AL AL - Heaven Ross, 11, Northport, 19 Aug 2003

[johnny]

Posting From 3 years ago!

Also the mother and step father had a discussion about Shae having cramps

Her last night at home

Two nights after that was Shae’s last night at home. She had returned from school that day, went straight to her room and finished her homework, Thompson said. She came back into the living room at 5:30 or 6 p.m. and fell asleep, he said.

Thompson said that he and Alex locked up the trailer and left Shae sleeping inside while they picked Beth up from work at Partlow. She didn’t wake until they returned home, he said, and she skipped dinner, complaining of an upset stomach. Lowery and Thompson were worried that it might be Shae’s first bout with menstrual cramps, he said.

Shae woke the next morning feeling fine, Thompson said. Her parents said she chose a hot pink shirt with matching capri pants and her new light blue suede tennis shoes, her favorites, to wear on an overcast Tuesday morning. This would be the outfit described on the thousands of fliers distributed since that morning.

Also the quote's ...Kevin saying "There wasn't a place she hasn't been with me"
'Recently she was beginning to behave more like a teenager"
"Shae was eager to begin her adolescence"

“She had just started shaving her legs ' on the sly. She’d come in and I could see where her legs had been bleeding,"

 

[BhamMama]

I'm not so sure those comments mean anything. Sounds like people who live in close contact with each other. My husband and I have had some of the same conversations about our daughters. I can def tell you what my kids wear. Maybe she laid the clothes out the night before? Or maybe he saw her as she was leaving. Maybe she didn't have so many clothes that they got confusing.

As for the driving...yep, grew up in the sticks in rural Alabama. I learned to drive a tractor pulling a harrow bar when I was 9. A car was nothing compared to that. I learned to drive on a winding mountain road when I was 10 in a 3 on the column pickup truck. Things are different in the most rural areas...but many learn to drive cars really young even in the suburban places.

 

[Montanagirl]

have there been any updates on Heaven? She holds a special place in my heart. Her disappearance was what brought me to WS.

 

[ihadcabinfever]

http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061220/NEWS/612200350/1001

TUSCALOOSA -- The remains of a Northport girl who disappeared in 2003 have been found in an abandoned house in Holt, authorities announced Tuesday.

Tuscaloosa County Sheriff Ted Sexton said the remains were those of Heaven LaShae Ross, who was 11 when she disappeared on Aug. 19, 2003, while apparently walking on a rainy morning to a school bus stop near her home in Willowbrook Trailer Park.

Sexton said the remains were found Monday in the abandoned house at Holt, a Tuscaloosa County community about six miles east of Northport.

Authorities said the girl's backpack was found near the body.

The site was being combed by a forensics team and FBI agents. The federal agency had joined the three-year hunt for the missing girl.

In August, Prattville police said investigators were trying to determine whether the missing Northport girl's case was connected to the unsolved abduction and murder of a Prattville girl, Shannon Nicole Paulk, five years ago, as well as the disappearance of Teresa Melissa Dean of Twiggs County, Ga., near Macon, in 1999. All were 11 when they disappeared.

 

[ihadcabinfever]

Remembering Shannon Paulk

Slide show picks
http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/gallery?Avis=DS&Dato=20060815&Kategori=NEWS&Lopenr=815001&Ref=PH&Profile=1001

 

[ihadcabinfever]

http://www.state.ga.us/gbi/missing/teresadean.html

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[JanetElaine]

Please forgive my ignorance and confusion, but I thought Heaven's remains had been found in December? Or did that turn out not to be her?

Sincerely,
JanetElaine

 

[JanetElaine]

Okay, I hate it when newspapers bring news as if it had happened only now. Or maybe it is the AP that needs to look into what they are doing - I have noticed these 'reprints' with several AP articles lately. :slap:

Following is the article about the find of Heaven's remains from December 19, 2006:
http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/mld/ledgerenquirer/news/local/16274494.htm

 

[englishleigh]

They were, JanetElaine. Maybe it was just formally announced Tuesday that it was definitely her, by DNA. I think they just assumed it was her in December since Heaven's backpack was present at the scene.

 

[JanetElaine]

Our posts must have crossed, Englishleigh.... (see above)

 

[SewingDeb]

I'm confused about the link IHadCabinFever posted in post #1. I posted this same article on Crime & Punishment forum on December 19th, but this article makes it seem that Heaven LaShae was just found this week since it is dated January 25th and says her remains were found on Monday.

Here's where I posted it on another forum:
http://forums.about.com/n/pfx/forum.aspx?tsn=1&nav=messages&webtag=ab-crime&tid=16010

I think this article is actually an update but they did not update all the information. She was found in December, I believe.

Maybe I need more coffee.

I hope they are able to solve several cases from what they find in Heaven's case.

 

[SewingDeb]

Please forgive my ignorance and confusion, but I thought Heaven's remains had been found in December? Or did that turn out not to be her?

Sincerely,
JanetElaine

I believe you are right. See my post in this thread, posted at 10:31 am.

 

[SewingDeb]

I really should read all the posts before I post. Sorry y'all.

 

[mistivon]

TUSCALOOSA | Authorities remain tight-lipped about the Heaven LaShae Ross investigation, nearly three weeks after her body was found at an abandoned house in Holt.

A man walking his dog discovered the 11-year-old’s body on Dec. 18, more than three years after she disappeared.

Tuscaloosa County Sheriff Ted Sexton refused to answer questions this week about the investigation, including inquiries about where the body is now and whether investigators have suspects.

more at link:

http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070106/NEWS/701060327/1007/dateline&cachetime=3&template=dateline

 

[AlwaysShocked]

Question: Would not vacant houses be searched when looking for a missing child? It says six miles from her home, so maybe that was too far away?

 

[SeriouslySearching]

Good question! Six miles doesn't seem that far to me!

 

[Bobbisangel]

Question: Would not vacant houses be searched when looking for a missing child? It says six miles from her home, so maybe that was too far away?

I wondered the same thing. You would think that any time there is a child missing any vacant homes within 10 miles all the way around would be checked out.

I am also wondering something...two of the girls disappeared from mobile parks but I wonder if Teresa Dean lived in a mobile park too. It is interesting that two girls did disappear from mobile parks even if they are in different towns. I really wonder about the 3rd girl.

 

[bykerladi]

Does anyone know if a cause of death was ever determined? I read all the articles on her webpage and didn't see that LE ever mentioned a cause of death.

 

[Mrs_Norwood]

Cause of death hasn't been released yet and the police are still staying tight lipped because the investigation is still in progress, but her remains have been released to her family.

http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/article/20070628/NEWS/706280340&SearchID=7328622096483

 

[missacorah]

Wow these things take a while!