Showing posts with label Mineral Wells Texas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mineral Wells Texas. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 9, 2011

Anonymous Poster and the Information to Murder in Mineral Wells, Texas


Blogs can be important tools in missing persons and unsolved suspicious deaths cases. Most people leaving a comment do so as an "anonymous"poster. Especially those with direct knowledge.

Krishonda Townsend went missing in July 4, 2010. Her body was finally found on October 28, 2011. But 367 days prior to her being found and over one thousand comments later on the case:

an anonymous poster left this important information in their comment:
Anonymous said...

This is all speculation based on some known facts.

I was thinking the same as one of the above posters, except they didn’t drive Shonda’s car. They need to search SW Mineral Wells since that is where Shonda was last seen. Boetz said that Shonda was last seen in her friend's car at the EZ Mart. Shonda had her phone with her. I think Shonda's phone got left behind in the friend's car. It was the friend's car that drove up north with Shonda's phone in it.

They are not going to be driving around very long with any evidence and they aren't going to drive Shonda's car and/or her body in it on a major highway with extra cops patrolling because it's the 4th. They got rid of the evidence fast and in critical order, which meant,

first the body,
second the car,
and lastly the cell phone was the least concern.

1st Body -- Probably down Ferguson road just 2 blocks west and 3 blocks south of SW 15th ave. Ferguson road goes through to SW 22nd street in an unpopulated place between 2 fields of trees where there's a place they can go off road easily and not be seen by any witnesses. They dumped out her body, but didn't get rid of her phone that was left in the console or dash. Shortly thereafter, the phone was used to stall the mom by sending that text that Shonda was on her way home.

2nd Car -- Then they went to get rid of Shonda's car. They used the friend's vehicle again to follow the guys driving Shonda's car to give them a ride after they left Shonda's car in front of the crack house. They didn't walk back from the crack house. Then the friend's vehicle was borrowed again to give 2 people a ride up north and it still had Shonda's phone in it. Shonda's phone received incoming calls in the friend's vehicle while up there so they turned it off.

3rd Cell phone -- After getting back to MW where they started next to TS & her bf's house, they stopped at a gas station on 180 and tossed the cell phone into field. Someone said they found a cell phone behind Tommys.

I can't help but to imagine that the same person who tossed her phone, is the same person that tossed her keys across the field from her car at the crack house.

July 22, 2011 1:06 PM

The information the person above left on the blog is where Krishonda was found. We did forward the poster's comments at the time to the appropriate authorities. Numerous comments were tagged and sent on a regular basis. Today, someone noticed and called out that specific comment from July in their remarks.

Now, there is a killer free and living among the town folk in Mineral Wells,TX. They are going to the same gas station and ace hardware as you. This person is in Walgreens picking up a prescription or Jack-in-the-box grabbing a bite to eat. Maybe they live down the street from you or your family.

The individual that posted the July 22, 2011 information likely felt that by posting without using their name was noble, but to me it ranks right up beside the individual who killed Shonda.

I understand no one out in Mineral Wells Texas trusts law enforcement. So I am making a plea to the "secret" poster of July 22, 2011, if you reach out to me, the information you provide will be given directly to where it needs to go. Without using your name or personal information. Many cases are eventually solved because people trust what I do and know that keeping a source confidential is key to making a case.

With each day that passes in withholding information you are allowing a murderer to live life, in your community.

I hope you will contact me. My email address is murphymilano@gmail.com


Susan Murphy Milano is a staff member of the Institute for Relational Harm Reduction and Public Pathology Education as a educator and specialist with intimate partner violence prevention strategies directing prevention for high risk situations and cases.
A national trainer to law enforcement, training officers, prosecutors, judges, legislators, social service providers, healthcare professionals, victim advocates and the faith based community. In partnership withManagement Resources Ltd. of New York addressing prevention and solutions within the community to the workplace.
Online contributions: Forbes : Crime, She Writes providing commentary about the hottest topics on crime, justice, and law from a woman’s perspective, as well as Time's Up! a blog which searches for solutions (SOS) for victims of crime.
Radio Shows: Susan is the host of The Susan Murphy Milano Show, "Time's Up!" . She is a regular contributor to the nationally syndicated "The Roth Show" with Dr Laurie Roth and a co-host on Crime Wire.

Books: Time's Up: A Guide on How to Leave and Survive Abusive and Stalking Relationships,Moving out, Moving on, and Defending Out Lives.


Saturday, October 29, 2011

Lighting the Way for Krishonda Townsend: Closing One Investigation-Opening Another

(from the Cue Center's Road to Remember Tour)

It was July 4, 2010, Krishonda Townsend was out with friends celebrating the holiday festivities in Mineral Wells, TX. She contacts her mother via text at 12:10 a.m.to say she is on her way home. She never arrived.

The young mother of a toddler was never seen or heard from again. Speculation as to what could have happened to her has been the topic of conversation since she vanished rather than everyone going out and looking for her or providing the information required to make arrest(s) in this case.

This past Sunday the Cue Center For Missing Persons highlighted the missing mother, daughter and sister on their annual "Road To Remember Tour." A yearly campaign the national agency has to bring awareness to missing persons cases across the country. And Krishonda was a registered case within the Cue Organization. A non-profit agency assisting families without charge of missing loved ones across the country.

On Thursday, remains were found and identified in rural north Texas as those of Shonda Townsend.

The case still is now an active criminal investigation closing the missing persons case to now an unsolved homicide.

Those involved should not be sleeping very well from this day forward. Just as they found Shonda and brought her home to her family, those who were involved in the taking of her life will be finding themselves at their new home, the State Penitentiary!

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Susan Murphy Milano is a staff member of the Institute for Relational Harm Reduction and Public Pathology Education as a educator and specialist with intimate partner violence prevention strategies directing prevention for high risk situations and cases.
A national trainer to law enforcement, training officers, prosecutors, judges, legislators, social service providers, healthcare professionals, victim advocates and the faith based community. In partnership withManagement Resources Ltd. of New York addressing prevention and solutions within the community to the workplace.
Online contributions: Forbes : Crime, She Writes providing commentary about the hottest topics on crime, justice, and law from a woman’s perspective, as well as Time's Up! a blog which searches for solutions (SOS) for victims of crime.
Radio Shows: Susan is the host of The Susan Murphy Milano Show, "Time's Up!" . She is a regular contributor to the nationally syndicated "The Roth Show" with Dr Laurie Roth and a co-host on Crime Wire.

Books: Time's Up: A Guide on How to Leave and Survive Abusive and Stalking Relationships,Moving out, Moving on, and Defending Out Lives.



Saturday, July 2, 2011

Krishonda Leanne Townsend: A Crime Continues in Silence

A balloon release will be held on July 3, 2011 at 3:00 pm, location to meet will be on the outside of town (Mineral Wells ,Texas) at Shonda’s missing person billboard next to HWY 281. •MAPQUEST

In the town of Mineral Wells, Texas, a tragic reminder clouds the town like a blanket over this 4th of July holiday weekend; one of their own is still missing. Those who know the truth continue to hide, hoping no one talks or comes forward with the truth of really what happened one year ago.

On July 4th, 2010, Krishonda Townsend, 19, went missing. She was not abducted by some stranger. She did not leave of her own free will. She did not drive her car to a location in a part of town deemed unsafe. She was abruptly taken and never seen or heard from again.

With over 1,100 comments on a blog written about Krishona earlier in the year, one would hope that instead of leaving clues, poems and finger pointing, they would find a way to come forward with what they know, either by contacting authorities or leaving a tip with the CUE Center for Missing Persons.

As a full year passes, the crime of silence will continue to live and breathe in the community of Mineral Wells. I wouldn't want to remain in a place where the person I stand next to while watching the fireworks this year along with my kids, is responsible for Krishonda's disappearance. In not demanding answers in your community, supporting this family, passing posters out or holding town meetings until she is found, you invite the person who took this young teenager and mother to strike again. If they got away with it once, it is likely someone else will pay the same high price with their life.

Just think if a fraction of the planning by the town of Mineral Wells went into finding Krishonda as it has in scheduling a day of festivities with food and fireworks, she would have an opportunity at being found.

Be assured that your tip is confidential and can not be seen publicly!

Contact:
CUE CENTER FOR MISSING PERSONS-(910) 232-1687 -24 Hour Line Tip Line


Details of the case: 
Shonda Townsend White female 19 years of age . She is 5 ft. 3 in. tall and weighs between 115 and 120 pounds. She has brown eyes and blonde hair with a pink streak. Allthough her natural hair color is a light brown. She has braces with pink rubber bands. She was last seen in Mineral Wells on the evening of July 4 th. 2010 . Between 11:30 and 11:40 p.m. From a residence in Mineral Wells. She was wearing a black tank top trimmed in white, pink shorts, flip flops and a black two piece swim suit with pink and white polka dots underneath. Shonda left the residence driving a 1997 gray/blue Toyota Camry. At 12:10 am Monday , Shonda text her mother stating- On my way home. And no one has heard or seen her since.

Public and private rewards are offered for information leading to discovery of Townsend and anyone responsible for her disappearance resulting in an arrest and grand jury indictment.

Anyone with information is asked to contact the Jack County Sheriff's Office at (940) 567-2161, Mineral Wells Police Department at (940) 328-7770 or Crime Stoppers anonymously at (940) 325-0000.


January 13, 2011 The Susan Murphy Milano Show, "Time's Up!" on Here Women Talk
Hour #1 Guest: True Crime Author, Burl Barer and new book, "Fatal Beauty"
Hour #2 Guest: Monica Caison of CUE Center for Missing Persons examining cases of missing Lindsey Baum and Krishonda Townsend
Download podcast or Listen Now


Latest updates on The Roth Show 2/22/11



Friday, February 25, 2011

Krishonda Leann Townsend: Mineral Wells, Texas



This is the new billboard unveiled Wednesday, for Krishonda Townsend. She was last seen on July 4th, 2010 at 7:p.M. She left home in Perrin,Texas and went to a friends house on US Highway 180 West in Mineral Wells Texas. She was driving her gray and purple 1997 Toyota.
Krishonda texted her mother via cell phone at 12:10 A.M and said she was on her way home.
She has not been seen or heard from since.

Monica Caison, founder of the CUE Center for Missing Person's along with State and Local Law Enforcement begin search efforts this weekend.

Wednesday evening from ground zero, the area where Shonda vanished, Monica Caison and family members appeared on the Roth Show to not only bring attention to the new billboard and search, but to ask listeners who have any information to please call the numbers listed on the billboard. Any information given is confidential. This means, if you know anything, regardless of a relationship or connection to someone in the community, they will not know that a call was placed to authorities and or the CUE Center, or by whom.

There is a little boy whose mommy is missing. A family torn- looking, waiting by the phone for anyone with information to come forward. With so many (over 700) taking time to comment on the original blog post HERE, I am asking that you please consider going out and help in any way possible. Post information on your myspace and facebook pages, websites, take flyers around in the community about Shonda.

For those of you who do not know why this is case and all those that are written about or featured on shows we do is very important to me, please watch the video HERE.

In case you missed the radio shows about Shonda, here are the links to listen:

January 13, 2011 The Susan Murphy Milano Show, "Time's Up!" on Here Women Talk
Hour #1 Guest: True Crime Author, Burl Barer and new book, "Fatal Beauty"
Hour #2 Guest: Monica Caison of CUE Center for Missing Persons examining cases of missing Lindsey Baum and Krishonda Townsend
Download podcast or Listen Now

Latest updates on The Roth Show 2/22/11


Investigative Agency
Jack County Sheriff’s Office
(940) 567-2161
If you have any information on this case please contact CUE Center For Missing Persons using the contact form below or contact Cue Center at (910) 343-1131 24 hour tipline (910) 232-1687.

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

The Roth Show: Krishona Townsend Search Live From The Crime Scene at Ground Zero




The “Annie Oakley of the Airwaves” and
the “Jane Wayne of Justice”

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Wednesday evenings from 6-8pm ET, 3-5pm PT, Dr. Laurie Roth and Susan Murphy Milano highlight injustice, featuring up to the moment discussions on what’s going wrong!

Monica Caison of CUE Center for Missing Persons
http://ncmissingpersons.org

Reporting directly from the search for Krishonda Townsend, Monica Caison will bring us an up to the minute report from Mineral Wells, TX.

Krishonda Townsend was last seen on July 4th, 2010 at 7:p.M. She left home in Perrin,Texas and went to a friends house on US Highway 180 West in Mineral Wells Texas. She was driving her gray and purple 1997 Toyota.
Krishonda texted her mother via cell phone at 12:10 A.M and said she was on her way home.

She has not been seen or heard from since.


Her 1997 Toyota was located on July 6th, 2010 in the 800 block of SE 3rd Ave in Mineral Wells.

To read about Krishonda’s case and the hundred's of comments regarding her killer (s) attempt at staging her disappearance to make it look like an abduction read about it here : Krishonda Leanne Townsend: A Victim of Intimate Partner Violence ?

http://therothshow.com

The Roth Show is a nationally syndicated talk show hosted by Dr. Laurie Roth, Ph.D., and stands on principles and leading the charge for the legions of Americans who are saying “Enough Already!”

Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Justice Interrupts the Life of Christie Thorne

Crime Wire featured the case of Christie Thorne. Two weeks before her divorce was finalized she was found dead.
Christie Thorne was a victim of domestic violence and stalking according to numerous police reports . Because the divorce was not finalized her parents had no say in how her remains were handled. It is disturbing that evidence was destroyed, and no autopsy was performed; no medical examiner or coroner in charge of the crime scene, instead a rush to judgement by a justice of the peace, in the town of Longview, located in the State of Texas, ruling her death a suicide.
Immediately, the husband, who still maintained legal rights because they were technically still married, was able to authorize the body cremated. The evidence was destroyed.
This is why when a person begins a divorce action, separates or ends a relationship, having the Evidentiary Abuse Affidavit and video prepared and copies given to trusted friends and relatives removes the burden by surviving families members to have cases of intimate partner homicide investigated and those responsible arrested.
Evidentiary Abuse Affidavit by Susan Murphy Milano from the Book "Time's Up" from Courage Network on Vimeo.
Christie was found dead of a gunshot wound to the head on the bedroom floor of her home in Longview, Texas on June 21, 2007. After an inadequate investigation and no autopsy, a 19-minute inquest by a Justice of the Peace resulted in the determination that the then 35-year-old had taken her own life. Over the objections of Christie's family, her body was released to her estranged husband and cremated.
Jeanie Cummings, Christie's mother, doesn't believe her daughter killed herself. She is convinced that Bob Thorne, Christie's husband, murdered Christie. She cites a history of domestic violence and contends that the investigators, including the Justice of the Peace, botched the investigation due to incompetence or corruption.

Steps taken by the family:


1. Have sucessfully been able to show and with Judge Fort's own Informal 19 minute InquestRuling of how incompetent he was when he ruled that my daughter died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to her left temple. MY DAUGHTER WAS RIGHT-HANDED!!

2. Have successfully been able to show a conflict between Judge Fort's ruling and the police reports. The judge incompetently ruled that my daughter's fatal gunshot wound came from her left while the police were indicating incompetently that the gunshot came from her right side....POINT OF FACT IS...( they all BOTCHED my daughter's suspicious death )..( MURDER )... and without ever considering even ONCE that an autospy needed to be performed while they never apparently thought much either to go over everything thoroughly BETWEEN themselves before they all decided negligently that their incompetent ruling of suicide just might have been a homicide instead that needed investigating to get a murderer off the streets. My daughter's death was a violent death in Texas and her suspicious death should have NEVER been ruled a suicide so quickly by either the police or byJudge Fort.

3. We hired a Private Investigator, Mr. Akin's, who is a crime scene expert out of Austin, Texas who looked over my daughter's crime scene pictures in April of this year and in his analysis he wrote that it appeared that my daughter's fatal wound was to her left temple..( just like Judge Fort ruled )..and he wrote that it appeared that her hair had been violently pulled to the left. Also, there was NO BLOOD on either one of her hands. NOTE: The police did not bother to do a GUNSHOT RESIDUE TEST and did not bother to run fingerprints on the gun. MY DAUGHTER DID NOT FIRE THAT GUN THAT KILLED HER. SHE WAS OVER-TAKEN BY SOMEONE AND THEY MURDERED HER.

4. We have reached out to 2 medical examiners sending them both my daughter's crime scene pictures, etc...(. one is from Texas, he's a chief medical examiner, a Dr. Frost ,out of San Antonio, Texas who is trying to change for the better all death investigations in Texas, and then there is Dr. Bonnell, a medical examiner for Parents Of Murdered Children, Inc. who wrote us his opinion about how incompetent Judge Fort and the police were in having no forensic training but who ruled my daughter's death a suicide with no autospy being performed. Dr. Bonnell's most recent letter that he wrote to us after seeing Judge Fort's incompetent ruling this year after I sent the judge's ruling to him shortly after we received it ourselves, states in his letter pertaining to how Judge Fort handled so incompentently my daughter's suspicious murder, in quoting that this is.. THE TWILIGHT ZONE. THIS IS WORSE THAN THE TWILIGHT ZONE TO US> THIS IS THE ULTIMATE NIGHTMARE THAT ANY PARENT ON THE FACE OF THE EARTH COULD GO THROUGH.

COVER-UP
We aren't sure that there was a cover-up but it does appear to us that the judge and the police have gone WAY out of their way since Day 1 of our losing Christie that there was NOT going to be a death investigation at all much less a murder investigation either which does make us all suspicious of them in always wondering WHY and HOW could they have over-looked so many many suspicious circumstances that led up to her death. We will always wonder why they didn't seem to even care enough to make sure that their own reports matched one another in something that is so serious to do everything it takes to be completely sure in how someone dies. They never considered once that there should have been an autospy performed first before they ruled anything. It is beyond us and everyone we've talked too in wondering how could Judge Fort be so careless like this in ruling a violent suspicious death to be a suicide without ever considering an autospy to be performed of a young mother who had just lost her life very suddenly and very mysteriously.

We have been lied to from da 1 by Homicide Detective Hewitt saying to us right after we lost her that she had been shot in her mouth but later saying that he thought her ex-husband killed her. We wonder WHY and HOW could a homicide detective lie like this to a family who had just lost their loved one. We didn't find out till later after receiving the police reports that she didn't die like we were told at first by this detective. Since Detecftive Hewitt for some reason told me before we received the police reports that he thought her ex-husband killed her, I asked him was he going to investigate my daughter's death by investigating her ex-husband and this is where he told me that HIS HANDS WERE TIED. WE WONDER WHAT OR WHO TIED HIS HANDS?Getting back to day 2 of my daughter's suspicious death, Detective Hewitt didn't even know which apartment my daughter lived in stating to me on Day 2 of our losing Christie that her apartment was on the top section of the apt. complex when I knew that her apt. was on the ground floor. These were the first RED FLAGS that something was very very wrong beyond our losing her and as time went on it all got worse in our realizing that something was WRONG with how this detective and JUDGE FORT was handling my daughter's death there. Is this a COVER-UP? WE DO WONDER!!

I don't know for sure if there was a life insurance policy on my daughter or not but I'm pretty sure that there was one on her because her husband at the time of her death had just taken out a policy a few months before this happened to her on himself for $400,000 leaving my daughter the beneficiary. The police had... ( THEIR HANDS NOT BEEN TIED )... should have looked into this along with looking into ALOT of suspicious circumstances surrounding my daughter's murder but they didn't seem to care much about anything even telling us that everything was up to my daughter's husband who should have been made a suspect along with his 18 year old son a suspect also considering that they were both the last ones to see my daughter alive.

Thank you so much for your time and thank you for offering to do a story about this. God Bless You. Sincerely, Jeanie..( Christie's Mom )
God please let there be "JUSTICE FOR HER"!!


Susan Murphy Milano is with the Institute for Relational Harm Reduction and Public Pathology Education. She is an expert on intimate partner violence and homicide crimes. For more information visithttp://www.saferelationshipsmagazine.com/ She is the author of "Time's Up A Guide on How to Leave and SurviveAbusive and Stalking Relationships," available for purchase at the Institute, Amazon.com and wherever books are sold. Susan is the host of The Susan Murphy Milano Show, "Time's Up!" on Here Women Talkhttp://www.herewomentalk.com/and is a regular contributor to the nationally syndicated The Roth Show with Dr. Laurie Rothhttp://www.therothshow.com/

Wednesday, January 12, 2011

The Roth Show: Krishonda Leann Townsend: Endarged Missing Teen


The "Annie Oakley of the Airwaves" and
the"Jane Wayne of Justice"
combine forces on:


The Roth Show!


This Wednesday from 7-8pm ET, Susan Murphy Milano and Dr. Laurie Roth welcome Monica Caison of

CUE Center for Missing Persons and , m
Carolynn Rittenbury
mother of missing teen, Krishonda Leann Townsend
Show Date: January 12, 2011Wednesday evenings from 6-8pm ET, 3-5pm PT, Dr. Laurie Roth and Susan Murphy Milano will be highlighting injustice, featuring up to the moment discussions on what's going wrong!


Krishonda Leann Townsend

Missing Since: 07/04/10
Missing From: Mineral Wells,Texas
Classification:Endangered Missing
Age at Disappearance:19
Date of Birth: 08/21/90
White Female
Height:5’3
Weight: 115
Hair: Brown with pink and blonde highlights
Eyes: Brown
Scars,Marks: Scar on left side of nose and scar on knee from a burn. Her left ear has a point on top
Teeth: Wears braces
Nickname: Shonda
Clothing: Pink shorts, Black tank top over a bikini bathing suit. Old Navy brand lack or dark blue flip flops.
Jewelry: Both ears are pierced.

Details of Disappearance
Krishonda was last seen on July 4th, 2010 at 7:p.M. She left home in Perrin,Texas and went to a friends house on US Highway 180 West in Mineral Wells Texas. She was driving her gray and purple 1997 Toyota.
Krishonda texted her mother via cell phone at 12:10 A.M and said she was on her way home. She has not been seen or heard from since.
Her 1997 Toyota was located on July 6th, 2010 in the 800 block of SE 3rd Ave in Mineral Wells,Texas

Investigative Agency
Jack County Sheriff’s Office
(940) 567-2161

If you have any information on this case please contact CUE Center For Missing Persons using the contact form below or contact Cue Center at (910) 343-1131 24 hour tipline (910) 232-1687.

The Roth Show is a nationally syndicated talk show hosted by Dr. Laurie Roth, Ph.D., and stands on principles and leading the charge for the legions of Americans who are saying “Enough Already!”

Susan Murphy Milano is with the Institute for Relational Harm Reduction and Public Pathology Education. She is an expert on intimate partner violence and homicide crimes. For more information visithttp://www.saferelationshipsmagazine.com/ She is the author of "Time's Up A Guide on How to Leave and SurviveAbusive and Stalking Relationships," available for purchase at the Institute, Amazon.com and wherever books are sold. Susan is the host of The Susan Murphy Milano Show, "Time's Up!" on Here Women Talkhttp://www.herewomentalk.com/and is a regular contributor to the nationally syndicated The Roth Show with Dr. Laurie Rothhttp://www.therothshow.com/ ]
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