GUILTY FL - AnnaMarie Cruz Randazzo, 17, Cape Coral, 21 July 2005

[mysteriew]

Murder suspect Jeremy Lee Chapman is under a suicide watch at the Lee County Jail while codefendant Joshua Henninger is being housed in juvenile “secure detention.”

Chapman, 23, and Henninger, 16, are accused of kidnapping and murder in the abduction and slaying of 17-year-old Annamarie Cruz Randazzo of Cape Coral, who was missing for nearly two weeks before her burned body was found Saturday in Lehigh Acres.

The son of science fiction/romance writer S.L. Viehl, Chapman was being questioned in Randazzo’s killing when he told investigators he’d also murdered his roommate, John J. Hardin, 66, of Cape Coral.
http://www.news-press.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050808/NEWS01/50808013/1075

 

[Bobbisangel]

On the news last night they said that those two guys were friends of AnnaMaries. She had gone to visit them the night that she disappeared and something went horribly wrong. If only she had gone straight home that night.

These two guys are pure evil. How could they set that girl and her car on fire and then hide her body in an old frig? I wonder why in the world they did that.
I feel so sad for her family...to have to live with the image of their daughter dying like that. The horrors of this world never seem to stop.

 

[mysteriew]

The mother of a suspect in the Annamarie Cruz Randazzo murder has stated that she ended her relationship with her son when he was 21 and his escalating criminal activity frightened her.

Sheila Viehl, an author who uses the pen name S.L. Viehl, is the mother of Jeremy Chapman, 23, accused of joining Joshua Henninger, 17, in the kidnapping and murder of Randazzo, a 17-year-old from Cape Coral.

Chapman also told police that he killed John Hardin, 66, his former landlord at 222 N.W. 28th Court in Cape Coral.

Police found Hardin's body in the garage of that house Saturday, hours after finding Randazzo's remains in a Lehigh Acres field.

Viehl posted this statement on her Web site:

"My oldest son, Jeremy, has a long history of mental illness which evolved into criminal activity beginning at age eleven. I could tell you how many years my family and I have struggled to help him, how many doctors and therapies and programs we tried, and how dearly we have paid for it. All of it is spelled out in his many court case files, but none of that really matters now. We weren't able to stop him from pursuing the criminal life he desired.
http://www.news-press.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050809/NEWS01/50809016/1002/NEWS01

 

[reb]

"...We weren't able to stop him from pursuing the criminal life he desired."

uhh, JAIL, maybe.......?? that would have stopped him. why wasn't the f*er in jail.....?? oh that's right, we don't want to impede on the rights of criminals to their FREEDOM, now do we......???

 

[PrayersForMaura]

A nice tribute to this beautiful young lady whose life ended far too early
http://www.news-press.com/multimedia/galleries/annamarie/galleryframe.html

 

[mysteriew]

Police were looking for Jeremy Chapman, accused of two brutal slayings in Cape Coral, 35 days before the first murder was committed.

Chapman was scheduled to see his local probation officer on May 31, seven weeks before the first killing. But he never showed up for the visit.

He would have been arrested at that time for a variety of probation violations, including possession of drugs.

A warrant for Chapman's arrest for violating probation was issued June 16 — more than a month before Chapman and Joshua Henninger, 17, allegedly kidnapped Annamarie Cruz Randazzo, 17, beat her to death and set her body on fire in a Lehigh Acres field.

While he reported to a Lee County probation officer, Chapman, 23, was also seeing a 15-year-old girl whom he impregnated.

Chapman faces a charge of lewd or lascivious battery for his involvement with that girl.
http://www.news-press.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050817/NEWS01/508170468/1075

 

[mysteriew]

State attorney Steve Russell will personally lead the prosecution of suspects in the kidnapping and slaying of Annamarie Cruz Randazzo, a Cape Coral 17-year-old who disappeared after going to the movies with friends.

A grand jury likely will be assembled this week — possibly as early as today — to weigh evidence that the state should charge Jeremy Chapman, 23, and Joshua Henninger, 17, with first-degree felony murder.

That charge could lead to the death penalty.

Chapman and Henninger were arrested on Aug. 6, 16 days after Randazzo went missing.

When Henninger, one of the last people to call Randazzo on her cell phone, was taking a lie-detector test, he told Cape Coral detectives he and Chapman planned to kidnap and kill Randazzo, police say. The two beat

her, brought her body to a Lehigh Acres field and set it on fire, police say.

Chapman also is charged with the July 29 killing of his former Cape Coral landlord, John Hardin, 66. While Chapman was being questioned about the Randazzo case, he told police he killed Hardin.

Henninger has not been charged in the Hardin case.

Grand jury proceedings are secret, so Avery declined to confirm courthouse chatter that a grand jury will begin hearing evidence against Chapman and Henninger as early as Tuesday.

The state's first deadline in filing formal charges against Chapman and Henninger is late next week.

By that time, Russell must also decide whether to charge Henninger as an adult.

Under certain circumstances, however, prosecutors may ask for a 40-day extension on the first deadlines.
http://www.news-press.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050823/NEWS01/508230463/1075

 

[concernedperson]

We are seeing this far too often......they miss their parole visits. Why can't LE get really aggressive for these violations and send out a dragnet for the perps? If they had in the case of Duncan.....look how many lives would have been saved!!! Now, Chapman is a career offender who only escalated. These criminals don't get a case of religion and turn into meek little lambs.

The pattern is there for all to see. BTW, has anyone noticed Chapmans eyes? Scary....

 

[mysteriew]

Two Cape Coral men now find themselves
formally charged with murdering a 17-year-old high school honors student.

Prosecutors say that the defendants set the body on fire.

The state attorney's office said Tuesday that a grand jury indicted Jeremy Chapman and Joshua Henninger on a charge of first-degree murder, kidnapping, sexual battery with a deadly weapon and arson of a vehicle.

Chapman was also charged with first-degree murder and robbery with a deadly weapon in the death of his roommate, 65-year-old John Hardin.
http://www.baynews9.com/content/40/2005/8/23/114692.html

 

[PrayersForMaura]

LEE COUNTY— The state Attorney's Office released 2,300 pages of documents relating to the murder of Annemarie Cruz Randazzo. The documents detail her final hours and the actions of the two men charged in her murder. They also reveal the motive for her murder.

Most of the documents are statements by friends and family members of Randazzo. They paint a picture of a young woman who slept around and was deeply involved with drugs.

On page 1212 a friend says Randazzo admitted to having sex with "eleven guys in one year" and that "most of her relationships never lasted more than month."

One of those relationships includes her accused killer Joshua Henninger.

Jealously is listed as one possible motive, but much of the evidence for a motive points to Randazzo's use of cocaine.

On the night of her death, several accounts show Randazzo went to Henninger's house to buy drugs.

One witness recalls things got out of control, "she was all messed up on every drug that's possible."

What happened next is spelled out in a confession Henninger made to a friend a week after the murder. He says Henninger told him Randazzo was overdosing and they killed her because she was going to die anyway and they could not take her to a hospital."

A week later Henninger would make similar statements to detectives during a polygraph test. He said "Annemarie began to react violently to the cocaine and struck him. Chapman then picked up a replica gun and struck Annamarie." the two "duct taped Annemarie and placed her in her own car", then "placed her in a discarded refrigerator in a rural area of Lehigh Acres." then, they "set the refrigerator on fire."

http://www.nbc-2.com/articles/readarticle.asp?articleid=5071&z=3&p=

 

[PrayersForMaura]

well

that wasn't what I wanted to read about Annemarie.

 

[PrayersForMaura]

I also posted this on her thread in the located forum:


LEE COUNTY— The state Attorney's Office released 2,300 pages of documents relating to the murder of Annemarie Cruz Randazzo. The documents detail her final hours and the actions of the two men charged in her murder. They also reveal the motive for her murder.

Most of the documents are statements by friends and family members of Randazzo. They paint a picture of a young woman who slept around and was deeply involved with drugs.

On page 1212 a friend says Randazzo admitted to having sex with "eleven guys in one year" and that "most of her relationships never lasted more than month."

One of those relationships includes her accused killer Joshua Henninger.

Jealously is listed as one possible motive, but much of the evidence for a motive points to Randazzo's use of cocaine.

On the night of her death, several accounts show Randazzo went to Henninger's house to buy drugs.

One witness recalls things got out of control, "she was all messed up on every drug that's possible."

What happened next is spelled out in a confession Henninger made to a friend a week after the murder. He says Henninger told him Randazzo was overdosing and they killed her because she was going to die anyway and they could not take her to a hospital."

More: http://www.nbc-2.com/articles/readarticle.asp?articleid=5071&z=3&p=


Just so terrible

 

[PrayersForMaura]

I found that we have three threads for her all together...

here's the latest:
LEE COUNTY— The state Attorney's Office released 2,300 pages of documents relating to the murder of Annemarie Cruz Randazzo. The documents detail her final hours and the actions of the two men charged in her murder. They also reveal the motive for her murder.

Most of the documents are statements by friends and family members of Randazzo. They paint a picture of a young woman who slept around and was deeply involved with drugs.

On page 1212 a friend says Randazzo admitted to having sex with "eleven guys in one year" and that "most of her relationships never lasted more than month."

One of those relationships includes her accused killer Joshua Henninger.

Jealously is listed as one possible motive, but much of the evidence for a motive points to Randazzo's use of cocaine.

On the night of her death, several accounts show Randazzo went to Henninger's house to buy drugs.

One witness recalls things got out of control, "she was all messed up on every drug that's possible."

What happened next is spelled out in a confession Henninger made to a friend a week after the murder. He says Henninger told him Randazzo was overdosing and they killed her because she was going to die anyway and they could not take her to a hospital."

http://www.nbc-2.com/articles/readarticle.asp?articleid=5071&z=3&p=

 

[mysteriew]

well

that wasn't what I wanted to read about Annemarie.

No matter the mistakes they make in life, very few people deserve that type of death.
The exception to that of course is a couple of child molesters I can think of.

 

[SewingDeb]

well

that wasn't what I wanted to read about Annemarie.

Me, neither. It's too bad she didn't live long enough to have a chance to beat her addictions. Apparently she was an honor student and a talented artist. She might have come around, but now we will never know.

 

[englishleigh]

Me, neither. It's too bad she didn't live long enough to have a chance to beat her addictions. Apparently she was an honor student and a talented artist. She might have come around, but now we will never know.

Exactly. Poor girl. She might have made something of herself eventually, but that's the thing. Once a person starts engaging in these activities and keeping this kind of company, their life span being short becomes too vivid a possibility. :banghead:

 

[Bobbisangel]

I'm really wondering if the story about Annamarie and drugs is the truth. According to her father any money that she earned went into her car. The guys said that she was on every drug you can think of that night but she had been to the movies with her friends and then drove to that guys house. She would have had to do a lot of drugs in between dropping the friends off and driving to the guys house. I'm wondering if drugs are the excuse the guys are using for why they murdered her. Sounds like the guys are the ones who have the drug problems.

I can't believe that those guys are charged with 2nd degree murder. Like someone else said....they had plenty of time to change their minds after they taped her up. They drove her out to that field in order to kill her there so what is it with 2nd degree murder?

I wonder when this case goes to trial. I wish CTV would cover this trial. I'd really like to see these guys get what they deserve. That poor girl...and think of what her family has to live with. So darn sad.

 

[jodierenee]

Goodness....that's not what I was expecting either.
Most likely she got a speedball...which is a lethal mix of heroin and cocaine. It is so important for people to know that you can't always trust what you get off the street! It is very easy for drugs to get accidentaly switched up and sold to the wrong person, etc. I'm sure this is what happened with her.

Still, it is no excuse for those boys not to take her to the hospital. They were just thinking of themselves. If they only would've thought, which is worse...being held for manslaughter/accidental death or MURDER?

:furious:

 

[PrayersForMaura]

Goodness....that's not what I was expecting either.
Most likely she got a speedball...which is a lethal mix of heroin and cocaine. It is so important for people to know that you can't always trust what you get off the street! It is very easy for drugs to get accidentaly switched up and sold to the wrong person, etc. I'm sure this is what happened with her.

Still, it is no excuse for those boys not to take her to the hospital. They were just thinking of themselves. If they only would've thought, which is worse...being held for manslaughter/accidental death or MURDER?

:furious:

that's exactly what I was thinking!

 

[petra]

In between baking christmas cookies and awaiting our kids and friends arrival home for the holidays from all corners of the world, I thought I might update some of these threads and then perhaps they can be moved to located/found dicussion thread if moderators and others agree. I am too excited to sleep.