12-04-2010, 08:48 PM
oh dear Jesus! another one! only this never made the mainstream news. nobody ever reported them missing!
MOBILE, Ala. (AP) — A father told investigators that his two young children missing since the summer are dead and buried, prompting corpse-abuse charges for the man and a search by cadaver dogs for the youngsters' bodies, police said.
The father, John DeBlase, and the children's stepmother have also been charged with child abuse.
Mobile Police Chief Michael Williams said Deblase told authorities about an area where he remembers burying the bodies of 5-year-old Natalie DeBlase and 3-year-old Chase DeBlase, WALA-TV reported. Police wouldn't disclose the site but said it's within 100 miles of the coastal Alabama city.
A police spokesman did not immediately return a phone message from The Associated Press, and it was unclear if the two had attorneys.
DeBlase was arrested Friday in the Florida Panhandle town of Navarre and charged with two counts of aggravated child abuse and two counts of abuse of a corpse.
"We want to make sure that we find these children and that they're buried properly," Williams said.
The children were last seen in July during an outing in Mobile, but their disappearance wasn't reported until police in Kentucky received a tip recently from a relative of the stepmother's, police said. Mobile police said they began investigating about a week ago.
On Wednesday, police in Louisville, Ky., arrested the children's stepmother, Heather Leavell-Keaton, and charged her with child abuse.
"We have been able to determine that both of them are responsible for the death of these two children," said Mobile police spokesman Christopher Levy.
Police say the charges of abuse of a corpse filed against the father resulted from evidence he buried the bodies without proper respect.
"He's given us an indication of a location where they may be, where he remembers burying the children," Williams said.
MOBILE, Ala. (AP) — A father told investigators that his two young children missing since the summer are dead and buried, prompting corpse-abuse charges for the man and a search by cadaver dogs for the youngsters' bodies, police said.
The father, John DeBlase, and the children's stepmother have also been charged with child abuse.
Mobile Police Chief Michael Williams said Deblase told authorities about an area where he remembers burying the bodies of 5-year-old Natalie DeBlase and 3-year-old Chase DeBlase, WALA-TV reported. Police wouldn't disclose the site but said it's within 100 miles of the coastal Alabama city.
A police spokesman did not immediately return a phone message from The Associated Press, and it was unclear if the two had attorneys.
DeBlase was arrested Friday in the Florida Panhandle town of Navarre and charged with two counts of aggravated child abuse and two counts of abuse of a corpse.
"We want to make sure that we find these children and that they're buried properly," Williams said.
The children were last seen in July during an outing in Mobile, but their disappearance wasn't reported until police in Kentucky received a tip recently from a relative of the stepmother's, police said. Mobile police said they began investigating about a week ago.
On Wednesday, police in Louisville, Ky., arrested the children's stepmother, Heather Leavell-Keaton, and charged her with child abuse.
"We have been able to determine that both of them are responsible for the death of these two children," said Mobile police spokesman Christopher Levy.
Police say the charges of abuse of a corpse filed against the father resulted from evidence he buried the bodies without proper respect.
"He's given us an indication of a location where they may be, where he remembers burying the children," Williams said.