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| Thompson, Laura L. January 7,1993; Pennsylvania 15 YO | |
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| oldies4mari2004 | Aug 23 2006, 10:20 AM Post #1 |
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http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/t/thompson_laura.html Laura Lynn Thompson Left: Thompson, circa 1993; Right: Age-progression at age 25 (circa 2002) Vital Statistics at Time of Disappearance Missing Since: January 7, 1993 from New Castle, Pennsylvania Classification: Endangered Runaway Date Of Birth: April 5, 1977 Age: 15 years old Height and Weight: 5'6, 140 pounds Distinguishing Characteristics: Caucasian female. Red hair, blue eyes. Thompson has a light-colored birthmark at her hairline on the back of her neck. Details of Disappearance Thompson was last seen in New Castle, Pennsylvania on January 7, 1993. Authorities believe she left of her own accord. Thompson has never been heard from again. She does not have a history as a runaway. Few details are available in Thompson's case. Investigating Agency If you have any information concerning this case, please contact: New Castle Police Department 724-658-4741 Source Information The National Center For Missing and Exploited Children Charley Project Home |
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| monkalup | Nov 28 2006, 12:43 AM Post #2 |
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The Old Heifer! An oxymoron, of course.
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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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| tatertot | Sep 28 2010, 05:23 AM Post #3 |
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http://media.www.wcn247.com/media/storage/...r-3937138.shtml Wife Turns Husband In For 1993 Lawrence Co. Murder Issue date: 9/26/10 Section: Community News September 27, 2010 NEW CASTLE, Pa.-- A Pulaski man is in the Lawrence County jail facing murder charges after his wife led police to solving a 17-year old crime and missing persons case. A second man, now in Louisiana, also faces similar charges. Both are accused of the 1993 murder of a 15-year old single mother. New Castle police say the victim was 15-year old Laura Thompson. She was a high school student and a mother of a baby when she disappeared in 1993. Now 39-year old Joseph Marshall Jr., of Pulaski faces murder charges after his wife turned him in to police. He was arrested on Sunday. Investigators say 38-year old Sean McDonough of Louisiana also faces charges in the murder. He was also arrested over the weekend in Thibodaux, La. He is currently being processed for extradition to Pennsylvania. Marshall's wife Shannon Marshall, who is now divorcing him, told police that she went along when her husband dug up and dismembered Laura Thompson's body a few months after she was killed in January 1993. Marshall's wife Shannon Marshall, who is now divorcing him, told police that she went along when her husband dug up and dismembered Laura Thompson's body a few months after she was killed in January 1993. According to the criminal complaint, Marshall and McDonough were hanging out with Thompson at McDonough's trailer in Shenango Township. Marshall told police McDonough attacked Thompson, stabbed her to death, and then stripped her and had sex with her corpse before burying her remains in a shallow grave. The victim was a high school student at the time as well as a single mother with a 9-month old baby. The victim's mother, Nancy Thompson of New Castle, says her daughter had gone to play cards with Marshall and McDonough and she always believed she was alive and would be found. Nancy Thompson says she can't yet make funeral arrangements because police are hoping the suspects will help them locate her daughter's remains. According to the criminal complaint, Shannon Marshall revealed to police that her husband told her that "he had done something very bad and had killed someone." Police said Shannon Marshall knew about the slaying in 1993, but only reported it to police in July because their marriage was ending and she feared for her life. |
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| tatertot | Sep 28 2010, 05:26 AM Post #4 |
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http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10270/1090748-100.stm New Castle teen missing since '93 was homicide victim Monday, September 27, 2010 By Jim McKinnon, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Laura Lynn Thompson: last seen in 1993 Two men are in custody in a 17-year-old murder case after the fearful wife of one of the suspects went to authorities to report her husband's involvement in the crime. The suspects are charged in the killing in January 1993 of Laura Lynn Thompson, 15, who disappeared around that time. Laura was a high school student and the mother of a 9-month-old baby boy when she was reported missing. Investigators believed at the time that the girl may have run away from home. Shannon Marshall, the wife of suspect Joseph Marshall Jr., told police that her husband, during their engagement in 1993, admitted that he had killed someone, though he did not name the victim at that time, according to a police affidavit. The affidavit further states: Last June, Mrs. Marshall went to police with a tape recording she made, detailing what she learned from her husband's statements. He told her that in January 1993 he and another New Castle man, Sean McDonough, persuaded Laura to hang out with them. They took her to a small cabin in a wooded area in Shenango, Lawrence County, on Mr. McDonough's property. There, the affidavit said, Mr. McDonough attacked the girl, stabbed her to death, stripped her naked and sexually assaulted her. Mrs. Marshall told police that she accompanied her husband in the summer of 1993, waiting in the car when he went into the wooded area to dig up the remains from where he said Mr. McDonough had buried her. He then drove to an undisclosed field and scattered her remains, the affidavit said. In August 2010, after she had gone to police in July, arrangements were made for Mrs. Marshall to telephone Mr. McDonough, who has relocated to Louisiana. She told Mr. McDonough that she was afraid of her husband. Police, in the affidavit, said they have cell phone records that show Mr. Marshall and Mr. McDonough had numerous long distance telephone conversations, one of them lasting about 81 minutes immediately after Mrs. Marshall told Mr. McDonough that she had a tape recording for her protection. District Judge David Rishel arraigned Mr. Marshall today on charges of homicide, abuse of a corpse and conspiracy. He is being held without bail, pending a preliminary hearing at 1 p.m. Oct. 6 in Lawrence County Central Court. The district judge said Mr. McDonough had been served an arrest warrant in his new hometown, Thibodaux, La., He will be extradited this week to Lawrence County to face the charges, Judge Rishel said. |
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| tatertot | Sep 28 2010, 10:43 PM Post #5 |
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http://www.timesonline.com/bct_news/news_d...egin-today.html Search for murdered teen’s body to begin By: Eric Poole Calkins Media Tuesday September 28, 2010 07:07 PM NEW CASTLE — Investigators will begin efforts today, two days after her suspected killers were charged, to find the body of a teen mother who was murdered more than 17 years ago. Lawrence County District Attorney Joshua Lamancusa said Tuesday that Joseph Marshall Jr., 39, of Pulaski Township has been cooperating with authorities in the efforts to locate the body of 15-year-old Laura Thompson, who was murdered in January 1993. County authorities charged Marshall and Sean McDonough, 38, of Thibodaux, La., on Monday with Thompson’s murder. Marshall is being held without bond in Lawrence County Jail. Lamancusa said he doesn’t yet know whether McDonough will fight extradition from Louisiana. According to documents filed in the case, McDonough had sex with Thompson before and after he killed her. Marshall told police that he watched as McDonough raped and killed Thompson. Thompson had a 9-month-old son at the time of her death. Lamancusa said McDonough then buried Thompson in Shenango Township, and Marshall later moved her body to a location in Hickory Township. Thompson remained a missing person for nearly two decades, until the National Center for Missing and Exploited Persons began investigating the case. Lamancusa credited investigator Joseph Hladky of the center for his work on Thompson’s disappearance. But Thompson’s death wouldn’t be solved until Marshall’s wife, Shannon, went to New Castle police in July and implicated him in the case. Shannon Marshall said she was with her husband when he retrieved and moved Thompson’s body. Lamancusa said Shannon Marshall was about to file for divorce from her husband, from whom she was separated, and she worried about retribution from him. “She knew what he was capable of, and she was fearful,” Lamancusa said. The district attorney said the focus will now shift to finding Thompson’s remains. Both potential locations are in remote areas, although he wouldn’t provide a precise location. State police will take aerial photos today as a prelude to a ground search. Police and staff from the Center for Missing and Exploited Children will work alongside forensic anthropologists from Mercyhurst College, using cadaver-locating dogs and hardware including ground-penetrating radar designed to locate human remains. The ground search might have to wait a few days, Lamancusa said, because the radar works best when the earth is firm and dry, an improbability after Tuesday’s heavy rainstorms. “As soon as the weather cooperates, we’ll be out there,” the district attorney said. “We’re hopeful that we’ll find her.” |
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| monkalup | Oct 14 2010, 07:49 PM Post #6 |
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The Old Heifer! An oxymoron, of course.
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http://kdka.com/local/search.remains.Laura.2.1937677.html Sep 29, 2010 1:20 pm US/Eastern Investigation Continues Into Teen's '93 MurderNEW CASTLE (KDKA/AP) ¯ Click to enlarge1 of 1 Laura Lynn Thompson disappeared in 1993 and now two men are being charged in her murder. KDKA Close numSlides of totalImages Related StoriesWife Turns Husband In For 1993 Murder (9/28/2010) 2 Men Charged In Local Teen's '93 Murder (9/27/2010) Investigators plan to begin searching soon for the remains of a 15-year-old girl who went missing in Lawrence County back in 1993. Police have arrested Joseph Marshall Jr. and Sean McDonough in connection with the disappearance and death of Laura Lynn Thompson. The girl was thought to be a runaway teenager in 1993, but turned out to be a murder victim. Marshall, 39, of Pulaski Township, is charged with first-degree murder, conspiracy, and other charges along with McDonough, 38, of Thibodaux, La. Police were led to the men after Marshall's estranged wife went to police with information. The men were arrested without incident and have been cooperating with police. Lawrence County District Attorney Joshua Lamancusas said at a press conference earlier this week: "At the present time, we have not located the body of Laura Thompson. We are pretty sure of where the body was initially buried and we're pretty sure of where her remains are scattered. This is something that we're going to be following up [on] in the next couple of days." "We do have a dig team coming in," he added. "We have additional dogs and we have some other technological devices that we're going to use to help us find the body." According to the district attorney, no searching will happen today because of the weather and because a search warrant has not yet been issued. Marshall is being held without bond in the Lawrence County Jail. McDonough is in jail in Louisiana. He faces an extradition hearing later this month. Stay with KDKA for the latest developments. |
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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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| tatertot | Dec 5 2015, 10:51 PM Post #7 |
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http://www.ellwoodcityledger.com/news/loca...0a8bd5440d.html Arrest made in 1993 murder Posted: Tuesday, September 28, 2010 12:00 am Associated Press PITTSBURGH - Two men have been charged in the 1993 killing of a 15-year-old girl after the wife of one of them turned him in, according to court documents obtained by The Associated Press. Shannon Marshall told New Castle and Pennsylvania State Police that she went along when Joseph Marshall Jr., 39, of Pulaski Township dug up and dismembered Laura Thompson's body a few months after she was killed in January 1993. Marshall's wife also helped implicate Sean McDonough, 38, now of Thibodaux, La., who was arrested Sunday in Louisiana. The men conspired to kill the girl, who had a 9-month-old child at the time, after McDonough raped her, police said in two criminal complaints and affidavits. McDonough also allegedly had sex with Thompson's corpse before the body was buried, police said. Nancy Thompson, 61, of New Castle, said her daughter had gone to play cards with Marshall and McDonough and she always believed she was alive and would be found. "I never gave up because I still had intuition in my heart that I knew she was still alive," Thompson told the AP. Those hopes were crushed when police arrived Monday to tell Thompson her daughter was dead and two men were jailed in her murder. "They just came today and told me everything, that they caught the two men," Thompson said. She was still attempting to reach her now 18-year-old grandson with news of his mother's death. Thompson said she raised the boy until he was adopted when he was "12 or 13." Nancy Thompson said she can't yet make funeral arrangements because police are hoping the suspects will help them locate her daughter's remains. Police didn't immediately return calls for comment, and the court papers don't make clear why Shannon Marshall first went to police in July or whether she would face any charges. She told police she was divorcing Marshall and feared his temper. Shannon Marshall's phone rang unanswered Monday. Marshall told police that her husband first told her "he had done something very bad," a few months after the killing, a police affidavit said. "Joseph Marshall went on to state that he had killed someone. Shannon stated that after telling her that he had killed someone he pulled the car over and told Shannon, 'If you want to get out, get out now,"' according to the court papers. Instead, she stayed with Marshall, who said he didn't ever want to talk about the killing again. But that changed in the summer of 1993, when a detective tried to contact Joseph Marshall about Thompson's disappearance. Shortly afterward, he told her that he had killed the girl, who he identified only as 'Laura,' by stabbing her in the back, she told police. Marshall then drove her to a wooded area near Route 422 in Shenango Township where he dug up a corpse while she acted as a lookout, according to her police statement. Joseph Marshall took the remains and scattered them in a field near Route 108 in Hickory Township, a few miles away, she told police. Police charged McDonough after Joseph Marshall allegedly confessed to the crimes on Saturday, while his wife was present, and based on conversations Shannon Marshall had with McDonough on the telephone beginning in August - some of which police recorded. In her police statements, Shannon Marshall said she called McDonough to tell him she knew about the killing and that she had tape recorded a statement about what she knew for the police to find should anything happen to her. After telling police about those conversations, police recorded more calls to McDonough, in which he accused her of "pumping" him for information about the killing. Confronted with his wife's statements, Joseph Marshall told police on Saturday that he and McDonough drank beer and hung out with Thompson before driving her to a cabin McDonough had in the woods. Contrary to the story his wife claimed he had previously told, Joseph Marshall said McDonough wrestled the girl to the floor and stabbed her in the back as she screamed, then had sex with her after she stopped moving. Marshall told police he merely watched as that unfolded, and said it was McDonough who buried the girl in a shallow grave. Joseph Marshall told police that McDonough claimed to have returned months later to get rid of the body's skull, teeth and hands - and that those parts of the corpse were, indeed, gone when he dug up the body while Shannon Marshall watched, and dumped them in a nearby ravine. Marshall is in the Lawrence County Jail without bond, while McDonough was in custody awaiting extradition to Pennsylvania. Both men are charged with first-degree murder, conspiracy to commit criminal homicide and lesser murder counts. Marshall also is charged with abuse of a corpse for allegedly digging up the victim's remains. McDonough faces additional charges including forcible rape, rape of an unconscious victim, and abuse of a corpse - both for allegedly dismembering the corpse and for sex acts committed with it. Online court records don't list attorneys for either men. Messages left numbers listed as cell phones for both men were not returned. |
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