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Dean,Teresa Melissa - August 15,1999; Georgia
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Posted on Fri, Mar. 17, 2006

New lead in 1999 case of missing Twiggs County girl

A new lead has surfaced in a 1999 Twiggs County kidnapping case, and authorities released an image of a man they say is a person of interest in the case.
Aug. 15, 1999, 11-year-old Teresa Dean disappeared from her Twiggs County home, and Sheriff Darren Mitchum said the case could be related to two similar cases in 2001 and 2003 in Alabama.
In those cases, two other 11-year-old girls disappeared in the month of August from their rural homes in Tuscaloosa and Montgomery, Mitchum said.
Mitchum said Alabama authorities working on the two Alabama cases were searching for similar cases to generate more leads when they found out about Dean's disappearance.
The picture Mitchum released has been used in the Alabama cases, but not in the Twiggs County case until now, he said.
Mitchum said the man in the photo is said to be the last person seen with one of the Alabama victims.
He drove a white four-door car and might have worked in construction, Mitchum said.
Anyone with information in the case is asked to call 945-3357.

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Macon Telegraph, The (GA)
August 13, 2000

STILL MISSING TERESA

Author: Debbie Rhyne, The Macon Telegraph

Dateline: TWIGGS COUNTY

Correction: A photo edition in Sunday's Telegraph misstated the last name of Catherine Wimberly, sister of missing Twiggs County pre-teen Teresa Dean.

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Dorthy Dean still lives in the same singlewide blue trailer she called home when her 11-year-old daughter disappeared a year ago.
Dean's life hasn't changed much since Teresa was reported missing.
The girl's clothes are still in the same dresser, and the only photo the family still has of the beaming pre-teen sits behind Dean's recliner.
The home is old and weathered, with holes in the floor and missing or broken windows. Roaches scatter when she opens a photo album --- Dean acknowledges she has a problem with bugs in the trailer. The 1.1-acre lot is mostly overgrown.
Dean shares the trailer with her 18-year-old daughter Catherine and a brood of cats and dogs. The two women get by on Catherine's disability checks and food stamps. They have neither a telephone nor a vehicle.
She said she is still engaged to the man who described himself as a suspect after Teresa was reported missing. He is in jail on child molestation charges unrelated to Teresa's disappearance, but the two write letters to one another. His name is written on her hand.
She is leery of law enforcement officers, who she believes have not kept her informed about the search for her daughter.
In the past year, miles of woods around the Dean home have been searched exhaustively.
There has never been any sign of the 4-foot-10 pre-teen with blue eyes and brown hair. No trace of her blue-and-white-striped shirt. No sign of her brightly colored knit pants or her clear gel sandals.
"We keep her in mind," said Twiggs County Sheriff Doyle Stone. "We're still investigating it and going to follow any leads we get. We just hope one day we're going to find her, and she's going to be OK."
Aug. 15, 1999
Teresa, her mother, two of her sisters and her mother's fiance, Cody Landers, had recently left the Peach Orchard section of Bibb County for the trailer in the northwest corner of Twiggs County. The trailer, in a fairly rural area, is surrounded by woods and clay pits.
Teresa loved to be outdoors, and it was a warm Sunday afternoon.
"She was in and out like she usually does," Dean said.
Teresa told her mother she planned to check out a neighbor's new puppies and visit a friend.
"And that was it," Dean said. "She said, 'Bye momma, I'll see you later,' and then she left."
Dean, 42, spent the day at her trailer with Landers, 24, and another couple. They were washing clothes and cooking.
Hours later, a neighbor returning home from the grocery store saw the girl walking about 100 yards from her Lawrence Drive home.
Dean didn't think too much of it when her daughter had not come home by dark.
"We gave her until 9:30 p.m., 'cause she's usually in at 9:30," Dean said.
When Teresa still didn't show up, Dean and Landers started looking around the neighborhood.
"We walked around and kept walking around to see if we saw someone that might have seen her," Dean said. "Next thing we know, somebody told us they had called the cops."
Dean, who doesn't have a telephone, doesn't know who called the sheriff's office or how they knew to call.
Stone said a neighbor called around 11 p.m.
"The neighbor was concerned that they hadn't found (Teresa)," Stone said. "The neighbor didn't think they were looking for her like they should."
The search
By the next morning, Stone had talked to agents of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, which became involved.
"They really didn't have any idea what happened to her," said GBI Special Agent Audey Murphy, who is the case agent. "She was gone."
The sheriff's office, the GBI, and officials from the state departments of Corrections and Natural Resources joined in the search.
"The FBI called and asked if we needed help," Stone said. "I said yes. We were asking for anybody that would come help us. We joined together as one big team."
A command post was set up at a nearby union hall, and a state-of-the-art computer system was used to track leads.
"We don't have a crime scene," Murphy said.
A team of dogs hunted for a trail. A helicopter took infrared photographs. Searchers tore through wooded areas on all-terrain vehicles and checked out clay pits that dot that part of the county.
"We were hoping for a body --- finding her alive in the woods," Murphy said. "If not, then a decomposing body ... We didn't come up with anything."
The search stretched into parts of Bibb and Jones counties.
Teresa's mother said the investigation also focused on her and her fiance.
She said the crime lab searched her home and took away some clothing. Both she and Landers were also given polygraph examinations.
She said she passed hers. Landers, she said, didn't do well on his first polygraph, because officials didn't ask him about his health, which includes a "nervous" condition. She said Landers took a second polygraph that was inconclusive.
In the past, Landers has described himself as a suspect, but law enforcement officials have never disclosed details of the ongoing investigation.
"The GBI doesn't discuss suspects," said GBI agent Gary Rothwell. "Obviously we look at people that are close to the victim in any case where we suspect there is violence."
Since March, Landers has been in the Twiggs County jail on three charges of child molestation. The charges involve two girls --- an 11-year-old and a 14-year-old --- who accuse Landers of grabbing their breasts, buttocks and thighs.
One of the girls came forward when law enforcement officials were canvassing Teresa's neighborhood shortly after she was reported missing. The second girl reported the allegations to the Department of Family and Children Services.
Dean dismisses the allegations and has continued her relationship with Landers. They still have plans to marry, said Dean.
Landers' bond was recently lowered to $20,000, and Dean hopes he will get out of jail soon. But if he is released, he must stay out of Bibb and Twiggs counties and have no contact with females under age 18.
Dean's 14-year-old daughter Christy has been in foster care since Teresa disappeared. Her two other children --- both in their 20s --- don't live at home.
"Later, we might move out of Twiggs County when we get Teresa back," Dean said. "I think she's definitely still alive. I just wish I had my license and a way of going, and I'd go look for her myself."
Life without Teresa
Dorthy Dean describes Teresa as a "mama's girl." She is the baby of Dean's five children.
Teresa, whose middle name is Melissa, took medication for hyperactivity and has speech problems and learning disabilities.
"If you were good to her, she was your best friend. You couldn't get rid of her," Dean said. "To her, you're not a stranger, just a friend she hasn't met yet."
Dean believes law enforcement officials have dragged their feet on the search.
"To me, it seemed like nothing was being done," Dean said. "To me, it seems like nothing is still being done."
She said authorities have done everything they could to make Landers look like a suspect.
"They were looking more at us than they were looking for Teresa," Dean said. "... I don't trust cops at all."
She said her youngest daughter and Landers occasionally argued, but she firmly believes her fiance had nothing to do with Teresa's disappearance.
"They had their moments," Dean said. "But to her, he was Daddy.... He's never hurt my kids."
She also felt officials were critical of the way she responded to Teresa's disappearance.
"Just because we didn't go to the outpost where they were at and sign in doesn't mean we weren't looking," Dean said.
She said she looked for Teresa but never went out into the woods.
"I don't care too much for the woods," Dean said.
She has her own theories about what happened to her daughter.
Dean said there were two strange vehicles --- a small black car with tinted windows and a truck --- parked outside an abandoned doublewide trailer near her home on the day Teresa disappeared. She noticed them when she was out with Landers looking for her daughter.
"Recently, I've been told there was a small black car that went through here with a heavyset lady that might have picked her up," Dean said.
She also recalls incidents where she believes someone has tampered with her mail or rattled her doors.
"I think they should be looking for her ... instead of trying to blame Mr. Landers for something he didn't do," Dean said.
Since Teresa disappeared, Dean said she is smoking a lot more. She also has trouble sleeping at night, when her thoughts frequently turn to her little girl.
"Her birthday wasn't easy, either," Dean said. "I just spent Christmas by myself. I didn't want to bring nobody down."
Pressing on
In the first few weeks of the investigation, law enforcement officials interviewed hundreds of people and combed through countless leads.
"In the first week alone, we did over 200 leads," Murphy said.
But as the days stretched into weeks, the pace of the investigation slowed. The command center was closed and law enforcement officials continued working on the case from their respective offices.
"The case isn't closed," Rothwell said. "It still has our attention."
Occasionally, three or four local leads will come into the GBI's Perry office, while other weeks there is nothing. When there are no new leads to pursue, officials revisit the old ones.
"We've gone back and done some additional searches and done some additional neighborhood canvasses," Rothwell said. "We've done that, and we'll probably continue to do that."
A $15,000 reward was posted in January as part of a joint effort of the governor's office, the GBI, the FBI and the Twiggs County Sheriff's Office.
"It generated a good bit of phone calls but no physical evidence," Stone said of the $15,000 reward.
He said officials have gotten a lot of calls that the little girl is buried under Dean's trailer, or she's in a clay pit. These are all leads the department has checked out before, he said.
"But we'd go back and check again," Stone said. "... In my heart, I still believe Cody (Landers) knows more than what he's saying."
He said lately his office has received very few calls about the case.
"Nothing has turned up," Stone said. "Some days I lean toward that she's alive ... I'm hoping. There's always that hope."
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Race: Caucasian
Sex: Female
Hair: Brown
Eyes: Blue
Weight: 75
Height:
4'10
She was last seen on August 15, 1999 on Lawrence Drive in Macon, Georgia. She has a speech impediment and she may be in need of medical attention.

Any information please contact National Center for Missing & Exploited Children
1-800-843-5678 (1-800-THE-LOST)
Federal Bureau of Investigation - Macon, Georgia 1-478-745-1271
Georgia Bureau of Investigation Tip Line - 1-800-597-TIPS
GBI's Regional Office in Perry at 478-987-4545

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FLIERS SENT OUT TO HELP FIND LONG-MISSING TWIGGS GIRL

Author: Debbie Rhyne, The Macon Telegraph
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The face of 11-year-old Teresa Dean was sent to fax machines across Middle Georgia this week in an effort to generate some leads in the Twiggs County girl's 1999 disappearance.
"These things don't happen in a vacuum," said Jerry Nance, a case manager for the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. "Somebody knows something, and you can never tell what will be the thing that makes them pick up the phone and call."
ChoicePoint --- a corporate sponsor of the center --- sent out a flier to every fax machine number in the area, Nance said. The center can request mass faxes in a 50-mile radius from whereever a child disappears. Numbers are maintained in a database and can be used to target specific businesses. In this case, the faxes went to every area fax number in the database.
"We chose to do that just to see if it stirred anything up," Nance said. "It was just an effort to bring her face one more time to the public and see if it stirs anyone's memory or conscience."
Teresa was last seen Aug. 15, 1999, by a neighbor who saw the girl walking about 100 yards from her Lawrence Drive home. At the time, Teresa was described as 4-feet, 10-inches tall, weighing 75 pounds, with brown hair and blue eyes. She would now be 13.
Anyone with information on Teresa's whereabouts is asked to call the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children at 800-843-5678, the FBI at 745-1271, the GBI at 987-4545, or the Twiggs County Sheriff's Office at 945-3357.
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Northport, Ala. (WBRC-TV) – The family of Heaven Lashae Ross, 11, held a memorial service in Northport Alabama despite not having her body. Investigators recovered skeletal remains on Monday believed to be Ross, who went missing in August of 2003 while apparently walking to a school bus stop near her home in Willowbrook Trailer Park.

Authorities said the remains were recovered in an abandoned home on Creek Road in Holt along with clothing and the girl’s back pack. In the weeks after Shae's disappearance, her picture was on posters across north Alabama and her case was featured on a national television program.

Her mother, Beth Lowery, said she believed her daughter saw someone she knew and accepted a ride to avoid the ominous weather. Her sister, Alex Ross, then 13, told The Tuscaloosa News she had been waiting at the bus stop and that her sister never made it there.

Kevin Thompson, described at the time as Lowery's common-law husband, told The Tuscaloosa News in August 2005 that he replays that morning over and over in his mind. He said he offered to drive Shae to school because her book bag looked heavy, but she declined the offer. He said she had been out the door only a few minutes when he heard a loud thunderclap.

He said thunderstorms scared Shae and he went to go after her. "But when I came out the door, I didn't see her at all," he said. "It's like she just vanished."

In August, Prattville police said investigators were trying to determine if the missing Northport girl's case was connected to the unsolved abduction and murder of a Prattville girl, Shannon Nicole Paulk, five years ago, as well as the disappearance of Teresa Melissa Dean of Twiggs County, Ga., near Macon, in 1999.

All were 11 when they disappeared. Shannon's body was found in woods seven weeks after she disappeared on Aug. 16, 2001. Teresa, who disappeared on Aug. 15, 1999, has not been found.

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Teresa Melissa Dean


Left and Center: Dean, circa 1999;
Right: Age-progression at age 19 (circa 2006)


Vital Statistics at Time of Disappearance

Missing Since: August 15, 1999 from Macon, Georgia
Classification: Endangered Missing
Date Of Birth: September 20, 1987
Age: 11 years old
Height and Weight: 4'10, 75 pounds
Distinguishing Characteristics: Brown hair, blue eyes. Dean has a speech impediment.
Clothing/Jewelry Description: A blue and white-striped shirt, orange or pink knit pants and clear plastic gel-type sandals.
Medical Conditions: Dean may require medical attention for unspecified reasons.


Details of Disappearance

Dean was last seen walking down Lawrence Street near her family's singlewide trailer in Macon, Georgia at approximately 8:00 p.m. on August 15, 1999. She has never been seen again. Dean said she was going to a friend's house to visit some puppies, but never arrived there. An extensive search of the area produced no clues as to her whereabouts.
Dean's mother's former boyfriend, Cody Landers, lived with her family in 1999. He was Dean's mother's fiance at the time, but they have since broken off their engagement. In October 2000, Landers was indicted on seven child molestation charges involving two children. He said that he failed a polygraph test which he took voluntarily shortly after Dean's disappearance, but claimed that the test was administered improperly. Landers called himself a suspect in Dean's case, but the police never named him as one. He is now in prison after pleading guilty to the child molestation charges. Landers has never been connected to Dean's case and no arrests have been made in her disappearance.

Some investigators feel Dean's case may be connected to the abductions and murders of Heaven Ross from Northport, Alabama in 2003 and Shannon Nicole Paulk from Prattville, Alabama in 2001. The girls are all Caucasian and were all eleven years old at the time they disappeared, and they all disappeared during the month of August from trailer parks where they lived. There was construction going on near the site of each girl's disappearance and it has been theorized that a construction worker or workers were involved in the girls' cases. Paulk was found deceased seven weeks after she went missing. Ross's remains were not recovered until late December 2006, over three years after her disappearance. Both girls' murders remain unsolved and no hard evidence links them to Dean's case.

Dean's case remains unsolved. She was a student at Alexander IV School in 1999. She has previously lived in Bibb County, Georgia. Authorities believe foul play may have been involved in her case.



Investigating Agency
If you have any information concerning this case, please contact:
Federal Bureau Of Investigation
Macon, Georgia Office
912-745-1271
OR
Georgia Bureau of Investigation
912-987-4545
OR
Twiggs County Sheriff’s Department
912-945-3357



Source Information
The National Center For Missing and Exploited Children
Child Protection Education Of America
The Macon Telegraph
13-WMAZ
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WMAZ-TV
The Tuscaloosa News
The Ledger-Enquirer



Updated 6 times since October 12, 2004.

Last updated September 8, 2007; age-progression updated.

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Macon Telegraph, The (GA)
March 14, 2003
MISSING AREA GIRLS NOT FORGOTTEN

Author: Thomas W. Krause, Telegraph Staff Writer

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From the television screen in his Virginia living room, Robert Cochran Sr. has watched a blonde girl more than half a continent away reunited with her family.
"I'm glad to hear they did get her, found her alive and she's back with her family," he said Thursday. "It makes me more hopeful, anytime a child is found. There are thousands and thousands out there. Some will be found. Others . . ."
The return of Utah's Elizabeth Smart to her family warms Cochran's heart. And it makes him think of his missing granddaughter.
Cochran and his wife, Jenny Cochran, were awarded custody of 8-year-old Jessica Cox in September 1995. An arrest warrant has been issued for the child's mother, Diane Cox, whom Bibb County investigators say abducted the girl and has been in hiding for nearly eight years.
In Middle Georgia, three girls are listed with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. Jessica Cox is one.
Another is Teresa Dean, who was 11 in 1999 when she disappeared from her mother's Twiggs County mobile home.
Shy'Kemmia Shy'Rezz Pate, also known as Shy-Shy, was 8 in 1998 when she disappeared from her Unadilla neighborhood. Family members are still looking.
A Virginia court gave the Cochrans custody of Jessica, who had lived with her mother near Lake Tobesofkee. In the middle of a court proceeding, Jessica's mother left with the girl. Since that day, Virginia authorities, Bibb County Sheriff's Office investigators and private detectives have joined the hunt.
Cochran said he still speaks with investigators weekly.
"We've always had hope and we still do," he said.
Bibb County sheriff's Lt. Robert McComb, who has followed the case from the beginning, said recent tips suggest Jessica and her mother are back in Middle Georgia. He said a reward is still being offered for information about Jessica's whereabouts.
"We just don't get any solid leads as to where she is," McComb said. "It's really frustrating."
The FBI reports that almost half of all missing children are abducted by a family member. Abductions by acquaintances and by strangers are less common.
But two Middle Georgia cases, where young girls were kidnapped by unknown abductors, have authorities baffled. The cases have run completely cold.
Twiggs County Sheriff Doyle Stone said he hasn't had any new leads on the disappearance of Teresa Dean.
In August 1999, Teresa, her mother, two of her sisters and her mother's fiance left the Peach Orchard section of Bibb County for their trailer in northwest Twiggs County. It was a warm Sunday afternoon. Once home, Teresa told her mother she was going to visit a neighbor's puppies.
When she didn't return, sheriff's officials asked for help from the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. Search teams and helicopters turned up nothing.
Dorthy Dean's fiance, Cody Landers, called himself a suspect in Teresa's disappearance --- although the GBI would not publicly name any suspects. Landers is currently serving a five-year prison term after pleading guilty to child molestation.
The charges stem from accusations of two minor girls who said Landers grabbed their breasts, buttocks and thighs. Investigators have never proven a link between Landers and Teresa's disappearance.
Stone said the recent reports of Elizabeth Smart's discovery have sparked a new hope in him that Teresa Dean will be found one day as well.
"We never gave up," Stone said. "We hope that maybe we can find her alive someday. It'd be a blessing if we could find her. Either way it'd put us to rest."
But as time goes on, the case gets colder. Sometime in the past year or so, Dorthy Dean moved away from Twiggs County.
"She's gone," Stone said. "I don't know where she moved to."
A year before Teresa Dean disappeared, a Unadilla third-grade girl likewise vanished.
The 17-year-old sister of Shy-Shy Pate began to look for the girl about 7:30 p.m. Shy-Shy was supposed to accompany her sister to a football game.
The family searched for several hours, then called the Dooly County Sheriff's Office.
Dozens of federal, state and local police converged on Unadilla in the following weeks. It was the largest search in Dooly County history.
Authorities thought they had a break in 2001, when a man who lived about 300 yards from Shy-Shy and her mother was arrested on a rape charge in an unrelated case. But no evidence has linked the man to the disappearance.
"We've all got hope we're going to return the child alive," said Dooly County sheriff's investigator Randy Lamberth. "But the longer it gets, the less it looks that way. We just hope we can put closure to it one day."
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Macon Telegraph, The (GA)
March 10, 2000
MAN JAILED ON CHILD-SEX CHARGES

Author: Joe Kovac Jr., The Macon Telegraph

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A man who dated the mother of a missing Twiggs County girl has been jailed on charges that he molested two children. Cody Landers, 24, was dating Dorthy Dean in August when her 11-year-old daughter was reported missing.
Thursday, he was being held at the Twiggs jail in Jeffersonville on three counts of child molestation.
Authorities emphasized that Landers' arrest is not connected to the disappearance of Teresa M. Dean.
An agent for the GBI, however, said Thursday that the allegations against Landers surfaced during the investigation of Teresa Dean's vanishing.
The molestations are alleged to have occurred in the weeks prior to the girl going missing, said Gary Rothwell, special agent in charge of the GBI's Perry office.
"This arrest and the charges, while predicated in part on information we developed during the Teresa Dean investigation, are unrelated to her disappearance," Rothwell said. "These victims are not Teresa Dean."
Teresa Dean has not been found since she spent a Sunday outside her family's Lawrence Drive mobile home, which sits along the Bibb County line, north of U.S. 80, in northwestern Twiggs.
The girl's disappearance was widely publicized late last summer. In January, a $15,000 reward was posted for information on her whereabouts.
Landers, who was being held in lieu of $60,000 bond on the molestation charges, has described Teresa Dean as a child who "on a good day was the happiest person you could be around."
Authorities have named no suspect in Teresa Dean's disappearance.
Two days after she vanished Aug. 15, Landers, who had lived at the Lawrence Drive residence, told a newspaper reporter that investigators informed him he had failed a lie-detector test when questioned about the case.
Dorthy Dean has stood by Landers. Meanwhile, she has criticized authorities on the scope of their investigation, claiming it is wrongly focused on her family.
Dorthy Dean could not be reached for comment on Landers' arrest.
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Macon Telegraph, The (GA)
August 19, 2000

MAN ACCUSED OF MOLESTATION OUT ON BOND

Author: Debbie Rhyne, The Macon Telegraph

Dateline: TWIGGS COUNTY
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A 24-year-old man who is engaged to the mother of a missing Twiggs County girl has posted bond on charges he molested two other children.
Cody Landers was released from the Twiggs County jail Wednesday after a Houston County bonding company signed off on the $20,000 bond, according the Twiggs County Sheriff's Office. Landers was living in the home of 11-year-old Teresa Dean when she disappeared last August.
Landers had been in jail since March, when he was charged with three counts of child molestation. The allegations involve two girls --- an 11-year-old and a 14-year-old --- who say Landers grabbed their breasts, buttocks and thighs.
As a condition of the bond, Landers must stay out of Twiggs and Bibb counties and have no contact with females under 18.
But if Landers were seen in either county, law enforcement officers would not have the authority to arrest him, said Twiggs County Sheriff Doyle Stone.
"We would go to the judge and petition the court for a hearing," Stone said.
A judge would then determine if Landers had violated his bond conditions and could revoke the bond, putting him back in jail, he said.
Landers' bond amount was lowered twice before he was able to get out of jail. He was initially held in lieu of $60,000, but that was reduced to $30,000 in June. Earlier this month, it was reduced again to $20,000.
In the past, Landers has described himself as a suspect in the disappearance of Teresa Dean, but law enforcement officials have not released any details of the ongoing investigation.
His release comes the day after the one-year anniversary of Teresa Dean's disappearance.
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Macon Telegraph, The (GA)
August 24, 1999

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CRIME UNSOLVE

MISSING GIRL PRESUMED DEAD

Author: Cara Donlon, The Macon Telegraph

Dateline: TWIGGS COUNTY

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After scouring the countryside and surrounding counties for more than a week, authorities here have started to give up hope in finding Teresa Dean alive.
Cadaver-sniffing dogs were brought in to search the area around the 11-year-old's trailer home for the first time in the investigation on Monday, also marking the first time state and federal authorities acknowledged the possibility that Teresa was killed.
"As time passes, the probability of her merely running away diminishes and that of foul play increases," said Gary Rothwell, special agent in charge of the GBI's Perry bureau.
Twiggs County Sheriff Doyle Stone publicly acknowledged early on in the investigation that Teresa was most likely more than just missing.
"We want to lean toward Teresa being alive during our search, but after 24 hours, those chances are slimmer and slimmer," Stone said Wednesday, three days after Teresa was last seen.
Foul play, Rothwell said, is "obviously a suspicion. As time passes, the greater the likelihood (is) that foul play is involved."
The odds of Teresa running away have pretty much been ruled out by authorities, he said.
"The point being she's 11 years-old, and she doesn't have ready mobility, and with the publicity this case has generated one would suppose that she might have been located by now," Rothwell said.
Neither the sheriff nor the GBI would confirm they have suspects in the case, but Teresa's mother, Dorthy Dean, and her fiance, Cody Landers, say they are suspects in the investigation. Landers even admits to failing a lie-detector test administered to him by authorities.
At times the search stretched into Bibb County, near the Dean's previous home, but search efforts were scaled back to concentrate more heavily on the areas near and around the northern Twiggs County home on Lawrence Drive.
The dogs, Rothwell said, are something new to the investigation even though search dogs were brought out the first day Teresa was reported missing. The dogs searching on Monday are different from the trail-tracking dogs used at first because they are used exclusively for finding human bodies.
"They're dogs trained to search for human remains," he said.
Four dogs from the Georgia K-9 Rescue Association out of Columbus and the Georgia K-9 Search and Rescue specialists out of Carrollton searched the area where Teresa was last seen.
"The cadaver dog search was concentrated on the neighborhood and areas immediately surrounding (Teresa's home)," Rothwell said.
Searching for remains is not unusual at this stage of the investigation, he said, and will continue at other places ground searchers have covered.
"We've done the all-encompassing ground search with large numbers of searchers and this is a follow-up of that ... in the event the worst has happened," Rothwell said. "We have access to the dogs and will consider using them in other locations later in the week."
By Cara Donlon
The Macon Telegraph
TWIGGS COUNTY --- After scouring the countryside and surrounding counties for more than a week, authorities here have started to give up hope in finding Teresa Dean alive.
Cadaver-sniffing dogs were brought in to search the area around the 11-year-old's trailer home for the first time in the investigation on Monday, also marking the first time state and federal authorities acknowledged the possibility that Teresa was killed.
"As time passes, the probability of her merely running away diminishes and that of foul play increases," said Gary Rothwell, special agent in charge of the GBI's Perry bureau.
Twiggs County Sheriff Doyle Stone publicly acknowledged early on in the investigation that Teresa was most likely more than just missing.
"We want to lean toward Teresa being alive during our search, but after 24 hours, those chances are slimmer and slimmer," Stone said Wednesday, three days after Teresa was last seen.
Foul play, Rothwell said, is "obviously a suspicion. As time passes, the greater the likelihood (is) that foul play is involved."
The odds of Teresa running away have pretty much been ruled out by authorities, he said.
"The point being she's 11 years-old, and she doesn't have ready mobility, and with the publicity this case has generated one would suppose that she might have been located by now," Rothwell said.
Neither the sheriff nor the GBI would confirm they have suspects in the case, but Teresa's mother, Dorthy Dean, and her fiance, Cody Landers, say they are suspects in the investigation. Landers even admits to failing a lie-detector test administered to him by authorities.
At times the search stretched into Bibb County, near the Dean's previous home, but search efforts were scaled back to concentrate more heavily on the areas near and around the northern Twiggs County home on Lawrence Drive.
The dogs, Rothwell said, are something new to the investigation even though search dogs were brought out the first day Teresa was reported missing. The dogs searching on Monday are different from the trail-tracking dogs used at first because they are used exclusively for finding human bodies.
"They're dogs trained to search for human remains," he said.
Four dogs from the Georgia K-9 Rescue Association out of Columbus and the Georgia K-9 Search and Rescue specialists out of Carrollton searched the area where Teresa was last seen.
"The cadaver dog search was concentrated on the neighborhood and areas immediately surrounding (Teresa's home)," Rothwell said.
Searching for remains is not unusual at this stage of the investigation, he said, and will continue at other places ground searchers have covered.
"We've done the all-encompassing ground search with large numbers of searchers and this is a follow-up of that ... in the event the worst has happened," Rothwell said. "We have access to the dogs and will consider using them in other locations later in the week."
Lauran

"If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better for people coming behind you, and you don't do that, you are wasting your time on this earth." The late, great Roberto Clemente.


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NCIC Number: M-330082502
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http://www.missingkids.com/missingkids/ser...earchLang=en_US

Endangered Missing
TERESA DEAN
DOB: Sep 20, 1987
Missing: Aug 15, 1999
Age Now: 22
Sex: Female
Race: White
Hair: Brown
Eyes: Blue
Height: 4'10" (147 cm)
Weight: 75 lbs (34 kg)
Missing From:
MACON
GA
United States
Age Progressed

Teresa's photo is shown age-progressed to 19 years. She was last seen on August 15, 1999 on Lawrence Drive in Macon, Georgia. At the time of her disappearance, Teresa was 11 years old. She has a speech impediment and may be in need of medical attention.
ANYONE HAVING INFORMATION SHOULD CONTACT
National Center for Missing & Exploited Children
1-800-843-5678 (1-800-THE-LOST)

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Federal Bureau of Investigation - Macon, Georgia 1-478-745-1271 Or Your Local FBI

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WARNER ROBINS -- A recent tip did not pan out for the GBI related to the 1999 disappearance of an 11-year-old Twiggs County girl.

Rodney Wall, special agent in charge of the GBI office in Perry, said GBI agents spent about two hours Wednesday in Peach County using penetrative radar to look for “a pit” that was not found. Agents searched off Sherwood Drive in Byron, he said.

Wall said the GBI routinely checks out tips in relation to cold cases. He said this tip was about “evidence related to her disappearance” but did not include any reference to skeletal remains.

Teresa Melissa Dean vanished Aug. 15, 1999, after spending a Sunday playing outside her family’s mobile home along the Bibb County line in northwestern Twiggs County. The fairly rural area was surrounded by woods and clay pits.

The GBI’s website that features missing persons lists her as last seen on Lawrence Drive in Macon.

Dean is listed on the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children website at http://goo.gl/GTQEm. Anyone with information may contact the center at (800) THE-LOST.

Read more here: http://www.macon.com/2012/09/06/2165311/ti...l#storylink=cpy
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