Deanna Ballman, Pregnant mother found dead in backseat of car

[Red_velvet71]

http://www.hlntv.com/article/2012/08/16/...llman-ohio


Deanna Ballman was 9-months pregnant when she died
Police found her body in backseat of car near a farmhouse
Family says she responded to a house cleaning ad online


Ohio police are investigating the suspicious death of a pregnant mother of two whose body was found in the backseat of her car near an abandoned farmhouse, authorities said.

Deanna Ballman, 23, was nine-months pregnant at the time of her death. Her family said they last saw her as she was leaving for a house cleaning job she found on Craigslist, WSYX reported. However, authorities would not confirm or discuss a possible Craigslist connection with HLN.

Police said Ballman last spoke with her mother on the phone around 3:30 pm on July 31. Ballman’s mother said her daughter told her she wasn’t feeling well when the phone call suddenly dropped, KMGH reported. Her mother reported her missing when she hadn’t returned home that night.

The next day, a rural property owner discovered Ballman’s car around noon. When police arrived, they said they found the young mother’s body in the backseat of her car. David Wilcox, the property owner, told HLN’s Nancy Grace the deputy who opened the car door told him, “There’s a dead woman in the backseat. She’s pregnant too.”

A preliminary autopsy revealed no signs of trauma to Ballman’s body, according to a police news release. Her cause of death remains undetermined pending the completed autopsy report which is expected to be completed in 8-12 weeks, police said. WSYX reported the Delaware County Coroner ruled Ballman’s unborn child died due to a lack of oxygen.

Authorities told HLN they have executed two search warrants at a home located approximately three miles from where Ballman’s body was found.

The FBI is now assisting in the investigation. Authorities are still hoping to find Ballman’s cell phone, which police said pinged near a pond three miles from where her body was discovered. The pond, according to police, was search by divers, but failed to turn up additional clues.

“She was planning to go to dental school,” Sigrid Ballman, Deanna Ballman’s grandmother told HLN’s Nancy Grace. “We just want to find out who did this.”
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LC, I'm having a hell of a time adding a picture of her. (The forum has changed the way you upload a pic. Because I used to be able to do it.)

Would you please post the pic for me. I'd appreciate it so much. Thanks in advance.

I believe this is going to be an unusual murder case. I'm curious to see if the doctor did it, my feeling on it is, I don't think he did it. We'll see.

Thanks again LC.

[JsMom]

Why is there 3 of the same threads?

I'm curious to see what comes of this situation.

[username]

3 threads? LC isn't going to like that.

[username]

Why is there 3 of the same threads?

Because the dumbtard made 3 threads?? Just a wild guess.

[username]

Bump. In case you missed it.

[JsMom]

Why is there 3 of the same threads?

Because the dumbtard made 3 threads?? Just a wild guess.

Say it isn't so....

[QueenBee]

3 threads? LC isn't going to like that.

user..you took the words right out of my mouth. Gonna enjoy this one

[Red_velvet71]

3 threads? LC isn't going to like that.

What do you mean? I've been having issues with my pc. What have I done?

[QueenBee]

What do you mean? I've been having issues with my pc. What have I done?

ermm..hate to break this to you, but your thread posted 3 times.

[Duchess]

Rut row

[Red_velvet71]

What do you mean? I've been having issues with my pc. What have I done?

ermm..hate to break this to you, but your thread posted 3 times.

YEP.......I see what I did. Thanks for the warning gals.

[Red_velvet71]

Rut row

Does this mean I should pop a couple Xanax and chug a beer? Lol

Hope no whips are involved. Hell I might like it!

[koko]

Would you please post the pic for me. I'd appreciate it so much. Thanks in advance.

i'll save LC a minute or so,

[Red_velvet71]

Be back later for my punishment. :(

[Lady Cop]

i deleted 2 duplicate threads.

RV you mention the doctor but did not explain why.
his home was searched and items removed.
she had answered a craigslist ad to clean house. police had been called there 10 times, some because of allegations of women. women he met on craigslist.

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her car where body was found, being removed.




ABC6
NEW ALBANY -- Investigators searched a home in connection with the death of a pregnant woman a day after her body was found inside a car in Delaware County.

Deanna Ballman was found dead in her Ford Taurus just off Bevelhymer Road Wednesday in Harlem Township. Ballman was nine months pregnant at the time of her death; the baby did not survive.

Thursday afternoon, Delaware County Sheriff's Office detectives searched a New Albany home in connection to the Ballman case. Detectives took pictures and removed several pieces of evidence -- including computers and other electronic devices -- during the search, which lasted more than three hours.

The Turner Close home is owned by an area doctor, who lives there alone. Neighbors said investigators asked them if they had seen Ballman's car in the doctor's driveway on Monday.

Detectives said Ballman's last cell phone hit was traced to an area of New Albany that sits less than a half-mile from the Turner Close home. Investigators said the doctor is cooperating with the investigation.

Neighbors say the Turner Close home was the target of a burglary last year, during which flat screens and laptops were stolen.

Family members tell ABC 6/FOX 28 that Ballman was a good mother -- she leaves behind two children, ages two and three -- and had hoped to open her own dental office in the future.

doctor's home



left behind


Ballman was a member of the Colorado National Guard and in the process of transferring to the Ohio National Guard.

The Colorado National Guard said she was a supply specialist with the 220^th Military Police.

Detectives spent Thursday searching the home of the person who had requested the cleaning. Investigators were seen removing a computer tower, laptop and a camera.

The home is about 5 miles from where the car was found.

Ballman's grandmother, Sigrid Ballman, told WBNS TV that her granddaughter was in the process of a divorce.

James Ballman told the Columbus Dispatch that his sister had married a man she met online and they moved to Colorado to build a family. But Deanna moved out when she was nearly ready to deliver their third child, the brother said.

She had only been back in her home state for 2 weeks.
7NEWS reporter Lindsey Sablan spoke by phone Friday with Ballman's husband, Mark Huston II, who is an active duty Army soldier based at Fort Carson.

[Lady Cop]

her body was in back seat here




good overview of case here on nancy grace video:
4 ¹⁄₂ minutes

http://www.hlntv.com/video/2012/08/16/pr...y-searched

doctor has not been named by media yet.

Neighbors say the doctor has behaved strangely since his home was first searched on August 2, allegedly hiding in bushes and exiting his home only through the back door. Doug Sandholdt told ABC 6/FOX 28 he has long-held concerns about the doctor's behavior, saying neighbors have "seen women coming in and out of the house, two to three at a time."

[Jezreel]

Another strange story, the doctor obviously sounds very suspicious another craigslist killer perhaps?

I found Deanna's FB page, she was truly loved by many people, she was having a daughter and was naming her Mabel :(
https://www.facebook.com/deanna.ballman

This was a comment under one of her albums:


is the the girl who was found dead in ohio?
August 2 at 5:38pm · Like

Yep-they are now searching Craigslist because she was going to clean a house she met on that site. Where's the "Angry Ex"?
August 2 at 5:42pm · Like

not reading anything into it, just interesting, things must have been pretty bad though if she left him while heavily pregnant and two young children to look after.

Am I right in thinking the person responsible will be charged with 2 murders LC?

[Lady Cop]

Jez:
Am I right in thinking the person responsible will be charged with 2 murders LC?
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yes, if she was a homicide victim.

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 2903.01 et seq. (2002) define aggravated murder, murder, voluntary manslaughter, involuntary manslaughter, negligent homicide, aggravated vehicular homicide, aggravated vehicular assault, felonious assault, aggravated assault, assault and negligent assault. The law applies to a person, which includes an "unborn member of the species Homo sapiens, who is or was carried in the womb of another."

[sharit]

Wondering if the husband has an alibi? She had only been home for 2 weeks.

[Lady Cop]

her body was found 8/1.
i think by now the husband has been alibied/scrutinized.

here is her myspace:

http://www.myspace.com/jillyweed




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Mini Mark by Deanna Ballman