GUILTY IN - Dorothy Heard, 74, Noblesville, 13 June 2011

[Knox]

Theory:

DB had been molesting SW, maybe for some time. DH knew, or at least suspected, but didn't say anything.

The whole "SW is missing/now she's back" thing happens, and now DH is thinking about the safety of her grandchild. DB is worried that DH is going to talk to the police, and she goes "missing."

I thought of that too.

But DH went missing before SW was abducted. I think the fact DB was a twice convicted violent RSO was no secret in this family. I'm hoping that SW's parents being aware of that fact, would never have allowed her to have contact with him. Not even at Grandma's house.

One of the news stories I linked to said DB tried to hide the fact he was married to a woman with children from his parole officer. :banghead:

 

[Knox]

Police to regroup after search for missing Noblesville woman comes up empty
Authorities are planning to regroup Monday morning to figure out their next step in the search for a missing Noblesville woman.

Dorothy Heard, 74, has been missing since June 13. Family members say her disappearance is uncharacteristic of her. Her vehicle remains on her property in the 1500 block of South 16th Street in Noblesville. Police are calling Heard's disappearance suspicious.

Investigators spent the weekend searching the Mississinewa Resevoir in Washbash and Grant Counties for Heard. They said a tip led them to the area but that they were unable to find anything.
http://www.fox59.com/news/wxin-doro...-woman-comes-up-empty-20110620,0,551528.story

 

[Knox]

hmmm So no body was found?

Read here tfrohning ...

Not MSM
http://eliwhaley.blogspot.com/2011/06/reporting-with-character.html

 

[Leomoon80]

Read here tfrohning ...

Not MSM
http://eliwhaley.blogspot.com/2011/06/reporting-with-character.html

Thanks for posting this. It shows us that the Police Chief is very much involved in trying to locate the body of Mrs Heard.
It also points out the frustation of the reporter, and the frustation of a new news director who obviously made a huge mistake , and the subsequent embarressment caused over that mistake.

The days of Huntley and Brinkley, and Walter Conkrite, (especially my favorite, being Jack Anderson as a real journalist) are long long over.

Long over is taking the time to "dot the "i" and cross the "t" before reporting something.

Today, it's "be 1st" on the news I suppose and then such a horrendous error causes hard feelings with the LE.

 

[tfrohning]

Thanks Knox for posting that. For once a media took time to explain.

 

[chasing.halos]

Noblesville Police: Charges made on missing woman's credit card

<snip>

Lt. Bruce Barnes with Noblesville PD said they believe video surveillance may show Burns making a $378 purchase at the Marion Walmart at 5:40 pm on June 13th using Heard's credit card. Another charge at the same Walmart for around $700, attempted shortly after the first purchase, was declined, Barnes said.

On the same day, Barnes said a ring was taken to the EZ Pawn shop in Marion. "We believe that ring might be associated with Dorothy Heard," said Barnes, adding that it's believed to be a 50-year-old family heirloom.

http://www.wthr.com/story/14981853/noblesville-police

 

[Knox]

Sounds like we know what the nephew's motivation was in disappearing Dorothy.

It's a shame that we have to waste so many search resources and cause families so much pain when someone has the answer, but won't talk. It makes a compelling argument for water-boarding.

 

[Kat]

http://www.wibc.com/news/Story.aspx?id=1449167

Son of Missing Woman Speaks for First Time
By Mike Corbin
6/27/2011

The son of missing Noblesville woman Dorothy Heard spoke out for the first time about the case Monday.

short article.

 

[Knox]

Police said the jewelry is Dorothy Heard's wedding ring, a ring she was likely wearing that morning, according to her family.

Police recovered the ring and said they know it was Heard&#8217;s 47-year-old nephew, Donald Burns, who tried to pawn the ring. He&#8217;s shown in store video. Burns also had to present ID at the counter. That was at 5:23 p.m.
http://www.fox59.com/news/wxin-doro...ng-now-for-two-weeks-20110627,0,7365807.story

Noblesville Police Lt. Bruce Barnes said the 50-year-old ring was recovered at the EZ Pawn in Marion. Police said the shop's records indicated Burns pawned the ring at 5:23 p.m., about 81/2 hours after Heard was last seen.


"It is definitely her ring," Barnes said. "Her family identified it."
http://www.indystar.com/article/201...-pawned-missing-woman-s-ring?odyssey=nav|head

I wish the nephew would just tell LE where Dorothy can be found.


http://www.fox59.com/news/wxin-doro...ng-now-for-two-weeks-20110627,0,7365807.story

 

[jashrema]

Body found...seems like all the news info is pouncing on could be "lauren spierer" but it is more than likely Dorothy?? Where found is only maybe 15 miles from Noblesville (Dorothy's point of origin) and I believe over 60 miles from where Lauren was last seen.

http://www.cnn.com/2011/CRIME/07/04/indiana.missing.student/

Here is news article stating LE is NOT looking at this body as Lauren Spierer

http://www.fox41.com/story/15022232/police-indianapolis-body-not-being-investigated-as-spierer

If this is the case, they say the body is so badly decomposed that ID can't be made, I'm thinking the TEETH would probably eliminate Lauren immediately. A 20 year old's teeth and a 77 year old's teeth are distinctively different.

 

[ulikey]

http://www.fox41.com/story/15022232/police-indianapolis-body-not-being-investigated-as-spierer

The body found is not Dorothy. They are saying the body found was an African American woman.

 

[Knox]

Dorothy Mae Heard - Prayers and Support Group

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Dorothy-Mae-Heard-Prayers-and-Support-Group/182642801789227

 

[soyesterday]

Please forgive me for not reading all the posts first before asking this question. But is this the story where the grandaughter was missing but later found and then the grandmother ended up missing?
Or am i thinking of another story?
If it is, do they believe it's related to each other? The abductions? If not, wth happened? I will read some now. But i remember when i first read about the story, i thought i saw there wasn't a connection to the abductions and i remember thinking how incredibly wierd that was and frustrating to follow.
But now i can't help but ask.
Sorry....
Can someone fill me in?

I actually think i'm caught up now.
Thanks.

 

[Knox]

LE said the two events were not related, but I still have some reservations.
Thank goodness Serena was found safe!

http://www.theindychannel.com/news/28242297/detail.html

 

[KaylynnCouture]

Break-In At Dorothy's Home

Police say someone kicked in a door at the suburban Indianapolis home of a 74-year-old woman missing since June and ransacked it.

Noblesville Deputy Police Chief Nick Campbell tells The Indianapolis Star that the Tuesday night break-in isn't believed to be associated with the disappearance of Dorothy Heard, who was last seen June 13.

Snipped: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-ap-in-missingnoblesvill,0,4821236.story

 

[plaidmom]

So if none of these events are related, this family must just have incredibly bad luck!

 

[SheWhoMustNotBeNamed]

Body found not Spierer, Heard or Johnson

Results from the autopsy on the body found Wednesday in a park in southeastern Marion County did not bring a close to any of the prominent missing persons cases in central Indiana.

[snip]

The news confirms that investigations into the disappearance of [snip] Dorothy Heard, 74, who vanished from Noblesville on June 13 [snip] continue.

More: http://www.wishtv.com/dpp/news/local/marion_county/body-found-not-spierer-heard-or-morgan

 

[Knox]

Family continues its search
Dorothy Heard missing for more than three months

Posted: Saturday, October 8, 2011 12:01 am
By Matt Troutman [email protected]

ANDREWS - Family of a Noblesville woman who went missing in June will be at Salamonie Reservoir handing out missing person flyers today.

http://www.chronicle-tribune.com/ne...cle_fc326430-f163-11e0-a065-001cc4c002e0.html

I lost touch with this case, thank you SWNBN for updating.

How sad the nephew doesn't have the decency to give his family some peace and tell what he did with Dorothy's body.

 

[CatFancier]

Dorothy Heard vanished nearly five months ago and while a person of interest is in custody, he has not been charged with her disappearance.

Since she disappeared June 13, family and friends haven't given up their search for the 73-year-old. Her son, Rex, said they won't stop until they find her. He retired soon after his mother vanished so he could make searching his full-time job.

"She wouldn't stop looking for me, so I'm not going to stop looking for her," he said.

On that summer day, in the middle of June, someone broke into Dorothy's Noblesville home. Some of her belongings were unaccounted for and so was she.

"We believe that we have several pieces of information and we think that it might just take one additional piece to make that link," said Lt. Bruce Barnes, Noblesville Police Department.

http://www.fox59.com/news/wxin-miss...ok-for-her-fulltime-20111102,0,2353522.column

 

[Knox]

December 30, 2011
Nephew of missing woman imprisoned in Pendleton
Burns, held for resisting police, has local criminal history

ANDERSON, Ind. — A “person of interest” in the disappearance of Dorothy Heard from her Noblesville home last June is now incarcerated at the Pendleton Correctional Facility.

Donald L. Burns, 47, entered a plea of guilty this month in Madison Superior Court 5 on a felony charge of resisting law enforcement.

Burns was arrested on June 14 in Elwood on the felony resisting law enforcement charge after fleeing from police, the day after Noblesville police began searching for his aunt, Dorothy Heard, 74.

Heard left a note on that date that she was going with Burns to visit family gravesites in Wabash. She has not been heard from since, and police investigators have been unable to find her body.

http://heraldbulletin.com/crime/x1477837110/Nephew-of-missing-woman-imprisoned-in-Pendleton