MD MD - JASON THOMAS SCOTT, suspected mother/daughter SK

[txsvicki]

This is horrible to think, but since both women had domestic disputes and were nurses, I don't suppose the attacker could be a cop who has a fetish for nurses.

 

[Bobbisangel]

It sounds like the killer or killers is after mother and daughter pairs. That is pretty strange. I've never heard of anything like this before. It could be a stranger who sees mother and daughter together and then watches them for awhile until he sees a pattern of when they are home together and then goes after them after he robs their homes. It sounds like the focus is the mother and daughter rather then the robbery. I wonder if he rapes and kills or just kills them. How horrible for both of these families. I wonder how he controls two females at the same time?

 

[bckesso]

It sounds like the killer or killers is after mother and daughter pairs. That is pretty strange. I've never heard of anything like this before. It could be a stranger who sees mother and daughter together and then watches them for awhile until he sees a pattern of when they are home together and then goes after them after he robs their homes. It sounds like the focus is the mother and daughter rather then the robbery. I wonder if he rapes and kills or just kills them. How horrible for both of these families. I wonder how he controls two females at the same time?

I seriously doubt this is a stranger. People would be aware if this were a complete stranger. In this day and age, everyone feels a need to know who they live around, and rightfully so. Also, I doubt it would make much difference how he got control of them, though judging from the first set of murders, he's most likely using a gun (since they were shot). Also, the robbery wouldn't have to matter at all, but what's really not adding up is the burning of the bodies and the "random" car in the recent murders. I do, however, agree with the mother-daughter theory, I'm just sure everyone's wondering why both the mothers were nurses in their mid 40's who happened to have teen daughters?

 

[orb4me]

Maybe there was another killing two months ago and no one has connected the dots That has happened before.

Is it time for someone to start a time line? I have no idea how to even start.

I think the killer is local, how else would he have known that house was vacant? seeing the sign does not always mean the house is vacant.


All of you amaze me with what you can do.

 

[colette]

At 10 pm the night before the burning car was discovered, the Dewits were already missing from their home. So someone had taken them somewhere for at least 4 hours, then they sole a car from another home (they already had keys ) to burn the bodies in and destroy DNA evidence.

The night of the Lofton's murder,the daughter called 911. "Karissa told the operator she and her mother had been shot. She whispered into the phone, as if the gunman were still in the home, two sources said" . Karissa was found in her bed under the covers. Maybe the same abduction was planned for the Lofton's but things escalated, the killers learned and had better planning with the Dewits murders. I still think there is a connection.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dy...03/23/AR2009032303345.html?hpid=moreheadlines

 

[tangledweb]

Below is a timeline with emphasis on the Dewitt murders.


November, 2008 Delores Dewitt's home at 9704 Cedarhollow Lane in Largo, MD burglarized. Window broken out to gain entry.

January 26, 2009 Loftons found shot to death at 10810 Southall Drive, Largo, MD.

February, 2009 Sybil Felton's home at 10800 Woodlawn Bld, Largo, MD is burglarized. Key for auto taken.

Saturday, March 14, 2009 Delores Dewitt attends cabaret given by relatives.

1:30 AM Sunday, March 15, 2009 Ebony Dewitt's boyfriend drops her off at 9704 Cedarhollow Lane in Largo, MD.

10:00 PM Sunday, March 15, 2009 Courtney Hicks texts her mother, Delores Dewitt's phone, from Largo Metro Station for a ride home. No answer.

10:00 PM Sunday, March 15, 2009 Courtney Hicks arrives at 9704 Cedarhollow Lane by other means. Mother and sister missing. Vehicle in driveway. Courtney Hicks goes to Hyattesville, MD looking for mother & sister.

10:00 PM - 3:39 AM Delores and Ebony Dewitt are being held somewhere other then their home.

2:00 AM March 16, 2009 Sybil Felton leaves 10800 Woodlawn Bld, Largo, MD, (where she lives with daughter), with boyfriend to run errand.

3:39 AM March 16, 2009 Sybil Felton arrives back at 10800 Woodlawn Bld to find vehicle missing and calls police from driveway.

3:49 AM March 16, 2009 Sybil Felton, while on phone with dispatcher shrieks and hangs up. Dispatcher calls her back. Sybil states her stolen vehicle just went by. She doesn't know how many people are in vehicle.

3:55 AM March 16, 2009 Same vehicle reported on fire at 11113 Webbwood Ct., an unoccupied home for sale, three blocks away, with Delores and Ebony Dewitt inside the trunk and backseat. This home is just a few blocks away from 10810 Southall Drive, Largo, MD, where the Loftons were found shot to death on January 26, 2009. Below is a Google map which includes all three residences; the Felton's, the Lofton's and the Dewitt's and the unoccupied home where the Felton auto was found burning. It also includes a home on Woodlawn Blvd (10500 block) which was burglarized in July last year. About 10 homes have been burglarized in the area in the last year.

The common clue regarding the Dewitt residence and the Lofton residence is they both border a wooded/fielded area and entry appears to be through a window.

10:00 PM - 3:39 AM Delores and Ebony Dewitt are being held somewhere other then their home between 10 pm, March 15 (maybe longer) and 3:39 AM., March 16. The killer must have been pretty desperate to steal the car, go get the women, drive back past the home where the vehicle was stolen from, and then burn the car and the victims in the same area. Why?

Because the killer had the key for Felton's vehicle and the Dewitt's were found dead inside it, links the Felton burglar to the Dewitt murder.

Whoever this was lives or lived in the neighborhood and are very familiar with the area. Because Sybil Felton saw the driver driving the stolen vehicle, she at least could tell his race?


The photos below are where the vehicle was found burning and pics of the handbags belonging to the Dewitt's. One is a black purse with a Cadillac logo on it. Police say a black Cadillac may be involved in the burglaries. Is there a connection?

Google map takes about 30 seconds to fully load.


http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=11113+Webbwood+Court,+upper+marlboro,+md&daddr=10800+Woodlawn+Boulevard,+largo,+md+to:9704+Cedarhollow+Lane,+upper+marlboro,+md+to:Cedarhollow+Ln+to:38.877378,-76.83265+to:10810+Southall+Drive,+largo,+md+to:10500+Woodlawn+Boulevard,+largo,+md+toickering+circle,+largo,+md&geocode=%3B%3B%3BFSgvUQIdZJlr-w%3B%3B%3B%3B&hl=en&mra=dme&mrcr=2&mrsp=4&sz=17&via=3,4&sll=38.876267,-76.83324&sspn=0.004201,0.007542&ie=UTF8&ll=38.87453,-76.825461&spn=0.016806,0.030169&t=h&z=15

 

[tangledweb]

At 10 pm the night before the burning car was discovered, the Dewits were already missing from their home. So someone had taken them somewhere for at least 4 hours, then they sole a car from another home (they already had keys ) to burn the bodies in and destroy DNA evidence.

The night of the Lofton's murder,the daughter called 911. "Karissa told the operator she and her mother had been shot. She whispered into the phone, as if the gunman were still in the home, two sources said" . Karissa was found in her bed under the covers. Maybe the same abduction was planned for the Lofton's but things escalated, the killers learned and had better planning with the Dewits murders. I still think there is a connection.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dy...03/23/AR2009032303345.html?hpid=moreheadlines

I do, too. Sybil Felton (the one who's car was stolen to transport the Dewitt's) also lived with her daughter. She may have been a potential victim, also. I'd have the police have her be very careful, too. This may still be a serial killer who target's mother/daughter victims.

I wonder what Sybil Felton's boyfriend did when Sybil's vehicle was driven past the house where it had just been stolen from and while Sybil was standing outside on the phone with the police? Did he attempt to follow the vehicle? Why was only the key to her vehicle stolen from her and her daughter's home?

That seems quite odd that a burglar would only take a key and nothing else.

)Also, in my Google map I've shown Pickering Circle (F) where another vehicle was stolen the same night as the Felton vehicle. That was just a block or two south of where the burning car was ditched and from Felton's home on Woodlawn.)

 

[crymesolver]

A few thoughts I have about this case.

When you google streets in the area you can find a ton of thefts and burglaries in the area over the last year. I wonder what is being taken and if this is a case of burglary for theft, or burglary as a means of scouting possible targets/tools for these crimes.

If I was the police I would be shaking down the local teens/young adults because they know who has the goods. Where can you get a cell phone, car stereo, gps.

I would be shocked if this person does not live in the area, as it seems someone would notice an outsider lurking around.

This neighborhood is very middle class, through the forest is an area of lower middle class apartments/townhouses and I could wonder if someone is traveling trails on foot.

In November of 2008 there was an unsolved murder of a 30 something male on Broadleaf Drive (connected?)

I am thinking the first crime may have been a caught in the act murder, and maybe the suspect(s) now have totally lost control.

Could the suspect be someone who works the midnight shift. Just spent all weekend in the house with the family and then head off to work on Sunday night? Maybe a local business?

 

[colette]

The black Cadillac was another car that was stolen and later found. I believe the keys might have been taken in an earlier break-in and later removed as Ms Felton's car was.
( I think more was taken besides the keys) The killers might not always have access to a car, so they keep the keys to later get a car when they need one. Interesting about the wooded/fields bordering the crime scenes.

If the killer was alone in his home for that weekend and the rest of family/parents or wife were returning, he had to get the bodies out of the home fast.

 

[tangledweb]

I would be shocked if this person does not live in the area, as it seems someone would notice an outsider lurking around.

This neighborhood is very middle class, through the forest is an area of lower middle class apartments/townhouses and I could wonder if someone is traveling trails on foot.

In November of 2008 there was an unsolved murder of a 30 something male on Broadleaf Drive (connected?)

I am thinking the first crime may have been a caught in the act murder, and maybe the suspect(s) now have totally lost control.

Could the suspect be someone who works the midnight shift. Just spent all weekend in the house with the family and then head off to work on Sunday night? Maybe a local business?

If he doesn't live in the area, he/they sure know the area.

That Broadleaf Dr. murder sure fits the pattern (only 2,000 feet from the Lofton home through the woods); burglarize on the edge of the woods, hidden approach and access, easy escape. If you include the Lofton home on Southall and the ditched vehicle on Webbwood Ct., that would make three easy escapes in the same general area, otherwise, why take such a high risk to drive the stolen car all the way from the east of Woodlawn Blvd, past the home it was stolen from, just to ditch it on Webbwood?

That tells me the Dewitts were being held in a "hot" compromising location and the perp(s) were desperate enough to take the car down Woodlawn (possibly past investigating officers already investigating the theft) and ditch it in the same general area as two other murders for an easy escape into the woods. The perp lives in the area and the Dewitts were probably being held at another location east of where the car was stolen, which would mean there's more then one perp.

Also, to torch the vehicle with the women in it was an act of desperation to destroy incriminating evidence. For the car to have exploded and melted a ring on a finger of a victim means that gasoline was poured in the car.

I hope Maryland has the death penalty for these psychopaths.

 

[tangledweb]

The black Cadillac was another car that was stolen and later found. I believe the keys might have been taken in an earlier break-in and later removed as Ms Felton's car was.
( I think more was taken besides the keys) The killers might not always have access to a car, so they keep the keys to later get a car when they need one. Interesting about the wooded/fields bordering the crime scenes.

If the killer was alone in his home for that weekend and the rest of family/parents or wife were returning, he had to get the bodies out of the home fast.

http://wap.twp.mlogic3g.com/detail.jsp?key=366070&rc=to&p=1&all=1

As Courtney lay awake early Monday, another Largo resident called 911 to tell police about an incident that turned out to be related to the Dewitts' disappearance. Sybil Felton of the 10800 block of Woodlawn Boulevard called from her driveway at 3:39 a.m. Felton lives with her daughter and was flying to Europe later in the day, sources said. She and her boyfriend had left her home about 2 a.m. to run an errand. When they returned, her 2005 Nissan Maxima was missing from the driveway.

Investigators think Felton's car was stolen using a key taken when her house was burglarized Feb. 28. Nothing else was reported missing from her home at the time.
As Felton spoke to a 911 operator, she shrieked and hung up at 3:49 a.m., sources said. The dispatcher called back, and Felton said she had seen someone speed by -- in her car. According to sources, Felton could not say how many people were in the car.

Six minutes later, less than three blocks away, a resident's report of a burning car in the driveway of a vacant home led police to Felton's Maxima and the Dewitts' bodies inside.

Among the questions confounding some of the county's most experienced homicide detectives: How did the driver manage to set the car ablaze within minutes and disappear from the dead-end street without being noticed? And where were the Dewitts between 10 p.m., when Courtney found their home empty, and 2 a.m., the earliest Felton said her car could have been stolen?

I'd check all area gas stations surveillance videos to see if a quantity of gas was bought in the area that night using a gas can. Then I'd take articles of clothing from the Dewitt home, the Lofton home, the Webbwood Ct. home and even the home on Broadway and get some bloodhounds out in the woods behind their homes, the Webbwood Ct. home and even the murder victim's home on Broadleaf to follow the scent trail.

 

[tangledweb]

In November of 2008 there was an unsolved murder of a 30 something male on Broadleaf Drive (connected?)

That would be:

Andre Labell Hayes, age 32
Date: 1 Nov 2008, 12:09 am
Location: Broadleaf Drive, 10600 block, 20774
Shot; found inside a vehicle with multiple gunshot wounds

Victim's address: Brooke Jane Drive, 6300 block, 20735

In further checking that case, Hayes was shot by an unknown male who jumped into a parked car before driving off.

For an interesting perspective on all homicides from 2005-2009 in Prince George's County, MD, click on the map below. It takes 30 seconds to load. If that map doesn't make you want to move far away from there, then you're probably already a combat-hardened veteran. I'll never step foot inside Maryland, myself.

http://www.burgersub.org/princegeorgestotal.htm

Prince George's County 2008 murder list:

http://www.gazette.net/specialfeatures/PGmurders_2008/

 

[tangledweb]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/26/AR2009032602164.html?wprss=rss_metro/crime

Two Found Dead, One Injured In Stabbings on Quiet Street

By Henri E. Cauvin and Ruben Castaneda
Washington Post Staff Writers
Friday, March 27, 2009; Page B02

A 911 call from a house in an ordinarily quiet neighborhood in Prince George's County led police yesterday to two men who had been fatally stabbed and a woman who was seriously wounded.

The slain men were found in different parts of the house in Upper Marlboro, their hands bound and their throats slit, according to two law enforcement sources who spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigation is ongoing.

Authorities said one of the men was the father of the wounded woman, and the other was either her boyfriend or husband. Police identified the men as LePrince Hall, 41, and Maurice Fountain, 24.

The woman called police just before 12:15 p.m. Officers arrived at the home, in the 11000 block of Snow Court, and found her alive but seriously injured, police said. She was taken to a hospital.

The assailant remained at large last night.

Investigators think the assailant knew one or all of the victims, said Maj. Andy Ellis, a county police spokesman.

The stabbings occurred in a large two-story home on a corner lot in the community of Rosaryville. Aside from an occasional burglary, neighbors said they could recall no serious crimes.

"This is a nice neighborhood," said LaTroy Askew. "This is the first time anything like this has happened around here."

Neighbors said one resident of the home owns a towing company, another is a nurse and the third is a student at Prince George's Community College.

Police described the suspect as a black man in his late 30s or early 40s with a dark complexion and cornrows and weighing about 200 pounds. Investigators think that he left the scene in a black 2003 Cadillac Escalade, with the Maryland license plate 607M880, Ellis said. The vehicle might have had white paint splatters near one of the wheel wells.

6.8 miles away from Largo we have another multiple slaying in a home involving a black Cadillac, a nurse and a student from PGCC!

How many coincidences can there be in these cases? The home is also located on the edge of a wooded area.

 

[tfrohning]

On the AMW site , both double murders involve a mother and a daughter, and they happen on a Monday in early morning hours.Today is Monday . I think if another murder happen this going to get big. I hope LE is all over that area tonight. I know this area, very nice area. I hope it does not have anything to do with the new president and family
The area is not far from Washington DC. They were murder by a road, White House Rd.
I don't know where that thought came from it just pop in my head.

 

[tfrohning]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/26/AR2009032602164.html?wprss=rss_metro/crime



6.8 miles away from Largo we have another multiple slaying in a home involving a black Cadillac, a nurse and a student from PGCC!

How many coincidences can there be in these cases? The home is also located on the edge of a wooded area.

Maybe it not a mother and daughter thing, maybe nurse thing, stealing cars I am not getting that part.

 

[crymesolver]

I have heard some rumblings of a drug connection to the most recent murders. Anyone in Prince George County would tell you that murders outside of the beltway are much more rare and to have this many in a short window has to create a lot of fear. I am worried that this is a person who was a ticking time bomb,and has went off. It is scary but they will probably kill until they are caught or killed.

 

[colette]

In this news article it says "Sources close to the Lofton case say the killer turned off the burglar alarm with a secret code before motion detectors could alert the alarm company. There reportedly was no sign of forced entry -- a fact which leads to a belief the killer knew his victims well. " But really if a victim has a gun to their head, they might give the code out, I would.

http://www.news8.net/news/stories/0309/605750.html

 

[bckesso]

At 10 pm the night before the burning car was discovered, the Dewits were already missing from their home. So someone had taken them somewhere for at least 4 hours, then they sole a car from another home (they already had keys ) to burn the bodies in and destroy DNA evidence.

The night of the Lofton's murder,the daughter called 911. "Karissa told the operator she and her mother had been shot. She whispered into the phone, as if the gunman were still in the home, two sources said" . Karissa was found in her bed under the covers. Maybe the same abduction was planned for the Lofton's but things escalated, the killers learned and had better planning with the Dewits murders. I still think there is a connection.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dy...03/23/AR2009032303345.html?hpid=moreheadlines

At long last, the info I was looking for! I agree with you still, Colette. This only solidifies our previous suspcions in my opinion. (I seriously need to join these news websites, too. )

 

[bckesso]

In this news article it says "Sources close to the Lofton case say the killer turned off the burglar alarm with a secret code before motion detectors could alert the alarm company. There reportedly was no sign of forced entry -- a fact which leads to a belief the killer knew his victims well. " But really if a victim has a gun to their head, they might give the code out, I would.

http://www.news8.net/news/stories/0309/605750.html

Not entirely true. Nowadays, security systems have silent alarm codes built in as well, so when you enter that code it silently alerts the company to send the police to your location. No, I believe the killer knew the alarm code, meaning he knew the family well. That, combined with the new info that they were missing earlier leads, in my opinion, to the conclusion that this person was probably a resident in the area. Has LE questioned all of the neighbors?

 

[bckesso]

Below is a timeline with emphasis on the Dewitt murders.


November, 2008 Delores Dewitt's home at 9704 Cedarhollow Lane in Largo, MD burglarized. Window broken out to gain entry.

January 26, 2009 Loftons found shot to death at 10810 Southall Drive, Largo, MD.

February, 2009 Sybil Felton's home at 10800 Woodlawn Bld, Largo, MD is burglarized. Key for auto taken.

Saturday, March 14, 2009 Delores Dewitt attends cabaret given by relatives.

1:30 AM Sunday, March 15, 2009 Ebony Dewitt's boyfriend drops her off at 9704 Cedarhollow Lane in Largo, MD.

10:00 PM Sunday, March 15, 2009 Courtney Hicks texts her mother, Delores Dewitt's phone, from Largo Metro Station for a ride home. No answer.

10:00 PM Sunday, March 15, 2009 Courtney Hicks arrives at 9704 Cedarhollow Lane by other means. Mother and sister missing. Vehicle in driveway. Courtney Hicks goes to Hyattesville, MD looking for mother & sister.

10:00 PM - 3:39 AM Delores and Ebony Dewitt are being held somewhere other then their home.

2:00 AM March 16, 2009 Sybil Felton leaves 10800 Woodlawn Bld, Largo, MD, (where she lives with daughter), with boyfriend to run errand.

3:39 AM March 16, 2009 Sybil Felton arrives back at 10800 Woodlawn Bld to find vehicle missing and calls police from driveway.

3:49 AM March 16, 2009 Sybil Felton, while on phone with dispatcher shrieks and hangs up. Dispatcher calls her back. Sybil states her stolen vehicle just went by. She doesn't know how many people are in vehicle.

3:55 AM March 16, 2009 Same vehicle reported on fire at 11113 Webbwood Ct., an unoccupied home for sale, three blocks away, with Delores and Ebony Dewitt inside the trunk and backseat. This home is just a few blocks away from 10810 Southall Drive, Largo, MD, where the Loftons were found shot to death on January 26, 2009. Below is a Google map which includes all three residences; the Felton's, the Lofton's and the Dewitt's and the unoccupied home where the Felton auto was found burning. It also includes a home on Woodlawn Blvd (10500 block) which was burglarized in July last year. About 10 homes have been burglarized in the area in the last year.

The common clue regarding the Dewitt residence and the Lofton residence is they both border a wooded/fielded area and entry appears to be through a window.

10:00 PM - 3:39 AM Delores and Ebony Dewitt are being held somewhere other then their home between 10 pm, March 15 (maybe longer) and 3:39 AM., March 16. The killer must have been pretty desperate to steal the car, go get the women, drive back past the home where the vehicle was stolen from, and then burn the car and the victims in the same area. Why?

Because the killer had the key for Felton's vehicle and the Dewitt's were found dead inside it, links the Felton burglar to the Dewitt murder.

Whoever this was lives or lived in the neighborhood and are very familiar with the area. Because Sybil Felton saw the driver driving the stolen vehicle, she at least could tell his race?


The photos below are where the vehicle was found burning and pics of the handbags belonging to the Dewitt's. One is a black purse with a Cadillac logo on it. Police say a black Cadillac may be involved in the burglaries. Is there a connection?

Google map takes about 30 seconds to fully load.


http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=11113+Webbwood+Court,+upper+marlboro,+md&daddr=10800+Woodlawn+Boulevard,+largo,+md+to:9704+Cedarhollow+Lane,+upper+marlboro,+md+to:Cedarhollow+Ln+to:38.877378,-76.83265+to:10810+Southall+Drive,+largo,+md+to:10500+Woodlawn+Boulevard,+largo,+md+toickering+circle,+largo,+md&geocode=%3B%3B%3BFSgvUQIdZJlr-w%3B%3B%3B%3B&hl=en&mra=dme&mrcr=2&mrsp=4&sz=17&via=3,4&sll=38.876267,-76.83324&sspn=0.004201,0.007542&ie=UTF8&ll=38.87453,-76.825461&spn=0.016806,0.030169&t=h&z=15

Would you be able to make a larger timeline of both double-homicides? I happen to be in MD for the week and I'm thinking of a train ride to this area.

Also, I'm confused about the black Cadillac connection people have been making. I'm not sure how it fits in, I thought the black Cadillac was burned in the Lofton double-homicide?

The other attack in Upper Marlboro scares me. I wonder what's going on? Why was someone left alive? Was this planned or accidental? Oh, and this person couldn't have been going on foot, because it's about an hour and a half to walk through all of these crime scenes from Webbwood Ct to Upper Marlboro.