Sheriff: Found body is missing Florida girl
Updated: 49 minutes ago
Clay County Sheriff Rick Beseler this morning said the body of Somer Renee Thompson is with the medical examiner who will determine the cause of her death.
ORANGE PARK - Clay County Sheriff Rick Beseler this morning said the medical examiner's office in Savannah, Georgia will determine Somer Renee Thompson's cause of death later today.
Beseler said her partially covered body was found in a Georgia landfill near the Florida state line. Investigators followed garbage trucks leaving from the neighborhood where she had disappeared Monday, he said.
Her father, Sam Thompson, identified the body of his 7-year-old daughter by a circular birthmark on her shin, reports show.
"There is a child killer on the loose and that's why we are going to catch this person," Beseler said during a televised news conference in Clay County this morning. "This is a heinous crime."
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UPDATE FROM SENTINEL
Sheriff: Body ID'd as 7-year-old Somer Thompson
Updated: 2:21 p.m.
Body of north Florida girl who vanished on her walk home from school was found under trash in a Georgia landfill. Read more...
update from CNN
Police think body is missing Florida girl's
Story Highlights
NEW: "There is a child killer on the loose," sheriff says
Girl's body found in landfill 55 miles north of town where she was last seen
Somer Thompson became separated from schoolmates on way home Monday
Georgia medical examiner to make official identification of body
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http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/10/22/georgia.landfill.body/index.html
My God In Heaven. How debased have we become?
ReplyDeleteEvil has always lived side by side with goodness. The number of good, caring people, outnumber the evil ones but it is the evil we read about. Try to remember this when you have to read stories like this one.
ReplyDeleteI am so heartbroken by this story and every story about crimes against innocent, defenseless children. It seems to be more and more common. Why is it that child molesters just seem to get a slap on the hand in the justice system? Somewhere along the line we have lost what really matters in this life. Protection for our children should be a number one priority in the court system.
ReplyDeleteI don't care how old or young this killer is or how mentally sick he may be or whatever hardships he may have had in his life, but he should be executed immediately. No questions asked.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was young, I could walk everywhere. We were told not to talk to strangers but we really didn't walk around afraid. Back then, we only knew about what happened in our own community. Now we know about it more because we have reports from all over the country. I think a lot of what we see today is not that they are increasing in numbers as much as we are more aware of them happening.
ReplyDeleteSomer Thompson Cause of Death!
ReplyDeleteORANGE PARK - Authorities are closer to learning where the body of Somer Thompson was first dumped because
they continued Friday sifting through tons of garbage was beside her in a garbage Folkston Ga., bears Speaker of the sheriff's office said Mary Justino...
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