Jhessye Shockley , 5, AZ -- MISSING/PRESUMED DEAD

[koko]

Omfg we need to be able to sterilize some folks. What the flying fuck. Irish catholic farmers procreate less than this bitch

[sharit]

That baby will get taken away as soon as it is born. Agree, rip that shit out so she can not breed again! Proves she is nothing but trash. Hope she never sees her children again, for their sake. This country is full of stupid bitches like her and they always have their hand out. Sick of it!

[Lady Cop]

Jhessye would have turned 6 yesterday.

this story illustrates the determination and dedication of the searchers. this is hard brutal work. i hope they nail that disgusting sow.

Glendale Star

More than 30 days into the Butterfield Landfill search for 5-year-old Jhessye Shockley, the community anxiously waits to hear if viable evidence has surfaced to bring those responsible to justice. Volunteers and a team of police personnel work tirelessly each day to sift through the huge piles of trash for key evidence.

One of those volunteers is 37-year-old Detective Brian Pich. Pich works with the violent crimes unit, alongside the homicide unit, and has been with the Glendale Police Department 10 years.

Pich volunteered to search for Jhessye as soon as he could. Aside from his motivations stemming from work is perhaps a more personal one. Pich has a young daughter himself.

“If something happened to my daughter, I would want the police and people involved to do everything they could to find her or find out what happened,” Pich said. “Being part of this investigation, we want to find Jhessye, put her to rest, and let her family know we did everything we could.”

That’s just what volunteers have been doing. Workers arrive at 5:30 a.m. to a meeting spot in Glendale, where they board buses and vans, to drive 70 miles (or one hour and a half) to the landfill.

Once they arrive, searchers are suited up in Tyvex rubber protective suits, plastic surgical gloves which are worn under heavier protective gloves, dust masks, and boots which are worn under another pair of rubber galoshes.

At 7:15 a.m. following a briefing, workers start the search immediately. They work until 3 p.m. with a half hour break for lunch. A few seven- to 15-minute breaks are allowed for water.

Keys items the searchers look for include newspapers and envelopes displaying addresses from the area, where Jhessye’s body was believed to have been dumped in a trash receptacle in Tempe.

“The evidence received steered the investigation in this direction,” Pich said. “I know the evidence we are looking for will have a positive impact on the case, and I do the job that I do to hold people accountable for the criminal actions, and finding Jhessye will hold someone accountable for their actions.”

The few closed trash bags that are found are carefully opened and searched, though Pich claims almost all of the trash is loose by the time they search it.

Pich said several bones have been found, all of which are collected, set aside, and later examined by forensic specialists.

Last week, the hind end of a small dog was unearthed at the site. Pich said he and the volunteers observed the leg to analyze how the skin and muscles were still intact on the bone.

“We used it as a learning exercise, because that’s how we believe the condition of a human bone would appear, as to how it would be preserved and mummified having been in the landfill for that length of time,” he said.

Pich said trash is sorted into 10 rows for the workers to sift through which takes approximately 35 to 40 minutes to complete before a new set of 10 rows is created.

Volunteers use three-pronged potato rakes, which are used to “scratch through the debris.”

Many of the items that have been sifted through include medical equipment, basketballs, and landscaping clippings. Military style helmets have been the weirdest items found besides an Arizona State flag. Some rugs have also been found, which are unrolled to make sure there is nothing concealed in the center.

Pich said the trash is brought from a specific part of the landfill that has been identified as coming from where it is believed Jhessye’s body was placed in a trash receptacle.

Pich said when they are dismissed at the end of the day, the general feeling is disappointment they didn’t have a find, but workers are also physically relieved to go home.

‘It is physically demanding, because you are doing the same raking movements all day while you stand,” he said.

Although workers are disappointed they have not yet found substantial evidence, Pich said the group remains committed and hopeful.

“Based on the information that was given to searchers, we are confident that we will find something and be successful,” Pich said.

Pich said the arduous task of staring at the ground as you scan for critical evidence can get to you, but all the volunteers try to take their mind off of it by talking with one another about their plans for the weekend.

“I think you have to,” he said. “It’s pretty common in law enforcement to try to talk about anything else other than what it is you’re doing.”

Volunteers work a week-long shift, and then have the following week off for a break to tend to their other work duties, then return the following week. Volunteers were also instrumental in requesting to sift through more rows of trash, which was bumped up from a previous six to 10. Pich maintains that everything has gone very smoothly and the search has moved quickly.

However, as the weather warms, it will slow down the search because of heat and dehydration of the workers. More breaks will be required. Covered tents also provide air conditioning and reprieve for workers.

Pich claims, however, it isn’t so much the elements that tire workers.

“The emotional part is you’re looking for pieces of mail, newspapers from the area, and a girl’s body, and that’s literally what you’re thinking about as you’re looking down at the ground,” he said. “That is what fatigues me the most.”

Although workers feel a sense of disappointment, they continue to return day after day, hoping key evidence will be found.

“I’m thinking there is a 5-year-old girl that was thrown in the trash and I’m going to do whatever I can to find her,” Pich said. “It feels like an injustice, and you feel as though you’ve done a disservice to the victim by not finding them and allowing some closure for the family.”

To Pich’s knowledge, none of the workers have decided not to continue.

“It’s physically and emotionally draining, so I don’t think anyone would hold it against them if someone wasn’t able to continue,” he said.

Pich said he doesn’t plan on calling it quits anytime soon.

“I will search as long as the operation is in place and I’ll be out there as long as they let me,” he said.

[Lady Cop]

about some heroes

azcentral


They work shoulder to shoulder for hours each day, the steady scrape of rakes combing through garbage in a valley surrounded by sandy, man-made mountains of trash.

They stand on earth covered with dried sludge. Red-plastic cups, paper and other debris poke through.

The wind coats their faces with dust, which seeps through their protective gear.

The acidic smell of rot, like old cheese, is constant. The odor sticks long after they've left each day. They shower, rinse and repeat to escape it.

But they will return Monday for Week 18 of the search.

The searchers -- nearly 200 in all -- are working their way through a single day's trash, enough to fill about 60 railroad boxcars, to find the body of a little girl.

All of them are police or public-safety workers from around the Valley, and they all volunteered. They did so because they are parents and grandparents, aunts and uncles; each with unique backgrounds that steel their resolve for the grim task.

But each holds onto a single image: a smiling Jhessye Shockley, the Glendale girl reported missing last October who police believe was murdered.

And they cling to the same goal: justice and a proper burial.

"We can't let people think they can dispose of this little 40-pound child and get away with it," Phoenix Detective William Andersen says.

[Cracker]

Those people are amazing. I'm not sure I could do that.

[Jezreel]

Where is this baby girl?

GLENDALE, AZ (CBS5) -
Glendale police have officially ended their landfill search for a missing 5-year-old girl, sources close to the investigation told CBS 5News.

Investigators were unable to recover any evidence from the Butterfield Landfill, where they believed Jhessye Shockley's body or evidence leading to her body might be found, sources close to the case told CBS 5 News.

Police suspect Jhessye Shockley was killed in October and although her body has not been found, they have classified the case as a homicide investigation.

Her mother was arrested in November on suspicion of child abuse but was later released from jail and the charge dropped after prosecutors said they wanted to investigate further.

Hundreds of volunteer police personnel sifted through thousands of tons of trash in a 36,000-square-foot area of the landfill since Feb. 6.

http://www.kpho.com/story/18894624/sourc...e-shockley

[Lady Cop]

YES! FINALLY!

GLENDALE, Ariz. -- The mother of missing Valley girl Jhessye Shockley was arrested Thursday morning.

Jerice Hunter was apprehended in Mesa following a grand jury indictment for 1^st degree murder and child abuse.

Authorities would not discuss specifics about the case, but said their collection of evidence over the course of their investigation resulted in Hunter's arrest.

"I commend our law enforcement partners for their refusal to give up on this case. Thanks to their diligence and hard work, we now have an opportunity to seek justice for Jhessye and uncover the truth behind her disappearance," said Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery.

Shockley was last seen in October 2011. Hunter was arrested in November, but was released a few days later after authorities decided not to file a child abuse charge.

Detectives would later receive a tip that the 5-year-old had been murdered and dumped in the trash.

Investigators learned that the trash wound up in the Butterfield Landfill, which is just south of the Valley.

Authorities spent four months searching for Jhessye’s body at the Butterfield Landfill, but eventually called of their search in late June.

While investigators have yet to locate Jhessye's body, Glendale Chief of Police Debora Black believes justice will still be served in the case.

new mugshot

[Jezreel]

Bitch got her hair did!

I am so glad to hear that she has finally been arrested, besides her crazy ass mother I don't think there is anyone that believes she didn't kill her daughter.
Look at the sweet smiling face, how could she harm her precious little girl :(

[RJs-Ex]

Looks like she's got the remnants of a shiner in the mug shot. I hope so! I wonder who popped her?

[Lady Cop]

her first appearance. $500K bond.

bond on 1^st degree murder??
no cuffs at first appearance??
wow.

video
http://www.kpho.com/video?autoStart=true...Id=7699357

[lawheeze]

Such a cute little girl. I'm glad they finally got the mom.

[Lady Cop]

i hope they nail the grandmother shirley johnson too. she has covered things up and is an accessory in my opinion. she also came out and screamed racism in this case, which is complete horseshit.

grandma lying bitch

[sharit]

I could not hear the video very well. Did she get the electronic monitoring?

[Lady Cop]

wow...here's some real bullshit. brief video. CPS framed jerice and kidnapped the girl. they are hiding her. just WOW. what deluded ignorant stupid fools.

http://www.kpho.com/video?autoStart=true...Id=7703141

Sharit i don't think she bonded out. unless Hunter can come up with half-a-million bucks, she'll be in jail for quite some time.

[BlueTiki]

Memorial for Jhessye Shockley to be removed.

http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/article...TNNoMobile

[Midwest Spy]

I feel like a little piece of my soul dies every time I read about a child suffering at the hands of their parents (or caregivers).

I think it's the most evil act a human being can commit, even more so than the pervs that abduct and kill other children.

To steal a child's trust and harm them should be an absolutely unforgiveable offense.

[HairOfTheDog]

Thanks for mentioning the trial of Jerice Hunter in the Arias thread, Tiki.

After years of waiting for her to be held accountable for what she did to Jhessye (and her surviving children), I stopped checking for court dates and missed the first three weeks of trial.

I hope you'll be around to share opinions and insight as the trial progresses.

CASE UPDATE


Background / Charges:
Jhessye Shockley, 5, was reported missing on Oct. 11, 2011, just after 5 p.m. Glendale, Arizona police issued an Amber Alert the next day.

Jhessye's mother, Jerice Hunter, is on trial, charged with first degree murder. She's accused of causing Jhessye's death through neglect, lying about the little girl's whereabouts while the child was missing, and putting her daughter's body into a suitcase that she later threw into a trash bin.

Trial Recap:
During the past three weeks, Hunter, 41, has been portrayed by the prosecution as abusive and cold to her youngest daughter, Jhessye, who went missing in October 2011.

Prosecutors explained that while neither the girl nor her body was ever discovered, investigators believe that Hunter stuffed Jhessye's body into a suitcase and threw it into a Tempe dumpster after she died.

Last week, prosecutors continued to present forensic evidence they believe links Jerice Hunter to the crime.

During Thursday's proceedings, a certified cadaver dog handler testified about what her canine discovered as Glendale police looked for forensic evidence in Jhessye Shockleys disappearance.

The state's prosecution team called Barbara Sampson, a cadaver dog handler, to the stand.

One of Sampson's trained dogs assisted in the 2011 investigation by recognizing "cadaver scents" from evidence obtained by the Glendale police.

Sampson testified that the dog detected a scent from a strip of carpet related to the case as well as the vehicle believed to have been used to transport Jhessye's body.

Hunter's former neighbor testified earlier this week that the Glendale mother looked "calm" after she dumped a suitcase in a Tempe dumpster. The dumpster police obtained also caused the dog to detect a cadaver scent, Sampson said.

Sampson noted that the cadaver dog was very animated because she knew she was 'in scent,' meaning that the dog had found some kind of decomposing smell — (and) that something had been in there or was in there."

Refs:
http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/loca.../25517035/
http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/12-n.../70581600/
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I'm hoping prosecutors can win a conviction without a body. I think Jerice Hunter is guilty in the death of her daughter (along with trying to scam the public).

[HairOfTheDog]

Verdict Deliberations Underway



Jerice Hunter didn't put on much of a defense, other than one witness who claimed to have seen the girl pulled into a car though she admits she didn't call police. Hunter never testified.

The question for jurors: Is Hunter a grieving mother or a despicable murderer?

Jhessye's body has not been found. So, is it enough…

…That Hunter was in a California prison for beating one of her other children for most of Jhessye's life, leaving the child to be raised by her cousins.

… That those cousins say Hunter, after her release from prison in 2010, never bonded with by-then 4-year-old Jhessye and that the last time they say the child in March 2011, Jhessye "looked like teeth had been hit out of her mouth."

… That Hunter's ex-lover told jurors that she left the apartment during the spring of 2011, after hearing Hunter beating Jhessye after the child spilled Play-Doh onto the carpet.

… That Jhessye's kindergarten teacher and others at the school testified that they'd seen no evidence of abuse, but that the child had been absent since Sept. 22, 2011.

… That Jhessye's sister said she'd last seen Jhessye in her mother's closet – with bruises on her body and "black stuff" oozing out of her eyes -- about a week before Hunter reported her missing. "She wanted me to take her to the bathroom but she couldn't walk that much."

… That police found a large blood stain under the carpet in Hunter's closet, though there's no way to know if it was Jhessye's without a DNA sample.

… That a neighbor said Hunter asked him to take two of her children — one of them named Jhessye — to the bus stop. Yet later, when he saw a picture of Jhessye, it wasn't the girl he'd taken to the bus stop.

… That another neighbor told jurors that on Oct. 4, 2011, Hunter asked for a ride to a Tempe apartment complex where she planned to sell a suitcase full of clothes to buy food for her children. Hunter hoisted the suitcase into the woman's trunk, refusing any help even though she was pregnant, and advised her neighbor that if she smelled anything bad, hey it was just some old shoes in the suitcase. Upon arrival at the apartment complex, the neighbor said Hunter put on rubber gloves before pulling out the suitcase and heaving it into the garbage.

Ref: http://www.azcentral.com/story/laurierob.../26080977/
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I hope it's enough for the jury to find Jerice Hunter guilty.

It's enough for me. I think the bitch abused and neglected her daughter to death, tossed her like trash, and then lied to everyone and tried to play the victim in the process.

[username]

I don't know if they have enough. Why couldn't they get anything to match the blood with? Wouldn't a hair strand, a toothbrush...something have her DNA on it? It's also sort of sloppy that they never found a body. If they had the dumpster, you'd think it went to some landfill...somewhere.

[blueberryhill]

I don't know if they have enough. Why couldn't they get anything to match the blood with? Wouldn't a hair strand, a toothbrush...something have her DNA on it? It's also sort of sloppy that they never found a body. If they had the dumpster, you'd think it went to some landfill...somewhere.

The authorities did check the landfills; they spent months in the desert heat going through trash and they only gave up when every area over time frame they believed body was dumped had been searched. Those guys worked their asses off searching for that little girl. There have been cases where a person has been convicted without a body. Let us hope this POS is one of them.