GUILTY MI - Bobbie Maples, 32, Muskegon, 15 Dec 2014

[wendybtn]

It does sound like some time passed between when she went missing and when the homicide occurred.

 

[skydelta3574]

The recent post on the Help Find Bobbie Maples fb page breaks my heart. Her mom is right; the police should have never gave that interview & the paper never should have published it without confirming that it's Bobbie.

The police should have taken Bobbie's mom WAY more seriously. They didn't because she was a known drug addict, even though she was on suboxone to get her life on track. So heartbreaking.

I don't mean to stir the pot but I'm sure they did take her mom seriously. My brother is a police officer in Michigan. Cases like Bobbie's aren't necessarily rare. They are so sad but they become routine for LE. They DO put as much manpower and effort in as they possibly can but they're also dealing with missing kids, car accidents, suicides, etc and at least in our state, they are horribly understaffed. This is why it's so important for families of the missing to be advocates. Bobbie's mom was, she has been fantastic, putting in all of this work and taking care of the baby even as she is trying to find her daughter. My heart goes out to her and Bobbie's daughter.

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[bwt42]

http://woodtv.com/2016/01/28/suspect-listed-address-around-corner-from-maples-burial-site/

Suspect was a heroin & cocaine dealer she was dating @ the time. This article kinda dispels the narrative of her getting her life in order. I doubt if she was alive for very long after she went missing. Someone had to know who her boyfriend was & should have alerted the police. I think I read who her boyfriend was is the first or second post I read, Shawn Williams. I wonder if he's the suspect.

 

[kiwijayne]

I can tell you in New Zealand a sad story of when the police didn't take notice of a Mum's pleas for help. A friend of my brothers went missing(I called him my brother too he was very close to your family). He was a naughty boy lol into drugs and had been in prison for various things.

His Mum knew something was wrong she went to the police etc and they said oh don't worry he will turn up. Next day there was a article about a mans body found in a river and it gave a description that fitted him. Again Mum went to the police armed with medical records(he had several plates etc fitted in his head and leg after an accident) and also pictures of his tattoos and again was turned away. It only got resolved after she went to the morgue and got to see his body imagine the shock(he had been in the river for days and then in the morgue as well).

In the end it was ruled an accidental drowning.

I felt so sorry for her.

 

[byo]

Murder charge issued in Bobbie Jo Maples' disappearance, death

updated March 23, 2016 at 3:44 PM

An open murder charge has been filed in the disappearance and death of Bobbie Jo Maples by the Muskegon County Prosecutor's Office two months after her buried body was discovered.

Ronald Earl Williams of Muskegon Heights, who currently is incarcerated, is expected to be arraigned Thursday or Friday, said Muskegon County Prosecutor D.J. Hilson.

Hilson said it is believed that Maples was killed at a house in the 4900 block of Michillinda Road where Williams was staying at the time. Hilson estimated the date of her death as Dec. 15, 2014, the same day Maples went missing.

 

[perfectingpink]

Police: Michigan Woman Buried Near Barn Was Suffocated

Ronald Williams appeared in court Tuesday on a murder charge and asked for an attorney. He's in prison for a drug conviction.

Roosevelt Park police Chief David Boone says Williams told investigators that he "administered" drugs to Maples and was present when she died. Boone says she had duct tape over her nose and mouth and a plastic bag over her head.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/michigan-woman-buried-barn-suffocated-cops-38169491

 

[JerseyGirl]

A failure to file papers with the Michigan Department of Corrections and a missing witness forced postponement of a court hearing for Ronald Earl Williams, charged with the murder of long-missing Bobbie Maples.

Kloote postponed the hearing until 9:30 a.m. May 4.

http://www.mlive.com/news/muskegon/index.ssf/2016/04/bobbie_maples_murder_prelim_de.html

 

[JerseyGirl]

A judge in Muskegon County said there’s enough evidence to send Ronald Williams to trial.

http://detroit.cbslocal.com/2016/05/11/man-to-face-trial-in-death-of-woman-buried-near-barn/

 

[byo]

Suspect pleads no contest to killing, burying Bobbie Maples in 2014
By Stephen Kloosterman | [email protected]
on August 26, 2016 at 12:40 PM, updated August 26, 2016 at 12:50 PM

Williams entered the plea Aug. 26 before Judge Timothy G. Hicks of Muskegon County's 14th Circuit Court. The no contest plea is not an admission of guilt, but is treated the same as a guilty plea during sentencing.

The second degree murder charge reflects that Williams acted with willful or wanton disregard for killing or doing great bodily harm to Maples, although he did not premeditate murder.

Williams, 36, had earlier faced a charge of open murder.

In accepting the plea, the court agreed to a minimum sentence of 18 and a half years, with a maximum of up to life in prison, said Matt J. Roberts,

Williams' sentencing hearing has been set for Oct. 3.

 

[byo]

Dana Chicklas ‏@DanaChicklas 2h2 hours ago
Bobbie Maples' mother speaking: Bobbie was mother of 2, says a mother is her child's best friend, Williams robbed her of this @FOX17

Man sentenced for Bobbie Maples murder
Posted 2:50 PM, October 3, 2016, by FOX 17 News and Dana Chicklas, Updated at 03:50pm, October 3, 2016

MUSKEGON, Mich. — A man who pleaded no contest in the death of Bobbie Maples was sentenced Monday to 55 years in prison.

Maples, 32, disappeared in Dec. 2014, days after giving birth.

Her body was found 13 months later buried under a horse corral near a Fruitland Township barn.