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http://www.wral.com/news/local/video/7147243/

Video of Raven's court appearance on Tuesday, March 2, 2010.

 

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http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/03/03/366745/dead-womans-kin-attend-hearing.html

Raven walking into Court
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Published Wed, Mar 03, 2010 05:22 AM
Modified Wed, Mar 03, 2010 12:43 AM
Dead woman's kin attend hearing

DURHAM Their silence was the loudest presence in the room.
About 20 family members and friends of Janet Abaroa sat in the first two rows of a Durham courtroom Tuesday afternoon to watch her husband's first appearance before a Durham judge.
Raven Abaroa, 30, was arrested Feb. 2 at his home in Montpelier, Idaho.

*You can read article in full at above link

The murder case is one of two legal proceedings that the families are dealing with. Janet Abaroa's relatives are fighting for custody of Kaiden, who is with Raven Abaroa's relatives.

The hearing Tuesday was filled with nervousness for Janet Abaroa's family members, said Tim Dowd, a family spokesman.

"We're all a bit anxious to be physically in the same room face to face with the person we suspect murdered our loved one," said Dowd, a former neighbor of the couple.

"It's a little bit unnerving, but I think there is strength in numbers, and the family wanted to be here today, Dowd added. "They wanted to make a statement that they'll be here throughout the entire process."
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http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/03/03/367791/death-penalty-not-sought-in-durham.html

Death penalty not sought in Durham case

DURHAM Prosecutors will not seek the death penalty against Raven Abaroa.
He also was given a $5 million bond, Durham Assistant District Attorney Jim Dornfried said.

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Chapel Hill lawyer Amos Tyndall will represent Abaroa, who remains in the Durham County jail. His next court date will be the week of May 3.

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Durham police ask to exhume slain mom's body

http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/7718536/

Durham, N.C. — The family of a Durham woman killed inside her home five years ago have given authorities consent to exhume her body.
In a statement Thursday, Janet Christiansen Abaroa's family said the Durham Police Department and the district attorney's office recently made the request to remove her remains from her Pennsylvania grave.

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Police to exhume Janet Abaroa

http://abclocal.go.com/wtvd/story?section=news/local&id=7477259

DURHAM (WTVD) -- The Durham Police Department has requested the family's permission and consent to exhume Janet Abaroa's body from her final resting place in Pennsylvania - permission and consent were granted.
Investigators want to gather more evidence before the trial of Janet's husband Raven on first-degree murder charges.

Authorities extradited Abaroa from Idaho on February 26. Janet was found stabbed to death in the couple's Durham home in 2005. She was pregnant at the time of her death.

Video:

http://abclocal.go.com/wtvd/video?id=7477623

 

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http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/7890347/

Husband balks at exhuming slain Durham woman's remains

DURHAM, N.C. — The man accused of stabbing his wife to death inside their Durham home five years ago has objected to an attempt by police and prosecutors to exhume her body.

Attorney Amos Tyndall previously said Raven Abaroa had no objections to removing Janet Christiansen Abaroa's remains from her Pennsylvania grave. Janet Abaroa's family issued a statement Thursday saying that they learned Wednesday that Raven Abaroa had refused to sign a court order allowing the exhumation.

more at link.

 

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http://abclocal.go.com/wtvd/story?section=news/local&id=7532436

Family: Abaroa exhumation stalled

... Now that Raven has refused to sign an order of court consent for the exhumation, the Christiansen family said in a statement Thursday that the process will now likely take months instead of weeks. It says it will appear in court in Pennsylvania to ask a judge to move forward with the investigation....

More at link.

 

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http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/07/08/571149/abaroas-attorney-attempting-to.html

Published Thu, Jul 08, 2010 12:21 PM
Modified Thu, Jul 08, 2010 12:23 PM

Abaroa's attorney attempting to halt exhumation

DURHAM Raven Abaroa's attorney will be in Chambersburg, Pa., Friday trying to stop the exhumation of Janet Christiansen Abaroa's body.
Raven Abaroa is charged with first-degree murder in the fatal stabbing of his pregnant wife in 2005.

Five years later, this February, police in Idaho arrested Abaroa, 30, at his home in Montpelier. Durham Police Chief Jose Lopez Sr. has said Abaroa's arrest came because investigators continued to follow leads with help from the FBI and State Bureau of Investigation.

Last month, the Christiansen family consented to let the Durham Police and district attorney's office exhume Janet Abaroa's body seeking evidence.
"While this is heartbreaking and emotionally difficult for the family, it is yet one more example of this family's commitment to pursuing justice for Janet," the family said in a statement.

Lauren Sulcove, an assistant district attorney in Franklin County, Pa., has petitioned the court there to approve digging up Abaroa's body on behalf of Durham authorities.

"Raven Abaroa is opposing it," Sulcove said.

Abaroa's attorney Amos Tyndall of Chapel Hill hasn't filed any motion yet, Sulcove said, but he has told her he'll appear in court Friday at 1:30 p.m.

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http://www.herald-mail.com/?cmd=displaystory&story_id=248741&format=html

Prosecutors in murder case seek exhumation of body

Remains of Janet Christiansen Abaroa requested for tests

By JENNIFER FITCH
July 8, 2010
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CHAMBERSBURG, Pa. — Prosecutors in a North Carolina murder case are asking Franklin County (Pa.) Judge Douglas Herman to sign an order to exhume the remains of a woman buried in Brown’s Mill Cemetery.
Court documents state the Durham County (N.C.) District Attorney’s Office is requesting the remains of Janet Christiansen Abaroa for four tests. It wants fingerprints, casts of her hands and marks made on her skeleton by the weapon, as well as an answer to whether there are contact lenses in her eyes.


Abaroa’s lifeless body was found in her Durham home on April 26, 2005, court documents state.

Police obtained an arrest warrant for her husband, Raven Abaroa, and charged him with murder earlier this year. After having previously been indicted by a grand jury, Raven Abaroa was arrested Feb. 1 on the warrant, according to court documents and published reports.
Janet Christiansen Abaroa’s family is expected to attend a hearing before Herman at 1:30 p.m. today. A family spokesman said the woman’s father was subpoenaed, and others want to attend in a show of support for further testing and prosecution of the person charged in her death.
It was “extremely distressing” for the next-of-kin to decide to proceed with exhumation, family spokesman Tim Dowd said.

“The family recognizes this is an ongoing investigation, and the family wants to see justice,” he said.

Court documents state that, through his attorney, Raven Abaroa initially consented to the exhumation and later disagreed with it. They also state the victim’s 5-year-old son is too young to be asked for his consent as next-of-kin, but her parents and siblings all signed forms.

“Mr. Abaroa objects to the commonwealth’s petition to exhume Mrs. Abaroa’s body ... to conduct experiments that have no scientific validity, will be performed without a specific or established protocol, and are designed to support conclusions the analysts have already reached about the case,” defense attorney Amos Tyndall wrote in a statement obtained by The Herald-Mail.

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http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/7930081/

Judge orders remains of slain Durham woman be exhumed

CHAMBERSBURG, PA. — A Pennsylvania judge ordered Friday that the remains of a woman killed in her Durham home five years ago be exhumed so authorities can search for evidence in her death.

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http://abcnews.go.com/US/murder-victim-exhumed-clues/story?id=11156857

In a highly unusual case, investigators are traveling to the small Pennsylvania cemetery where Janet Abaroa was buried five years ago to see if she was wearing contact lenses at the time of her murder.



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Raven Abaroa tells dispatchers his wife Janet is dead and blood is everywhere.


The victim's former husband, Raven Abaroa, is charged with first-degree murder in the fatal stabbing of his pregnant wife in North Carolina. He had fought the exhumation in court, but a Pennsylvania judge sided with the prosecution.

 

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http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/07/19/588392/slain-womans-body-to-be-exhumed.html

By Jesse James DeConto - Staff writer

DURHAM --
Authorities today will exhume the body of Janet Christiansen Abaroa from her Pennsylvania grave.
Raven Abaroa is accused of stabbing his pregnant wife to death five years ago.

Ten days ago, a judge in Franklin County, Pa., approved a request from the Durham Police Department to dig up the victim's body to collect evidence.

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http://abclocal.go.com/wtvd/story?section=news/local&id=7562121

DURHAM (WTVD) -- The body of Janet Abaroa is scheduled to be exhumed today in Pennsylvania.
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She was murdered in her Durham home five years ago, and her husband is charged with her death.
Last week, a Pennsylvania judge told Durham County prosecutors they could exhume Janet's remains for more evidence in their case against Raven Abaroa.

 

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http://www.whtm.com/news/stories/0710/756791.html

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Sunday evening, a spokesman for Janet's family released this statement:

"The family is disappointed that their request to suspend video taping during the portion of the procedure that would involve the removal of Mrs. Abaroa’s sacred burial clothing was denied by Mr. Abaroa and his attorney, Amos Tyndall. As a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints himself, one would expect that Mr. Abaroa would understand the significance of this request, especially considering it has no evidentiary value."

Franklin County coroner Jeff Conner said he and his staff will be with the body for the next 48 hours, until it is re-interned in Janet's family plot at Brown's Mill Cemetery in Antrim Township on Wednesday morning.

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Although most of her immediate family lives in Virginia, Janet was buried in Brown's Mill Cemetery near Greencastle. Dowd said she was buried in a large family plot, next to the body of her sister, who died years ago of leukemia.

The closest marker to Abaroa's grave simply reads "Christiansen." There is no stone bearing her full name and the dates of her birth and death.
"Raven was adamant that he was going to take care of that, and here we are over five years later and there's nothing there," Dowd said.
He added that the family will likely install a headstone after the case is finally closed.

In addition to investigators, a representative of Raven Abaroa's defense was at the exhumation. As per the judge's orders, this person was allowed to videotape the exhumation and examination.

Dowd said the Christiansen family are devout members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. According to their faith, Janet was buried in "temple garments," which are considered sacred.

While the Durham police have agreed not to record video of the open casket until these garments are removed from Janet's body, the defense declined the Christiansen family's request.

"It's kind of a slap in the face for the family," Dowd said.
After the evidence has been gathered today, the remains will be sent back to Geisel Funeral Home for the night, Dowd said. Re-interment is tentatively scheduled for 9 a.m. Wednesday, according to Conner.

By court order, the remains are supposed to be out of the ground for no more than 48 hours, Conner said. He said a time limit is standard procedure for exhumations, and investigators in this case shouldn't need more than the limit.

"We don't want that body out of the ground any longer than necessary, out of respect for the family," he said.

 

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The Durham News
2010: A look back
Events that made news

Published: Jan 02, 2011 02:00 AM
Modified: Dec 30, 2010 08:10 PM

http://www.thedurhamnews.com/2011/01/02/205062/2010-a-look-back.html

January

Rebuilding Rolling Hills/Southside remained little more than plans on paper in 2010. In January, Durham misses out on a $31 million federal stimulus grant for the project, and in August misses out on $1.3 million in state tax credits expected to finance Phase 1 construction.

February

Duke lacrosse accuser Crystal Mangum returns to the public eye after setting fire to a pile of her boyfriend's clothes during a fight. After the most serious charges are dropped, she is later sentenced to 88 days of time served.

Durham police extradite Raven Abaroa from Idaho to face prosecution in the 2005 murder of his pregnant wife. The case remained unsolved until an SBI analyst re-examined blood stains on Abaroa's shirt, which may point to his guilt.

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" The case remained unsolved until an SBI analyst re-examined blood stains on Abaroa's shirt, which may point to his guilt."

Very poor timing to count on the embattled SBI blood experts for a conviction.

 

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http://abclocal.go.com/wtvd/story?section=news/local&id=8343873

Tuesday Raven Abaroa asked a judge to reduce his $5 million bond to $500,000. Instead, the judge lowered his bond to $3 million.

 

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http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/10831366/

The family of a Durham woman killed almost seven years ago said Thursday that they are worried the recent ouster of District Attorney Tracey Cline will delay the prosecution of the case.

 

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http://abclocal.go.com/wtvd/story?section=news/local&id=8574128

DURHAM (WTVD) -- The wheels of justice are known to turn slowly, but the family of a murdered Durham woman told ABC11 Thursday that "enough is enough."

 

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ABC News 11
Tamara Gibbs

"I think the citizens of Durham need to understand there's something going on there. We need to make sure that cases that need to be tried - that process needs to move forward however way," said Dowd.

http://abclocal.go.com/wtvd/video?id=8574327