FL - Port Orange, June 2012: Body found in backyard of rape suspect James Maxwell

[Reality Orlando]

Who could this be? I just saw this and no update that I can find:

"PORT ORANGE, Fla. (AP) - Authorities say they've found human remains in the backyard of a central Florida man already facing child rape and kidnapping charges.

Port Orange police say 44-year-old James Maxwell is a suspect in the death of the person they found. Officials say they have a good idea of who it is, but they won't release the identity publicly until it's confirmed by a medical examiner. They did confirm that the body was extremely decomposed and had likely been there for more than a year."


Read more: http://www.myfoxorlando.com/story/1...kyard-of-man-facing-rape-charge#ixzz1yYLPLaZY

 

[SoBeCzar]

Wonder if this is going to be another Serial Killer.

 

[colette]

A family thinks the remains may be Chasity Starr. She has been missing a little over a year, and had been involved in prositution. The family was told the remains found in the backyard of James Maxwell's family home are female, small in stature, and had been there around a year.


http://www.cfnews13.com/content/new...icles/cfn/2012/6/20/family_discovered_re.html

 

[Reality Orlando]

Wonder if this is going to be another Serial Killer.

Or maybe this is a break to ID the serial killer that appears to be working the Daytona Beach area. Port Orange is basically the next town over from Daytona Beach.

 

[NikonCharlie]

If you where to google James Maxwell Palakta FL, Yuo will fin his connection to Satsuma, where Haleigh Cummings was kidnaped!!

 

[merrymary]

This is coming from local Newspaper Daytona Beach News-Journal (https://www.news-journalonline.com/...e-hunt-for-clues-in-killers-yard/89336621007/ Port Orange police dig for evidence in backyard of imprisoned killer) I copied below due to paywall (hope it is approved).​

PORT ORANGE — Police here were seen on March 26 digging up the backyard of the former home of James Lee Maxwell, who is serving multiple life sentences for killing two women and raping a 9-year-old girl.

Maxwell buried one of the murdered women in his backyard.

The Port Orange Police Department released a statement that detectives were currently working an active investigation at 180 Brandy Hills Drive. The home was where Maxwell lived when he killed and buried a Holly Hill woman in his yard in 2011.

"Information and new circumstance have enabled investigators to obtain a search warrant for the location in an attempt to recover evidence in connection with a 2012 investigation," police said. "The execution of the search warrant is ongoing and updated information will be provided as available."

Police with a front-end loader tore down what appeared to be a back porch of the home and broke and removed concrete from the ground. The machine then loosened the top soil for detectives who then searched the dirt with shovels.

Port Orange killer serving multiple life sentences​

In 2015, Maxwell, now 57, was sentenced to additional two consecutive life terms in prison for killing Chasity Starr, 27, of Holly Hill, and Pamela Will, 48, of South Daytona.

Port Orange police said Maxwell buried Starr in his backyard.

Both women were prostitutes.

When Maxwell was sentenced in 2015, he had already been serving three life terms for kidnapping and raping a girl who was a 9-year-old neighbor, police said.

Port Orange killer strangled women to death​

According to a News-Journal 2015 report, Maxwell admitted to Port Orange detectives that he killed Starr by strangling her in January 2011.

Starr’s body was found in Maxwell’s backyard. Her skeletal remains were wrapped in a red, white and blue quilt-like bedspread, police said.

Maxwell also strangled Will, whose body was found in a muddy ditch next to International Trade Associates in Ormond Beach, where Maxwell once worked, police said.

 

[tlcya]

“Information and new circumstance have enabled investigators to obtain a search warrant for the location in an attempt to recover evidence in connection with a 2012 investigation,” the release reads. “The execution of the search warrant is ongoing, and updated information will be provided as available.”
Police scour Central Florida killer’s home for evidence in 2012 case

no paywall on this one. I hope the renewed search finds useful leads and helps bring justice to anyone who has waited this long to get it.

 

[merrymary]

We still have a number of missing young women...perhaps they are hoping to solve some cold cases?