NE NE - Jessica O'Grady, 19, Omaha, 10 May 2006

[OriginalJerseyGirl]

KETV.com - News - 'Area Of Interest' Is False Alarm

... At 4 p.m., deputies went to the lake to check out what was described as a KETV photographer as an area that looked like "a shallow grave." Deputies determined that the area was not related to the O'Grady case.

Searcher D.J. Ginsburg told KETV NewsWatch 7 that it looked like someone had dug a hole and filled it back in. He said his team will keep searching until sundown on Thursday. He said it was disappointing to hope they'd found something, only to find out it was not a clue in the case.

Members of the USATV Search and Rescue team spent several hours combing the area around the lake on Wednesday afternoon, after investigators got a tip that O'Grady's body may be there...

 

[OriginalJerseyGirl]

WOWT | Searching for Jessica

... Detectives are looking for anything that shows someone, possibly Chris Edwards, was in a location.

"We're just picking sites close to the residence he was living at and places of interest to him, and we're just working out from there..."

"I can't stress enough how important assistance form the public is going to be, especially with the nice weather and people are going to be out and about."

The United States Search and Rescue Team is made up of citizen volunteers from Omaha and on Wednesday they searched the Lake Cunningham area and they say they won't give up until Jessica is home.

In all, the Unites States Search and Rescue travels within a 1,000 mile radius to help with searches. They say they could always use more volunteers to help with the searches.

Douglas County Sheriff's Deputies will continue searching farther and farther away from the house where Chris Edwards was living at 130th and Cady...

 

[Kelly]

I am highly annoyed that they are not using cadaver dogs. I have discussed this situation with a family contact. At least, to our knowledge, they are not using them.

 

[dannyodie]

I am highly annoyed that they are not using cadaver dogs. I have discussed this situation with a family contact. At least, to our knowledge, they are not using them.

seems where I read somewhere that during a search near the lake a hole that looked as though had been dug and then filled back in should be checked with dogs to see if they make indications that a body could have at one time been there, maybe a body had been there and then moved. wonder if they will dig it up to see if there is any traces of blood or fibers that can be matched to jessica?

 

[Kelly]

seems where I read somewhere that during a search near the lake a hole that looked as though had been dug and then filled back in should be checked with dogs to see if they make indications that a body could have at one time been there, maybe a body had been there and then moved. wonder if they will dig it up to see if there is any traces of blood or fibers that can be matched to jessica?

They said that this spot yielded nothing. It was noted in one of the recent media reports. However, they are not using dogs, unless they are keeping that under wraps, but I don't think so. I have encouraged the family to act upon this immediately. I think many of these searches have been a waste to some degree because of the lack of dogs.

 

[amom]

kelly - was the person a cousin of Jessica's or chris's?

 

[Bobbisangel]

They said that this spot yielded nothing. It was noted in one of the recent media reports. However, they are not using dogs, unless they are keeping that under wraps, but I don't think so. I have encouraged the family to act upon this immediately. I think many of these searches have been a waste to some degree because of the lack of dogs.

I couldn't agree more.

 

[mom3dd]

prayers to Jessica's family. And prayers that I also pray that Edwards is having an awful time in jail and willneed to talk.

 

[Kelly]

kelly - was the person a cousin of Jessica's or chris's?

Jessica's. She's a cousin or niece...something like that.

 

[longwayaround]

Saturday's search turned up no clues. Keep praying for Jessica and her loved ones.

also, jessicaogrady.com keeps up to date on news stories regarding the case, and shows a picture of her missing person flyer.

 

[OriginalJerseyGirl]

The Gateway - No bond for murder suspect

The suspect in the criminal murder case of a missing UNO sophomore was denied bond Tuesday morning during his arraignment hearing...

O’Grady’s aunt, Shauna Stanzel ... confirmed speculation that O’Grady, an elementary education major, was pregnant at the time of her disappearance. Deputy County Attorney Matthew Kuhse declined to comment on the possible pregnancy and its impact on the prosecution’s case, saying that investigators were unable to confirm her pregnancy...

 

[OriginalJerseyGirl]

KETV.com - News - Search Warrants Provide More Details Of O'Grady Search

Six separate search warrants related to the disappearance of Jessica O'Grady were unsealed on Tuesday...

A later affidavit showed that O'Grady left a message for her roommate the night she was last seen. The message said O'Grady was lost trying to find Edwards' house...

A second warrant filed on May 17 lists hair, blood, semen, saliva, skin, fibers, fingernails, feces and urine as items possibly concealed in the home...

A May 22 warrant ... also mentions ... a Walgreen's security tape ...

Edwards ... allegedly bought items at the store to conceal evidence, the documents state. Investigators recovered rubber gloves, scour pads, a scrub brush, a mop and paint. Those items were purchased at Walgreen's, the tape shows, the day after O'Grady was reported missing...

There is no plan for a future search (for Jessica) at this time, (her aunt) Stanzel said.

 

[OriginalJerseyGirl]

WOWT | O'Grady Case Details

... It has also been learned that O'Grady believed Edwards to be the father of her unborn child.

The documents state that investigators were given permission to search the home but when detectives say they found a large amount of suspected blood evidence soaked into one end of Edwards' mattress, they decided to call in a crime lab and were asked to leave. That's when they pursued the search warrant and collected 38 items from the house.

Some of the items included a white trash bag containing apparent box spring lining, pieces of wood and filling for an apparent box spring, a paper sack containing three pieces of light brown carpet from the stairs leading to the basement, rubber gloves, scour pads and a scrub brush...

 

[Bobbisangel]

Sounds like LE has plenty of evidence to put Edwards away for quite a while. I hope they end up charging the stepmother, aunt, and cousin because they helped clean up the crime scene and lied to LE. When they refused to answer the door that should have been a big ole flag to LE.

I can't even imagine enough blood to soak through a mattress down into the box springs.

Well, we figured that the baby was his. That was no doubt the whole problem. It is hard to believe that all of these guys believe that if they eleminate the problem then life will just go on a usual.

I wonder what he did with Jessica's body? I wonder if his family know. No wonder it was said that Edwards hadn't stayed at home after the murder. He had to cut his bed up and the bedroom was a blood bath. Can't help but laugh that he was dumb enough to go into Walgreens and buy all of that cleaning stuff. Busted buddy.

 

[concernedperson]

The whole group of them disgusts me to my core.I want all of them arrested. Edwards and the clean up crew.

 

[mom3dd]

I agree anyone involved should have to face prosecution. I hope Edwards roomates are working on him.

 

[longwayaround]

Court Records Released

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A guard who sees Edwards everyday at the jail tells Action 3 News Edwards spends a lot of time crying.
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Good. I hope this eats away at him for the rest of his life. I don't know if he's crying out of remorse or because he knows that he will be found guilty, though.

The article also mentions that it is believed he buried Jessica.

I also read somewhere that investigators are trying to see cell phone records that might indicate where the suspect was after Jessica's disappearance.

 

[Bobbisangel]

Now isn't that just a heartbreaker that poor Edwards spends a lot of time crying....NOT. I highly doubt that he is crying from remorse. Probably more like crying because he got caught..."oh poor me......" This kid is so stupid it isn't even funny. He goes to a big store and buys cleaning supplies and then he leaves the shovel he used to bury Jessica in his car. Why didn't he just give the police a call and say "I'm guilty...I murdered Jessica and here is where she is...!" If he is bawling all of the time there is a good chance the police can break him and find out what he did with her. I wonder if he has an attorney yet? They should make a deal with him and tell him they will take the death penalty off the table if he will tell them where Jessica is. Maybe when they get the report from the evidence back they will do that. This kid is young and I'll bet he doesn't want to die. Think of what it would be like to be in prison at his age for the rest of his life....a long long time.

 

[dannyodie]

Now isn't that just a heartbreaker that poor Edwards spends a lot of time crying....NOT. I highly doubt that he is crying from remorse. Probably more like crying because he got caught..."oh poor me......" This kid is so stupid it isn't even funny. He goes to a big store and buys cleaning supplies and then he leaves the shovel he used to bury Jessica in his car. Why didn't he just give the police a call and say "I'm guilty...I murdered Jessica and here is where she is...!" If he is bawling all of the time there is a good chance the police can break him and find out what he did with her. I wonder if he has an attorney yet? They should make a deal with him and tell him they will take the death penalty off the table if he will tell them where Jessica is. Maybe when they get the report from the evidence back they will do that. This kid is young and I'll bet he doesn't want to die. Think of what it would be like to be in prison at his age for the rest of his life....a long long time.

very nicely put bobbisangle, your right about all is bawling, I think he is sorting this all out in that pea size brain of his that he knows his goose is cooked and this is eating away at him, I feel that it won't be long that he is going to tell the whole story, because I think he knows that they have enough evidence to bury his sorry butt, so he is probably just trying to work up to the whole truth and the more he thinks of it, the more it eats away at his poor little life. either way, he is not going to get nothing less than life in prison, I agree that he should take a plea and settle for life in prison than to take the death wrap, after all, at his young age in prison with some of the worst kind, maybe he will get raped in prison and abused, too bad edwards, you make the bed you sleep in!!! now reap the outcome of your stupid actions. jessica is looking down over the balcony of heaven smiling at your stupid no good for nothing butt.

 

[OriginalJerseyGirl]

Edwards does have an attorney. He's the clown that was making those ridiculous statements about how his client not only claims innocence but also acts like he's innocent. He also claimed that he and his family were cooperating fully with police and wanted them to either charge him or leave him alone.

I can't remember ... is this the case where the first attorney ditched him?