07-07-2019, 10:38 AM
Updates
Investigators found surveillance footage captured from the porch of an apartment next door to Derion Vence’s apartment. It has since been released to the public.
In the footage, Vence is seen on May 3 leaving the apartment with a large blue laundry basket with a black trash bag inside. Police reportedly believe that the plastic bag contained the body of Maleah. :(
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The video shows Vence returning a few minutes later. He then walks back out of the apartment carrying cleaning supplies, including bleach.
According to an affidavit, the camera never captured Maleah leaving the apartment after that, contradicting Vence's original claim that he took Maleah and her little brother out to go to the airport the next day and that Maleah was kidnapped when they were ambushed in the car.
Investigators also used DNA from Maleah's toothbrush and matched it to specks of blood found in Vence's apartment, though he claimed that Maleah was not hurt at his place and never bled while in his care.
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Investigators found surveillance footage captured from the porch of an apartment next door to Derion Vence’s apartment. It has since been released to the public.
In the footage, Vence is seen on May 3 leaving the apartment with a large blue laundry basket with a black trash bag inside. Police reportedly believe that the plastic bag contained the body of Maleah. :(
The video shows Vence returning a few minutes later. He then walks back out of the apartment carrying cleaning supplies, including bleach.
According to an affidavit, the camera never captured Maleah leaving the apartment after that, contradicting Vence's original claim that he took Maleah and her little brother out to go to the airport the next day and that Maleah was kidnapped when they were ambushed in the car.
Investigators also used DNA from Maleah's toothbrush and matched it to specks of blood found in Vence's apartment, though he claimed that Maleah was not hurt at his place and never bled while in his care.
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