10-26-2011, 09:05 AM
NECN: Lauren Collins, West Stewartstown, NH) - A teary eyed Louisia Cass pleads, "I want justice. I want the person that did this to my daughter."
The question of who killed Celina Cass cripples her mother and lingers over her tiny hometown.
"In our town we used to be able to walk to the stores by ourselves. We were able to go outside on the streets and play," says Celina's friend Christie Baglio. "But now none of our parents will let us do that."
There is little comfort for Celina's friends and family. Not even Louisa knows how her 11 year old daughter died.
"I haven't gotten any answers," she says, shaking her head in the back office of the consignment store where she works.
"Pointing fingers, rumors. It's pointless until you actually know who did it," says Celina's step-brother, who is speaking publicly about the case for the first time about his frustration that nobody's come forward with information that could help break the case.
He last saw Celina the day before she disappeared.
"She was sitting down in her pajamas watching TV on the couch. I was visiting with my dad," says Nick Noyes who doesn't speak with his dad much anymore.
Wendell Noyes had a mental break down hours before Celina's body was found. Authorities took his truck, cell phone and computer. He doesn't have any of those anymore.
Wendell closed the door on us when we found him last week at his mother's house in Canaan, Vermont but told us off camera he's waiting for answers like everyone else. He's moving away from the area and is no longer living with Louisia.
Louisia says finding out what happened to Celina won't change the fact that she's gone forever. but not knowing leaves her mind to reel about all of the possibilities including the idea that she missed an opportunity to protect her youngest child.
"I get dirty looks sometimes from some people. I don't know. I don't know what they're thinking. But I have to live every day without my baby," she says.
Authorities have spoken with everyone who was in the house when Celina disappeared - Louisia, Wendell, family friend Kevin Mullaney and Wendell's mother. Even today, detectives are never far from the scene.
Nick Noyes says that he, like most people we talked with in town, discounts the idea that a stranger murdered his step-sister.
"I think it was somebody that was close, in that house," he says. "I think somebody in that house knows what happened."
Celina's friends don't spend as much time wondering about what happened as they do trying to make sure she's always remembered. They keep a memorial at the dam where she was found:
"A couple of us wrote message on balloons with no helium in them and just let them go in the water and they all floated up stream," says Christie as her younger sister Isabella explains, "they all floated towards celina's body like she was grabbing them. So didn't the balloons that we let go in the air."
They believe Celina is and always will be with them and Louisia in a simple plea.
"That person or persons need to come forward. They took my baby away from me."
There is a $30,000 reward in the case but it has yet to bring forward the information investigators need to make an arrest.
There was a video to this as well but i couldnt get it to post..
The question of who killed Celina Cass cripples her mother and lingers over her tiny hometown.
"In our town we used to be able to walk to the stores by ourselves. We were able to go outside on the streets and play," says Celina's friend Christie Baglio. "But now none of our parents will let us do that."
There is little comfort for Celina's friends and family. Not even Louisa knows how her 11 year old daughter died.
"I haven't gotten any answers," she says, shaking her head in the back office of the consignment store where she works.
"Pointing fingers, rumors. It's pointless until you actually know who did it," says Celina's step-brother, who is speaking publicly about the case for the first time about his frustration that nobody's come forward with information that could help break the case.
He last saw Celina the day before she disappeared.
"She was sitting down in her pajamas watching TV on the couch. I was visiting with my dad," says Nick Noyes who doesn't speak with his dad much anymore.
Wendell Noyes had a mental break down hours before Celina's body was found. Authorities took his truck, cell phone and computer. He doesn't have any of those anymore.
Wendell closed the door on us when we found him last week at his mother's house in Canaan, Vermont but told us off camera he's waiting for answers like everyone else. He's moving away from the area and is no longer living with Louisia.
Louisia says finding out what happened to Celina won't change the fact that she's gone forever. but not knowing leaves her mind to reel about all of the possibilities including the idea that she missed an opportunity to protect her youngest child.
"I get dirty looks sometimes from some people. I don't know. I don't know what they're thinking. But I have to live every day without my baby," she says.
Authorities have spoken with everyone who was in the house when Celina disappeared - Louisia, Wendell, family friend Kevin Mullaney and Wendell's mother. Even today, detectives are never far from the scene.
Nick Noyes says that he, like most people we talked with in town, discounts the idea that a stranger murdered his step-sister.
"I think it was somebody that was close, in that house," he says. "I think somebody in that house knows what happened."
Celina's friends don't spend as much time wondering about what happened as they do trying to make sure she's always remembered. They keep a memorial at the dam where she was found:
"A couple of us wrote message on balloons with no helium in them and just let them go in the water and they all floated up stream," says Christie as her younger sister Isabella explains, "they all floated towards celina's body like she was grabbing them. So didn't the balloons that we let go in the air."
They believe Celina is and always will be with them and Louisia in a simple plea.
"That person or persons need to come forward. They took my baby away from me."
There is a $30,000 reward in the case but it has yet to bring forward the information investigators need to make an arrest.
There was a video to this as well but i couldnt get it to post..