i'm just hearing about this, it seems this is quite out of character for this girl to vanish.
good student, accomplished ballerina, not flighty. i'll try to find out more information.
keys and wallet left behind, cell phone gone.
i hope her parents get some good news for the holiday.
THE CELL PHONE WILL BE KEY HERE.
Syracuse.Com
Law enforcement calls off search for the night for Jenni-Lyn Watson. Search teams were able to cover about 200 arces of the wooded area that is bordered by Morgan Road, Henry Clay Boulevard, Buckley Road and Route 481.
Clay, NY -- Police, firefighters and other law enforcement officials are now searching a large wooded area in the northern suburbs for a missing 20-year-old from Clay, officials said this afternoon.
They are searching the area based on information obtained from Jenni-Lyn Watson's cell phone records, Sgt. John D’Eredita, a spokesman for the Onondaga County Sheriff’s Office, said this afternoon outside the Moyers Corners Fire House on Henry Clay Boulevard .
The searchers are concentrating on an area bordered by Morgan Road, Henry Clay Boulevard, Buckley Road and Route 481. The search area was originally identified as two areas, but authorities later clarified it is one large area.
The area is largely undeveloped land; parts of it are identified as the Woodard Industrial Park on some maps.
A team of searchers was seen about 3 p.m. today picking through trash along railroad tracks that cross the search area and Wetzel Road between Morgan Road and Henry Clay Boulevard.
Onondaga County Sheriff's Air One helicopter is assisting with the search. A search and rescue team from Oswego County is also on the scene.
search2.JPGDavid Lassman/ The Post-Standard An Oswego Search and Rescue team and Onondaga County Sheriff's Department have assembled Tuesday at the Moyers Corners Fire Station on Henry Clay Boulevard where a command center has been established for the search for missing Clay resident Jenni-Lyn Watson.
The search is in its early stages, D’Eredita said shortly before 2 p.m. today. He declined to release more details.
Watson, who graduated from Liverpool High School in 2008, has been missing since Friday morning.
Some people at an informal search headquarters set up in a home near Watson’s home were crying early this afternoon. They declined to say what was going on.
Watson, of 7406 Donegal Way, is described as 5-foot, 2-inches tall and 100 pounds, with dirty blonde hair and brown eyes.
Watson had come home for Thanksgiving break from Mercyhurst College in Pennsylvania, where she is a junior dance major.
Friday morning, she left her house and disappeared, seemingly without a trace. Her family told deputies it was “uncharacteristic” of Watson to leave without telling anyone.
Friends and family this week organized an online campaign to locate Watson. They also distributed posters throughout area.
Nearly 7,000 people had become members of a “MISSING: Jenni-Lyn Watson” Facebook page.
Town of Clay (WSYR-TV) - Sheriff's investigators are attempting find the driver of a pickup truck seen near the Watson home the day 20-year-old Jenni-Lyn Watson disappeared. A tip about the pickup truck was phoned in to the Sheriff's Department tip line, leading to Undersheriff Warren Darby calling it, "a vehicle of interest."
They're looking for a dark-colored pick-up truck that was reported to have been near Donegal Way on November 19 between 7:00am and 3:00pm. Onondaga County Sheriff's Detectives are hoping the driver of the vehicle could have information that could help them in their investigation.
Anyone with information on the truck or its driver should call the Sheriff's Office at (315) 435-3081.
Although the information about the pickup truck is the newest development in the investigation, the search for Jenni-Lyn did continue throughout in the Town of Clay. So far about 600 acres have been searched in an area targeted as an area of interest by Jenni-LYn's cell phone records.
Wednesday, investigators searched along waterways, rail tracks and throughout the overgrowth for any clue about the missing woman's whereabouts. In all, 22 people searched as part of six teams made up of Wilderness Search and Rescue, Oswego County Search and Rescue, Cayuga County Search and Resuce, Massasauga Search and Rescue and Eagle Valley Search Dogs.
Oswego County Search and Rescue representative Roger Fox says they're looking for even the smallest clues. "We're looking for evidence. Things that might have been left, whether it's a footprint, wallet or a pair of glasses, something like that. We figure that if we're looking for the small things, we're more apt to see the large things - as opposed to the other way around," he said.
In addition to the search in the Clay area, Undersheriff Warren Darby reported Wednesday that detectives had visited Erie, Pennsylvania, where Jenni-Lyn was a student at Mercyhurst College. "We've been talking to anyone who knew Jenni-Lyn, including people that she dated, both here and down in Erie," he said.
Detectives also spoke with faculty and staff at the college. Those interviews, Darby says, have not yielded a person of interest but have provided a lot of useful background about the missing woman.
Additionally, Undersheriff Darby announced Wednesday evening that the Lamar Outdoor Advertising company has facilitated the spread of electronic billboards with Jenni-Lyn's photo nationwide. The image is already being shown on seven billboards in Central New York, but Darby says it may be important to extend public awareness about the search. "We don't know where she is, and it might be anywhere during this 5 day stretch that we're looking at," he said.
So far, the physical search has been performed entirely by professionals and the public have been asked not to perform a search of their own. That may change this weekend, Darby says, but for the time being the Sheriff's Department is still asking the public to refrain from searching in the same area as search and rescue teams.
the search will continue today, Thanksgiving.
a source said that Watson had recently broken off an engagement.
"The break-up didn't go as cordially as it should have," the source said.
The search for Jenni-Lyn Watson was suspended for the night, but crews will be out again on Thanksgiving Day.
Undersheriff Warren Darby says the search effort will be smaller because of the holiday, but it will still be going on. Darby says his department has been getting lots of tips from the public. He says there have been so many callers that some people are getting busy signals. Darby says if you know something, don't let that deter you. Either call back, or leave a voicemail.
The sheriff's department is following up on every tip. Darby says it was a tips call that lead to the information released today about a dark colored truck in the area of Jenni-Lyn's home on Friday. Darby called the truck a "vehicle of interest." Investigators are looking for a better description of the truck, or the driver.
CNYcentral's Jim Kenyon asked Darby about rumors surrounding Jenni-Lyn's relationships. Darby says investigators have interviewed several people who knew Jenni-Lyn, including people she dated. Darby stressed there is still no person of interest in the case.
from all reports about this young lady, she wouldn't have voluntarily left her family to worry like this over the holiday week.
ABC
Police halted the ground search Thanksgiving Day for a young New York woman who went missing almost a week ago, after coming from college for the holiday break.
Although the investigation will hit the one-week mark tomorrow, police continue to classify the case as a missing-person investigation.
"Being a week out certainly raises concerns for us," Sgt. Sgt. John D'Eredita, a Sheriff's Department spokesman, told ABCNews.com. "We don't have any indication that Jenni-Lyn is not alive. It would take new evidence to turn this into a homicide investigation."
The search is expected to resume again Friday.
Over the course of the past two days, D'Eredita said, search teams have covered more than 600 acres.
im jenni-lyn, everyone calls me Jenn-ay (like in forest gump). I'm going to be a sophomore at Mercyhurst college, im majoring in dance!! i love all my friends they are the best!! I'm a pretty simple person and usually pretty happy, especially at college!! i love black and white photography, watching the clouds, chillen at my camp, happy endings and disney movies, drinking hot coco after being out in the snow, and just the simple things in life. i've had some experiences that opened my eyes and made me who i am now but with that comes my huge trust issue... i dont trust people easily so don't take it personally. I love my boyfriend he is thte best thing thats ever happened to me<3
UPDATE: 1:10 p.m. -- The Onondaga County Sheriff's Office will hold a news conference at 5:30 p.m. today at the Moyers Corners Fire Station Number 3, Henry Clay Boulevard and West Taft Road, to update reporters on the latest developments in the search.
there wasn't much point to this news conference. i think the sheriff really wanted to stress NO CIVILIANS SEARCHING.
and the local news outlets that said they would show the presser live completely fucked up and didn't do it. this happens all the damn time and is very frustrating.
Town of Clay (WSYR-TV) – One week since Jenni-Lyn Watson was last seen, the sheriff’s department says the size of search teams has tripled, and they won’t need civilian volunteers as the effort continues Saturday. Detectives expanded the search area Friday and finalized the search in areas already covered.
At an evening news conference, Undersheriff Warren Darby said search and rescue crews plan to be back out in the morning looking for 20-year-old Jenni-Lyn, who was last seen November 19.
CLAY, NY (WSYR-TV) – A body has been found in a marshy area of Clay Central Park, near the YMCA along Wetzel Road in the Town of Clay. This falls into the search area for missing 20-year-old Jenni-Lyn Watson.
A number of law enforcement agencies, including the Onondaga County Sheriff's Department and the Cayuga County Sheriff's Department are at the scene, crime scene tape has gone up and we're told Air One has also landed at the site.
not IDed yet, but pretty sure it's her.
found 2 miles from home, almost in the open, just covered with brush.
waiting for cause of death.
i know this from following it, the police have had a suspect all along and they were pretty sure she was dead. that's why all the secrecy, and no civilians allowed to search. we never even saw her parents.
we will hear more in the next couple days i hope. assuming the Sheriff becomes more open. no suspects have been named.
from all appearances this was a lovely girl with a good future ahead.
she had even danced with the Russian Ballet. she had goals.
i may be off base, but it's a damn shame it looks like she let some guy get the best of her.
as i thought...arrest made. waitng for details. it's the boyfriend from the facebook page. ( post # 5)
Steven Pieper
edit to add: body confirmed to be her.
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Authorities say they have charged 21-year-old Steven M. Pieper, of Coconut Tree Drive, Liverpool, with murder after searchers discovered a body believed to be that of dance student Jenni-Lyn Watson in a park in Clay. They expect he will be arraigned tonight in town court.
he turned himself in and claims to be innocent.
District Attorney William Fitzpatrick said Pieper and Watson had been involved in an on-and-off relatiionship, which Watson tried to end in early October, and Pieper did not take to that well.
Fitzpatrick said that authorities believe Watson was removed from her parent's home by Pieper Friday Nov. 19, and very shortly after, "dumped, frankly like garbage," in Clay Central Park.
"We do not believe she left that house alive," Fitzpatrick said.
He said Pieper had a minor police record but there had been no police intervention in their relationship.
Steven M. Pieper, 21, of Liverpool, is escorted by Sheriff's Deputies into Clay Town Court Saturday night for his arraignment where he pleaded not guilty to a second-degree murder charge. no bail. this was not a bond hearing.
CLAY — Funeral arrangements have been sent for the slain Pennsylvania college student whose body was found in a suburban Syracuse park over the weekend.
Calling hours for 20-year-old Jenni-Lyn Watson, a close friend of Saratoga Springs resident Rachel Torgesen, are scheduled for Tuesday afternoon at Thomas J. Pirro Funeral home in North Syracuse. Her funeral is set for 11:30 a.m. Wednesday at St. Margaret’s Church in Mattydale.
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