AL AL - Brittney Wood, 19, Mobile, 31 May 2012 - # 1

[fabvab]

I am so worried that news of no searches means the family is thinking that BW is not alive. I'd think that her parents would be pleaing to the media or at least everyone on FB to help search for BW. I'd tell the world, "Yes, my BIL's were arrested for horrible crimes, but my baby is still missing...Please help me find her!" I worry because I don't see those pleas. And I don't think LE is hiding BW. moo

 

[SilkySifaka]

Sw the man that went to search was arrested on these rape and sodomy charges.... he has 2 kids of his own. I think the wives KNEW they were trying hard to get to BW's messages on her phone! someone posted DH wasnt allowed to be with his kids that why he was staying at Styx river so i think
and this is just my opinion i think WWH lied and said she and the boys spent the night with him that thurs,,,, JMO
If he is responsible

As far as the wives of the arrested go, and WWH, likely they did know, I just don't believe all the others who knew them did.

Its hardly something you say to your relative close or not.."hey margie, you know the cops were here investigating xx for raping a 10 year old?" lol. Just ..even within familys that have some or a lot of dysfunction that is taboo. If only to stop getting ones head put through a wall at the idea they did. And cops don't spread it around either, they are really discreet because of the harm it can do and the danger if they are wrong or the complaint isn't justified.

WWH you and I are in complete agreement and I hope she is arrested for evidence tampering, obstruction and a few other things.

 

[misplacedcajun]

IF WWH spent the night at the styx river house with DH and THE KIDS, Could she not be charged with Child endangerment for bring the kids around him?

 

[fabvab]

Klaas Kids was there and then left..not sure why, doubt it had to do with this news, i mean they search for kids whose parents are the main suspects. However if this SW became known as an alleged child molester and he was the main person heading the searches from the community end they may have felt that it was not helpful.

Then again LE also suggested that there was nothing in the Styx area so who knows what Klaas were thinking

Does Klaas only search if they believe they are looking for a live child? Or will they search for a body like equi search? Is that the reason they pulled out?

 

[SilkySifaka]

I am so worried that news of no searches means the family is thinking that BW is not alive. I'd think that her parents would be pleaing to the media or at least everyone on FB to help search for BW. I'd tell the world, "Yes, my BIL's were arrested for horrible crimes, but my baby is still missing...Please help me find her!" I worry because I don't see those pleas. And I don't think LE is hiding BW. moo

I saw/read pleas in the media, they didn't gain traction. I also believe they do think she is dead, its what I would think. Even with that tiny bit of hope we all keep ..i dont think i would want to look at it bc i would know its false.

However i am sure they desperately want her recovered to lay her to rest and lock up the creeps who did this to her. Some people just don't come across "interesting" to the media and they dont focus on them

I want to add...i think in this case we are seeing part of the "blonde white affluent" media interest problem. It is a family with issues and they are almost certainly not media savvy. So the media looks the other way apart from occasional updates.

 

[cluciano63]

Does Klaas only search if they believe they are looking for a live child? Or will they search for a body like equi search? Is that the reason they pulled out?

No they just search, as far as I know. They were searching for Michelle Le months after she went missing and LE had declared her case a murder.

 

[leighmarker]

I wouldn't be at all surprised to find others being arrested before Britt is found. I am pretty sure they charge the relatives with the highest charge they could, so may not be as bad as it sounds (like it could be worse?). I would assume to plea it down to a lesser charge. Either way, incest rape.....sick people

 

[Zeaux]

Let me try to sort some of this out.

This is a rather large family, aunts, uncles, cousins, etc. So when one refers to her "family", there is extended family and immediate family. Yes, they knew DH was being investigated. I cannot tell all of the details that surround the pending cases because I know things that are not being made public. But please do not throw everyone in the family into the same pile. Some people are guilty of actual crimes, some are guilty by association, and some were just unfortunate to be in the same family with them.

I know who runs the facebook pages. I also know BW's immediate family is in shock of the arrests and implications and what it might have to do with BW's disappearance. Please try not to judge how they react. Who knows what advice they've been given by LE about spreading information and commenting about it.

I cannot say what made people in the community at large join in the conversation or not join in. I've never been involved in a missing person's case. What I do know is, because of BW's lifestyle and habits, when she first turned up missing, Mobile LE didn't consider it suspicious. They felt she just left on her own and would come back on her own. When DH shot himself, BW's immediate family (parents) worried about a possible connection. Naturally this created a rift within the family. Some are defensive of DH. Some may have faked concern for BW. At this point, it's speculation, but I have hope the whole story will be coming out soon.

I've been told all along that the Mobile LE was not helping anywhere near as much as Baldwin County. They're hoping to get some answers in the very near future and see where the investigation stands.

I didn't mean to say that the parents were informed about the arrests and charges by KlaasKids--they were told by LE. KlaasKids rep (Brad?) has told them he doesn't think BW is alive. He's said that more than once.

Comparing this case to others is hard for me to do because I am not informed about other cases. I can only guess that people judged BW's lifestyle and deemed her not an innocent victim. That's just a guess. I personally feel that whatever her transgressions were, she didn't deserve to be a victim of a crime, assuming she was.

 

[Zeaux]

Please help me since I am unfamiliar with how searches are typically done...

Could KlaasKids have stopped coordinating searches because they didn't know where to search? If they already feel like they're performing a recovery vs. a rescue, would they then take more time to determine where to focus the searches?

 

[Eileen730]

As far as the wives of the arrested go, and WWH, likely they did know, I just don't believe all the others who knew them did.

Its hardly something you say to your relative close or not.."hey margie, you know the cops were here investigating xx for raping a 10 year old?" lol. Just ..even within familys that have some or a lot of dysfunction that is taboo. If only to stop getting ones head put through a wall at the idea they did. And cops don't spread it around either, they are really discreet because of the harm it can do and the danger if they are wrong or the complaint isn't justified.

WWH you and I are in complete agreement and I hope she is arrested for evidence tampering, obstruction and a few other things.

There is a wall between these 2 families! This was getting like the Hatfields and McCoys
BW's family did not go to donnies funeral and DH'S side wont search for her.
I think they knew!!!!
U had ppl on FB declaring that WWh was trying to get messages off BW's phone was calling the cell provider...Desperate? I think more ppl than you want to believe knew JMO PPL talk, families talk, secrets are very hard to keep when 3 men are involved....!
JMO

 

[SilkySifaka]

Let me try to sort some of this out.

This is a rather large family, aunts, uncles, cousins, etc. So when one refers to her "family", there is extended family and immediate family. Yes, they knew DH was being investigated. I cannot tell all of the details that surround the pending cases because I know things that are not being made public. But please do not throw everyone in the family into the same pile. Some people are guilty of actual crimes, some are guilty by association, and some were just unfortunate to be in the same family with them.

I know who runs the facebook pages. I also know BW's immediate family is in shock of the arrests and implications and what it might have to do with BW's disappearance. Please try not to judge how they react. Who knows what advice they've been given by LE about spreading information and commenting about it.

I cannot say what made people in the community at large join in the conversation or not join in. I've never been involved in a missing person's case. What I do know is, because of BW's lifestyle and habits, when she first turned up missing, Mobile LE didn't consider it suspicious. They felt she just left on her own and would come back on her own. When DH shot himself, BW's immediate family (parents) worried about a possible connection. Naturally this created a rift within the family. Some are defensive of DH. Some may have faked concern for BW. At this point, it's speculation, but I have hope the whole story will be coming out soon.

I've been told all along that the Mobile LE was not helping anywhere near as much as Baldwin County. They're hoping to get some answers in the very near future and see where the investigation stands.

I didn't mean to say that the parents were informed about the arrests and charges by KlaasKids--they were told by LE. KlaasKids rep (Brad?) has told them he doesn't think BW is alive. He's said that more than once.

Comparing this case to others is hard for me to do because I am not informed about other cases. I can only guess that people judged BW's lifestyle and deemed her not an innocent victim. That's just a guess. I personally feel that whatever her transgressions were, she didn't deserve to be a victim of a crime, assuming she was.

Thanks Zeaux. You are right, you can't pick your family and sometimes can be tarred with the same brush as another so clearing some of it up helps.

What is sad is I never thought of BW as anything but an innocent victim and she still is in my mind. I don't care if people smoke weed from morning to night, add a few other drugs in or what, they don't deserve to be murdered by raping creepy molesters (imo what happened). In fact some of her lifestyle choices may be due to unfortunate experiences with the very same people when she was younger.

Mobile LE needs to take a lesson in investigation 101. You don't have a missing person and a suicide linked the same night and not take it seriously.

 

[SilkySifaka]

Please help me since I am unfamiliar with how searches are typically done...

Could KlaasKids have stopped coordinating searches because they didn't know where to search? If they already feel like they're performing a recovery vs. a rescue, would they then take more time to determine where to focus the searches?

If LE was not being helpful that could be a problem (where to search)

I am not sure if they will do recovery but i think they do. Perhaps BW's parents have more info on why they pulled out and may be willing to share it.

One thing I know they do is often come in, get some searches done but also teach volunteers how to search/grid map etc. If the only one they had to communicate with. or the one who made himself the "face" of the searches was a raping pedophile that might cause problems in getting further searches when they are gone.

 

[Zeaux]

There is a wall between these 2 families! This was getting like the Hatfields and McCoys
BW's family did not go to donnies funeral and DH'S side wont search for her.
I think they knew!!!!
U had ppl on FB declaring that WWh was trying to get messages off BW's phone was calling the cell provider...Desperate? I think more ppl than you want to believe knew JMO PPL talk, families talk, secrets are very hard to keep when 3 men are involved....!
JMO

The initial discord you read on facebook was largely because some saw a connection between BW's disappearance and some refused to implicate DH in any way. If you think about it, that is plenty to cause fighting within a family.

I've said more than once I don't believe what WWH says, and I'll say the same for MWK. But I know her immediate family did not know about the other uncles or their potential involvement.

Yes, people talk. But as it has been said, there are some things you just don't talk about unless you want to spend the rest of your life behind bars, or get killed by the parent of a child you're molesting.

 

[Eileen730]

Please help me since I am unfamiliar with how searches are typically done...

Could KlaasKids have stopped coordinating searches because they didn't know where to search? If they already feel like they're performing a recovery vs. a rescue, would they then take more time to determine where to focus the searches?

I dont know Zeaux!
I have a feeling if these three men were spotted with her and le knows that
then maybe they feel she isnt missing that someone knows where she is I just hope its not the one that killed himself that holds that information

....I do believe they will come back when they get some some good lead's...or better info

They need to find her! this is so sad!

 

[leighmarker]

how far is Athens TN from the Styx house?
Uncle Scott listed that as his home address

ETA its over 500 miles wow....wonder what else is going on in TN?

 

[Eileen730]

If LE was not being helpful that could be a problem (where to search)

I am not sure if they will do recovery but i think they do. Perhaps BW's parents have more info on why they pulled out and may be willing to share it.

One thing I know they do is often come in, get some searches done but also teach volunteers how to search/grid map etc. If the only one they had to communicate with. or the one who made himself the "face" of the searches was a raping pedophile that might cause problems in getting further searches when they are gone.

They left really quickly tho!

 

[Zeaux]

If LE was not being helpful that could be a problem (where to search)

I am not sure if they will do recovery but i think they do. Perhaps BW's parents have more info on why they pulled out and may be willing to share it.

One thing I know they do is often come in, get some searches done but also teach volunteers how to search/grid map etc. If the only one they had to communicate with. or the one who made himself the "face" of the searches was a raping pedophile that might cause problems in getting further searches when they are gone.

That makes sense, Silky. Thanks.

 

[Eileen730]

how far is Athens TN from the Styx house?
Uncle Scott listed that as his home address

On Fb its Mobile Alabama!

 

[fabvab]

IF WWH spent the night at the styx river house with DH and THE KIDS, Could she not be charged with Child endangerment for bring the kids around him?

I think it depends on which children she had with her...the order of protections might have just been for one child during that time.

I know these investigations take time. They have to talk to ALL the children in the family individually...they then interview the parent. I have seen people make themselves and their children "unavailable" to investigators who need the reports/info to make decisions about charges. They always interview the children first (in my state), and it is much easier to access the children when school is in session. The parent can "hide" them out all over the county. Plus if a child lives in one county, but the abuse takes place in another county...then they have to decide which county investigates. It really gets hairy/time consuming if the child reports abuse that happened in a different state in which they living now.

In my state, they also have more highly trained investigators who handle child sexual abuse and more violent abuse reports. It is called the Crimes Against Children Unit. They are State Police and are trained in questioning. No "leading" questions can be asked or the information might not hold up in court. This is a highly trained field and there aren't as many investigators as there are to handle just a regular child abuse case. Each county has them and they are involved in ALL cases of sexual abuse in that county. If the sheriff or local police find sex abuse...they call in these investigators. I've seen it take 6-9 months to bring charges...but they do protect the children during the investigation by not allowing contact as needed.

Unfortunately, I have seen children lie about the abuse. I knew they were lying and so did the investigator. But if a child says, "No", nothing happened they can't really do anything unless there is physical evidence. What child wouldn't lie if they had been told by a parent that the cops would take them away and make them live with mean strangers if they didn't lie. Or the children are told that the sexual perpetrator will go to prison forever because of them. (Which happens a lot!)

In this case the investigators might be totally wrapped up in finding all the sexual predators instead of worrying about investigating DH's wife at this time. Besides...if it's true about DH...then his children are now safe at the moment.

Hope this helps people understand why we sometimes don't see things happen as quickly as we would like. Prayers for the brave child who reported the abuse that got SW and K arrested. I pray the child won't have to testify in court, but that a taped interview will be used.

Sorry for the long post.

 

[kmartin96]

Is it just me, or is it disgustingly unusual that there are at least 2 (possibly 3 or more) men in the same IMMEDIATE family involved in child molestation/incest?

I don't have any first hand experience with this type of abuse within families....but many previous stories of victims coming forward and giving interviews (ala 'Oprah', etc.), they give very sad and disturbing descriptions of how they were 'groomed' over a period of time, etc. THere is usually ONE sick predator (either family member, trusted neighbor, etc.) and this ONE person may have preyed on several children in the same family, etc.

I just don't recall, and find it sickenly odd that there were numerous adult males in the same family doing the same thing!! Any adult that participates in this type of behaviour has got to be 'sick in the head'. Molesters and sex offenders are "off"....there is something not right in their head. Normal people don't act this way.

It seems that the predators in this family knew what each other was doing (one turned in the other). Was this some sick thing they had in common and talked about it? Committed some of these crimes together?

Again, in most cases I can recall reading about or seeing in interviews, it was ONE predator who acted alone and kept it a secret from EVERYONE around them (except for the victims). The fact that there are 2 or 3 or more in one immediate family seems very sick and odd to me. JMO.