Houston--boy missing since Christmas Eve

[AtTheEdge]

Perhaps the step dad brought him there already dead and paid Black Pat to dispose of the body?

[Cracker]

Poor people shouldn't have kids. If they can't even fucking take care of themselves, why should they have kids they can't afford? If you can't pay a mortgage once a month, how can you be responsible for young life? Same with stupid people. If you are stupid and poor, why even fucking reproduce?

[Lady Cop]

the sister of the deceased boy is with her father. not the same father.

i just saw the accused's ex-husband on their local news...a white guy right out of DELIVERANCE. with zztop scraggly beard. they have a son together and are going to visit the monster.

i am waiting to confirm a few things, one, that the child was burned alive. i pray not.
the other that it was a sexual crime. the local news there mentions it, but can't say definitively.
another, that Houston PD is not done with this investigation.

it's a sordid damn sickening story.

boy's funeral will be public, next tuesday.
i am also flabbergasted that step-dad has left the area, but cannot find any info about it. that raises alarms in my mind. he got out of dodge? strikes me. on his way to mexico?

bearded guy is nelson's ex.

also shown, step-dad and mother.

[Lady Cop]

OH NO NO NO NO NO WHY??!! *cry* please God he was dead first! i hope this is more suck-ass bad reporting that has defined this case.

CLICK2HOUSTON
HOUSTON -- Homicide investigators said a welding torch is the likely weapon used in 12-year-old Jonathan Foster's death, Local 2 Investigates reported Friday.

"We're talking crematorium-type of hot," said one Houston Police Department Homicide Squad officer assigned to the investigation.

Police said they confiscated a badly burned section of carpet from the home of Mona Yvette Nelson, 44, who stands charged with capital murder.

She had a welding background and police found welding equipment in her home on Allwood Street in the Fifth Ward area of Northeast Houston. Police said a section of carpet was badly burned and the smell of a human body filled the area around that carpet.

DNA tests are being ordered to analyze any bodily fluids.

One officer said on Friday that the autopsy has ruled out any trauma on the child's body. There were no broken bones or any signs of strangulation or head wounds, so officers said it now appears the child was killed with a welding torch that could be capable of 6,000-degree flames.

"I've never seen burns like this," said one officer who viewed the boy's body.

He said that killers often try to cover their tracks by burning the victim's corpse, but in this boy's case, the burning was so intense and thorough that many veteran homicide investigators are struggling with the notion of such a grisly and painful way to die.

[AtTheEdge]

Oh that just breaks my heart....how can these monsters exists? Burned alive? That poor boy - that's just too much. WTF is wrong with people.

But if he was burned so badly that his body shrunk 18 inches I'm not sure I understand how they can be so sure he wasn't killed another way? I get that they don't see trauma but a pillow over the face wouldn't case broken bones, a drug overdose perhaps might not be detected if the remains were that badly burned? I'm probably grasping at straws hoping that baby wasn't burned alive, but wouldn't that in itself cause trauma? Wouldn't he have tried to fight or is she was holding him down wouldn't that have broken a bone or rib?

[AtTheEdge]

I got a little obsessive over this case this evening, I had found the insessions forum while following the Zahra case and they seem to do a good job of finding news stories and connecting the dots. Anyway I saw this there and hadn't seen it on the other news sites I had read.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/...n/7356276.html

Angela moved in with Sharon Ennamorato on December 14 after David Davis slapped Jonathan.

Nelson was a friend of Ennamorato, Angela & Jonathan's roommate and frequent babysitter for Jonathan.

Ennamorato said Nelson is a friend who used to work maintenance at a complex across the street.

December 24, Angel and Ennamorato had to work; Jonathan would stay home alone; his mom expected home around 1:00 - 2:00 p.m.; Jonathan was told not to leave the house and if he had any problems, he should go to the neighbor's.

That morning a coworker told Angela her son called and asked for Ennamorato's phone number. Then a woman called and said it was an emergency. By the time Angela reached the phone, the line was dead. Angela called the house several times as she drove to the house. Someone picked up minutes before she arrived around 2:00 p.m. She said a woman answered. Angela identified herself and asked to speak with Jonathan. She heard a woman say "Is your mama's name Angela?" Jonathan replied yes and then the phone went dead.

When Angela arrived home, the tv was on and the computer game was running. Jonathan was missing and a T-shirt with a guitar on it, a pair of jeans, his white sneakers and a black stuffed cat his grandmother had made him were also missing.

Nelson stopped by the house that evening. She said she had come by earlier looking for Ennamorato, Jonathan answered the door wearing no shirt and it seemed like someone was in the house with him.

The post went on to say it was similar to the Jessica Lundsford case where her kidnapper let her take her stuffed dolphin with her.

[AtTheEdge]

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metr...59495.html

An autopsy found no soot in the boy's lungs, so Miller said Jonathan likely was not alive when he was burned.

the media has reported several conflicting things but I am hoping this one is accurate

I listened to the press conference on You tube but ended up with a malware program that was a real bitch to clean off so I don't advise it.

[Lady Cop]

the police are in disagreement on cause of death. i'm not sure it can ever be 100% established.

i want to know how nelson knew Sharon Ennamorato. trying to locate a record on her (mother's room-mate).

the mother.
Jonathan.

[Lady Cop]

Houston Chronicle 1/3/11

When Jonathan Paul Foster is buried in South Park Cemetery in Pearland on Tuesday, he will be the first interred in a family plot that will someday hold his grandparents.

That Jonathan eventually will rest with his family offered a little solace to relatives of the 12-year-old boy killed on Christmas Eve, his remains charred and left in a drainage culvert in Houston.

By all accounts, it is an unspeakably sad end for a boy whose family members described him as deeply loving and affectionate. Even after bouncing from house to house in his 12 years — living with his mother, his grandmother and an uncle — he still had the trust of an innocent child.

"He was just so sweet and submissive, always looking for a hug," said Glenn Scrimsher, 33, Jonathan's uncle who raised him from the time he was 6 until a year ago, when his grandmother, Mary Gifford, sent for him in Channelview. "I bet he didn't even put up a fight."

Jonathan's grisly slaying touched even the most veteran homicide detectives, who said the little boy clung to his manners and trust in adults to the end. In the last phone call to his mother, Jonathan was overheard calling his suspected captor "ma'am."

A birthday wish nearly two months ago - that he return to his mother - placed Jonathan into an orbit that included shady characters in an impoverished pocket of Garden Oaks in northwest Houston. There, the forces of his tiny transient life appeared to doom him.

On Christmas Eve, just weeks after moving back with his mother for the first time since he was 6 years old, Jonathan spent the morning alone drinking milk, eating Tootsie Rolls, and playing computer games as TV cartoons droned on in the background.

By 6 p.m., a truck allegedly driven by Mona Yvette Nelson, a 44-year-old maintenance worker, was captured on a video camera dumping Jonathan's small, seared body next to a metal works plant.

But it would take four more days before police reconstructed Jonathan's last moments, before they concluded his body most likely was burned with welding torches at a northeast Houston apartment.

Jonathan was born Nov. 9, 1998, in Corsicana. His mother, Angela Renee Davis, said that as a newborn, he pulled his little legs up to his chest, and straightened them out, like a little frog. His aunt gave him the nickname on the spot.

Davis' relationship with her then-husband, Richard Foster, quickly deteriorated to the point of divorce. The last time Jonathan saw his father he was 4 years old, Davis said. The last time he spoke with him Jonathan was 6, and his father said he didn't want anything to do with his son, she said.

After the divorce, she remarried and divorced several times, and was arrested on a minor drug charge and later a probation violation. Child Protective Services was called twice to investigate allegations into physical abuse and neglect of Jonathan and his half-sister, who is now 10. But CPS closed the cases after finding the children were not in her direct care because they were living with relatives.

"I ran into some bad problems at a younger age, and instead of being one of those mothers that let their kids watch them go downhill, I made sure my kids were safe," said Davis, 31. "I didn't want them to see it."

Jonathan spent much of his young life with his uncle and his five kids on a farm in Missouri, where the boy grew watermelon, rode dirt bikes and caught his first fish. He fell in love with his family's horse, Valentino, a Palomino. While he lived with his uncle, his mother visited once, Scrimsher said, but Jonathan saw his grandparents frequently.

In November 2009, his grandmother sent for him, and Scrimsher reluctantly let him go. By the time Jonathan asked his grandmother if he could go live with his mother in November in Houston, Davis was working a steady job and felt ready to take her son back.

"I work six days a week, over 60 hours a week," she said Wednesday, when she still had hope of seeing her son again. "I'm doing the best I can to raise my son."

Davis enrolled Jonathan at Durham Elementary School, where the principal said he was bright and sweet and quickly befriended a boy who didn't have any friends.

"He always was trying to help somebody. He felt like he was a man because he fixed a little girl's bicycle chain," Davis said. "He was full of life."

On Dec. 14, just weeks after moving in with his mother, his stepfather, David Davis, slapped him across the face, Angela Davis said. She said she immediately packed up Jonathan and moved into a cottage next to the apartment complex where her friend Sharon Ennamorato lived.

The home was a frequent stop for Nelson, who also was friends with Ennamorato

[AtTheEdge]

heartbreaking......

[Lady Cop]

Houston Chronicle

black panther activist Quanell X today said that Mona Nelson, accused of the kidnapping-murder of 12-year-old Jonathan Foster, admitted that she had dumped the boy's burned body in a northeast Houston ditch. But, the Houston activist added, the woman had no motive for killing the child.

Quanell X said he attended Nelson's first court appearance today at the request of her family. Nelson, 44, this morning was advised of her rights by 182^nd state District Court Judge Jeannine Barr, then remanded to county jail, where she is being held without bail on a capital murder charge.

Barr appointed lawyer Allen Tanner to defend Nelson. Tanner was not immediately available for comment.

"I believe this case is a drug debt," Quanell X said, adding that he based his comments on an earlier interview with Nelson. "I do not believe she had a motive to kill the boy."

The activist said he anticipates further arrests in the case. "I don't believe this case is solved at all," he said, "and I would urge the public not to rush to judgment."

Harris County Assistant District Attorney Connie Spence said she is "satisfied with the investigation by the Houston Police Department. They did an excellent job."

Still, she said, the investigation is continuing, and she is optimistic a crime lab examination of evidence could develop more evidence.

She said she expects to present Nelson's case to a grand jury in "a couple of months."

[Lady Cop]

well if there is more to tell, she better start talking. this case is not closed yet.

Houston Chronicle
A subdued Mona Nelson, charged with capital murder in the death of a 12-year-old boy, made her first appearance in court Monday. Then, after leaving the courtroom en route to her cell, she burst into wracking sobs.

"She cried her eyes out," her court-appointed attorney, Allen Tanner, said later. "She's not the stone-cold mean woman like the cops have made out."

Police homicide Capt. David Gott invited the activist to share information with investigators.

"Obviously, it's very hard to tell whether she acted on her own, considering that we don't have all the details of the offense," he said. "She didn't give us a confession. She didn't tell us a lot of the things she's telling Quanell X."

Gott acknowledged the investigation is continuing.

[Lady Cop]

comment made today, as the funeral is beginning---

ABC13
There are a couple of interesting notes from the family today. For the first time, the family has asked the media to stop referring to Jonathan's stepfather as such. They say, David Davis never acted like a father and was simply somebody who married Jonathan's mother. For the first time there was a little bit of public tension. The family refused to answer any questions about why Mona Nelson would implicate David Davis.


stepfather was at funeral---->

[Duchess]

Dirty dyke. That's what I think every time I see her. I'm not a gay basher...just sayin'.

[Lady Cop]

i don't think this is over yet.

Houston Chronicle
Since the killing, Ennamorato (MOTHER'S ROOM-MATE, i said earlier she was dirty too) has been evicted from the duplex she shared with Angela Davis and Jonathan. She appears to be the only person who connected Nelson to Jonathan and his mother and stepfather (ALL DIRTBAGS) police say.

Police believe Nelson (CHARGED IN MURDER) knew Ennamorato well before Jonathan and his mother arrived on Ennamorato's doorstep. Ennamorato, who had a felony drug record, said she met Nelson when Ennamorato was living in the Tiffany Oaks Apartments on Oak Street, where Nelson worked in maintenance.

Angela Davis says she never met Nelson (BULLSHIT) until she showed up at the duplex about 7 p.m. Christmas Eve - an hour or so after she was captured on video dumping the body. Nelson reportedly offered to look for Jonathan, saying she had stopped by earlier in the day, before he disappeared, looking for Ennamorato.

Ennamorato:

[Lady Cop]

this case is not closed yet! nor should it be.

The Houston Police Department is asking the Texas Attorney General's office to keep recordings of 911 calls in the Jonathan Foster case, secret.

According to Jeff Monk of HPD's Open Records division, the department is exercising its right to have the recordings kept from the public because they are a part of a pending criminal investigation.

"We do that on any case that is active," Monk said.

The burned remains of 12-year-old Jonathan Foster were found on Dec. 28, four days after the boy disappeared from his Garden Oaks home.

A 44-year-old maintenance worker, Mona Nelson, has been charged with murder in Jonathan's death. She is a friend of Jonathan's mother's roommate.

The Houston Chronicle, on Jan. 6, asked for copies of any recordings of calls "for response" to the boy's home from Dec 1-25, 2010.

That request was forwarded on Jan. 21 to the Texas Attorney General's office for a ruling.