Aliayah Lunsford, 3, West Va. missing

[Jezreel]

Thanks, can't post the pics from my phone.
PTSD my arse, you're right LC no doubt that will be her defence. I heard Ralph wasn't at the court with her today. Also one of the protesters took some video again, I will look for it and post tomorrow

[Jezreel]

here's the video, of course she has nothing to say!! Dumb cow can't get into her car
I like the comment someone made at about 1.49

[Lady Cop]

WBOY
The Lewis County Prosecuting Attorney's Office is looking for Aliayah Lunsford's genetic father.

It has posted a legal ad in the Weston Democrat notifying her father that it has filed a petition, stating that Aliayah Lunsford is an abused and neglected child.

The ad also said the Department of Health and Human Resources has permanent custody of Aliayah and her brothers and sisters.

The prosecuting attorney's office has scheduled a hearing for Monday, Feb. 13 at 11:45 a.m.

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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF LEWIS COUNTY, WEST VIRGINIA

IN RE: A.P.L., Infant alleged to be abused and neglected

DATE OF BIRTH: 07/29/08
BIRTH MOTHER: Lena L.
PLACE OF BIRTH: Mason County, West Virginia

CASE NO. 11-JA-11
NOTICE

TO: ANY AND ALL WHO CLAIM PARENTAL AND/OR CUSTODIAL RIGHTS IN AND TO THE CHILD A.P.L.
YOU, AND EACH OF YOU, ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT:

1. A petition has been filed in the above styled action alleging that the said child is an abused and neglected child pursuant to Chapter 49, Article 1, Section 3, of the West Virginia Code, as amended; seeking the placement of the child in the permanent custody of the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources and the termination of parental and custodial rights.
2. The child has a right to counsel at every stage of the proceedings.
3. You, and each of you, have a right to counsel at every stage of the proceedings. If you are unable to afford to pay for your own counsel, the Court will appoint a competent attorney to represent you and protect your interests.
4. Proceedings under this Petition can result in the permanent termination of your parental and/or custodial rights.
5. YOU, AND EACH OF YOU, ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT A HEARING UPON THE PETITION IN THE ABOVE STYLED ACTION IS SCHEDULED IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF LEWIS COUNTY, WEST VIRGINIA, ON THE 13^TH DAY OF FEBRUARY, 2012, AT 11:45 A.M. IN THE CIRCUIT COURTROOM OF THE LEWIS COUNTY COURTHOUSE, SITUATED AT 110 CENTER AVENUE, IN THE CITY OF WESTON, LEWIS COUNTY, EST VIRGINIA, AT WHICH TIME AND PLACE YOU MAY APPEAR AND SHOW CAUSE AGAINST THE SAME IF YOU SO DESIRE.
6. A Copy of the Petition may be obtained from the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Lewis County, West Virginia.

Entered by the Clerk of this Court this 5 day of January, 2012.
________________________
John, B. Hinzman, Circuit Clerk
Lewis County, West Virginia
35-2

[Jezreel]

Still nothing new on Aliayah, FBI have nothing to update... I wonder what direction their investigation has gone in...... I say seems like it's gone in the bin. They must be doing a lot of behind the scenes things as nobody local has seen them for a long time.

There is still lots of fighting and name calling going on on all the FB sites and groups which doesn't fins Aliayah.

WESTON, W.Va. -- Lewis County residents frustrated by lack of information about a girl missing for nearly four months want law enforcement to give them an update.

WDTV says they've issued an open letter, complaining that little is being done to find 3-year-old Aliayah Lunsford. They're also concerned about the safety of their own children.

The letter contends the FBI has quit investigating the Sept. 24 disappearance, but Special Agent William Crowley said today that's untrue.

Crowley says the FBI would offer updates if they were beneficial to the case. But right now, they're not.

He says the investigation is in a different stage now, and different tactics are required.

Authorities have made no arrests and named no suspects in Aliayah's disappearance. Nor have they said what they believe happened to her.

[Lady Cop]

the letter. it will have as much effect on LE as a toilet paper sale at walmart. less probably.

WDTV

Open Letter
To Lewis County Law Enforcement
Local and State Divisions

To whom it may concern:

We the people of Lewis County, the state of West Virginia and the Nation all come together to plea to you to inform the public of any new developments in the case of missing Aliayah Lunsford. We are concerned that the Federal Bureau of Investigations has left the investigation and that we the public have not been informed of any new developments in the case for a very long time. A baby is still missing. We are concerned for our own children’s safety. As of yet there has been no named suspects in the case or no persons of interest. This lack of any information to the public is leading us to believe that a kidnapper or murderer may be loose on our streets. If this is the case , our own children could be in danger. If this is not the case, then why has a suspect not been arrested ? Why have the searches for Aliayah stopped? Why is Law Enforcement refusing to make a statement? The lack of information being made public is concerning to local residents and the public in general. We feel that not enough is being done to find baby Aliayah and bring whoever is responsible for her disappearance to justice.
We ask that you hold a press conference to update the citizens of the progress you have made in the case. We understand that some information needs to be kept confidential to protect the ongoing investigation but the public needs and deserves answers. Aliayah Lunsford needs and deserves to be found ,
Thank you for your time and cooperation in this matter.

Sincerely,

Concerned citizens for Aliayah Lunsford

[Jezreel]

You are no doubt right LC, sad but true, I don't see the FBI holding a press conference because of this letter.

I have been keeping an eye on the FB pages and groups for Aliayah, I see that there is an a Clarksburg police officer (maybe he has retired now) is helping search in Weston & areas and writing open letters to Lena & Ralph asking for hem to meet and talk with him.

Listen out for another law suit against Lena, apparently the Eric Harris that she said was the father and subsequently confirmed as not being her father is filing a lawsuit against Lena.

I don't know what is going on there, I wish something would break soon, but I highly doubt it :(

Lena stated the following through cousin "my baby is coming back, they can't have, she is mine and she is coming home'

I really don't know what to make of it all :/

[Jezreel]

I really hope something comes from Joe and his crew and the new reward, it's been nearly 5 months and I just want this little girl found :(

WDTV
A new search team is here and an additional reward is being offered for the immediate recovery of missing 3-year-old Aliayah Lunsford.

The extended family of the missing 3-year-old has been working to get the PPP Recovery group and Joe "The Bloodhound" Nick to the area for some time, and Monday their wishes came true.

Joe Nick, Rachel Jackson and the rest of the group arrived in Weston to start searching for Aliayah.  Members of PPP were meeting with members of the FBI regarding the search.  Along with the new search group, an unidentified person is offering an additional reward for information leading to the "immediate recovery" of Aliayah.

Organizers are setting up the command center and they're practicing with volunteers what they'll be doing in the morning.  Volunteers are being asked to meet with the group Tuesday morning at 9:00 at the Fraternal Order of the Eagles off of Route 33 in Weston next to Domino's Pizza.

An additional number is also now available.  If you have any information about her disappearance, you can call The Incident Command Center at 910-627-3244.

[Lady Cop]

i'll be surprised if there is anything left of little Aliayah to be found. not if she was put in a body of water anyway. casey wasn't that smart. the hillbillies may have been.
good luck to search team.

[Jezreel]

It kills me that they will most likely get away with this..... She is stupid enough to get caught for selling her food stamps but can get rid of a child without a trace!!!!!

I did read a an update from the command centre yesterday that stated Joe Nick spoke with the grandmother Joann for a long time and she was 150% cooperative and wanting to find and bring Aliayah home. I hope she didn't give Joe the run around but I highly doubt she gave him anything useful or truthful, if she really wanted Aliayah found she would have called them or any of the other search groups

[Jezreel]

OMG so not only has Joann spoken with Joe Nick, Lena actually had the balls to show up at the command centre - by herself!!! I will say that was brave of her considering she is the most hated person in WV. I have to wonder what her motive was, I'm not sure any of the locals would give her any sympathy at all, I have spoken with a few and her showing up has not changed their minds at all, so many of them including retired police officers have done more than any of aliayah's family have to find her.

WDTV - Those looking for missing 3-year-old Aliayah Lunsford got a welcomed surprise when Aliayah's mother showed up at the incident command center this morning.

Aliayah's extended family members tell us that Lena Lunsford showed up by herself at the Eagle's club early Thursday morning, all on her own will.

Those we spoke to say it was a good, unexpected visit. Lena showed up early this morning and stayed for a few hours. During her time there, she prayed with her family and volunteers for her daughter's return and connected with some of her extended family members. Lena hasn't spoken to cameras since her daughter was first reported missing and a lot of her extended family hasn't talked to her either. They say they believe she is truly sincere and wants her daughter home.
 
While she was there... volunteers continued the physical searches for Aliayah.

They're all doing this in conjunction with the Patriot Outreach PPP Recovery Program team members. This team will be here until Saturday morning. While they're here there's an additional reward on top of the $20,000 being offered by the FBI for the immediate recovery of Aliayah.

If you have information that could lead to that, you can call the incident command center at 910- 627-3244.



Joe Nick and PPP Recovery have found 253 of 254 missing persons cases they have worked on, even though the chances are slim I hope maybe they can at least make some headway.

[Jezreel]

WDTV - Members of the out of state search group that had been looking for missing 3-year-old Aliayah Lunsford last week will be coming back to Weston on Friday.
 
Joe "The Bloodhound" Nick and Hunter Glass are coming back to look for the girl. While they were here last week they spoke with law enforcement, Aliayah's immediate and extended family and volunteers while they took their dog Mia and looked for the little girl.
 
Even without the team here, the volunteers continued a command post at the Eagle's Club off of Route 33 in Weston. On Thursday, about 50 volunteers came to look for Aliayah.

[Jezreel]

Today marks 5 months that little Aliayah has been missing..... oh baby girl I wish you lived a better life, I wish you would be found



This is an update from a local who has been doing all they can from the beginning to try and help find Aliayah.....

Bob Hein
This is to set the record straight.

Earlier this week I found some information while listening to the 911 call. I gave that information to Joe Nick and Hunter Glass from PPP, who sent it along to an analyst friend of theirs in North Carolina. Their analyst worked on the material and faxed it back to the State Police barracks yesterday in Weston. I had just gotten to the command center to talk to Joe, and he told me that he was on his way to the State Police to pick up a fax, and my tip was included in the material, so I rode with them to see the results.

Joe, Hunter and I went out to the barracks, where Joe signed for the fax and made copies. He was called by the person who was escorting Ralph, and he set up a meeting with them. Joe talked with Ralph about the voice analysis and the truth was told then and there.

In no way did Joe Nick, Hunter Glass nor anyone else set up Ralph, falsify evidence or attempt to frame him in any way. They confronted him with the evidence, evidence now in the hands of the State Police and the FBI. At this short meeting they discussed every single time that Ralph had failed his polygraph tests. None of the polygraph tests were administered, analyzed or verified by anyone involved in PPP, including Joe and Hunter.

We now know through the "rumor mill" that both Lena and Ralph have failed every polygraph test given them. They have also been caught in various statements and uttering lying about what happened to Aliayah and where she can be found.

These so-called parents have done everything in their power, including lying, lawyering-up and stone-walling, waiting for the heat to die down. Well it isn't going to die down any time soon. Joe, Hunter, PPP, Aliayah's Army volunteers and others from across the country have all pledged their undying love and support to bring this child home and bring those who are guilty of her disappearance to justice.

Lena, Ralph...If you're not going to come forward and face justice, you might as well crawl into the same hole that you hid Aliayah in.

I still don't know that either one of them will break, the only ways I see it going down is either they both keep stchum forever or one of the rats the other out to try and save themselves. They are both worthless scum!! I am surprised that Ralph actually agreed to the meeting and actually admitted some truths finally, I hope this is the beginning of the unraveling of the story and that Joe Nick and the PPP Recovery team will find Aliayah!

[Jezreel]

WDTV - Joe "The Bloodhound" Nick was back in Weston looking for still-missing Aliayah Lunsford, 3.

Aliayah has been missing since Sept. 24.

The FBI confirmed Nick was briefed by its investigative team, which includes W.Va. State Police.

Nick said he had an expert analyze the 911 call Lena Lunsford made on Sept. 24. The expert discerned a male voice in the background advising Lena, he said.

He believed the answer to Aliayah's mysterious disappearance lies in the Dennison Street home from which she disappeared.

"The answer is with Lena and Ralph," Nick said. "And when one of those two step forward, and tells the answer, then the whole story will come out. But remember, I am sure that the story will come out it if they don't."

Nick said volunteers continue to search Lewis County using underwater equipment and cameras.

They are based at the Eagles Club in Weston and continue to welcome volunteers and donations.

[Jezreel]

Oops the above was WBOY not WDTV

[Jezreel]

There was a search going on at a dam near the lunsfords old home in bendale this evening. They blocked it to lower the water so they could search better. EMS, crime scene lab LE were all there.... They put something in a black bag and put that bag in an ambulance and the ambulance left. WDTV were on scene also but haven't seen a news report yet. Lewis county infor news and talk page has posted some pictures one that shows crime scene tape. I can't post the pics as am on my phone.
I hope Joe Nick and his team has made progress and this case is going to come to a close soon, please let this search from tonight be something, Aliayah has been on my mind and heart since the day she was reported missing.

[Lady Cop]

i'll be amazed if that little baby has been found. it would be wonderful. and hopefully lead to arrests of the guilty.

WESTON -

The group calling itself Aliayah's Army called in dive teams Tuesday to search the West Fork River behind the Dennison Street home from which Aliayah Lunsford, 3, disappeared Sept. 24.

The group called in divers after underwater photos captured by Aliayah's Army showed "what looked like it could be a skeleton," Spokesperson and Aliayah's Great Aunt Vickie Bowen said. But, she stressed the photos were inconclusive and "could be anything."

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers reduced the Stonewall Jackson dam to a trickle before dive teams from Braxton and Nicholas Counties entered the river, Bowen said.

[Jezreel]

I know right, I do hope that its at least something if not her :(
I found this report from WBOY
The group calling itself Aliayah's Army called in dive teams Tuesday to search the West Fork River behind the Dennison Street home from which Aliayah Lunsford, 3, disappeared Sept. 24.

The group called in divers after underwater photos captured by Aliayah's Army showed "what looked like it could be a skeleton," Spokesperson and Aliayah's Great Aunt Vickie Bowen said. But, she stressed the photos were inconclusive and "could be anything."

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers reduced the Stonewall Jackson dam to a trickle before dive teams from Braxton and Nicholas Counties entered the river, Bowen said.

Aliayah's Army, which is made up of volunteers and family members of the missing child, tried unsuccessfully to reach the FBI and W.Va. State Police before it called in the dive teams, Bowen said. The group also called the Lewis County Sheriff's Office, which responded.

ETA: you beat me to it again LC

[Lady Cop]

i think perhaps the "army" got a little overexcited.

WDTV

Kathy Stover, head of the Aliayah's Army volunteer incident command center, explains why search crews were in the Bendale area on Tuesday.

Aliayah's Army has continued the volunteer searches of the area after PPP Recovery left. On Tuesday, members were sent out around 10:30 a.m. to clear some more areas, including the Bendale dam, which is behind the former home of Aliayah's parents, Lena and Ralph Lunsford.

The water levels were turned down so that crews could easily search the area. A boat went in with an underwater camera and around 2 p.m., they found some things they wanted law enforcement to look at. Following protocol of the volunteer search, members called PPP Recovery who alerts the FBI and the State Police who are working Aliayah's disappearance if anything seems like it could be connected to her disappearance. The volunteers also called local law enforcement.

Around 3:30 p.m., the Lewis County Sheriff's Department, Lewis Co. EMS, the State Police Crime Scene Unit and members from the Braxton County Dive Team went to the area.

The divers were not able to see what the volunteers had seen so Stover says video will be reviewed and volunteers may go back and search Wednesday or later this week.

[Jezreel]

Hmmm interesting I wonder if this is the actual case only because I was speaking with a local earlier who took a drive down there when everything was going on and she heard Kathy Stover speaking with news about ¹⁄₂ hr before reports of a black bag containing 'something' was put into the ambulance. I know it's all over the rumor sites but there have been confirmations of some pretty trustworthy peoria that saw this. Although whatever is in the black bag could on all reality be nothing significant. Sigh.

[Lady Cop]

evidently the granny (on the right in video here) is going to die any day now, in hospice care. she reportedly maintains she does not know where the baby is, but admits her sweathog daughter lena may know more than she's telling. well if she is about to meet God she better spit out what she does know. 'cause she will also be meeting the poor baby girl and have some explaining to do.
she helped obstruct this investigation.