Found Deceased MI - London Thomas, 17, FBI now involved, from Detroit, phone ping behind a school in Westland, last seen w/older bf on Carlysle, Inkster, 5 Apr 2025

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The neighbors didn't know how it got there but I bet the woman who lived there does.

According to neighbors, a single mother and her three children live at the home where the SUV was parked.


7 News Detroit rang the doorbell on the house. A women answered saying "no comment."

Thanks that makes more sense. Wonder if the boyfriend was one of the two arrested?
 
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Southfield — Friends and family of a Detroit teen gathered Monday evening near the Southfield home where they said her decomposing body was found Saturday.

There, a few dozen loved ones held candles, released balloons and demanded "justice for London."

The body of 17-year-old London Thomas was found Saturday, Michigan State Police said. She last had been seen April 5 and was reported missing April 8...
 
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Really? Her body was in a car parked in someone’s driveway for two weeks and resident has no idea how it got there? If I come home and there’s a strange vehicle in my driveway, I’m calling the cops in a hot minute. What the heck?

It's a bit confusing, but the car was parked in her own laneway. It was the neighbours who watched the police arrive and provided comments. The news report makes it sound like the car was in the neighbour's driveway. But that's not the case.
 
  • #24
Snipped from the Detroit News Link above.

She also questioned why the Southfield resident who lives where her niece's body was found hadn't called police about the SUV, which had apparently been sitting outside the home for weeks.

"(That person) didnt' call the police. That ain't right," Ford said.
 
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I have a question, I can't seem to find the info. The SUV that she was found in on a neighbors, driveway/alley or whatever, WHO'S NEIGHBOR? The BF's mothers house or London's house? TIA
 
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I have a question, I can't seem to find the info. The SUV that she was found in on a neighbors, driveway/alley or whatever, WHO'S NEIGHBOR? The BF's mothers house or London's house? TIA
As I understand it, the location isn’t tied to either. The neighbors quoted in the story, are neighbors of the home the vehicle with her body was discovered at. It is a little confusing at this point. I still don’t understand why no one reported the vehicle?
 
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State police said two people believed to be involved in her disappearance were in custody but no charges have been announced. Family members said authorities told them Thomas was found in an SUV parked near a home along Millard Street. Monday's vigil took place just a few homes away, at the corner of Millard and Sherman Avenue.

Family members said they are unsure whether anyone who lives at the residence may have been involved in the teen's death. Thomas' aunt, Connie Ford, urged prosecutors to bring the harshest charges possible.
 
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The Inkster Police Department said family members were unable to get in contact with London Thomas after she was dropped off at an Inkster home April 5.

The body of Thomas was discovered April 26 in Southfield, about a 15-mile drive north of Inkster, Michigan State Police said in a news release a day later.

Read more at: https://www.kansascity.com/news/nation-world/national/article305224591.html#storylink=cpy
 
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May 2, 2025

The suspects linked to the discovery of a missing teenager’s body in Oakland County were released by police, but then one was re-arrested and charged with lying to cops during the investigation.
 
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A person of interest in the murder of London Thomas has been re-arrested for allegedly filing a false police report last year.

Attorney Terry L. Johnson said his 23-year-old client was previously in a relationship with Thomas, who found dead in Southfield on Saturday, April 26.

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Johnson said his client was arrested on Saturday, May 3, by U.S. Marshals, and is accused of filing a false police report in 2024.

His client’s mother, Charla Pendergrass, 48, of Clawson, was charged Friday with lying to a peace office in connection to Thomas’ death.

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A person of interest in the murder of London Thomas has been re-arrested for allegedly filing a false police report last year.

Attorney Terry L. Johnson said his 23-year-old client was previously in a relationship with Thomas, who found dead in Southfield on Saturday, April 26.

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Johnson said his client was arrested on Saturday, May 3, by U.S. Marshals, and is accused of filing a false police report in 2024.

His client’s mother, Charla Pendergrass, 48, of Clawson, was charged Friday with lying to a peace office in connection to Thomas’ death.

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Why couldn't they just say this to begin with?

I watched CP's hearing on Friday - she looks very, very, scared ... I think we all know what the outcome is going to be.

 
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He was arraigned on the charge of false report of a felony, which allegedly involves the Novi Police Department.

During that arraignment, a Novi police sergeant asked the judge for a high bond and GPS tether because of other pending cases, including the teen’s disappearance and a felony weapons case.

He was given a $25,000 bond, and as of May 5, 2025, he posted bond and was released from the Oakland County Jail, according to the jail’s website.

 
  • #37
London Thomas was laid to rest Saturday on what would have been her 18th birthday.

“Today is London’s birthday,” Thomas’ mom, Jasma Bennett, said. “We had her funeral, we had her burial, we had her repass and now her balloon release.”...
 
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Another woman’s life taken. It seems like this is escalating. If a woman wants to leave an abusive situation these ‘partners’ decide that murder is better than just walking away. SMH…

MOO and speculation
 
  • #40
Another woman’s life taken. It seems like this is escalating. If a woman wants to leave an abusive situation these ‘partners’ decide that murder is better than just walking away. SMH…

MOO and speculation
or a trafficking/drug/gang thing because she was dumped like trash, noone touched that car for weeks she was in. But yeah, jmoo and speculation
 

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