GUILTY AR - Jersey Bridgeman, 6, raped & murdered, Bentonville, 20 Nov 2012 #1

[STEADFAST]

I was remembering your early post about an RSO 300 yds. from Jersey's house. Sorry.

That guy's just around the corner a block north.

 

[mck16]

To me this is all very contained. What I envision is this person in this house that has a small child. She goes missing and is found 2 houses down murdered. LE is saying she was murdered in the house. They are also saying they have over 50 pieces of evidence. We do not know what was going on in that abandoned house. Where did the cops get 50 pieces of evidence. Was it a combined amount from all 3 houses they searched? Was there something else going on and the death of this child just a by product of other crimes? I have seen people post here and say this is 'hinky'. Well this entire thing to me is 'hinky'. Something is just not right. jmo

 

[STEADFAST]

1000 sq feet is not as big as a small apartment. DB had at least one other child besides Jersey. Of course the size of her home has nothing to do with what happened. I don't even know why I commented on it. I guess it just bugs me. Especially if there were multiple animals in the home. I don't see a fence. jmo

BTW I don't believe in love at first sight. DB and JT's relationship was 2 months barely and he loves his new family so much. I am very leary of that. jmo

She's only about 25 years old (grad hs in 2005). It's not that shabby to have her own place, no matter how small, especially since she has two children and does not come from a wealthy family. I think her circle of friends think having multiple pets is a good thing -- plus, we don't really know what pets she had except a couple of dogs and some small things that live in cages. Like you, I'm more concerned with her letting DB into the family so quickly. It could turn out that he is the best thing that could ever happen to her, or the worst possible -- No way for her to know since she rushed into the relationship.

 

[mck16]

She's only about 25 years old (grad hs in 2005). It's not that shabby to have her own place, no matter how small, especially since she has two children and does not come from a wealthy family. I think her circle of friends think having multiple pets is a good thing -- plus, we don't really know what pets she had except a couple of dogs and some small things that live in cages. Like you, I'm more concerned with her letting DB into the family so quickly. It could turn out that he is the best thing that could ever happen to her, or the worst possible -- No way for her to know since she rushed into the relationship.

I think it is great that she had the pets. I have 3 dogs, but I own my home. Where I live if you are renting you pay a huge deposit for your pets. As much as 150 for each. And there is a limit as to how many you can have. but as you say, letting a strange man into your household so quickly really scares me. Especially knowing all the horror stories of the predators looking for women with little girls. Maybe totally jumping the gun afterall LE has not indicated he is a suspect.. Just my distrust I guess.

 

[claudicici]

http://5newsonline.com/2012/06/13/prison-sentence-for-man-who-chained-girl-to-furniture/
Here's an old article about when her dad and stepmom got arrested.
I wonder if Jersey was still sleepwalking....and may have left the home on her own....and met with evil outside ?
Looking at Dad's and stepmom's facebooks again it is unbelievable what they did to her.They actually seem like loving people,proves how deceiving these facebook profiles can be...Jersey looks just like her dad
Also the trailor guy seemed to share DesaRae's love for animals.
It's always hard for me to fathom that someone who loves animals could hurt a child.

 

[mck16]

http://5newsonline.com/2012/06/13/prison-sentence-for-man-who-chained-girl-to-furniture/
Here's an old article about when her dad and stepmom got arrested.
I wonder if Jersey was still sleepwalking....and may have left the home on her own....and met with evil outside ?
Looking at Dad's and stepmom's facebooks again it is unbelievable what they did to her.They actually seem like loving people,proves how deceiving these facebook profiles can be...Jersey looks just like her dad
Also the trailor guy seemed to share DesaRae's love for animals.
It's always hard for me to fathom that someone who loves animals could hurt a child.

We don't know that they loved animals. They just had them. I know lots of people with pets that don't take care of them properly. Seems they want them, but not the responsibility of taking care of them. jmo

 

[mck16]

going to bed. later guys.

 

[claudicici]

According to their facebooks they seem to love animals.....
....but of course that does not say much...

 

[borndem]

TPD has FBI still helping I believe. I don't know if the search warrants have been issued in Jersey's case. I've been away and I don't know if they have obtained sw's or not. If they don't have them yet, that would be odd. The warrant may not have been to the judge's liking or whatever. So it's rewritten.

TPD obtained search warrants the same day we found out they were going to search Isabel's home. They had permission from the family to search but they wanted to do everything by the book. If LE go in to a home to actually do a search, the way they can take all without a warrant, the family could always say we didn't say they could take our computers or our bed linens or whatever in court. I thought it was pretty smart. jmo

You make good points here, Doc! Looks like the LEO's on all sides here are trying to do it the right way and by the book -- and if LEO's had to wait a couple of hours before they searched an area, a house, a car, etc., it's only an inconvenience -- I would think they could watch the areas to be searched to make sure no possible evidence was tampered with, etc., thereby "freezing" the scenes as they were when the sw's were first ordered, etc., etc. Since the victim was already deceased, there was no emergent situation, so doing it otherwise could certainly compromise things and drive a prosecutor to twist & shout. So far, the local LEO's have impressed me by their silence -- I definitely think that they have a couple of people (or maybe just one) on their list, and they want to keep it "tight and right."

 

[borndem]

Police on Tuesday were in the E-Z Mart nearest Jersey’s house, interviewing employees and examining items on store shelves.

Police estimate Jersey’s death took place between midnight and about 6:45 a.m. Thomas worked at the convenience store from 10 p.m. to 7 a.m., an E-Z Mart employee told 5NEWS.

http://5newsonline.com/2012/11/20/police-investigate-childs-death/

Haven't found link regarding BF on survellance at work yet but found the BBM portion odd. Hadn't noticed that before in the article.

I noticed the bbm part, too, cox, and I wondered about it -- some OTC drug to put her to sleep (Benadryl, etc.?) found at the scene or in her home (fingerprints?), some beverage container or snack wrapper that was seen at the empty house (DNA from drinker/eater?). Who knoze?

As to the TOD -- could the coroner have given an estimate based on body temp? Again, who knoze?

 

[Donjeta]

If one of the family members was supposed to be shelving stuff they could have been looking to see if the items had been shelved.

 

[borndem]

The call was at 6:43 and they found her at 6:53 (unless reports are wrong). It would take the LE longer than that to get to my house. That is 10 minutes to get there, organize and search. I am sorry, but makes no sense to me. I am probably just being pessimistic but it is jmo.

It could be something like this:

Mom goes to wake Jersey around 6:30am -- JB is not in her bed, and mom can't find her anywhere in the house or yard.

Maybe JB has been playing in the abandoned house (I would have been at that age -- playing house, hide-and-seek with friends, etc., if entry to it was easy). Mom knows that, and since mom can't find her after calling out her name in the neighborhood, she goes to the house & finds her -- or a helpful neighbor finds her -- or mom tells police about her previously playing in the house...

Or not. :waitasec:

 

[borndem]

I read somewhere that Jersey was put to bed at midnight. Isn't this awfully late for a 6 year old to be going to bed on a school night?

If that 12:00midnight time is reliable -- maybe Jersey fell asleep on the sofa in the L/R (??), and mom just let her sleep & then carried her to bed when she went to bed. May as well just state what's possible -- we have seemingly so few hard facts in this case (not complaining; it's typical early-on in these type situations -- JMO).

 

[Donjeta]

It just sounds to me like an abandoned house two doors down would be the very first place the police would look. If there are several units responding one of them could be checking the close vicinity while others talk to the family.

 

[mck16]

It just sounds to me like an abandoned house two doors down would be the very first place the police would look. If there are several units responding one of them could be checking the close vicinity while others talk to the family.

I agree it is the logical place to look. but, on the other hand being it was so close why didn't anyone hear screams or a commotion? LE has indicated this was the scene of the murder. I guess I am leary because it just all seems so easy while there are other children who have been missing for a very long time. I am not pointing fingers at anyone God only knows how I wish they would find this person, lock them up and let them sweat out their fate. More facts please!!! jmo

 

[mck16]

I want to start a thread, but I don't know how. Can someone help me out? tia

 

[eileenhawkeye]

I think the police were going door-to-door to just ask neighbors if they saw or heard anything suspicious. Then, they came across the abandoned house and decided to "break in". I'm not sure if they were even looking for her body at that point. After all, how many cases (where the child is not found in the home) is the child's body found THAT quickly?

 

[mck16]

I think the police were going door-to-door to just ask neighbors if they saw or heard anything suspicious. Then, they came across the abandoned house and decided to "break in". I'm not sure if they were even looking for her body at that point. After all, how many cases (where the child is not found in the home) is the child's body found THAT quickly?

yes, exactly. Within 10 minutes? jmo

 

[wfgodot]

I want to start a thread, but I don't know how. Can someone help me out? tia

First go to forums, and decide which one the thread you want to start fits. Click on that one. There'll be a Start New Thread button at the top, and at the bottom, of the already listed threads on that forum.

 

[Donjeta]

I think the police were going door-to-door to just ask neighbors if they saw or heard anything suspicious. Then, they came across the abandoned house and decided to "break in". I'm not sure if they were even looking for her body at that point. After all, how many cases (where the child is not found in the home) is the child's body found THAT quickly?

I think it happens more often than we might think but they probably get filed under the headline "a child was found dead" more than "a missing child was found dead". JMO.

If a child is found within a twenty second's walk from the home I'm not sure there is anything unusual if it happens quickly.