agencies, state agencies, local agencies from Kitsap County, across the state of Washington, and throughout the country. We could have not done it without all these resources. We are currently -- actually, let me -- some of those agencies, we have a list that we can provide you because there's just too many to list off, but some of those, some of the specialty units I want to talk about and just mention are the FBI's Child -- excuse me, Child Abduction Rapid Deployment Team, the FBI Behavioral Analysis Unit, the FBI Evidence Research Team, the FBI Specialty Search Dogs, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, and the Washington State Patrol Crime Response Team are just a couple of them that have contributed to the success of this overall investigation thus far. We have covered over 200 leads so far and we continue to work on those and we're continuing to work on all the other leads that continue to come in. We received several tips through 1-800-CALL-FBI. We appreciate those. We received several local calls to the 911 system. We ask that the community continue to call with those tips, even if they don't think it's important. You never know which one of those tips is going to help us complete the investigation of what happened to Jenise. Our number one focus was to bring Jenise home. We're going to do that now. I would like to introduce now Special Agent in Charge from the FBI Frank Montoya, Jr.
FBI AGENT: It's tragic circumstances that bring us here, but I will tell you that it has been indeed a privilege to be a part of the group of the professional -- law enforcement professionals that have been out here these past few days working on this investigation. I would like to put a special note of appreciation out there, and I think all of us share this, to our five professionals who operate the K-9s, the dogs that have been out on location for the last couple days. And particularly the K-9s that were so instrumental in actually locating the body of Jenise today. We couldn't have done it without them, frankly. And their professionalism, their supreme expertise, subject-matter expertise, and the K-9s themselves, their ability to get this done under very difficult and trying circumstances. It was something really a sight to behold, if you will.
As earlier said, it's been a well-orchestrated activity these past few days to bring together the many different agencies that are here to achieve the success, I suppose you can characterize it as, that we've been able to achieve in the last couple of days. It is tragic. It resulted in the recovery of the body of a young girl that, you know, has touched us greatly, touched us deeply. At the same time there's still much work to do, and we are pledged and committed to be here until we complete that work. That's all I have to say.
SHERIFF: Folks, I can take a handful of questions here. Understand, a lot of details we start getting down literally into the weeds I'm not going to be to go there, but I'll try to answer the questions to the best of my ability with the information I have available.
A. It was found with the evidence research team from the FBI, and they had K-9 assistance, yes.
Q. Do you suspect foul play is now involved in the investigation?
A. This is going to be a criminal investigation, there's no doubt about that. Cause and manner of death, we're going to wait for the autopsy results from the coroner's office to determine exactly what kind of death this is going to be, but we suspect that she did just not go off by herself and fall into some bushes and die.
A. I'm not going to get into specifics, Adam, concerning the square footage or the distance from her house, but it was the immediate proximity of steering Steele Creek Mobile Home Park in a wooded area.
A. We're focusing on that and we're heading in that direction. So far we don't have anybody specifically identified that we can provide a name.
Q. Was she a wearing the T-shirt and jeans that was in the possible sighting?
A. Can't answer that. I don't have that information.
A. We are focusing on trying to nature in on a suspect.
Q. Are we ruling out an accident?
A. Not ruling out anything, but it's a criminal investigation; there's no doubt about that.
A. I don't have that information specifically on their status. I do know that the family, we've gone through the formal notification process with the family and we're trying to assist them in getting the appropriate grief-counseling services set up.
A. That's why we searched again and again and again, because sometimes it could be that microscopic piece of evidence or that scent that the dog didn't pick up the first team, another team may go in there and find again.
A. I believe we did. Let me research that and get back to you, Adam, on the specific track trail of any K-9s.
A. To be determined, Keith. Don't know that answer.
A. Through developments -- the home? I'm talking about the crime scene or the site where she was found.
A. Yes, we do. Part of the investigative process when we have a situation like this is to go back into the village, or the mobile home park in this case, and start resurfacing or recanvassing what we need to do to find somebody who may be responsible for this. That's the best way I can put it to you without getting into details that could possibly compromise our situation.
