Found Deceased AZ - Isabel Mercedes Celis, 6, Tucson, 20 April 2012 *Arrest* #26

[imstilla.grandma]

 

[perfectingpink]

Has anyone asked a mod about making a forum for the girls?

ETA: I am sorry! I quoted the wrong post of yours. Do Gmas get baby brain??

 

[imstilla.grandma]

Has anyone asked a mod about making a forum for the girls?

I haven’t seen one online lately. I’ve been on the lookout.

 

[imstilla.grandma]

Has anyone asked a mod about making a forum for the girls?

ETA: I am sorry! I quoted the wrong post of yours. Do Gmas get baby brain??

Mine stays that way most of the time. Giggle.

 

[Knox]

I'm confused. Why would he tell where Isa was in exchange for dropping the burglary charges? Did he try to pin it on another pedophile and it backfired? Is that what the search of his cell was about? A journal or letters he was exchanging with someone? Thank gosh this guy was so dumb.

 

[Seattle1]

I'm confused. Why would he tell where Isa was in exchange for dropping the burglary charges? Did he try to pin it on another pedophile and it backfired? Is that what the search of his cell was about? A journal or letters he was exchanging with someone? Thank gosh this guy was so dumb.

CC has a 20+ year criminal history, with mostly lenient sentences and probation as punishment. If I recall correctly, another person pointed the finger at CC, and he very well could have thought he could implicate another while getting his own charges dropped. I don't think I'd call him dumb, evil yes, but not dumb. MOO

 

[Seattle1]

Girls Who Vanished Less Than a Mile Apart Were Murdered by the Same Man, Police Allege
17 Sept 2018

An Arizona man is accused of kidnapping and murdering two girls in separate incidents in 2012 and 2014, PEOPLE confirms.

Christopher Clements, 36, has been charged with the murders of 6-year-old Isabel Celis and 13-year-old Maribel Gonzalez, who vanished less than one mile from each other, the Tucson Police Department announced at a press conference Saturday.
Girls Who Vanished Less Than a Mile Apart Were Murdered by the Same Man, Police Allege

 

[oceanblueeyes]

Look at her little face in her little schoolroom.
It breaks my heart.
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The moment I saw Isa's angelic face I knew she would always hold a special place in my heart. Her smile was so genuine showing such a happy much loved child.

I remember receiving 2 Isa..bracelets when she first went missing. I wore the bracelet for a long time. After awhile I took it off and put it in one of my jewelry boxes. At times I would hold it in my hands and say another prayer for her and her family.

My friend and I would often talk about little Isa. We both prayed that one day she would be found and the suspect caught. As time went by we both worried it may never happen but we never gave up hope. Now our prayers have been answered years later.

The cases that affect me most are little children who were abducted with some still missing or found murdered and the cases remain open and unsolved.

It shows all of us we must never lose hope.

Sometimes the wheels of justice move very slowly but justice can come just like it has finally come for Isa...and Maribel and their grieving families.

I have always been amazed at the courage and strength shown by Becky and Sergio throughout their years long nightmare.

I wish both families all of God's blessings. Now both families will remain strong and united as they go forward to see justice is done for their beautiful daughters.

Imo

 

[imstilla.grandma]

But the woman, who was burglarized in late 2015, said it wasn’t so much the burglary that was violating, it was how Clements and a female accomplice carried out the crime and new intimate details about their lives and home.

According to court records:
“(Victims) received a phone call to their home from a blocked number The female caller told them the FedEx had a package for them and they needed to come pick it up...(The victims) asked to speak to a manager, at which time, a male got on the phone and reassured them they both needed to come to FedEx and pick up the package. When asked where the package was from, the male stated he could not divulge that information but that it had something to do with cancer.”

The woman, who’s in her 80’s, had recently lost her daughter to cancer and was just diagnosed herself.

“It sparked an interest when he said the package was something about cancer,” she said in an interview. “So that’s when I thought maybe, I didn’t want to take a chance and not go pick it up.”

The woman said she and her husband were gone for just 10 minutes. They returned home to front door that had been kicked open and thousands of dollars in jewelry missing.

The woman said she kept her jewelry in an unusual place in the home, causing her to suspect that Clements or someone he worked with had previously been inside her home.

“He knew exactly where to go,” she said. “He’s not a one-man show, I don’t think.”

When asked if she ever met Clements, the woman said no.

"I would love to know. That's what I've been wondering from the very day it happened," she said. "But then when I think about what he did to those two little girls, jewelry can be replaced but those little girls' lives cannot. And who knows how many other lives he's destroyed."

Phone records and GPS tracking linked Clements to the calls made to the woman and other victims, court records show.

Accused child killer Christoper Clements lured elderly in elaborate Valley burglaries

 

[imstilla.grandma]

The man being held in connection with the killing of 6-year-old Isabel Celis was arrested on unrelated charges five months after her disappearance and was out of jail on bail when a second Tucson girl whose death he’s been linked to was murdered, according to newly obtained court documents.

Also as a condition of his conviction, Clements was required to submit a DNA sample to the Combined DNA Index System, also known as CODIS, which police later used to connect him to a 2016 burglary.

Isabel was discovered missing from her midtown bedroom on the morning of April 21, 2012.

Clements, who was living about two miles from her home at the time, was arrested five months later on Sept. 19 on a charge of second-degree residential burglary after a woman came home and said she saw Clements loading items up into a Lexus parked in front of the house. Police ran the license plate number the victim provided, which came back to Clements, who was arrested at his home and subsequently charged with burglary, criminal damage and theft — all felonies.

His bond was set at $10,000, of which he was required to pay 10 percent, and he was released the next day.

Man accused of killing Tucson girls was free on bail when teen victim went missing

 

[imstilla.grandma]

Tucson Police Chief Chris Magnus and other officials held a news conference to announce the indictment. But they declined to answer questions from reporters and did not disclose how the girls died or what prompted authorities to investigate Clements in the killings, except to say that the FBI in 2017 learned Clements might have information about the death of Celis.

He then provided information to authorities that led to the discovery of Celis' remains, Magnus said. Investigators later discovered additional pieces of evidence, but they did not describe Saturday what they had found.

Christopher Matthew Clements, now 36, was already locked up in Maricopa County on unrelated charges when Tucson Police arrested and charged him there.

Christopher Clements: How a convicted sex offender flew under the radar

 

[imstilla.grandma]

Pima County Attorney Barbara LaWall called Clements’ arrest “long overdue.”

“The heart-wrenching tragedies of Maribel Gonzalez’ and Isabel Celis’ murders have been compounded by a very long, long wait for justice,” LaWall said. “Christopher Clements was actually at liberty for the murder of Isabel Celis for a bit longer than she was alive. His apprehension was long overdue.”

“To the families, our hearts go out to you for the tragic loss that you’ve suffered, for the long time that you’ve waited for a resolution,” LaWall added.

2 Arizona Girls Went Missing Years Apart — and Now Man Is Charged with Murdering Them

 

[RickshawFan]

Long time reader but rarely posted as english isn´t my first language and sometimes it´s hard for me to express my thoughts and feelings. However this time I felt compelled to say I wish with all my heart that Juan Martinez be chosen as the leading prosecutor of this BEAST and MONSTER. Sorry for this rant...

Your English is fantastic. And good will transcends language barriers...

 

[imstilla.grandma]

April 21, 2012
In 2012, 6-year-old Isabel Celis went missing from her midtown home. The incident happened at night as the family slept. No one heard any sounds.
Isabel's father, Sergio, reported Isabel missing the following morning on April 21, 2012, after searching for her with her two older brothers.They found her bedroom window open.Her disappearance shook the city of Tucson, as the community united to help find her. Tucson police received thousands of tips throughout their investigation.

June 3, 2014
Maribel Gonzalez’s body was found June 6, 2014.
In June of 2014, 13-year-old Maribel Gonzalez told her family she was going to visit a friend. When Maribel didn't come home the following morning, her mother called the friend who told her that Maribel never arrived. Maribel was reported missing and was initially treated as a runaway, Arizona Daily Star archives show.

Maribel's home was said to be minutes away from Isabel's.

June 6, 2014
Just a few days later, Maribel's body was found in a rural area northwest of Tucson, near North Trico and West Avra Valley roads.There were no suspects at the time.

March 31, 2017
Approximately 500 mourners release pink and purple balloons in a farewell gesture to wrap up the memorial ceremony for Isabel Celis at St. Augustine Cathedral, Saturday, April 29, 2017, Tucson, Ariz. Years after Isabel went missing, her remains were found northwest of Tucson — in roughly the same area as Maribel's body.

Police Chief Chris Magnus informed the public of their discovery on March 31, 2017, though the remains were found earlier in the month. Officials remained tight-lipped about the case and would not discuss how investigators were led to Isabel's remains.

September 14, 2018
Tucson Police Chief Chris Magnus, Pima County Attorney Barbara LaWall and Pima County Sheriff Mark Napier at a press conference at TPD on Sept. 15, 2018. Christopher Matthew Clements was indicted in connection with the deaths of Isabel Celis and Maribel Gonazalez.

On Sept. 14, 2018, 36-year-old Christopher Matthew Clements was indicted. He is accused of killing both Isabel and Maribel. Authorities announced the indictment the following day, Sept. 15. They revealed that in 2017, FBI agents received a tip about a man who might know more information about Isabel's disappearance.

Clements, a convicted sex offender, was the man.
After speaking with Clements, investigators were able to find Isabel's remains.

Clements is facing 22 charges that include two counts of first-degree murder, two counts of kidnapping of a minor under age 15, burglary, and 14 counts of sexual exploitation of a minor, which is said to be related to child .

He is currently being held in the Maricopa County jail on unrelated charges.

Records show that Clements has a long criminal history and that he was out of jail on bail when Maribel was killed.

Clements will be arraigned on Monday, Sept. 24.

Timeline: Man indicted in the killing of 2 Tucson girls

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[imstilla.grandma]

 

[elmomom]

So happy this has finally been resolved. I never, ever thought it was her parents, and that discussion was always painful to me.
RIP Isa.

 

[cvaldez1975]

His very last charged count is for a BOY.
He lived in Oregon right? Kyron?

http://ftpcontent6.worldnow.com/kvoa/ClementsIndictment.pdf

I feel like he was selling and trading some pics. he may have taken some too. #shudder

 

[imstilla.grandma]

BBM

“A child’s disappearance will always raise alarm in a community, and two children missing is a cause for a multi-alarm designation,” LaWall said. “I’m really pleased to be able to say that Pima County prosecutors and all of law enforcement never gave up the hunt for the killer of these two little girls. The cases went unsolved, but they were never closed.”


Joining Magnus and LaWall at the news conference were Pima County Sheriff Mark Napier and chief trial counsel Jonathan Mosher, who will lead the prosecution of Clements by LaWall’s office.

Authorities spoke with the families of both victims after Friday’s indictment. Neither family spoke publicly Saturday.

Abrian Gonzalez, Maribel’s father, has remembered her as a soccer and softball player who enjoyed going to car races with him at a motorsports park.

“I don’t think she had any enemies,” he has said. “She accepted everybody. She had a big heart, and was a comedian.”

Becky Celis has remembered that her daughter Isabel “loved to come and give mom and dad hugs all the time.”

Career criminal linked to killing of 2 Tucson girls

 

[cvaldez1975]

I hate the motel corridors that consists of motel lane where most drug addicts and criminals and prostitutes seem to live there.

Watch the ghetto motels on the First 48 and its the same thing. Everyone that opens their motel door looks like they live there and have been a part of the street life for years.

I wonder if these motels are paid by the county to let certain welfare folks stay there?

well I will say that one day, my husband and I were putting some of our old clothes in the recycle center for such items when a homeless guy rode up on his bike and asked whether he could have a few outfits. he was about my husband size so he did oblige him. talked to him a few minutes and he said he was a veteran of desert storm and had been working construction and had got a back injury then got hooked on his pain meds and moved on to heroin. he said he kept tryng to stop and then kept falling off the wagon. he told us the VA gave him vouchers several days a week for motels. so there is that.

 

[cvaldez1975]

Why was he not arrested then? How would anyone know where her remains were except for the killer? Strange. There has to be more to this story IMO. Maybe he told authorities, someone else told him where the remains were?

I think he knew his goose is already cooked as he was in custody on a slew of other charges. who knows his motivation.