Lost In Lima Ohio - A true crime blog

UPDATE, Jack is Back . Having read Stephen of CrimeSceneBlog 's posts ( first and second ) on Jack McClellan both at his site and as CrimeBlog.us, I've come up with a great idea for Seattle residents. Now, bare with me while I refresh you on the Jack situation. From CrimeBlogs - Entitled “Seattle - Tacoma - Everett girl love,” the site offers a listing of events in the Seattle-Tacoma, Washington area where Girl Lovers (referred on the site as GLs) may find large groups of little girls (referred on the site as LGs) to view and photograph. It would seem that the man who authored the site “Seattle Tacome Everett Girl Love” is not afraid to show his face or give his name in public. He is Jack McClellan, a 45-year-old male and he appeared on Fox News, along with his name and the title “pedophile.” Now, in Stephen's post, he goes on to tell readers that this is the man to be on the lookout for. And, he's right. People should be watching for this freak. Especially those wit...

How do you know when you need a new judge? For starters, when he is Judge Howsare from Bedford Pa. As you may recall, I've written a few times about the judge, and the pervert who recently sat in his courtroom on trial for almost 400 counts of sexual abuse of a child. The perv, Richard Crawford was convicted, the state said he was a sexually violent predator, but the judge wasn't sure so he postponed the sentencing (it's already been almost 3 months since the conviction). Those not familiar with the case, here's some background reading: Richard Crawford Judge Daniel L. Howsare For those of you aware of it, I'll just take half a second reminding you that 98 of the charges against this slime bag carried mandatory 5 year minimum sentences. Judge Howsare Courtroom No. 1 Courthouse Annex Juliana Street Bedford PA 15522 Phone: (814) 623-4810 Fax: (814)623-3858 Back to the update, it seems that the judge decided to get off his ass and do his job. However, as with everythin...

Two of my favorite non crime bloggers (although Ala comes close to being a crime blogger given some of her posts)have been kind enough to give me a "Make you think" award for this site. Kathy of Cathy's Rants and Ramblin's said I make her think too much , and Ala of blonde sagacity said I have the stories you don't want to know, but should . I'd argue that there are others more deserving of this award, but both of them could our write me, so I'm not even going to debate them. I will however do my part, and give the award to five fellow bloggers who "make me think". In no particular order: The Conservative UAW Guy always makes me think, most of the time I end up thinking about how great guns are, and how much the left drives me nuts. Home Sweet Home all too often makes me think, putting a new prospective on the term "happy couple". A Rose By Any Other Name makes me think about our men and women serving our country overseas, with h...

For those of you that caught the story on FoxNews about the "how to" manual for Seattle scum bag pedophiles to catch a little girl, my fellow crime blogger over at Crime Scene Blog is covering the story- and I must say he's doing a damn fine job of it. Stephen is an incredible writer, and he's done some homework on the now removed website in question, including gathering links to archives of the site. So, it's something that you'll want to click over to and read . For those of you who haven't heard about it yet, what on earth are you waiting for?

I'm warning you, don't read this . Don't read about the sentence which was reduced to one year in prison, or the fact that the rapist wants to get custody of the baby if DNA tests prove she's his child. Don't read about the fact that the mother, who was in the room at the hospital when the rape occurred gets visitation with the child now. And don't read about the part where the rapist is currently free, because of time credited.

Even a quick peek over at fellow crime blogger Trench's MyCrimeSpace tends to leave parents feeling a little frightened over the prospects of the potential for danger if their children use the popular social network. And yet, there are thousands of youths that log on every day that will never encounter the type of criminal conduct that is the subject of Trench's site. As parents, we have to weigh the stakes of MySpace, as well as the rest of the internet. We have to be willing to say that if our children are allowed online, we will diligently monitor their activity- and we have to be willing to follow through with that. One of the problems parents all to often run into is that our children can be more tech savvy than we are, which makes keeping an eye on them difficult. Give a 16 year old a laptop and an email, and they can set up a MySpace almost with their eyes closed... parents on the other hand might not be as adapt when it comes to navigating the social community- and tha...

America's Most Wanted has always done an excellent job informing the public about some of our worst wanted criminals. And, I've always liked the show for that- and I've always found myself interested in the cases they carry. This week however, I'll be even more interested... because one of the many cases they are covering has a few connections to my hometown. A year and a half ago I brought you the case of Alfredo Lopez-Cruz , an illegal alien who was residing in Hamilton Ohio. Police say that he lured a 9 year old neighbor into him home and raped her. The girl was able to escape when this scum bag fell asleep. Lopez-Cruz evaded police, fleeing the area. The home he attacked the girl in was later burned down, by angered people. This predators story should have ended in Hamilton, but because he was able to escape capture, he actually showed up Lima. As if we need another demented child raping piece of trash in my town. Sadly, he evaded police here too... and is still ro...

We all read the stories, you know the ones about the young girl taken by a predator, or wife shot by her husband, or the little child beaten by the person left to care for it. Yes, we've all read the stories. And we all know that it happens, and yet for some reason we tend to push the thought that it could happen in our town, to the back of our minds. We allow ourselves to wake up everyday, getting dressed and carrying on with our lives, giving ourselves the false security that it could never happen here... not in our town. Even when it happens in the next town over, we reassure ourselves that it still couldn't happen here... the other town was different, the people involved weren't from here. We push that little nagging voice that tells us that next time it could be here as far back as we possibly can. It's of no fault of our own- no one wants to think that these tragic stories could play out so close to where they live, to where their kids go to school, or their spous...

Yet again, we are faced with that time of the week when all the crime bloggers band together and share the cases that have recently perked their interest. JD of Portland Crime has done a wonderful job of putting together this weeks carnival , so be sure to stop over and give it a read.

Sick, as in deviant, disgusting, heinous, disturbing, perverted, wrong, abusive, predatory. Although, in fairness that's how I'm going to define the use of his wording, and most likely he's not using the word "sick" in the same terms. He's using it for sympathy. As a excuse to why he has to be "innocent". Thankfully, the jury didn't see it his way: BROOKVILLE, Pa. — A man was convicted of several hundred sex-crime counts for abusing a girl for a decade. A jury found Clarence Thomas, 56, guilty Tuesday of 971 counts. Those included more than 100 charges each of involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, statutory sexual assault and corruption of minors; more than 200 counts of aggravated indecent assault; and nearly 400 counts of indecent assault. Prosecutors accused Thomas of sexually assaulting his victim, now 20, from 1994 to 2004. Charges were filed in March 2006. Almost a thousand charges, over a decade. This man doesn't deserve the air he...

She was five. He was her father. She trusted him. He gave her a life sentence. She might face future infertility. He will serve three years. The Star- An HIV-infected dad who breached his “sacred trust” of parenthood and gave his 5-year-old daughter gonorrhea has been sentenced to three years in jail. His little girl was “a helpless child who loved and trusted her father,” said Superior Court Justice Bonnie Croll. There is a chance that his daughter will suffer from future infertility, the judge noted. Last October, Croll found the 47-year-old man, who cannot be named, guilty of sexual assault causing bodily harm and the sexual touching of his daughter in July 2001. “By passing gonorrhea on to his young daughter (he) caused her severe physical discomfort,” the judge said. Although she was “crying and screaming” with pain, he didn’t tell his wife that he had the disease, the judge said. “Even more repulsive” was the fact that he did not divulge his having gonorrhea when asked directly ...

As I'm catching up on reading the news tonight, I have to wonder if PA's Judge Howsare watched his local news tonight. And wondering if it had any effect on him. If you recall, Howsare refuses to set a sentencing date for a Richard Crawford, who was convicted of over three hundred counts of sexual abuse of a minor. (The two links above will take you to past posts on this disgusting case of Judaical negligence, the next will take you to the new story of Dixon) WJAC 6: A registered sex offender charged with sexually assaulting a 5-year-old girl in Richland Township is now being questioned about the rape of a West Virginia girl. David Lawrence Dixon, 41, of Sharpsburg, was arrested in Dubois on March 20 and faces six charges for allegedly sexually assaulting a 5-year-old girl in a Richland Township parking lot. Police said they are also questioning Dixon about the abduction, rape and release of a West Virginia girl on Feb. 18. Investigators with the FBI said they have investigat...

Chandler, AZ has a problem. In an unsettling update, it seems that a sexual predator who attacks young girls has struck again: Arizona- The first occurred on Jan. 16, when a man dressed as a utility worker tried to get into a house on Hamilton St. about 8:40 a.m. There were two girls in the house who fought back and the suspect fled. The suspect has also been tied to the Jan. 31 assault on a 14 year-old girl at an apartment complex near McQueen and Knox Rds. The suspect forced his way into her apartment as she left for school just after 8:00 a.m. [...] The latest attack took place about 7 a.m. on Friday, but was not reported until Sunday afternoon. Griner said the victim’s mother had left for work. A short time later, the suspect got into the house and drew a weapon. The victim told officers a similar incident happened about a month ago. In that case, a man gained entry into the house, then woke her up claiming a nearby house was on fire. UPDATES: Foxnews has a little more on this: Th...

David Waser might have once been a respected minister at the Second Church of Christ in Newark, might have been- although it's almost certain that he's not now, and wouldn't have been had his congregation members been aware of his out of church behaviors. NBC 4- The former minister at the Second Church of Christ in Newark pleaded guilty to the receipt of child pornography Wednesday. As part of a plea deal, David Waser could face twenty years in prison, NBC 4 reported. According to prosecutors, last June Waser paid $130 for several child pornography videos via the Internet. Authorities said Waser actually purchased the videos from a sting operation operated by the U.S. Postal Service. Inspectors later searched Waser's home and allegedly found all of the purchased tapes, including one in the VCR. Police said Waser admitted to wanting to watch the tapes, and said he admitting to fondling young girls during the past 30 years. Now, I'm all for the 20 years for the child...

Most of us are lucky when it comes to neighbors. Oh, they may play music too loudly at night, they make tend to think upkeep of their homes only involves moving the junk cars around when the weeds become higher than the rooftops, they might even believe that other peoples yards are a recycling center for their beer cans- but they could be worse. Just ask Christina Hager. Hager was outside recently when she was approached by David Marquart, her 57 year old neighbor. It could have been a pleasant meeting between the two neighbors, but instead it ended with Marquart requesting to have sex with Hager's 10 year old daughter. NBC 4- "We're scared to go home, the kids are having bad dreams," Hager said. "I can't sleep at night. We just don't know what to do." Hager said Marquart approached her and asked to have sex with her 10-year-old daughter. Marquart was recently arrested and charged with one count of compelling prostitution for allegedly asking Hager ...

Sometimes, there are crimes that we hear of that continue to haunt us throughout our lives. For author James Renner, the tragic unsolved murder of Amy Mihaljevic was one of those cases, and as a result he has focused a good deal of time and effort into studying the case- with the hope that one day it will be solved. The following is a guest post from James, providing some background information on Amy's murder, along with some recent updates. The Search for Amy’s Killer Continues, James Renner I suspected when I finished writing my book, Amy: My Search for Her Killer, that the search, itself, was only beginning. I had spent nearly two years researching this unsolved abduction/murder of 10 year-old Amy Mihaljevic. I dug up information on new suspects, uncovered new clues, and tracked down witnesses. But I had a feeling this case was bigger than I imagined. I was right. Some background, for those unfamiliar with the case: Amy lived in the affluent Cleveland suburb of Bay Village, the...

This Saturday at 9pm on your local Fox station, AMW will be asking for your help in bring in wanted criminals, and in solving open cases. Here's a preview of some of the cases they will be sharing: Sexual Predator Being Hunted by Police: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Investigators say Simpson approached the house, somehow unlocked a door and got inside. The woman's husband walked out into the foyer, unaware that a violent predator had invaded his home. Police say he spotted Simpson and the two struggled until the man slipped on a rug. That gave Simpson his opportunity. Cops say he jumped on the man, used a gun to beat him into submission, and dragged him into a bathroom. Police say Simpson then left the man half-conscious while he committed a horrendous crime against the man's family. With the husband out of the way, police say Simpson forced the man's wife to take off her pants. Just as he asked whether anyone else was in the house, the couple's daughter appeared. Inves...

I'm going to suggest that you not read this, although, you should read it just so that you know what sort of person could have been locked up, but received a plea deal, and could have been locked up again, but got probation instead. The indictment contains grim details about the case that police and prosecutors had not previously revealed. It says Christopher died from asphixation March 8 -- the day he was reported missing -- after the suspects choked him while "ignoring his complaints that they were hurting him." Full story, and as usual, it gets worse .

Harding of TO Crime has a special treat ready for you this week, as he is holding the Carnival of the True Crime Blogs , and it's really one you don't want to miss.

A sex crime that resulted in nothing more than a nice little plea deal benefiting the perp. A sentence of probation after violating conditions of Georgia's sex offender registry. And the result of this- a little boy coldly murdered. SOURCE- Three days before young Christopher Michael Barrios disappeared, a child molester suspected in the six-year-old's killing was sentenced to probation instead of prison for violating conditions of Georgia's sex offender registry. The suspect, George David Edenfield, also never served prison time for his 1997 child molestation conviction after he struck a plea deal with prosecutors, according to a review of court records by The Associated Press. Stephen Kelley, district attorney for the Brunswick Judicial Circuit, said today that it was not a breakdown in the system -- just a tragic situation. I have to disagree- any arrangement that is made by the court which results in the ablity of a convicted sexual offender to kill a child, or to put ...

The main stream media is just silly. I mean, they say that they report the news, but so often it seems that they only report the parts they want. Take this story, (found via crimene.ws ) Police arrested a teen suspected of trying to lure three young girls into a stolen vehicle after a group of parents confronted the boy at a Scottsdale elementary school. The teen fought with a group of as many as 10 parents Monday evening at Copper Ridge Elementary School, 10100 E. Thompson Peak Parkway after the parents used their vehicles to trap the teen on campus until officers arrived. The 16-year-old boy told officers he escaped from a bus traveling to a "group home" in the West Valley before going to a friend who reportedly gave him a stolen Buick sedan, which he drove to the Scottsdale school. Police released the boy's name; however, The Republic is withholding it because he is a juvenile. Because he is a juvenile? Really? The police release it, but the news won't? I know, yo...

I happen to be overly open to the idea that anyone can be a pervert. I've read too many cases, talked to too many people to ever believe that any group of people can be exempt from having a bad apple within their clan, friends, or fellow professionals. And, I've read a few hundred too many reports on the merits of so called religious men to believe that being a priest or religious leader means that one can't also be a pedophile. Oddly enough, there are still people that will hear allegations against a church leader and refuse to believe that their humble priest could ever do wrong. If I had a penny for every time I heard or read "he is such a good (fill in priest, rabbi, bishop, elder etc), he just couldn't have done this" I'd be "lost in somewhere warm sunny, and peaceful" rather than Lima, Ohio. Father Joe is one such priest, accused of hurting those that he should have been preaching to. There is really not any part of the story that I could ...

It's been months since little Coralrose Fullwood's father last seen his daughter alive. Dale Fullwood had checked on her when he came home at 2:30 a.m. on Sept. 17. When the family awoke around 7 a.m., Coralrose and her blanket were gone. In the moments and days that followed, a real life nightmare unfolded for her family. Around noon on Sept 17, a man who had been out walking his dog stumbled upon Coralrose's body, off in a wooded lot behind a house that was under construction. Although months have passed since her murder, no arrests have been made in the case, although one unrelated arrest was made. Coralrose had shared the home with four of her six siblings and her parents, Dale and Ellen-Beth Fullwood. They moved there two months before her death from Cape Coral. While the investigation continued, Florida Department of Children & Families officials showed up at the Fort Myers home of Coralrose’s grandparents, where her family had gathered. They had with them a warra...

An open letter to those that sit on "the bench". Dear Judges, On behalf of those that voted you into office with the expectation that you would do what you were put there to do, I would like to make a few simple requests. If you can not, in good faith force yourself to abide by the guidelines of the laws put into place by the legislators of the state in which you occupy the position of judge when it comes to sentencing those convicted of heinous crimes in a manner which is both appropriate and necessary- please have the decency to remove your robe and find a new occupation. If you can not in good faith respect the voters who put you into office under the belief that you will honorably fulfill your position, and acknowledge the difference between one accused of a crime, and one convicted of a crime, and hand out justice accordingly- please have the decency to remove your robe and find a new occupation. If you can not in good faith respect and act upon the responsibility that c...

I've previously posted on this, but with a little new information at hand, I wanted to share it again, and ask that you show your support in this case, and demand justice. Imagine if you will, that your boyfriend preys upon your daughter for five years. She suffers in silence, as so many children do, until one day when she speaks up. After five years of sexual abuse, she's gained the strength to tell of the abuse she's went through and seek justice. Your boyfriend, Richard Crawford is convicted of 390 counts of sexual abuse, with almost a hundred carrying mandatory five year sentencing. You can sit back, and focus on helping your child overcome this. She can breath easier, knowing that this man will never hurt her, or another child again. Because time has went by, and the abuse is hard to prove- the investigation takes it's toll on her, requiring her to go through not only the telling of the abuse, but even the extent that she wears a wire and gets him to admit to the a...

Every now and then, I get a search referral that isn't exactly a "screen capture of a perv" doing a search for illegal images, stories or other online stuff. Sometimes, what I end up getting is in the from of a question. I like to be helpful and answer these questions when I can. Today, a question came in that I feel really should be answered- because I have this odd feeling that this situation isn't happening just to one person, and so it may be beneficial to post the answer for others too. The question, "what action should be taken after discovering child pornography e-mail to my husband" is simple to answer. First, do NOT delete the email. It's evidence of illegal activities. Turn off your computer. Call your local sheriff, and have them come out to investigate, due to the nature of the crime- it's more than likely that they will have to take your computer. Or, if you are handy with the computer and know how- completely unplug your computer and l...

This week some of the cases being featured on America's Most Wanted are: Boston, Massachusetts …JAMES “WHITEY” BULGER…After the Oscar-winning motion picture "The Departed," a movie based on organized crime in Boston, was released, the FBI was flooded with rumors about sightings of the famous Boston mob boss. Now, new clues have surfaced in the international manhunt for this notorious mobster. http://www.amw.com/fugitives /brief.cfm?id=23567 Harrisonburg, Virginia …RONALD JEROME JONES CAPTURE…After more than 20 years on the run, police say it took just 15 seconds on AMW to catch accused killer Ronald Jerome Jones. Virginia State Police have called Jones one of the most elusive fugitives they've looked for, but after Jones got his "15 Seconds of Shame" on Saturday night's AMW, a tipster reported that Jones was hiding in plain sight -- living as a homeless person in Greensboro, North Carolina. http://www.amw.com/fugitives /brief.cfm?id=427...

I'm too disgusted to even say anything about this one, so here's the link . And a preview: A Clifton, Colo., woman was jailed Wednesday on suspicion she had her grandchildren perform sexually explicit acts while a man she met on the Internet watched.

Richard Crawford spent five years molesting his girlfriends daughter, starting when she was just seven years old. In all, Crawford was convicted of 390 counts of sexual abuse in December of last year. Today, Crawford is out on the streets, walking as freely as you and me. In fairness to the judge in this case, Judge Daniel Howsare, Crawford isn't free due to a light sentence... because he hasn't actually been sentenced at all. It seems that Judge Daniel Howsare can't decide if Crawford is a "violent sex offender", so he has been refusing to sentence him. Instead, against the advice and pleas from Bedford County District Attorney Bill Higgins the judge has allowed Crawford to wonder around, out on bond . "The state offender association board has determined he is a sexually violent predator," said Higgins. "We just need the court to go along with that." Higgins asked the judge to at least put Crawford in jail until the sentencing but the judge ...

(new updates at bottom of post) UPDATE: As I was preparing to post this, an alert came in on "christopher michael barrios". It seems that police have found the little boy, and it's not good news. The body of Christopher Michael Barrios was discovered after police arrested four suspects -- included a registered sex offender living nearby -- who told a confusing and contradictory welter of stories that suggested Christopher was abducted, killed and buried, authorities said. Updates: n the week since 6-year-old Christopher Michael Barrios vanished while playing near his trailer-park home, police have arrested four suspects who have told a confusing and contradictory welter of stories that suggest the boy was abducted, killed and buried. But investigators have yet to find the youngster, and are not sure what to believe. "It's frustrating when you have someone that tells you something and they're reasonably certain of it and you check it and it turns out not to be...

My sidebar is growing, with the addition of two three new links, along beside Kelsey's Purpose. You'll likely be seeing a few more added over the next few days, but until then, please take a moment to click over: Kelsey's Story Jessica Marie Lunsford Samantha Runnion Polly Klaas

After arguing with his girlfriend, 31 year old Kevin Chandler was left alone in his car with his 11 month old son, while the mother went into her home to grab the child's car seat. Chandler, holding the child in his arms proceeded to stab the boy in the back, and then toss him out the car window . Limbrock handed Devin to Chandler so she could retrieve his car seat inside the home. As she left the car, she heard Chandler swear at the boy and turned around to see him throw Devin out of the car window, according to a police report. When Limbrock picked up her son, she saw a knife in his back, the report said. She ran back to the home, where residents called for an ambulance. "We're still trying to determine motive here, but at this point I have no reason to believe he did this to get back at the mother or anything," the detective said. There is no motive here, just a scum bag who somehow managed to bring a child into this world, and then decided to commit a horrific cri...

Samara Laverne Spann had been bothered by her daughter while she was on the phone. She'd also been recently annoyed with the young girl, routinely calling her "devil child". Source, via Yahoo News- She also was upset because her daughter kept getting out of bed and interrupting a telephone conversation, according to the court filings. Spann told investigators she drowned the girl in the bathtub of their home south of Seattle on Dec. 31, 2004, or Jan. 1, 2005, after seeking advice from someone who was interested in the occult, prosecutors said in court papers. On Jan. 2, Spann bought a chain, a padlock and an ax at a hardware store, then cut off the girl's head, wrapped the chain about the body, put the girl's remains into a plastic bin and threw it off a bridge somewhere between King County and the Oregon border, prosecutors wrote. About a month later, Spann, her 14-year-old daughter and an infant son moved to the Sacramento, Calif., area. After multiple mental e...

If you knew that there was a cure to one of the most dangerous issues facing your children, would you want it? I'm not talking about sitting back and hypothetically nodding your head- I'm talking about really wanting the remedy, and wanting it enough to get up off your couch and do something about it. Joseph Duncan - convicted sex offender, killed three family members in order to kidnap two young children- evinitually brutally killed one of them, John Couey - convicted sex offender, found guilty of the kidnapping, rape and murder of a 9 year old girl, Joseph Smith - convicted sex offender, guilty of kidnapping and murder, Jesse Timmendequas - convicted sex offender, guilty of raping and murdering a 7 year old, Robert DeRosario - sex offender, sexually abused and killed a 12 year old boy, I could keep going... but you should have enough of the picture by now. Does it anger you? Do you pick up the paper and realize just how many children we have lost, how many laws are named af...