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Somer Thompson, 7 (family photo)
ORANGE PARK Somer Thompson's killer remains unnamed, as Clay County (Florida) police continue to sift "workable" leads from 2,800 tips they have received as of 11/4.
During today's media briefing, police spokesperson Mary Justino related that the "multi-agency effort continues as detectives follow up on all the workable leads that remain."
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Mary Justino, Clay County (FL) Sheriff's Office spokesperson
Expressing the agency's request for ongoing cooperation, Justino added, "we remain dedicated to finding the person who killed Somer, and still encourage members of the community to contact the tip line (below) with any information they feel may be helpful."
Somer was a first-grade student at Grove Park Elementary in Orange Park. She vanished during a walk home from school on Monday, Oct. 19. The girl--who had been in the company of twin brother, Sam, and their elder sister--ran ahead of her siblings, and never arrived at their house, according to her mother, Diena Thompson, 34. Thompson filed a missing persons report with Orange Park law enforcement later that afternoon.
Police began searching neighborhood-specific landfills, in probes that resulted in the grim discovery of the girl's remains, on the third day after she went missing.
After Somer's body was recovered on 10/21 from a Georgia landfill some distance from the Jacksonville suburb, a stunned and angry north Florida community showed its grief and support during the girl's heavily-attended memorial service on 10/27.
In sweeping efforts to apprehend Somer Thompson's killer, Clay County Sheriff, Rick Beseler met yesterday with an "America's Most Wanted" show production crew.
Somer Thompson's murder case will be spotlighted during the Saturday 11/7 edition of the widely-viewed crime-fighting series, hosted by John Walsh. Harnessing his energies to effect anti-crime legislation and via the media, since 1991, Walsh has become a tireless advocate for the country's missing and murdered.
In 1981, Walsh and his wife, Reve, lost their son, Adam, in an abduction-murder that began in a Hollywood (Florida) Sears store. In 2008, Adam's murder was formally attributed to Ottis Toole, a Florida serial killer who confessed, but was never tried for the crime, then died in 1996.
In the case of the slain little girl--dubbed a "community hugger" by her church minister--Clay County law enforcement, working with "America's Most Wanted," aims to intensify the hunt for Somer's killer.
Along with Sheriff Beseler, John Walsh theorizes Somer's killer could be a pedophile serial murderer who may have re-emerged from a "dormant period," and who may be responsible for the previous disappearances of 4 additional children. Those cases remain open.
"America's Most Wanted" airs Saturday, 11/7, 9 PM EST (8 CST) on FOX.
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Clay County (Florida) Sheriff's Office telephone tips line: 1-877-227-6911
Email: cart@claysheriff.com
Comments
This perverted sicko does not deserve another breath. We won't rest until he is caught and justice will be served by the inmates awaiting his arrival and the torture of hell where it will spend it's eternity. How's the forensic evidence coming along?
That's the one compensation left now; justice for Somer. I am sure LE has some positive leads and is putting all the pieces together. Labs and toxic screens take time.
convicted pedophlies should never be let out to be "rehabilitated"there is more than the obvious
reasons not to let them out, they will always have desires for small children, in which theyll never get to be with legally or willingly, therefore to commit these acts in the future the only way to keep there victim silent is by killing them, and even these people that do get caught most likely got away with 1 or few more of these crimes that we will never be able to link them to,these monsters should have there own facility to be locked in and spend the rest of there days, not including few year diff. stachatory rape offenders. but if you are attracted to small children you are mentally and physically the scariest predators to walk the earth, our children should be more important than these "peoples" freedom, our children cant even play in there front yards anymore without us wondering if theres some sick monster whatching and waiting for our kids,my kids are not even safe tucked in bed
SICK PEOPLE WHO KIDNAP AND/OR RAPE CHILDREN SHOULD BE CASTRATED AND PUT AWAY FOR LIFE AMONG THE GENERAL POPULATION WITH NP PRIVILDEGES. THOSE WHO KILL A CHOLD SHOULD GET DEATH PENALTY AND SWIFTY. MEANWHILE, THEY SHOULD ALSO BE CASTRATED AND PUT AWAY FOR LIFE AMONG THE GENERAL POPULATION WITH NP PRIVILDEGES. THEY WILL BE TORTURED BY OTHER INMATES AND LIKELY DIE BEFORE LEGAL EXECUTION TAKES PLACE.
The heinous freaks of nature do not deserve civil rights What about our obligation to protect our children ? The deserve the civil rights. There is nothing worse than a monster sick enough to prey on innocent little children.
Lock them away forever they cannot be rehabilitated !!!
DNA and other analysis takes some time...these detectives are doing a great job. The data being logged will be very useful in the future. Find the Anthony and Nathaniel Cook serial murders. It took 20 years but the team figured it out. The men who did this will live a tortuous life from here on out unless of course they will turn themselves in or maybe one of their family members will stand up and finally put an end to it before we all find them:)
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