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| Smiley, Shantina 3-13-10; Puget Sound, WA - age 29 | |
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| tatertot | Mar 15 2010, 10:08 AM Post #1 |
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http://www.kitsapsun.com/news/2010/mar/14/...erdale-mom-son/ Mystery Deepens As Silverdale Mother, 8-Year-Old Son Remain Missing By Kitsap Sun staff Posted March 14, 2010 at 6:29 p.m. The Thurston County Sheriff’s Department is searching for a Silverdale woman and her 8-year-old son after their minivan was found Sunday in Puget Sound. The 29-year-old mother, identified as Shantina Smiley, and the 8-year-old boy, Azriel Carver, were driving Saturday from Silverdale to her stepfather’s home in Castle Rock in her boyfriend’s van. The van was discovered late Saturday beneath the water in North Gull Harbor north of Olympia. No bodies were found in the car, Thurston County Undersheriff Brad Watkins told KOMO-TV, and there were no signs of foul play. The doors of the car were open and her intact wallet was inside, but not her purse, Mealy said. Investigators say that Smiley left Silverdale at 5 p.m. At 6:45 p.m., she called her boyfriend from a pay phone asking him to get her cell phone, but he didn’t answer, said Thurston County Sheriff Lt. Chris Mealy. Detectives found a receipt at a local business that places her in northeast Olympia at 7:55 p.m. Law enforcement officials are treating the case as suspicious. Mealy said that Smiley, a portrait photographer, has no history of mental illness or any other problems. Investigators conducted boat and beach searches, but came up with nothing. Deputies also are checking with neighbors.
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| tatertot | Mar 15 2010, 10:09 AM Post #2 |
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Azriel Carter in Silver Alerts: http://z10.invisionfree.com/usedtobedoe/in...showtopic=56655 |
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| tatertot | Mar 16 2010, 08:18 AM Post #3 |
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http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=10107327 Woman, Son Missing After Van Found on Wash. Beach Authorities: Missing woman, son were 'beyond lost' on Wash. backroads, abandoned car on beach OLYMPIA, Wash. March 15, 2010 (AP) The Associated Press A woman heading to her stepfather's house was "beyond lost" when she and her 8-year-old son took one wrong turn after another through the backroads of Thurston County and onto a private Puget Sound beach, authorities said Monday. The minivan driven by Shantina Smiley, 29, was found partially submerged Sunday with its doors open. A wallet containing Smiley driver's license, some cash and credit cards were found in the van, but neither she nor her son was anywhere in sight. "Apparently she got stuck and abandoned the car," said Lt. Chris Mealy of the county sheriff's office. There was no indication that a crime took place inside the 2005 Dodge Caravan, he added. Detectives have traced Smiley's path from her home in Silverdale to the far reaches of Thurston County, more than 50 miles north of her stepfather's house in Castle Rock in Cowlitz County and far from any road that would have led her there. Mealy said Smiley had called her fiance Saturday night in northwest Olympia to update him on her location because she had left her cell phone at home. An employee at an east Olympia diner where she bought a corn dog told investigators she left without her purchase and then tripped and fell walking back to her van, but Mealy said the fall was not serious. The elderly couple who lived nearby said they let Smiley use their phone to call her grandfather, gave her son a piece of pizza, and then directed her back to the freeway. She wasn't heard from again. "The homeowners said she acted nervous because she was lost," Mealy said. She was not injured but spoke of an accident, which investigators believe may have been a reference to falling down at the diner. Mealy said that as she left the home, Smiley made another series of driving errors that eventually led her to a hard-to-find dirt path and driving onto the beach. "It gets dark up there. It gets really, really dark," Mealy said. "I was there Sunday afternoon. I had trouble finding that trail in the daylight." Friends and family described Smiley as a responsible, mature, rational woman. She has no history of substance abuse, Mealy said. Her fiance, Robb Simmons, and Smiley's stepfather began searching for Smiley and her son, Azriel Carver, after she didn't arrive at their planned meeting spot Saturday. Azriel is a second-grader at Vinland Elementary in the North Kitsap School District, according to school principal Charley McCabe. "I have no idea of why she would have ended up down that road," Simmons wrote on his Web site. Mealy said Smiley has "no friends or relatives or lovers or boyfriends in Olympia or Thurston County." "Somebody somewhere knows something," Mealy said. "She could be missing voluntarily. Something untoward could have happened to her. She could have done something untoward to her son. We have no clue."
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| burnsjl2003 | Mar 19 2010, 07:15 AM Post #4 |
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Azriel Carver has been found deceased. http://z10.invisionfree.com/usedtobedoe/in...&#entry11251922 |
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Lisa “Thou shalt not be a victim. Thou shalt not be a perpetrator. Above all, thou shalt not be a bystander.” (On a plaque at the Holocaust Museum in Washington D.C.) | |
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| tatertot | Mar 22 2010, 09:07 AM Post #5 |
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http://www.seattlepi.com/local/417073_drowning19.html Friday, March 19, 2010 Last updated 2:28 p.m. PT Officials: Boy died of drowning; abuse reported KOMO-TV STAFF A day after a missing boy's body was found on a Puget Sound beach, an autopsy has found that his cause of death was "accidental drowning," according to the Pierce County Medical Examiner's Office. Meanwhile, the search resumed for his still-missing mother as reports surfaced that she previously had been investigated for abusing and neglecting the youngster. Thurston County sheriff's spokesman Chris Mealy said Friday that deputies in a boat were looking for Shantina "Kat" Smiley, 29, of Silverdale. Smiley and her 8-year-old son, Azriel Carver, were last seen Saturday night, and her minivan was found partially submerged in a cove off Budd Inlet near North Olympia at about 11:15 p.m. Saturday. Azriel's body was discovered Thursday by a local resident on a Fox Island beach -- about 18 miles away -- and Mealy said strong tidal action in the area easily could have carried the boy's body that far. Meanwhile, Child Protective Services confirmed that it had received 10 complaints involving Smiley and her son over the past five years, and that three of the complaints had been investigated. That portrait of the relationship between mother and son differed dramatically from an earlier statement by Smiley's fiance, Robb Simmons, that he didn't believe she would do anything to endanger her son. According to CPS spokeswoman Sherry Hill: · A report was filed in June 2005 that Carver suffered "serious physical abuse" by Smiley's former boyfriend. The complaint was investigated, and the boyfriend was arrested for assault -- but never prosecuted. · In March 2007, CPS investigated a complaint that Smiley had physically abused her son, but the complaint was closed as "unfounded." · In August 2007, the agency found that Smiley was negligent in caring for her son after she left him unsupervised while she was passed out from alcohol intoxication. The boy was placed under the care of relatives while Smiley received substance abuse treatment, then returned the next year to his mother's care. · Another referral was made to CPS in April 2009 about Smiley and her son, but no details were immediately available. "We're still waiting to find out how much contact we had at this time," Hill said. CPS will now conduct an extensive "fatality review," which involves going over every aspect of the case to see if mistakes were made by any agency along the way. "We will look at all activity we had with the family ... in the fatality review," Hill said. "We're going to scrutinize every action." Hill said it is not fair to blame CPS for the boy's death without further information. "I dont believe it is fair to jump to that conclusion, when you have to look at people going through treatment and making an effort," she said. "Any death of a child is tragic, and a child's death is even more troubling when that child has been served by the child welfare system and when a death is due to child abuse or neglect at the hands of an adult that was entrusted to care for them - it's even more heartbreaking. ... We continue to learn from these tragedies." Searchers in the vicinity of Fox Island so far have found no sign of Smiley. The search is being coordinated by the Pierce County Sheriff's Office. Deputies were able to recover several items that washed up on the beach in Budd Inlet on Tuesday night that belonged to Smiley, including leather shoes, an inhaler and an orange ball. A half-full and corked wine bottle also was found. The missing boy's father, Jay Carver of Buffalo, N.Y., flew out to Washington state to aid in the search for his son. He said his heart sank when he heard the news that the boy's body had been tentatively identified. "I was just hoping to find them safe somewhere to where I can come through and have them, and find them alive ... didn't play out that way," he said. "He could've offered a lot to this world. It's just a shame that he's not here." Smiley and her son were headed from Silverdale to her stepfather's home in Castle Rock when they disappeared over the weekend. Detectives have determined that Smiley turned off Interstate 5 in the Olympia area while enroute to Castle Rock, and was seen by several people who described her as appearing to be confused and lost. A wallet containing Smiley driver's license, some cash and credit cards were found in the minivan, but neither Smiley nor her son was anywhere in sight. "Apparently she got stuck and abandoned the car," Mealy said. There was no indication that a crime took place inside the 2005 Dodge Caravan, he added. An employee at an east Olympia diner where she bought a corn dog told investigators that Shantina left without her purchase and then tripped and fell walking back to her van, but Mealy said the fall was not serious. The elderly couple who lived nearby said they let Smiley use their phone to call her grandfather, gave her son a piece of pizza, and then directed her back to the freeway. She wasn't heard from again. Mealy said that as she left the home, Smiley made another series of driving errors that eventually led her to a hard-to-find dirt path and driving onto the beach. Smiley's fiance, Robb Simmons, said the woman had a drinking problem and relapsed last week. |
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