WV WV - Aliayah Lunsford, 3, Lewis Co., 24 Sep 2011 - # 2

[bdawk20]

Thinking further....why would you even leave your house for 2 hours if you thought your child had wandered off?? I could see looking around outside, yelling the child's name...but wouldn't you STAY THERE in the event that the child returned home?!?!?!?!?!

My gut tells me she was up to no good!

Makes me wonder if she wasn't driving around searching, but rather driving around trying to come up with a story..........

jmo

 

[kljohnson0458]

I'm surprised NG even has it on her page given she seems to be devoting her show every night to DWTS. I haven't watched her since it started and won't until she's won or voted off. I find it very offensive given the subject matter of her show. I couldn't believe they and JVM were waiting to show her dance last night. There are children missing her people.

 

[mrsu]

Wenc....where is peaderson (sp?) school?

 

[Mgorules]

I would have been screaming her name so loud everybody in the neighborhood would have been out of their houses wondering what the heck was wrong.

OT: Heck, We had a bird get out and did that, lol. One of the neighbors who did not know us, four blocks over, came over and said it was in his back yard. He knew it was ours because the whole neighborhood knew we were missing a bird within minutes of it getting out! Honestly, how many parents in here would not have been screaming the lost childs name at the top of their lungs if it were their child?

OT: Along the same lines as you and your bird-- when one of our dogs gets out, people in the next town over can hear us yelling their names...
I often have that thought while reading cases on this forum, that many people take better care of their animals than some parents do of their children.

 

[lynnb]

The thing that bothers me the most about the 2 hr drive is that this was a 3 yr old. Did Mom really think a 3 yr old would wander off and stick to the roads and cross at all intersections?

 

[KaylynnCouture]

Just did a Google News Search for Aliayah. Very few news source have picked up the story. The only national ones are NG and CNN. And I'm pretty sure the CNN article wasn't even on the front page of the website, just in the Justice section.

aliayah lunsford - Google Search

I agree, the case hasn't been picked up by a lot of outlets yet (hopefully soon).

The media sources I've found that have picked up Aliayah's story are...

Local:
Charleston Daily Mail
WDTV 5 News
Charleston Gazette


National/Out of State:
CNN
Nancy Grace
Blogger News Network
The Republic (out of Columbus, Indiana)
The Examiner
True Crime Report

I'm sure I'm missing some, but that's all I've found so far. Only 3 local media sources doesn't seem like enough to me.

 

[KaylynnCouture]

Wenc....where is peaderson (sp?) school?

There's a Peterson Elementary School in Weston. Is that what you're referring to?

 

[JeannaT]

Press conference scheduled for 4 p.m, carried live on wdtv.

 

[MagnoliaMom]

I'm surprised NG even has it on her page given she seems to be devoting her show every night to DWTS. I haven't watched her since it started and won't until she's won or voted off. I find it very offensive given the subject matter of her show. I couldn't believe they and JVM were waiting to show her dance last night. There are children missing her people.

If she wins, she is going to donate all of her winnings to missing children. I do not watch DWTS but I was hopeful she would win. Her cause is worthy.

 

[lynnb]

John Street is blocked off on both ends, by Garton Plaza & Wendy's
https://www.facebook.com/LewisCountyTalk?sk=wall

To the locals......does anyone know why?

 

[lynnb]

Press conference scheduled for 4 p.m, carried live on wdtv.

Oh NO..... press conference and a closed street?

 

[LaLaw2000]

There is something really off with story. I do NOT believe Aliayah walked out of the house on her own. Young children, when they are sick and wake up, normally crawl up on the sofa to lay down, or go to mommy to snuggle etc. The driving around for 2 hours really concerns me.

I am just now catching up on this thread.

I know what you mean, Patty G. You are right. I feel the same way and am dreading the outcome of this one.

That little face just tears my heart out. It is haunting.

This is the first time I have heard of anyone driving around for 2 hours before calling 911. Aliayah is so tiny she simply couldn't have gone far, but I do not think she left that house on her own anyway.

GB this baby!

MOO

 

[hellinor]

In a perfect world all mothers would be like that. But, remember where Aliayah was born, her world has been far from perfect, jmo

Sorry, but can you let me know what you mean by where, and what conclusions this leads you to draw? Not trying to be rude, just can't figure it out for myself!

 

[Melanie]

Melanie - 59 is next door to 49, on the right if you are facing the house. There is another house at the end of the block facing Skin Creek, looks fairly new. The other area you have circled is the river.

Thank you. That goes back to my question- did baby A, sick and barefoot, walk down that embankement to the river. Seems odd to me...but not impossible.

Or was she placed there...if her little body is ever found.

Thanks again,

Mel

 

[LaLaw2000]

Oh NO..... press conference and a closed street?

Got to be bad news, IMO.

 

[ClaireNC]

Thinking further....why would you even leave your house for 2 hours if you thought your child had wandered off?? I could see looking around outside, yelling the child's name...but wouldn't you STAY THERE in the event that the child returned home?!?!?!?!?!

My gut tells me she was up to no good!

I thought the same thing. Why leave the house? Call for her in the house and around the yard. Call the police and maybe knock on the neighbors doors to get people to help look. But, jumping in the car and driving around looking for her, just does not make sense.

I suspect it was either that the child was really sicker than just a cold/flu an was not given the proper medical attention or it was an overdose of medicine/accidental poisoning and the mother panicked when she was unresponsive.

 

[Mgorules]

About the kidnapping theory..

On NG last night, it was mentioned that the mother watched the stepfather leave for work/said goodbye, but she stayed home and didn't leave the house (until the 2 hours she went driving around looking for Aliayah after she realized she was gone).

The house is small. I don't think someone could have came in there, with numerous other children AND the mother being home, and taken Aliayah without anyone hearing, or seeing, anything.

I really, really, really don't think that's possible. If the mother was home all morning (up until she left to go searching)..then I don't think Aliayah could have been kidnapped from the home.

BBM--
I agree, especially within the timeline provided. Even if the mother couldn't have stopped the abduction (being that pregnant with twins would have complicated her speed/agility) she or one of the other children in the house would have been able to at least give imformation about what the intruder looked like, what they were wearing, etc. And maybe they have, and LE is choosing to not release that info because they already have that person in their sights. I don't think so though, not with the child still being missing. So sad.

 

[BeBeBru]

I have not been able to get on to respond to elepher's question about the cellar.
The floor of the cellar is concrete. There is crawl space under the entire house however,
the crawl space is deeper at the cellar space. Only part of the crawl space is concrete. The finest of home grown vegetables were canned and stored in there for winter!!! Most
houses in that area had cellars and most houses had a garden.....I'm talking 10 or so years ago. It was so different!!!! The house itself always had the most beautiful baskets of petunias, ivy, gerainums.....I could go on and on. There was most pride of ownership. The houses were little but manicured.....everyone would visit on each others porch or just played in the yards with the children......Beverage, coffee, sweet tea and food was always offered. Many of the folks living there are still several generations of family. Ode to the good ole days!!!!

 

[elepher50]

Press conference scheduled for 4 p.m, carried live on wdtv.

What time zone would wdtv be in JeannatT - do you know?

 

[KaylynnCouture]

PRESS CONFERENCE Today at 4pm. WDTV will be streaming live.