Breaking News: Body Found Is Nevaeh Buchanan
A body found near the River Raisin is that of 5-year-old Nevaeh Buchanan, who disappeared from her Monroe home May 24, the Monroe Evening News has reported.
The paper said police have spoken to the family.
Ryan Bickley, 15, said his father, Guy Bickley, found the body this morning when he was by the river fishing with his grandfather around 11 a.m.
The teenager said the body was encased in a cement block and they could smell it. His father, he said, chipped a piece of cement away and saw skin and when he saw skin, he stopped and called police. The block was near the water.
Nevaeh’s mother was huddled with friends at her apartment in Monroe.
A mobile command unit, which signifies intense police activity, arrived earlier this evening at the area of Dixon Road and Sullivan in Raisinville Township. Police were acting on a tip that the body of Nevaeh could be buried there.
A medical examiner truck also arrived at the scene.
Volunteers claimed to have found a clump of long brown hair, said the Rev. Dale Hayford, senior pastor of Crosswalk Community Church in Monroe.
Barricades kept traffic away from North Custer Road, west of Ida Maybee Road.
Since Nevaeh’s disappearance, police have zeroed in on a few men with histories of sex assault convictions, but no one has been charged in the case and leads are dwindling.
One man, George Kennedy, 39, told a Ohio newspaper this week he had nothing to do with the girl’s disappearance. In fact, he told the Toledo Blade, he helped the girl’s mother search for Nevaeh.
Earlier in the day, firefighters from area departments sent over not only volunteers, but also equipment, to breathe new life into the nearly two-week search.
“I hope this is what we needed,” said Elisa Boyer, 31, of Monroe.
Firefighters from agencies such as Monroe, Monroe Township, Ida Township and Dundee are being tracked electronically into a system usually reserved for battling blazes.
The fireTRAX program logs who searches where, then allows that volunteer to move onto another unsearched area when finished, said Monroe Township Firefighter Joe Hernandez.
“We want to help any way we can,” said Ida Township firefighter Mark Andrews, 19. “We hope to find her alive, but finding her in any way will help the family.”
SOURCE: June 4 at 9:00 pm Freep.com news site here
PERSONS’ OF INTEREST REPORT
Monroe — Monroe County Sheriff’s Department investigators on Thursday found a child’s body west of Monroe that may be the body of the missing 5-year-old Nevaeh Buchanan.
Police cordoned off an area near the River Raisin around Dixon Road in the area of Ida-Maybee and Neiman roads.
Evidence experts were preparing late Thursday to examine a body that searchers discovered that had clothing similar to what Nevaeh was wearing when she disappeared from her Monroe home on May 24, a person familiar with the investigation said.
Sheriff’s department and FBI officials would not confirm they had found the child’s body. No positive identification of the body had been made by early Thursday evening.
Nevaeh’s uncle, Michael Buchanan, told The Detroit News: “The police just informed us, ‘If you hear something from us again, it’ll be positive,’ (meaning there’s a body).”
If the body is the missing child, it will mark a tragic end to the search in an investigation that has focused, in part, on friends of the girl’s mother who have criminal records for sexual offenses. Nobody has been charged in the case.
Earlier Thursday, a 64-year-old man, who a district judge said has been cleared as a person of interest in the girl’s disappearance, said he was held by interrogators for 12 hours, answering questions such as “How do you think they did it?”
James Easter said he made a mistake by answering that question outright, claiming that if he was the one who had abducted Nevaeh on May 24, he would have “took my vehicle behind the nail salon nearby and called to her with a Kit Kat.”
“When you’re an innocent man, they keep telling you this and that,” Easter said. “All I could keep telling them is, ‘I didn’t do it.’ ”
Easter was arrested over the weekend on unrelated arson charges, and he was released on $250 bail after his arraignment Monday.
District Court Judge Jack Vitale said the county prosecutor and county sheriff had cleared Easter from Nevaeh’s case, but the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office says they continue to look at every possible scenario and wouldn’t comment on any potential people of interest. Monroe County Sheriff’s Maj. Dan Motylinski said the department would not comment on any claims made by Easter.
Easter said he learned of Nevaeh’s disappearance when he was called by a girlfriend who lives at the Charlotte Arms Apartments, where the girl had disappeared while playing alone in the parking lot. His girlfriend said she needed a ride to the store, saying the apartment complex was abuzz over the missing girl, he said.
“I had a hard time thinking in my head,” Easter said of the questioning.
He told authorities he had been at Kmart that night. He said investigators tried to pin him down, acting like Nevaeh was at the store with her mother that day.
“They kept telling me, ‘You followed her out of Kmart,’ ” Easter said.
Easter said investigators took DVDs, personal photos and other possessions, leaving his home a mess Friday. Authorities returned Sunday, digging up his backyard.
Easter is one of three people of interest made public in Nevaeh’s case. George Kennedy and Roy Smith, both sex offenders who knew Nevaeh’s mother, are being held on possible parole violations.
Investigators are offering a $20,000 reward for information that could lead to finding Nevaeh. Anyone with tips is asked to call (734) 243-7070.
In an interview with the Toledo Blade on Wednesday from the Monroe County Jail, Kennedy also said he didn’t take Nevaeh and began searching for her after learning of her disappearance.
Kennedy told the Blade that blood police found in his motel room came from cutting himself shaving and from his girlfriend after she got a tattoo. Human blood found on a multitool, he said, came from a fishing accident. The sheriff’s office has said none of the blood is Nevaeh’s.
Meanwhile, the task force also is searching for two minivans, one green box-style and the other silver, that were parked at the Hollywood Elementary School when Nevaeh disappeared. The silver minivan was likely driven by a mother who was with her two small children.
SOURCE: Detroit News staff writers Mark Hicks and Mike Wilkinson contributed from Detnews.com June 4 Source
Sandra Cantu
Haleigh Cummings
Nevaeh Buchanan
Caylee Anthony
Alex & Michael Smith (susan smith)
Andrea Yates - all 5 children
Paula Sims - her 2 baby girls
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Just 13 of the most high profile children murdered by either their mom or another mother. Not even a drop in the bucket. Children are not safe today - even when with mommy! I can not help but believe that these women are selfish, evil, hateful child killers. They had to have grown up having the world go their way or else. They ruled their parents and grew up with no concept of what it meant to become a parent. So when the going got tough and they could no longer just pick up and go whenever they chose or when family caught on and quit doing the free babysitting - it was curtains for the children. I don’t know how you slow down or stop the trend of women killing children because in each of the above cases - no one suspected that any of these women were capable of what they did. What are the warning signs? These women are so self-centered and want to have the perfect image and the arm candy of a cute child at their convenience - their evil is done in private and begins long before the day the child or children are killed. Public image is everything. Even those who knew Casey from the time Caylee was born said she was attentive and loving to Caylee. She played the role in public and controlled the real her until she was alone with Caylee. I imagine Caylee suffered a long time at the hands of Casey before that fateful day. Sadly women like Casey would never consider giving up the child because it would ruin the image they have worked so hard to create and the child is also a magnet for new friends - male & female alike. It then falls to who lives in the home with the mother and child to be ever watchful and aware of what is going on. When a daughter and her child live with you, being her parent moves to second place on the priority list. The grandchild has to be the number one priority for everyone. It is hard for a parent to be put in the position of taking a child away from their daughter, but it has to be done to protect the child. It ruins relationships and creates fights along the way, but ultimatel the children are better off.
What I am saying is that the immediate family and close friends have to be vigilant always. Don’t say you don’t’ want to believe what you are seeing because it is so contrary to what you have always known this person to be. Having a child changes some girls/women. When they realize they have lost all freedom and that it is a lifelong commitment = then how they act from then forward is the new person with no connection to who you thought you knew. Get the child out of the environment. Call DCF if need be. Put the child’s needs first. Quit caring what the mom will say or think because believe me they get over it so quickly and never look back when it truly is the child they want out of their way. I know because I am 19 years into a temporary guardianship - she never looked back, but also never stopped blaming me for taking them. She lost that image and the little arm candy of identical twins - she was furious until such time as she earned the right to see them unsupervised. Once she could take them for an hour and show them off - she got her fix till we saw her again in a few months.
If we are to prevent this common practice, then we as families have an obligation to see these women for who they are today, not who they were as a child or a teen. Trust the voice inside of you that is screaming out to you to protect a child.
Sophie I completley agree with you. Get over the pity pot of the bio mom. Kids are not here to meet a bio parents emotional needs. Bio Parents need to know that kids are here to have their own emotional needs met along with all the other basic needs and beyond!!!
Bio parents are selfish when they reproduce thinking of their own needs. I want a baby, I need a baby, A baby will complete our family, geeze. This is a whole person that doesn’t ask to be brought into this world. They are completley dependant and unable to protect themselves even against the mommy ’s neglect and abuse much less becoming a victim in the community.
Hi Nancy! Welcome to the site :) I ‘ditto’ your comment and probably Sophies as well …..just don’t have the time to read it now 8)
Oh Nancy. ……If you look at the sidebar on the right side of the page you will see “Recent Comments” that will show you where ppl are “talking” now. Just click and it will take you right there :)
Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ sophieƸ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ says:
June 7, 2009 at 12:49 pm
Wow Sophie! I’m so glad that you shared your story with us. It’s one that needs to be told again and again. Perhaps you will reach someone who has been wavering on taking steps to protect a child and/or children. I hope that your post gets put in a spot for “Recognition Repeats” and that one will be created for this if none exists. You are testimony to what should be done and what has to be done. They aren’t interchangeable, and you pointed out that it may not be easy to do the “right” thing. If someone still has doubts, they should seek the advice of an advocate for children, or check with “granny” google for starters. To delay taking action could have a regrettable outcome that “if only” can’t fix.
I agree with sophie and everyone else about these kids.I was unable to have a child until God blessed me and my husband with a beautiful daughter 24 years ago. When she got here we devoted our lives to her happiness and well being. We love her so much and now we have been blessed with 2 grandbabies.They are the center of our world and each and every day we thank God for them. How any mother could harm their own child is beyond my comprehention. Mothers who endanger the lives of their kids by associating with child molesters are as guilty as the child molesters. Always cherish your kids,grandkids,all kids they are truly gifts from God.
Has Nevaeh’s murderer ever been captured? I haven’t heard a peep about this case for such a long time. How tragic if another child killer gets to skate free to murder again. It just disgusts me beyond words. :-((