GUILTY TX - Alanna Gallagher, 6, Saginaw, 1 July 2013 - #1

[ahintexas]

Looks to me the truck stopped at the stop sign and when it took off, the body fell out.

Not sure I'm convinced that's what happened. If the tarp wasn't on top of her, yes, but if she fell out the back, or more like slid, what are the chances the tarp would fall out, and land right on top of her? Very slim.

 

[alwaysonmymind]

This could be of interest-

This is less than 1.5 miles from where Opal Jennings was abducted in March 1999. Richard (Ricky) Lee Franks confessed, then recanted. He was convicted but maintains his innocence.

 

[mysticrose]

If she was dumped, right in the middle of the road it would leave me to believe that this person wanted her found and took great risk in doing so.
So brings the question as to why? Most perps at least try to hide a body, don't leave them out for the world to see.

Is it to hurt the parents in some way or another for something done? Perhaps to send a message to someone else around the neighborhood? Is it some freak who want's a lot of attention? Is it a gang intiation of some sort?

So many, many scenarios.......................

I just dont think she was left there on purpose, because it doesnt fit the mo of most............

 

[ArianeEmory]

Is this an Austin Sigg copycat upping the ante?

 

[mysticrose]

SNIPPED.............................

Saginaw police are searching for a red truck with a green splatter of paint the size of a paint ball on the right rear quarter panel.

http://www.saginaw-texas.com/childs-body-found-in-saginaw-neighborhood/

God, please let somebody know this truck raying:

Edit to add: The LE officer says that the paint splotch it is actually the size of a soft ball, I thought I would clarify that. It is in first video posted at about 1:15

 

[ArianeEmory]

I could turn out to be wrong, but I am leaning away from family involvement, or at least suspending judgement until we get more info.
I feel like, if the family owned the truck, it would already be very obvious and arrests would be made.

 

[matou]

I could turn out to be wrong, but I am leaning away from family involvement, or at least suspending judgement until we get more info.
I feel like, if the family owned the truck, it would already be very obvious and arrests would be made.

ITA. If they have the truck the info would have leaked already. Street view and SATELLITE view of the street the victim was taken from shows some red trucks. There is even one across the street. JMO

 

[carbuff]

If the red pickup really is involved in the incident (sounds like they're pretty positive), that makes me doubt whether the parents are involved. It would be really easy to trace if they owned a similar vehicle. If it belonged to anybody in either neighborhood, it would most likely have been identified before now. In small suburban neighborhoods like this, everybody knows what everybody else drives.

If the perp had rolled her up in the tarp, she might have rolled out like that with the tarp loose around her.

 

[Perodicticus potto]

Perhaps rigor had not set in yet?

Or it had worn off (2-3 days after death).

 

[mysticrose]

I wish LE would give a statement .... How horrible, horrible, horrible !

 

[KMouse]

You would think that if the owner of the red truck was not involved they would have come forward already.

If I were LE I would be checking all the car washes in the area for surveillance tapes.

 

[SuziQ]

Not sure I'm convinced that's what happened. If the tarp wasn't on top of her, yes, but if she fell out the back, or more like slid, what are the chances the tarp would fall out, and land right on top of her? Very slim.

In my sleuthing experience, bodies are usually wrapped up in something to hide the view from others when loading it in a vehicle. In the pic it still looks wrapped. Just loosely.

 

[mysticrose]

"IF" this poor child did have a bag over her face, this little girl maybe knew and could identify the perp.
Which may lead to if she was put where she laid on purpose ,some kind of remorse, caring from the perp, wanting her to be found right away.

This move just baffles me as any DNA, fingerprint evidence, will be easliy found on this child if it exists, just due to the time frame.

 

[SuziQ]

I could turn out to be wrong, but I am leaning away from family involvement, or at least suspending judgement until we get more info.
I feel like, if the family owned the truck, it would already be very obvious and arrests would be made.

BBM. I feel the same way. It's that report of decomp that's hanging me up. Hopefully that will be cleared up soon.

 

[carbuff]

BBM. I feel the same way. It's that report of decomp that's hanging me up. Hopefully that will be cleared up soon.

Yeah. Since it only appears in one place -- and sadly CNN has not been as reliable or accurate as they once were -- I am tending to discount it a bit. But it would be nice to know for sure.

 

[Kaliste]

Ive been bouncing from one news station to the next all morning and have not seen them publicly identify her. If you go to the scanner thread I think you will see her name.

Thank you! I'm not concerned with finding out her name personally, was just worried this was an Unidentified child. Happy that LE does in fact know who she is.

 

[helpful]

Hate to ask this, but what has the weather been like in DFW? Has it been hot this week, as it has been elsewhere in the West? The extreme heat could speed up decomposition.

This poor child.

 

[21merc7]

Decomp WARNING***********************

It starts the minute oxygen stops. The aroma is within minutes. Add summer weather. Don't know if there was visible, but under tarp...............

We should wait for more reports and any ME release.

 

[Tonya421]

Why am I thinking about the names, Sommer Thompson and Jessica Ridgeway? Could this be a scenario like Sommers? And too many others to name??

And Opal Jennings. She was from Saginaw,too, but they caught the person who abducted and murdered her

 

[SCHMAE]

This could be of interest-

This is less than 1.5 miles from where Opal Jennings was abducted in March 1999. Richard (Ricky) Lee Franks confessed, then recanted. He was convicted but maintains his innocence.

I would be shocked if these are related but I will state I followed Opal Jo's case very , very closely and I never believed him or his ' confession' . In my mind, her killer is on the loose still.