The Search Team Was Yet Again Delayed!!! Long Post
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on 5/13/09 8:23 pm, edited 5/16/09 1:09 pm - Sweet Dreams lives in , PA
on 5/13/09 8:23 pm, edited 5/16/09 1:09 pm - Sweet Dreams lives in , PA
Hey Family,
This past weekend was not the best for my mother and I. I know that this is the main reason I was all over this board acting like a complete lunatic! I apologize. It was Mother's Day Weekend which under normal cir****tances was suppose to be a weekend of celebration. For us, it was not. Well you all know about my sisters because I talk about them enough...one died from a brain tumor and the other is missing. My mom spent her Mother's Day Sunday in prison visiting my brother who is incarcerated for an armed robbery...been there almost 17 years. 17 years old when he went in...one of the other boys he was with became trigger happy. No excuse though...he needs to serve his time. So you see...this is why I tried my best to turn my life around. I did not want to do anything to cause my mother any more grief. She already carried enough for more than one person.
On Friday, I received a call from the Detective working my sister's cold case. We have been trying desperately to get the assistance of a search team called Ecosearch to go to Arkansas and search a few suspect properties. Properties where my sister may be buried in the event she is deceased. The suspicion is that her boyfriend killed her...but we need to find her body or get more corroborating evidence. We thought the search team (specializing in finding old clandestine graves) was going to be dispatched several months ago but they were pulled away to work on the Callie Anthony search.
You all don't know what I had to go through to get my sister's cold case re-opened. When she came up missing back in 1985. They did not care. It was the typical...she's black so shes a runaway scenario. They actually laughed in our face. They even had the audacity to call my mother and stepfather to the police station saying that they had information on my sister. When my mom and stepfather got there...they arrested my stepfather on an outstanding warrant and left my poor mother standing there alone. Every time I think about this my heart sinks in. After...all she had already been through she was left standing there with with no support.
In December of 2007, I just got fed up with waiting and no one taking an interest. I took my mother on a journey. Despite her hesitancy, we went back to Arkansas. I had been working with a very cooperative detective at that time. He had given me the scoop about how basically way back then...they just put my sister case to bed (meaning they really did not put any effort into solving it). Well my mother was there and she actually was able to unload 20 something year of anger out on this detective. It wasn't right but she needed to do it....and I was so pleased that he just stood there and took it. He even apologized. This provided a temporary band aid on a very raw festering wound.
So while I am down there, I follow up on two leads that a cousin had told me about. Two women who had since been in relationships with my sister ex-boyfriend had made very disparaging comments about him and another he had actually served time for shooting her in the face.
So I interviewed both of these women and received some blood curdling details about abuse they took at this man's hands. I transcribed the notes and sent them to the Chief of Police with copies to the media and all my supporters.
This is the only reason my sisters cold case has been reopened. They are now at least putting in a little bit of effort to give us the support we need. Its funny because the detective working the case is actually a 5'5 rookie white female with a passion to help us. This lady is wonderful...she has done more in a year than any of those fat racist pigs did back in 1985.
I could go on with this story...there have been many ups and many downs. I am not looking for sympathy but only for you all to understand that this is hard yall...and I am doing everything I can to stand strong. So there is another search team out of Florida that has volunteered their services to help. We are just trying to get the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children to subsidize the cost. They are now heming and hawing because they now want their search team to do it. Its all about the notoriety that will come with solving a 23 year old cold case....and here we are stuck in the middle yet again. If I did not want to mess up a possible crime scene, I would have been down there digging my damn self.
All I am asking for is prayers to any higher power (the more the merrier), good vibes, well wishes and of course your understanding.... We need them to dispatch a search team! I do not want my mother to go to her grave with all this unresolved.
Thanks family....I appreciate it....and I will try very hard to keep my grip! Hope you all have a great day.
ETA: Made some grammar corrections
This past weekend was not the best for my mother and I. I know that this is the main reason I was all over this board acting like a complete lunatic! I apologize. It was Mother's Day Weekend which under normal cir****tances was suppose to be a weekend of celebration. For us, it was not. Well you all know about my sisters because I talk about them enough...one died from a brain tumor and the other is missing. My mom spent her Mother's Day Sunday in prison visiting my brother who is incarcerated for an armed robbery...been there almost 17 years. 17 years old when he went in...one of the other boys he was with became trigger happy. No excuse though...he needs to serve his time. So you see...this is why I tried my best to turn my life around. I did not want to do anything to cause my mother any more grief. She already carried enough for more than one person.
On Friday, I received a call from the Detective working my sister's cold case. We have been trying desperately to get the assistance of a search team called Ecosearch to go to Arkansas and search a few suspect properties. Properties where my sister may be buried in the event she is deceased. The suspicion is that her boyfriend killed her...but we need to find her body or get more corroborating evidence. We thought the search team (specializing in finding old clandestine graves) was going to be dispatched several months ago but they were pulled away to work on the Callie Anthony search.
You all don't know what I had to go through to get my sister's cold case re-opened. When she came up missing back in 1985. They did not care. It was the typical...she's black so shes a runaway scenario. They actually laughed in our face. They even had the audacity to call my mother and stepfather to the police station saying that they had information on my sister. When my mom and stepfather got there...they arrested my stepfather on an outstanding warrant and left my poor mother standing there alone. Every time I think about this my heart sinks in. After...all she had already been through she was left standing there with with no support.
In December of 2007, I just got fed up with waiting and no one taking an interest. I took my mother on a journey. Despite her hesitancy, we went back to Arkansas. I had been working with a very cooperative detective at that time. He had given me the scoop about how basically way back then...they just put my sister case to bed (meaning they really did not put any effort into solving it). Well my mother was there and she actually was able to unload 20 something year of anger out on this detective. It wasn't right but she needed to do it....and I was so pleased that he just stood there and took it. He even apologized. This provided a temporary band aid on a very raw festering wound.
So while I am down there, I follow up on two leads that a cousin had told me about. Two women who had since been in relationships with my sister ex-boyfriend had made very disparaging comments about him and another he had actually served time for shooting her in the face.
So I interviewed both of these women and received some blood curdling details about abuse they took at this man's hands. I transcribed the notes and sent them to the Chief of Police with copies to the media and all my supporters.
This is the only reason my sisters cold case has been reopened. They are now at least putting in a little bit of effort to give us the support we need. Its funny because the detective working the case is actually a 5'5 rookie white female with a passion to help us. This lady is wonderful...she has done more in a year than any of those fat racist pigs did back in 1985.
I could go on with this story...there have been many ups and many downs. I am not looking for sympathy but only for you all to understand that this is hard yall...and I am doing everything I can to stand strong. So there is another search team out of Florida that has volunteered their services to help. We are just trying to get the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children to subsidize the cost. They are now heming and hawing because they now want their search team to do it. Its all about the notoriety that will come with solving a 23 year old cold case....and here we are stuck in the middle yet again. If I did not want to mess up a possible crime scene, I would have been down there digging my damn self.
All I am asking for is prayers to any higher power (the more the merrier), good vibes, well wishes and of course your understanding.... We need them to dispatch a search team! I do not want my mother to go to her grave with all this unresolved.
Thanks family....I appreciate it....and I will try very hard to keep my grip! Hope you all have a great day.
ETA: Made some grammar corrections
are with you all! 
I pray that you and your family get justice and are able to find some peace. 
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