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| Hughes, Holly July 15, 1981; Staten Island, NY | |
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| monkalup | Apr 11 2006, 09:13 PM Post #1 |
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The Old Heifer! An oxymoron, of course.
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http://www.doenetwork.us/cases/136dfny.html http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html...75BC0A967948260 THE CITY; Woman Is Sought In Lost Girl Case Published: August 18, 1981 The police issued an appeal yesterday for a woman who they said might be able to help in their search for a 7-year-old girl who disappeared on Staten Island last month. Stressing that the woman was ''not a suspect,'' Detective Lieut. Hugh K. Bennett called on her to talk with investigators in the case. The girl, Holly Ann Hughes, was last seen in a delicatessen at Park Avenue and Richmond Terrace on July 15 at 9:30 P.M. The police said that witnesses under hypnosis had described the woman, who they said might have been in the delicatessen. She was said to be a 35- to 45-year-old black woman, who was wearing a neck brace. The police are also seeking anyone who might have seen a small vehicle, possibly a Volkswagen, a block away at Park Avenue and Church Street. The police hot-line telephone in the case is 987-7935. |
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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. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment for non-profit research and educational purposes only. | |
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| monkalup | Apr 11 2006, 09:28 PM Post #2 |
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The Old Heifer! An oxymoron, of course.
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http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html...75BC0A961948260 A Family Grieves As Many Search For Missing Girl Print Single-Page Save By JANE GROSS Published: August 3, 1987 LEAD: Twice a day, every day since July 9, friends, relatives and strangers have joined Karen and Kenneth Schweiger as they search the mosquito-infested swamps and woods of Staten Island for their 12-year-old handicapped daughter. Twice a day, every day since July 9, friends, relatives and strangers have joined Karen and Kenneth Schweiger as they search the mosquito-infested swamps and woods of Staten Island for their 12-year-old handicapped daughter. In the 24 days since the child disappeared, the volunteers have scoured the 384 acres of Willowbrook, now called the Staten Island Developmental Center, where Jennifer, who has Down's syndrome, was last seen, walking hand in hand with a neighborhood vagrant. They have also fanned out, under the direction of police investigators, to the Travis area, bordered by a wildlife refuge and a network of creeks, and to the Staten Island Industrial Park, a huge wooded tract at the western tip of the island, near Arthur Kill. Searching for a Sign, or Something The volunteers, some from as far away as Suffern, N.Y., or Monmouth County, N.J., poke the ground looking for freshly turned soil or for articles of Jennifer's clothing - a yellow vinyl pocketbook with her confirmation money inside, a pink Sesame Street T-shirt, a pair of plastic flip-flops. ''You're always expecting somebody to bring something back,'' said Mr. Schweiger, who searches by day with the volunteers and often throughout the night with a handful of Vietnam buddies. ''Then, you see the expression on their faces when they come in. As the day closes to an end, it gets more depressing.'' Mrs. Schweiger wonders what an article of clothing would mean to her after so many sleepless nights of imagining the unimaginable. ''I don't even know what we're looking for at this point,'' she said, her face stretched tight by the effort to contain her grief. ''A child, still intact, alive - of course, that would be the best. But a shirt - I don't know how I'd feel if we found a shirt. Is that a good sign? Is that a bad sign?'' Alongside the volunteer effort is a police investigation. Led by Lieut. Louis Fiori, 10 detectives each day pursue any and all tips, the latest involving a suspected sighting of the child in the Travis section, about five miles from the Schweiger house. Meanwhile, 25 police officers and 5 sergeants from the Emergency Service Division continue their ground and aerial searches, aided by bloodhounds and helicopters. ''I really can't fathom the amount of support, civilian and official,'' Mr. Schweiger said. Jennifer is the fourth child to disappear without a trace on Staten Island: Tiahease Jackson, last seen in 1983; Holly Ann Hughes, missing since 1981, and Alice Pereira, who disappeared in 1972. ''For a very small island, that's a lot of missing children,'' said Donna Cutugno, a neigborhood woman who was a stranger to the Schweiger family until three weeks ago, when she volunteered to coordinate the search. Hybrid Group Lends Support ''I have small children of my own,'' said Mrs. Cutugno. ''It could have been me.'' Yesterday, as usual, Mrs. Cutugno dispatched the volunteers from the parking lot of the Holy Family Parish Center, a few blocks from the Schweiger house on Wardwell Avenue. In her Hagstrom atlas, the map of western Staten Island was marked with neat grids: The area from Graham Avenue to South Avenue was to be searched starting at noon, while the 7 P.M. group would work from South Avenue to the expressway. Mrs. Cutugno reminded newcomers to use bug spray and watch out for poison ivy. The searchers are a hybrid group -housewives, parents of Down's syndrome children, vacationing firefighters, a disk jockey from the Jersey Shore, a city worker from Brooklyn -all of whom say they were moved by reports of Jennifer's disappearance on television or in the newspapers. ''I got tired of seeing these kids on milk cartons and on TV,'' said Ron Riker, a disk jockey in an Asbury Park nightclub. ''If people out there are taking kids, I want them to know that people like us will be out there looking.'' A Family Grieves As Many Search For Missing Girl Print Single-Page Save By JANE GROSS Published: August 3, 1987 While some concerned people have donated time, others have offered services or equipment. Mr. Schweiger's employer, the New York Telephone Company, provided maps of the underground passages beneath Willowbrook, as well as insect repellent and flashlight batteries. A printer who has a child with Down's syndrome donated 2,500 fliers that hang in store windows, on telephone poles and on community bulletin boards. Senior citizens answer telephones at the volunteer headquarters in the church rectory, telling callers when search parties are leaving. A Red Cross mobile canteen follows the volunteers from site to site, with free coffee, doughnuts and first aid. 'Trying to Get Through' Jennifer was in the tiny backyard of the Schweiger house on the steamy afternoon of July 9, restless as her mother vacuumed the family's above-ground swimming pool. Mrs. Schweiger told the child to take a walk, assuming that Jennifer would stay within the three-block radius where she was allowed to wander unsupervised but was well known to all the neighbors. Her parents never saw her again. The Schweigers, who also have a 17-year-old son, said they encouraged Jennifer to be as independent as her condition allowed. ''We tried to treat her like a normal child,'' said Mr. Schweiger. Jennifer had just graduated from a special education program at Public School 22, took dancing lessons and attended religious instruction. She always carried money in her purse, and shopkeepers along Jewett Avenue and Victory Boulevard near her home were accustomed to Jennifer portioning out the correct change for her sodas and politely asking for a straw. Mr. and Mrs. Schweiger said Jennifer knows her address, her telephone number and how to use a public telephone. ''A couple of times the phone rang once, and when we picked it up there was no one there,'' Mrs. Schweiger said. ''I kept thinking it was her, trying to get through.'' While the search continues, ordinary life has ground to a halt for the Schweiger family. They recently bought a new house in Lakewood, N.J., and had posted a ''For Sale'' sign near the flagpole on their front lawn on Staten Island. Now, the sign has been pulled from the dirt and leans against the back of the house. Moving seems unthinkable as long as there is a chance Jennifer might come home. ''We've been way up and way down,'' Mrs. Schweiger said, describing the emotional roller coaster of the last few weeks. ''And now there's a section of your brain that won't let you go any further, a protective mechanism. Part of you is prepared for the worst - you have to be - but part of you still has that ray of hope.'' |
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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. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment for non-profit research and educational purposes only. | |
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| monkalup | Apr 11 2006, 09:31 PM Post #3 |
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The Old Heifer! An oxymoron, of course.
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http://select.nytimes.com/search/restricte...DA10894DF484D81 METROPOLITAN DESK Body Believed to Be S.I. Girl Is Found E-Mail This Printer-Friendly Permissions Save Article By MARK A. UHLIG (NYT) 741 words Published: August 13, 1987 LEAD: A body believed to be that of a 12-year-old handicapped girl who disappeared July 9 on Staten Island was unearthed last night behind an abandoned building on the sprawling grounds of the former Willowbrook mental hospital, the police said. A body believed to be that of a 12-year-old handicapped girl who disappeared July 9 on Staten Island was unearthed last night behind an abandoned building on the sprawling grounds of the former Willowbrook mental hospital, the police said. A police spokesman, Sgt. Edward Burns, said the body, which fit the description of the missing child, was found at roughly 8 P.M. behind Building 27 of the Willowbrook complex, a largely abandoned 384-acre campus that is now the site of the Staten Island Developmental Center. The body was discovered by two men who were part of a large volunteer team searching for the girl, Jennifer Schweiger, who disappeared while on a short walk from her home in Westerleigh, about a mile from the complex. There was no immediate indication of the cause of death or how long the body had been buried, Sergeant Burns said. The city's Chief Medical Examiner, Dr. Elliot Gross, was at the scene last night. Victim Last Seen Near Spot The area where the body was discovered had been the focus of search efforts since the girl disappeared, and was near the spot where she was last seen, walking hand in hand with a 43-year-old homeless man, Andre Rand. Last Thursday the police arrested Mr. Rand and charged him with kidnapping the girl, but refused to disclose their precise evidence for accusing him. Mr. Rand, a former employee of the Willowbrook hospital who is unemployed, had until recently lived on the grounds of the complex in a makeshift campsite. Since Jennifer disappeared during what her mother said she believed would be a short walk, scores of police officers and private citizens have combed areas near her home, including the Willowbrook grounds. But searchers had been unable to turn up any trace of the girl or of her clothes or belongings. Sergeant Burns said he did not know how the body was discovered yesterday, noting that authorities had no special information to lead them to the site involved. The two men who made the discovery, he said, were an off-duty New York City police sergeant and an off-duty city fireman, both of whom were taking part in the search as volunteers. Main Suspect in Disappearance Law-enforcement officials said that Mr. Rand, who has also used the name Frank Rushan, had been their prime suspect in the case from the beginning and had a record of arrests for offenses against children. In 1969, Mr. Rand was arrested in the Sout Bronx and charged with attempting to rape a 9-year-old girl after officers in a passing police car saw him attack her. He pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of sexual abuse and served 16 months in prison before he was paroled in 1972. Four years ago, while working for a school-bus company in Staten Island, Mr. Rand was charged with taking several elementary school children on an unauthorized outing to New Jersey. He was convicted of unlawful imprisonment and sentenced to 10 months in jail. When Mr. Rand was arrested, the police said, he appeared dazed, and his alibi about his whereabouts on the day of the girl's disappearance could not be substantiated. He was ordered held without bail for 30 days for psychiatric evaluation in Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn after his arraignment in Criminal Court. Law-enforcement officials said they were also investigating whether Mr. Rand was involved in the disappearance of two other Staten Island children, Tiahease Jackson, who disappeared in 1983, and Holly Ann Hughes, who has been missing since 1981. The effort to locate Jennifer Schweiger, who has Down's syndrome, has involved more than 40 police officers and detectives, aided by bloodhounds and helicopters, as well as a large contingent of housewives, retirees, off-duty firemen and parents of children with Down's syndrome. Her father's employer, the New York Telephone Company, provided maps of the underground passages beneath the Willowbrook complex, as well as insect repellent and flashlight batteries. And a printer who has a child with Down's syndrome donated 2,500 fliers that were posted in stores and on bulletin boards throughout the community. According to her parents, Jennifer, who had recently graduated from a special education program at Public School 22, was permitted to take short unsupervised walks in a three-block radius from her home, and she knew her telephone number and how to use a public phone. After leaving for such a walk on July 9, however, she never returned |
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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. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment for non-profit research and educational purposes only. | |
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| monkalup | Apr 11 2006, 09:34 PM Post #4 |
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The Old Heifer! An oxymoron, of course.
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http://select.nytimes.com/search/restricte...DAE0894D9484D81 METROPOLITAN DESK Staten I. Search Grows For Missing 7-Year-Old Save Article (NYT) 230 words Published: July 19, 1981 The police and scores of neighborhood volunteers yesterday expanded the search for a 7-year-old Staten Island girl missing since Wednesday evening. The child, Holly Ann Hughes, was last seen leaving a delicatessen not far from her home in the Port Richmond section. Since then, more than 40 uniformed police officers and detectives aided by seven police dogs, boats and helicopters have scoured vacant lots, abandoned buildings, wells and parks in Port Richmond looking for any sign of the girl, described as 4 feet tall and weighing 50 pounds, with short brown hair and blue eyes. A police spokesman said yesterday's search was concentrated in and around Silver Lake and Clove Lakes Parks just south of Port Richmond. He said the waters of Kill Van Kull would be searched again. According to the police, the child was last seen at about 9:30 P.M. Wednesday by a clerk in the Port Richmond Deli, about a block from her Park Avenue apartment building. The clerk told the police he had sold her a bar of soap. It was not clear why the child had gone to the store for the soap, since her mother said she had not sent her. When the girl disappeared she was wearing a beige bathing suit top, blue shorts and brown sandals. A special telephone number, 667-2250, has been established for anyone with information about the case. |
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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. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment for non-profit research and educational purposes only. | |
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| monkalup | Apr 11 2006, 09:36 PM Post #5 |
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The Old Heifer! An oxymoron, of course.
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http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html...753C1A9629C8B63 Metro Briefing | New York: Staten Island: Man Guilty Of Second Kidnapping Print Save By THOMAS J. LUECK (NYT); COMPILED BY GEORGE JAMES Published: October 20, 2004 A jury on Staten Island yesterday found Andre Rand, who is already in prison for a 1987 kidnapping, guilty of the additional kidnapping of Holly Ann Hughes, who was 7 when she disappeared in July 1981 after buying soap at a store in Port Richmond. The body of Miss Hughes, who has long been presumed dead, has never been found. Jurors in the case were presented with evidence that Mr. Rand, who is serving 25 years to life in the Auburn Correctional Facility for the 1987 kidnapping of a 12-year-old girl with Down syndrome, had described the abduction of Miss Hughes to fellow inmates. He faces an additional 25 years to life on yesterday's conviction. Thomas J. Lueck (NYT) |
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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. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment for non-profit research and educational purposes only. | |
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| monkalup | Apr 11 2006, 09:41 PM Post #6 |
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The Old Heifer! An oxymoron, of course.
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http://select.nytimes.com/search/restricte...DAB0894D9404482 METROPOLITAN DESK Convict Indicted for Kidnapping Staten Island Girl, 7, in 1981 By EDWARD WONG (NYT) 372 words Published: February 3, 2001 A man who is in prison for kidnapping a Staten Island girl in 1987 has been indicted for kidnapping another girl from the same borough in 1981, prosecutors said yesterday. The man, Andre Rand, is serving 25 years to life in Auburn Correctional Facility for kidnapping Jennifer Schweiger, a 12-year-old with Down syndrome whose body was found in a shallow grave. Mr. Rand will be eligible for parole in 2012. But prosecutors are now charging him with kidnapping Holly Ann Hughes, who was 7 when she disappeared in July 1981 after buying a bar of soap from a store in Port Richmond. The indictment was handed up by a grand jury last week and later unsealed. Mr. Rand is to be arraigned in the next two weeks. Holly's disappearance was assigned to the Police Department's Missing Persons Unit in 1995, and within two years the case ''got intense, and the detectives started interviewing and re-interviewing witnesses,'' said William L. Murphy, the Staten Island district attorney. Newly discovered evidence allowed prosecutors to bring the case before a grand jury in December, Mr. Murphy said. He declined to elaborate. He said that Holly died after the abduction, but that her body had never been found. In July 1987, Jennifer Schweiger never returned to her Westerleigh home after she left for what her parents thought would be a short walk. A month later, the police arrested Mr. Rand after witnesses said they saw him walking hand in hand with the girl the day she disappeared. Volunteers discovered Jennifer's body days later. Mr. Murphy said that Holly's family had been told of the indictment. ''I don't think they feel a sense of closure at all because her body has not been located,'' he said, ''and they do not have an idea of the method or means of death.'' |
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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. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment for non-profit research and educational purposes only. | |
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| monkalup | Apr 22 2006, 08:58 PM Post #7 |
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The Old Heifer! An oxymoron, of course.
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http://www.doenetwork.us/cases/136dfny.html http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html...754C0A967948260 The City; Girl, 7, Missing On Staten Island Print Save Published: July 17, 1981 Residents of the Port Richmond section of Staten Island and police officers from the 120th Precinct there were searching for a 7-yearold girl who has been missing since Wednesday night. The girl, Holly Hughes, was last seen at a store near her home on Park Avenue, the police said. Holly was described as 4 feet tall and weighing 50 pounds. She is thin and has brown hair and blue eyes with a fair complexion, and was wearing blue shorts over a beige swimsuit and brown sandals. Anyone with information should call the police at 727-6464 or 667-2250. |
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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. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment for non-profit research and educational purposes only. | |
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| monkalup | Apr 22 2006, 09:05 PM Post #8 |
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The Old Heifer! An oxymoron, of course.
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http://select.nytimes.com/search/restricte...DAE0894D9484D81 METROPOLITAN DESK Staten I. Search Grows For Missing 7-Year-Old (NYT) 230 words Published: July 19, 1981 The police and scores of neighborhood volunteers yesterday expanded the search for a 7-year-old Staten Island girl missing since Wednesday evening. The child, Holly Ann Hughes, was last seen leaving a delicatessen not far from her home in the Port Richmond section. Since then, more than 40 uniformed police officers and detectives aided by seven police dogs, boats and helicopters have scoured vacant lots, abandoned buildings, wells and parks in Port Richmond looking for any sign of the girl, described as 4 feet tall and weighing 50 pounds, with short brown hair and blue eyes. A police spokesman said yesterday's search was concentrated in and around Silver Lake and Clove Lakes Parks just south of Port Richmond. He said the waters of Kill Van Kull would be searched again. According to the police, the child was last seen at about 9:30 P.M. Wednesday by a clerk in the Port Richmond Deli, about a block from her Park Avenue apartment building. The clerk told the police he had sold her a bar of soap. It was not clear why the child had gone to the store for the soap, since her mother said she had not sent her. When the girl disappeared she was wearing a beige bathing suit top, blue shorts and brown sandals. A special telephone number, 667-2250, has been established for anyone with information about the case. |
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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. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment for non-profit research and educational purposes only. | |
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| monkalup | Apr 22 2006, 09:07 PM Post #9 |
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The Old Heifer! An oxymoron, of course.
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http://select.nytimes.com/search/restricte...DAE0894D9484D81 METROPOLITAN DESK S.I. PARENTS WORRY ABOUT CHILDREN AS HUNT FOR GIRL GOES ON By SHAWN G. KENNEDY (NYT) 726 words Published: July 20, 1981 ''Now I worry if my Anthony goes around the corner,'' Karen Lewis said as she sat on the steps of an apartment building on Staten Island where Holly Ann Hughes, a missing 7-year-old child, lived with her mother and brother. ''You can't keep the kids inside, especially when it is this hot. But we are worried about that little girl and our own kids.'' Since Holly Ann's disappearance last Wednesday evening, the concern expressed by Mrs. Lewis has been shared by parents who live in the vicinity of Park Avenue and Ann Street in the Port Richmond section. ''This neighborhood has really gotten bad lately,'' Mrs. Lewis said. ''There are strangers here almost every night. I understand that people have been robbed in that overpass.'' She was referring to an overpass of the Staten Island Rapid Transit freight line under which the lost child probably walked to reach the delicatessen where she was last seen. Sgt. Harold Wogas of the Crimes Against Property Squad said: ''The early leads we had just have not resulted in any substantial information on her whereabouts. The search areas have been extended, but other than that nothing has changed. All I can say is that we are still looking.'' Clerk Was Last to See Her The last person to see the child, according to the police, was a clerk in the Port Richmond Deli who said he sold her a bar of soap at about 9:30 o'clock Wednesday night. But it was not clear why the youngster bought soap in the corner store, on Park Avenue and Richmond Terrace, where local children go for candy, soda and ice cream. Her mother, Holly Hughes, said Holly Ann had not been sent on an errand. Nearby residents complained yesterday about derelicts and prostitutes, who, they said have recently been active in the area. The neighbors said the derelicts had staked out a territory in and around the dark and dirty overpass, between Ann Street and Richmond Terrace, a major street that runs along the northern perimeter of Staten Island. Some Talk as Others Join Hunt While some people in the neighborhood have been gathering on stoops and front porches to talk about the area's decline and to wait for word of the lost girl's whereabouts, others have joined the police in their search. Since Thursday more than 40 uniformed police officers and scores of volunteers have scoured vacant buildings and deserted lots, pushed through the underbrush along railroad tracks and prowled in local woods and parks, searching for the child and looking for clues. ''We've been going out in teams composed of civilian volunteers, auxiliary police and uniformed officers,'' said Nicholas Gisonda, an officer in charge of an auxiliary police unit. 'Tedious and Tiring' ''It is tedious and tiring work,'' he said. ''A lot of walking, a lot of bending over to get through thick weeds and tall grass and a lot of poking through debris.'' Mr. Gisonda, who was serving cold water to some volunteers who had just returned to Ann Street from a nearby park, said that some people had taken time off from their jobs to help in the search. In a temporary command post set up on the third floor of the building where the Hughes family lives, the police radioed instructions to those in the field. Police boats, helicopters and dogs are being used to look for the youngster, who was wearing a beige bathing-suit top, blue shorts and brown sandals when she vanished last week. She has brown hair and blue eyes and weighs about 50 pounds. Yesterday, Holly Ann's mother stayed in her apartment while the girl's father, Peter Hughes, who lives in Brooklyn, waited with friends across the street. Waiting and Praying ''I can't give up hope, but I know my daughter knows better than to willingly go with a stranger,'' Mr. Hughes said. He had decided Saturday to seek the assistance of a New Jersey woman who claims to have psychic powers. ''Originally I was involved in the search,'' he said, ''but in the last day or two that has been too difficult. We will stay here and hope and pray that whoever has her will bring her back.'' The police have asked that anyone with information about the child's whereabouts call them at 727-6464 or 667-2250. |
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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. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment for non-profit research and educational purposes only. | |
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| monkalup | Apr 22 2006, 09:26 PM Post #10 |
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The Old Heifer! An oxymoron, of course.
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http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html...754C0A967948260 The City; Search for Girl, 7, Is Widened on S.I. Published: July 21, 1981 The search for a 7-year-old Staten Island girl who disappeared last week -reportedly after buying a bar of soap at a delicatessen - was widened to include the waters of the Kill Van Kull. Scuba divers searched near the kill's shores at the foot of Richmond Avenue, across from Bayonne, N.J. The search began last Wednesday following the disappearance of the girl, Holly Ann Hughes. The police reported no progress or new developments yesterday in the case. (AP) |
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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. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment for non-profit research and educational purposes only. | |
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| monkalup | Apr 22 2006, 10:14 PM Post #11 |
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The Old Heifer! An oxymoron, of course.
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http://select.nytimes.com/search/restricte...DA90994DF484D81 METROPOLITAN DESK Response to 3 Slayings: S.I. Mobilizes By HOWARD W. FRENCH (NYT) 898 words Published: October 5, 1987 LEAD: Three recent disappearances and murders have galvanized residents of normally quiescent Staten Island into a state of mobilization. Three recent disappearances and murders have galvanized residents of normally quiescent Staten Island into a state of mobilization. A network of community groups, newly formed or revitalized in response to the crimes, has come together to patrol streets, escort schoolchildren, and, if need be, mount searches. In the many small communities of the borough, ''everyone knows everyone else, and people aren't suspicious,'' said Dorothy Fitzpatrick, district manager of Community Board 3. On Staten Island, she said, ''a tragedy in one area is a tragedy in another.'' Three Slayings The collective effort began when Jennifer Schweiger, a 12-year-old afflicted with Down's syndrome, disappeared July 9 while walking near her home in Westerleigh. For 35 days, hundreds of volunteers searched for her in wooded areas and wetlands. On Aug. 12, her body was found by volunteers in a shallow grave on the grounds of the Staten Island Developmental Center, not far from her home. Three weeks later Judith Summerville, 19, a student at Staten Island Community College, disappeared on her way to class. Within hours, a group of fishermen found her purse floating in Wolf's Pond in Tottenville. The search for Miss Summerville continued for nearly three weeks until volunteers found her Sept. 30 buried in a wooded area a half mile from the pond. The police said a man arrested last week in the rape of a 15-year-old Staten Island girl in June is a suspect in the murders of Miss Summerville, and a third woman, Rebecca Fein, 26, whose body was found Sept. 25 on a beach in Prince's Bay. Both Miss Summerville and Ms. Fein may have been killed with a blunt instrument. 'We Just Got Hit' The police have stepped up patrols in ''sensitive areas,'' and were active in the recent searches, but they insist that the three incidents are unusual only in that they occurred during a short period of time. Assistant Chief Samuel C. Marino, the Staten Island Borough Commander who has taken charge of the recent investigations, said despite the perception of danger, the borough has a ''falling crime rate.'' ''I don't think there is anything peculiar about Staten Island,'' he said. ''We just got hit.'' In addition, two other young Staten Island girls have been missing for several years. Holly Ann Hughes disappeared in 1981, and Tiahease Jackson vanished in 1983. The borough's 300,000 residents are apparently not letting down their guard. Donna Cutugno, leader of a group called Friends of Jennifer, which brought together 600 people in the initial search, said: ''We are growing, not disbanding. We want to make people aware that we are not going to stand for this in Staten Island.'' Ms. Cutugno, 32, who has two children, said citizens monitoring groups have been forming all over the island. At the Ready Friends of Jennifer meetings have decreased in frequency, Ms. Cutugno said, from twice a day, when volunteers were being marshaled to search mosquito-infested woods, to weekly, but they have not lost their drawing power. ''We have about 200 regulars,'' she said, who have continued to search for Jennifer Schweiger's clothing in the hope that it could help in the prosecution of Andre Rand, the drifter who has been charged with her kidnapping and murder. The group also collects donations for children with congenital illnesses, and maintains a team that can begin a search within two hours and distribute fliers within a day. ''Parents are even picking up their high school students from school,'' Ms. Cutugno said, detailing how life has changed on Staten Island. ''People have become a lot more aware of what goes on in their neighborhoods.'' Lorraine Perez, 33, who has two children and is a member of the Stapleton Civilian Observation Patrol, a group founded nine years ago to cope with neighborhood crime, said membership had swelled. Urging Precaution Although Stapleton is far from the neighborhoods where two of the bodies were found, Ms. Perez said, ''people are afraid to come out even during the daylight hours.'' With other communities asking the Stapleton patrol to extend its services, Ms. Perez said the group decided to ''call a public meeting on Sunday, so all the groups that have been formed can get together and coordinate their activities.'' Bob Cacciola, president of Richmond County React, the local chapter of a national network of civilian patrol groups, said the 75 members of his chapter ''patrol every day of the year,'' in radio-equipped cars, and offer assistance to ''any other group on the island that wants to participate with us'' in neighborhood surveillance. Mr. Cacciola, said his group is financed entirely through donations and has grown by 20 full-time members since Jennifer Schweiger disappeared. ''Our best advice,'' he said, repeating what he has told many parents, is ''make your kids call in periodically when they go out, teach them to follow the same route to school every day, and don't let them hang out in the shopping malls.'' Ms. Fitzpatrick of Community Board 3 said, ''We are good bait because everyone knows we trust each other here, and with so many wetlands around it is just too easy to abduct someone. ''We can't prevent people from coming in and doing things like this,'' she said, ''but we can be ready to respond, and the community has shown that it can give 1,000 percent.'' photo of Bob Cacciola handing fliers to Pam and Kevin Kelly (NYT/Kim Garnick) |
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| monkalup | Apr 22 2006, 10:25 PM Post #12 |
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The Old Heifer! An oxymoron, of course.
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http://select.nytimes.com/search/restricte...DAE0894D9484D81 ABOUT NEW YORK; A SHARED EXPERIENCE IN GRIEF FOR A LOST CHILD By ANNA QUINDLEN (NYT) 1006 words Published: July 29, 1981 William Jacobson is a thin man whose collarbones show through his T-shirt and who smokes cigarettes without filters. He has a tattoo on one bicep that says ''Mother'' over a fat red heart, and six children. He once had seven, but one May afternoon in 1976 his 14-year-old daughter, Susan, headed for an ice cream store and never came back. She was wearing jeans and a pair of sneakers on which she had written ''Dempsey and Susan 4 Ever'' in pen. Susan's body was found in an oil drum near the water in Staten Island more than two years later. Dempsey went to prison for having killed her. It is for this reason that Mr. Jacobson spends a considerable amount of his spare time helping people look for their missing children. It is why he drove the four blocks from his own brown corner house in the Port Richmond section of Staten Island to the brick apartment building on the corner of Park Avenue and Ann Street, and offered his help to Peter Hughes, a cabdriver from Brooklyn whom he had never met before. Two weeks ago today, Mr. Hughes's 7-year-old daughter, Holly Ann, disappeared after having left the Port Richmond Deli, down the street from her mother's home. She has not been seen since. ''I know what this man is going through,'' said Mr. Jacobson. At the same dining-room table at which his wife, Ellen, was sitting when the police came to tell her that her daughter was dead, Mr. Jacobson sits with Mr. Hughes and studies a map of Staten Island to determine where to look for the little girl in the blue shorts, brown sandals and beige bathing-suit top. ''I guess this brings back memories for you,'' Mr. Hughes said to Ellen Jacobson the other day, while she made coffee and prepared to go out and search herself for Holly Ann. ''Yeah, yeah, it does,'' said Mrs. Jacobson with a rueful smile. ''But I feel worse for you because she's so much younger. Susan was 14 - at least she had a life, she had something. Seven is a baby.'' ''What about looking here?'' said Mr. Jacobson, pointing to a spot on the map. ''The Angels are looking there,'' said Mr. Hughes, meaning no mystical reference. The fact is that the search for Holly Ann, with her brown fringe of hair and her baby smile, has become something of a danse macabre in Port Richmond. The apartment she shared with her mother and her brother Eddie and the peeling gray vestibule of the building are filled with a rotating crew of Guardian Angels in red berets and Tshirts. The neighbors bring them food, and sometimes area residents go out and search with them, through the marshes and the rotting piers and the railroad embankments that abound in this part of Staten Island. Small children on the street, who two weeks ago danced desperately in front of the television cameras so they might see themselves on the 6 o'clock news, talk about Holly Ann in the past tense. Holly Ann's mother, also named Holly, comes downstairs in her bare feet to borrow a cigarette from one of the Angels. The police pass up and down the street from the temporary headquarters they have set up in a square brick office building at 100 Park Avenue. They have already gone house-to-house in this area of quiet, down-at-the-heels back streets, and no one seems able to tell them much. They are talking to friends of both Holly Ann's mother and her father; the two are estranged. ''We get many calls which are not much of a help to us,'' said Lieut. Hugh Bennett. ''People have visions or dreams or are psychic and know where she is. They all want to help, but sometimes it can be annoying.'' There is a psychic in this case. Her name is Dorothy Allison, and Mr. Jacobson's children call her ''Aunt Dorothy.'' Mrs. Allison and Mr. Jacobson met in 1976, when he contacted her about helping in the search for his daughter. He describes with absolute conviction the things she said she saw through her clairvoyant eye: the letters M-A-R, the twin steeples of a church, the two bridges, even the smell of oil. Mr. Jacobson will take you to the place where his daughter's body was found, and point out the rock with those letters painted on it, and the steeples, and all the rest. Even though someone out tramping through the high grass found his daughter, he believes that Mrs. Allison described the place where she would be found soon after she was murdered. He has even kept a scrapbook with clippings about his daughter's disappearance - ''Not Susan,'' someone has written across the top of several articles about bodies found - and Mrs. Allison's earliest predictions. In Holly Ann's case, Mrs. Allison says she sees something different. So Mr. Jacobson drives around in a small, slow caravan with her, Mr. Hughes, and several other people and points at places where they pass the letters M and A in signs, old lumberyards, places where door knockers might have been manufactured. Mrs. Allison sniffs out the window for the smell of leather, which she has somehow associated with the case, as Mr. Jacobson looks for the ineffable clues. Sometimes they get out of the car and thrash around in the weeds that edge the shoreline; they carry a can of bug repellent and long sticks, looking for they know not what. This is the seventh or eighth case Mr. Jacobson has gone out on with Mrs. Allison, and often when they are looking for Holly Ann, they begin at the spot where he swears she found Susan. ''I feel an obligation,'' said Mr. Jacobson. ''I just don't want some other parent to have to wait 22 months. After a while, everybody forgets.'' ''I believe in these people,'' said Mr. Hughes. ''Nothing has come up with the police. I'm not blaming them, but it's been two weeks. I believe in this. I have to believe in this. What else can I do?'' |
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| monkalup | Apr 22 2006, 10:30 PM Post #13 |
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The Old Heifer! An oxymoron, of course.
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http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html...75BC0A967948260 THE CITY; Woman Is Sought In Lost Girl Case Print Save Published: August 18, 1981 The police issued an appeal yesterday for a woman who they said might be able to help in their search for a 7-year-old girl who disappeared on Staten Island last month. Stressing that the woman was ''not a suspect,'' Detective Lieut. Hugh K. Bennett called on her to talk with investigators in the case. The girl, Holly Ann Hughes, was last seen in a delicatessen at Park Avenue and Richmond Terrace on July 15 at 9:30 P.M. The police said that witnesses under hypnosis had described the woman, who they said might have been in the delicatessen. She was said to be a 35- to 45-year-old black woman, who was wearing a neck brace. The police are also seeking anyone who might have seen a small vehicle, possibly a Volkswagen, a block away at Park Avenue and Church Street. The police hot-line telephone in the case is 987-7935. |
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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. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment for non-profit research and educational purposes only. | |
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| luvmycat | Dec 28 2006, 01:07 PM Post #14 |
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Sneezy!
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