03-01-2017, 03:48 PM
According to Noyes’ attorneys, Celina’s pajama bottoms and underwear were found stuffed in a tire in the back of Mullaney’s truck and semen on a pair of sandy, muddy boxer shorts found in her clothes hamper tested positive for Mullaney’s DNA.
It was unclear whether Mullaney has an attorney. According to prosecutors, he has denied involvement in the girl’s death and said Noyes must have planted her clothing in his truck to frame him.
Investigators say Noyes made numerous inconsistent statements about where he last saw Celina the night before she was reported missing, how many beers he drank that night and what time he got up the next morning. Three days after Celina disappeared, he told a reporter the family was “grieving,” which struck investigators as unusual and indicative of knowing that she was dead.
A sandbag was missing from the back of his truck, and during the search for the girl he led investigators on a route that was “basically a circle around the body,” police said.
A jail inmate who served time with Noyes in 2015 told investigators that Noyes confessed to the killing, though police say that man’s credibility has not been established. The inmate said Noyes admitted that he and another man had been having sex with his stepdaughter and “they had to get rid of her” because they thought she was pregnant.
At the time of Noyes’ arrest, Louisia Cass said she hoped her ex-husband would end up in prison rather than the hospital. She said Noyes had seemed like a loving and caring husband but as time passed after Celina’s death she began to believe he was responsible. “I hope he rots in hell,” she said.
The girl’s disappearance led to an intense search by federal, state and local law enforcement in the tiny North Country town of Stewartstown, a mile from the Canadian border.
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It was unclear whether Mullaney has an attorney. According to prosecutors, he has denied involvement in the girl’s death and said Noyes must have planted her clothing in his truck to frame him.
Investigators say Noyes made numerous inconsistent statements about where he last saw Celina the night before she was reported missing, how many beers he drank that night and what time he got up the next morning. Three days after Celina disappeared, he told a reporter the family was “grieving,” which struck investigators as unusual and indicative of knowing that she was dead.
A sandbag was missing from the back of his truck, and during the search for the girl he led investigators on a route that was “basically a circle around the body,” police said.
A jail inmate who served time with Noyes in 2015 told investigators that Noyes confessed to the killing, though police say that man’s credibility has not been established. The inmate said Noyes admitted that he and another man had been having sex with his stepdaughter and “they had to get rid of her” because they thought she was pregnant.
At the time of Noyes’ arrest, Louisia Cass said she hoped her ex-husband would end up in prison rather than the hospital. She said Noyes had seemed like a loving and caring husband but as time passed after Celina’s death she began to believe he was responsible. “I hope he rots in hell,” she said.
The girl’s disappearance led to an intense search by federal, state and local law enforcement in the tiny North Country town of Stewartstown, a mile from the Canadian border.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/celina-cass-...g-girl-11/