(04-28-2011, 08:45 AM)Lady Cop Wrote: interesting. i wonder if they planted that flip-flop. i think i'd bet lunch on it. that was no damn coincidence. looking for a fort at midnight?? hahaha
good job Police, watching the mountain at night. those guys were probably there to plant the flip-flop and perhaps move the body.
excuse me for quoting myself from yesterday.
i see a couple possibilities here:
she died somewhere else (a home) and these guys had her body. they went to the mountain at midnight to place the body in the pond and plant the flip-flop. i've skied that mountain, am familiar with the terrain, they didn't see a flip-flop laying around in plain view at night.
this is going to come back to drugs in some way when it's all resolved.
OR
they were simply good doo-bee boy scouts looking for a "fort" at midnight on the mountain so they could play mountain man. and at the same time, they were her friends and were searching for her.
funeral was monday. now to watch and wait for arrest(s).
Portland Press Herald
Within the white walls, wooden floor and blue bleachers of the high school gym Monday afternoon, friends and family spoke of a vibrant and independent 20-year-old woman who worked as a waitress in South Portland. They painted a picture of a feisty, fun-loving and fiercely loyal single mother not afraid to speak her mind.
Kayla Dittmeyer, 22, fought back tears to read a lengthy poem to her younger sister that began, "When tomorrow starts without me," and ended, "Every time you think of me, I'm right here in your heart."
"Who would have thought one young lady could have touched so many hearts?" Kayla said. "Everybody has asked what they can do for our family. Take a look around. This is all we really need, love and support."
Kayla also struck a cautionary tone. Confusion lingers about how Krista's body wound up in the pond at Cranmore Mountain Resort in North Conway.
Last June, she was living in South Portland with her boyfriend, Kyle Acker, 26, when he was arrested on charges of trafficking in cocaine and marijuana and having a loaded firearm in the couple's apartment. He has been in prison since January.
"It is very clear how many eyes have been opened," Kayla said, "by the tragic loss of my sister. So please, I ask of each one of you, to really think about each thing you do. Never lie about where you're going or what you're doing. Keep in mind, one little thing can change your life."
Amy Figoli, a friend and former neighbor, also spoke about the dangers of speculation and hearsay and urged those in attendance to respect Krista's dignity and integrity.
(04-29-2011, 09:16 AM)Duchess Wrote:
. . . . I'd be willing to bet you all are the type that peeks out from behind your curtains to see who is visiting your neighbors too.
Shaddup, Miss "I live so far away from my neighbors that even the scope on Mount Palomar wouldn't provide any useful information as to the identity of the visitors".
snip
Meanwhile, police have released few details about the investigation into Dittmeyer's death, which they have labeled "suspicious." Toxicology test results are not expected for 6-8 weeks, and authorities have refused to say what they know about Dittmeyer's mysterious final days.
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As of Wednesday, the New Hampshire Attorney General's office, acting at the clearinghouse for information on the ongoing investigation, was limited in its comment on the investigation. "It's still an active and ongoing investigation," Assistant Attorney General Jane Young said. "It has been since the incident happened."
Young added that the state's medical examiner's officer is awaiting results of a toxicology report, which she said could take six to eight weeks.
Police have only labeled the death "suspicious." Young has declined to say whether suspects have been interviewed and little has been made public as to why Dittmeyer, who lived in Portland but had friends in the Conway area, had borrowed her mother's Nissan Sentra and driven to Conway.
The car was found by a passer-by on Saturday, April 23 at 6:30 a.m. in the parking lot of Cranmore Mountain with its four-way flashers on, the driver's side door open, engine running, and Aliyah in the back seat.
In the early hours of the investigation, Conway police mentioned pieces of evidence found during the initial phases of the investigation, including a second vehicle at the scene that police searched after obtaining a warrant. On Wednesday, Young declined to comment further on the second vehicle.
CONWAY — It’s been a week since authorities held a press conference to announce they would not be releasing information from Krista Dittmeyer’s autopsy for at least another month.
Since that announcement there has been no more information coming out of investigators regarding the death of the 20-year-old Portland mom.
Dittmeyer's car was found April 23 in a Mount Cranmore parking lot with the engine running, emergency flashers on, and her infant daughter inside. Five days later, Dittmeyer's body was found in a Cranmore snow-making pond.
The investigation into her death is being treated as "suspicious," but the autopsy yielded no conclusions as to the "cause and manner" of death pending toxicology results.
Assistant attorney general Jane Young did say at a press conference last Wednesday that she saw no reason for citizens to feel "heightened" concern for their own safety.
But in the past week, since Dittmeyer's body was found and the autopsy performed, silence has become the official refrain of more than just the authorities.
Cranmore Mountain employees directed questions to management, who directed questions to the Attorney General’s office. Many individuals the Sun has contacted have said to talk to the Conway Police Department. The Conway Police Department is directing all questions to the Attorney General’s office, and the Attorney General’s office has not released any information other than identifying the body and confirming the autopsy has been performed.
But there are many unanswered questions. Why did police say they were only going to drain the retention pond at the base of Cranmore two days after Dittmeyer disappeared? Why didn’t they drain the snow-making pond, the one where her body was eventually found, at the same time? What eventually led investigators to the snow-making pond two days later? Was it a call from a passerby or a Cranmore employee? Or was it the police who first found her? Did anyone ever find the flip-flop two of Dittmeyer's friends, Ricky Acker and Corey Poland, reported seeing in the woods near Cranmore the night before her body was found? Why shouldn’t the public have a heightened level of concern after this incident?
Those and other questions have all received similar treatment: “I’m not going to go into those details.”
That was senior assistant attorney general Jane Young’s response to a question about whether it was police or a member of the public who found the body. That question came after she said she couldn’t explain why police drained one pond and not the other, which occurred before the Attorney General’s office was involved, she said.
But the Conway police have also been unwilling to comment, directing all questions back to Young’s office.
It is the policy of the Conway Police Department not to comment on ongoing investigations, Lt. Chris Perley has repeatedly said, because releasing information can damage the integrity of the investigation. Young has followed a similar policy.
That approach has left many people wondering where the investigation is a week on.
“There are a lot of rumors out there,” chief Ed Wagner said at the police commission meeting Tuesday. And probably less than one quarter of them are true, he said.
When Phylicia Barnes was found in the river recently, the reports said that while cold water was good at preserving the body (by slowing decomp), it could definitely wash away key evidence. I guess we have to hope the perp(s) left dna on or in or near her car or on the way to the pond, or clear tracks of some kind (think michelin as well as bruno magli). Of course the brother and his friend were already known to be there, so that might be of no help if they're involved.
But if involved, why would they have returned to the scene of the crime? I know it's a truism about criminals -- but is it actually true?
just breaking, i am waiting for details!
AP Boston Herald
CONCORD, N.H. — The New Hampshire attorney general’s office says three men have been arrested in connection with the death of a Maine woman whose child was found in an idling car in Conway.
Twenty-eight-year-old Anthony Papile of Ossipee has been charged with second degree murder in the death of 20-year-old Krista Dittmeyer, whose body was found in a Conway pond on April 27.
The Portland, Maine, woman was last seen on April 23. Her daughter was found unharmed the next day in a car in the parking lot of the Cranmore Mountain ski area.
Twenty-three-year-old Trevor Ferguson of Tamworth and 28-year-old Michael Petelis of Ossipee have each been charged with one count of conspiracy to commit robbery.
The three are scheduled to be arraigned Wednesday afternoon.
LC, how can only 1 of them be charged with second degree murder if they are all connected to the crime? I thought that it didn't matter who actually killed the person, if all 3 tried to rob her and the end result was death that they all got charged with murder?
i don't know any of the details regarding the murder. the AG has said nothing about circumstances. they will be in court at 2 PM.
here is photo of one of them, Trevor Ferguson.
(this is another one in 2004:
three counts of burglary. Michael Petelis, of Ossipee)
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Papile is accused of suffocating and/or drowning Dittmeyer, according to court paperwork.
Court documents said Papile and Petelis discussed arrangements to steal drugs and money from Dittmeyer on April 22. Petelis sent Dittmeyer a text message at 9:43 p.m., instructing her to call when she was on her way to his apartment, court documents said.
Papile is accused of striking Dittmeyer on the head with a rubber club as she walked upstairs into that apartment. She was then bound with duct tape and placed into the trunk of her own car, documents said.
Ferguson and Papile then drove Dittmeyer's car to the Cranmore Mountain Resort area, according to court documents.
On April 22 or 23, Papile removed Dittmeyer from the trunk of her car and disposed of the bound body in a snowmaking pond at Cranmore Mountain, according to the court documents. Ferguson picked him up from Cranmore Mountain, and Papile gave Ferguson money and drugs, court documents said.
Dittmeyer's car was found April 23 idling with its hazard lights on and her 14-month-old daughter inside. The discovery sparked an intensive search, and her body was found in the snowmaking pond a few days later.
yeah its sad cause she definitely knew what she was doing.
people do the craziest things for drugs and moneyy
her family must have already saw this coming with her sister saying all the time about how you cant lie about where you are going and what not.
Petelis is also being held on $250,000 cash bail. He served probation from 2002-2004 for theft by unauthorized taking and again received two years probation in 2005 for burglary and receiving stolen property in Carroll County, according to the department of corrections.
The department said his probation was revoked in September 2005 after he failed a drug test and he spent a year in the Carroll County House of Corrections as a result.
No bail was granted for Papile.
Papile is currently serving two years probation for theft by unauthorized taking out of Carroll County, according to the department of corrections. He began that in September 2010 and it ends in September 2012.
Michael Petelis (left), Anthony Papile (center), Trevor Ferguson (right)
If conspiring to rob someone and then committing murder in the commission of your crime is second degree murder then something is wrong with the law or its interpretation. Perhaps the prosecutor could charge them with kidnapping and murder in the commission of a felony and raise it to murder 1 with aggravating circumstances warranting the death penalty or life without parole.
New Hampshire Law
630:1 Capital Murder. –
I. A person is guilty of capital murder if he knowingly causes the death of:
(a) A law enforcement officer or a judicial officer acting in the line of duty or when the death is caused as a consequence of or in retaliation for such person's actions in the line of duty;
(b) Another before, after, while engaged in the commission of, or while attempting to commit kidnapping as that offense is defined in RSA 633:1;
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