GUILTY WI - Kayden Powell, 4 days, Beloit, 6 Feb 2014

[Joe Friday]

IMO, the police know there is an accomplice, which is why they asked KS to draw a map of where Kayden was at the BP. Why else would they bother? Was there someone else on the surveillance tape?

If Kristen hasn't named an accomplice, I'm guessing it's someone she's trying to protect.

So you think that KS and this accomplice had it planned out where the baby would be left, and that is why KS was able to draw a map of the location where Kayden was found?

 

[Joe Friday]

There is what, an hour unaccounted for from the time KS was called by BM and when the police arrested her? I think she either contacted someone, or found someone local and told them a lie about just having a baby and needing emergency care. Possibly a female employee working at the BP. I think the person cared for the baby having no clue the baby was kidnapped and when they learned he was, ditched him at the BP not wanting to get involved/in trouble. I would not be shocked if there was an anonymous call to LE to check the BP and they are keeping that fact quiet.

This is all just a theory, if KS met/met up with the person at the BP, it would be easy to see why she would be able to draw a map.

So your theory would mean that KS and this accomplice who she gave Kayden to before she was taken into custody, would have had to conspire where to leave Kayden if this person should not want to keep the baby, and they were to dump him at a certain spot at the BP station. Because that is the only way that KS would have known where Kayden was supposed to be left and be able to draw a map of the location at the BP station where Kayden was found.

The same goes for any store clerk that might of been working at the BP that KS just left Kayden with, which might not of really been an accomplice.


That doesn't really make much sense to me.

 

[MsFacetious]

http://www.desmoinesregister.com/ar...ger-describes-stunning-discovery-missing-baby

KUDOS to the parents!!! I pray things are improving daily for them, and don't blame them one bit for not letting others know where they are! I would be so afraid someone else might try to take my baby. In hiding is where they belong for now. Let them heal, let them bond!! I still wish I could help them out somehow....

I hope they are very happy and we never hear about this baby or family in the news again aside from the continuation of this story. :twocents:

 

[SumnerRain]

So your theory would mean that KS and this accomplice who she gave Kayden to before she was taken into custody, would have had to conspire where to leave Kayden if this person should not want to keep the baby, and they were to dump him at a certain spot at the BP station. Because that is the only way that KS would have known where Kayden was supposed to be left and be able to draw a map of the location at the BP station where Kayden was found.

The same goes for any store clerk that might of been working at the BP that KS just left Kayden with, which might not of really been an accomplice.


That doesn't really make much sense to me.

I am sure in time the information will come out, but I don't understand how a baby who was outside in sub zero temperatures could have kept from freezing AND could have shown signs of being fed vigorously when examined by doctors.

What I was theorizing as some crazy possibilities is:

A) She called a friend and said "I had a baby, he's hidden in a bin next to the BP station, can you take care of him overnight and I will come get him when the cops let me go and my baby and I will head back to Denver". Or she thought she would be released in less than 24 hours so she had a planned pickup date/time.

B) She was hiding the baby and a clerk/customer came upon her, heard a fantastic story of how she has to hide her baby Moses style, kept the baby warm and fed overnight and then learned he was a kidnapped baby and put him back where they saw her stashing him because they didn't want to be involved.

I am not saying I am convinced there was an accomplice, but just a few days ago I didn't think they would find a fake belly and a stepdaughter saying she was looking forward to having a baby brother. Who knows HOW much she planned this out, possibly since she learned of BM's pregnancy?

 

[Angelonline]

I'm wondering now if KS is only the step mom to the other kids, and has never given birth. Maybe can't have children. Anyhow her story was so illogical, the text that she had given birth and then was driving back, maybe she is mentally I'll or maybe she did not realize that the story she told didn't really seem plausible.

JMO

 

[RLynne]

http://www.jsonline.com/news/crime/...-has-criminal-past-b99203890z1-245054581.html

The woman who was arrested in Iowa has been charged as 31-year-old Kristen R. Smith, of Denver. But court documents and warrants obtained by The Associated Press show the same woman faces other charges elsewhere as Kristen L. Pearson, who is 32.

...

Smith faces charges under the name Pearson in Kosciusko County, Ind., and Marathon County, Wis. The AP matched a 2011 booking photo from Marathon County to a mug shot from Arapahoe County and the mug shot taken in Iowa last week to confirm that Smith and Pearson were the same person.

She was previously convicted in Wisconsin as Pearson on four counts of issuing bad checks worth less than $2,500 and was sentenced to nine months in jail, online court records show.

ETA: If you go to this link: wcca.wicourts.gov/ , you can look up information on many types of court cases in Wisconsin. If you use the Pearson name, some interesting things come up.

 

[RLynne]

I am sure in time the information will come out, but I don't understand how a baby who was outside in sub zero temperatures could have kept from freezing AND could have shown signs of being fed vigorously when examined by doctors.

I took the 'fed vigorously' bit a little bit differently. From the KWWL story:

Doctor Jeffrey Segar saw Kayden Powell just hours after the six-day-old was taken to the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics after being found outside the West Branch BP in below freezing temperatures.

"He was active, vigorous, had normal vital signs," said Segar, Director of Neonatology. "He had been fed and by report had been fed very vigorously."

(BBM).

I took that to mean that that doctor had seen him several hours after the baby was already in the hospital, and that since being taken to the hospital, Kayden had been fed in the hospital (perhaps the doctor meant to say "he fed very vigorously", as in "he had a really ravenous appetite"). Make sense?

In any case, while I was first all "wow, what a miracle that this child survived outside for so long" (I'm in Wisconsin, and dang it's cold here right now), I am now thinking that something else must have happened. Someone upthread theorized that maybe the bin was right under some sort of exhaust vent that provided heat--absent something like that, I now lean towards yeah, someone else must have been involved.

 

[SumnerRain]

If you go to this link: wcca.wicourts.gov/ , you can look up information on many types of court cases in Wisconsin. If you use the Pearson name, some interesting things come up.

This confirms my theory earlier on her husband wishing her a happy birthday on the 10th, not the 11th and it being a fake birthday. That was one of the things nagging me that I was feeling paranoid about, thank you!

ETA: Since I can't C&P comments, I'll post a link to the website and tell you to look in the comments section from someone claiming they knew her in Milwaukee, very interesting. http://www.wkow.com/story/24666528/...harges-against-co-woman-in-kayden-powell-case

 

[SStarr33]

Hearing Friday

http://www.beloitdailynews.com/hear...cle_fdd8d7ca-940d-11e3-a158-001a4bcf887a.html

Criminal Background

http://www.beloitdailynews.com/news/criminal-background-of-kidnap-suspect-

eyed/article_e9c977ec-9405-11e3-845d-001a4bcf887a.html

Suspect may return soon:

http://www.beloitdailynews.com/news...cle_37e76074-9401-11e3-9cdc-001a4bcf887a.html

FULL INTERVIEW: Family Of Kidnapped Child Found In West Branch

http://www.kwqc.com/story/24687271/full-interview-family-of-kidnapped-child-found-in-west-branch

The husband Bruce is cute as a button.

 

[iamnotagolem]

I'm confused as to where the last name Pearson came from? Is that another identity that she stole? Her maiden name was Andrews, was she married before marrying Smith?

 

[Joe Friday]

Race to save kidnapped baby Kayden Powell

Police Chief Mike Horihan cancelled his time off and got dressed for a cold, grim day of searching the highway. Long underwear. Boots. A heavy jacket. The night before, the temperature had dropped to 24 below zero, a record-setting low in eastern Iowa.

(sniped)



Before this job, Horihan spent 30-plus years in the Iowa State Patrol, searching highways for runaways or suspects or crime victims. He was rarely the guy who found them. And he knew that they were never in the first place you looked.

This one was in the first place he looked.

It was a BP gas station, the first thing you came to when you got off the highway in West Branch. Behind the station, there was a stack of recycling bins - and a grey-brown plastic tote bin.

"The lid was on it. There was frost on the lid," Horihan said. He opened the lid and saw a black blanket inside. This was not a load of recycling.

"It was sending up red flags. So I went back into the station. I didn't open it up any further. And I said to the owner, I says, 'Is this your container?' He says, 'No, I've never seen this before in my life.' "

"I'm thinking, 'Oh, no,' " Horihan said.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/world/race-to...yden-powell-20140213-hvc89.html#ixzz2tDLUSr9m

 

[iamnotagolem]

Race to save kidnapped baby Kayden Powell

Police Chief Mike Horihan cancelled his time off and got dressed for a cold, grim day of searching the highway. Long underwear. Boots. A heavy jacket. The night before, the temperature had dropped to 24 below zero, a record-setting low in eastern Iowa.

(sniped)



Before this job, Horihan spent 30-plus years in the Iowa State Patrol, searching highways for runaways or suspects or crime victims. He was rarely the guy who found them. And he knew that they were never in the first place you looked.

This one was in the first place he looked.

It was a BP gas station, the first thing you came to when you got off the highway in West Branch. Behind the station, there was a stack of recycling bins - and a grey-brown plastic tote bin.

"The lid was on it. There was frost on the lid," Horihan said. He opened the lid and saw a black blanket inside. This was not a load of recycling.

"It was sending up red flags. So I went back into the station. I didn't open it up any further. And I said to the owner, I says, 'Is this your container?' He says, 'No, I've never seen this before in my life.' "

"I'm thinking, 'Oh, no,' " Horihan said.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/world/race-to...yden-powell-20140213-hvc89.html#ixzz2tDLUSr9m

BBM, why do I find this so concerning. Why wait 29 hours before starting to look for Kayden?

 

[SumnerRain]

I'm confused as to where the last name Pearson came from? Is that another identity that she stole? Her maiden name was Andrews, was she married before marrying Smith?

From what I can tell, Pearson is her mom's last name.

I don't know where Anderson came from, her dad's name starts with a "C" and is not listed as an alias. Maybe a former married name, maybe the name of a step-dad.

 

[kdgdid]

I will be interested to find out if she really is a half sister

 

[iamnotagolem]

From what I can tell, Pearson is her mom's last name.

I don't know where Anderson came from, her dad's name starts with a "C" and is not listed as an alias. Maybe a former married name, maybe the name of a step-dad.

The dispatch call said that Andrews or Anderson (now I don't remember which) was her maiden name. Maybe that was her mom's last name when KS was born and her mom has since remarried and at some point KS took the last name Pearson, too.

Or maybe Andrews/Anderson was another identity or the maiden name of one of the identities that she stole.

 

[SStarr33]

Denver woman, Kristen Smith, charged in Wisconsin baby kidnapping, repeatedly claimed to be pregnant

http://www.thedenverchannel.com/new...-kidnapping-repeatedly-claimed-to-be-pregnant

7NEWS' interviews with people who know Smith and Colorado court records portray Smith as a troubled woman, who was arrested in Aurora last fall on fugitive from justice warrants in Indiana, where's wanted for forgery, and Texas, where she's wanted for fraud.

On Dec. 6, Smith filed for divorce from her husband, Joseph Allen Smith II, 28, in Arapahoe County court.

In a sworn divorce petition, Kristen Smith checked a box saying she was pregnant. "Petitioner is currently pregnant," the divorce records said.

But Smith didn't divorce her husband. At the request of the couple, the divorce case was dismissed just three weeks after it was filed.

 

[Hatfield]

BBM, why do I find this so concerning. Why wait 29 hours before starting to look for Kayden?

It bothers me too but I am just happy he was found alive.

I think part of the reason is that most normal people would never think a person could do something so awful and when they did not find the baby with the woman LE may have wrongly assumed that she passed it off to an accomplice.

Its a lesson to be learned. Immediately think the worse and search immediately all the spots you can even if dark outside.

 

[SStarr33]

Here she is in her orange and white stripes:

http://www.kcci.com/news/central-iowa/suspect-in-babys-kidnapping-due-in-court/24482128

 

[kdgdid]

Here she is in her orange and white stripes:

http://www.kcci.com/news/central-iowa/suspect-in-babys-kidnapping-due-in-court/24482128

Big of her" to express concern" for half sister....Mighty Big indeed.:tantrum:

 

[iamnotagolem]

Attorney Victoria Noel said Friday that her client, Kristen Smith, wants to express concern for her half-sister because she understands "she has gone through an ordeal."

Read more: http://www.kcci.com/news/central-io...idnapping-due-in-court/24482128#ixzz2tK7oTfvR

By that she means she tried to destroy her sister's life. Nice. Kidnapping your sister's child then leaving it to die, where was your concern then?


Sorry I've lost any compassion and sympathy I had for KS. She filed for divorce all the while her and her DH were proclaiming their undying love for one another on FB.

She is a piece of work.