Man holds on to hope for missing teen

Man holds on to hope for missing teen  25 December 2013 WSOCTV  Catherine Bilkey Rowan County, N.C.  Investigators believe that a missing Rowan County teenager is dead, according to court papers Eyewitness News obtained Tuesday, but the grim statement has not shaken one man's resolve. This Christmas, Brian Young is planning...

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Sheriff: Cadaver Dogs Alerted To Possible Human Remains In Erica Parsons Case

Sheriff: Cadaver Dogs Alerted To Possible Human Remains In Erica Parsons Case24 December 2013WFMY NewsROWAN COUNTY, N.C. There is new information in the search for missing Rowan County teenager Erica Parsons.Sheriff Kevin Auten told WBTV cadaver dogs indicated the possible presence of human remains on property owned by Erica's adoptive...

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N.C. farm searched in hunt for missing teen

N.C. farm searched in hunt for missing teen24 December 2013UPIPolice have searched a North Carolina farm belonging to a relative of a missing girl, court documents revealed this week.The search took place last month and was the second time authorities had looked over the farm in Rowan County belonging to the adoptive grandfather of Erica...

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Possible human remains found in Parsons case

Possible human remains found in Parsons case WCNC.com staff 24 December 2013 SALISBURY, N.C. -- There are new developments in the search for a missing Rowan County teenager. Cadaver dogs indicated the possible presence of human remains at the property of Erica Parsons' adoptive grandfather, the Salisbury Post reports. The paper says...

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Casey Parsons: "This is so crazy"

Casey Parsons: "This is so crazy" that cadaver dogs alerted possible human remains in Parsons caseDec 23, 2013 / Updated: Dec 25, 2013WBTV Brigida MackThe adoptive mother of missing teen Erica Parsons is reacting to news that a cadaver dog alerted to the possible presence of human remains while searching for clues in the case of missing...

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Why did it take police a week to find her?

Why did it take police a week to find her? Met were forced to apologise to Tia's family after FOUR searches failed to spot her body in grandmother's loft13 May 2013Daily MailChris Greenwood, Tom Kelly and Eleanor Harding Eighty police failed to find Tia’s body even though it lay only a few feet from her bedroom in her grandmother’s house. They...

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Craigslist victim’s son testifies about last time he saw father

Tim Kern Craigslist victim’s son testifies about last time he saw father Beacon Journal Ed Meyer 28 February 2013 Nicholas Kern last saw his father on a Saturday night, when Timothy Kern visited the home of his ex-wife in Plain Township to pick up an old television for an important trip he was about to make to southern Ohio. His father...

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Officers who missed Tia's body in grandmother's New Addington home will not face sack

Officers who missed Tia's body in grandmother's New Addington home will not face sackNovember 20, 2012Croydon Today TWO bungling police officers who failed to find Tia Sharp's body while they searched her grandmother's New Addington home will not face the sack, a Met source has revealed. The constable and "supervising" sergeant – part...

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Cadaver dogs might play role in 1990 murder case

Cadaver dogs might play role in 1990 murder caseJudge's ruling clears way for animals' handlers to testify October 5, 2012 Chicago TribuneClifford Ward, Special to the TribuneA Kane County judge ruled Thursday that prosecutors in a 1990 murder case could use testimony based on the use of dogs trained to find human remains, perhaps the first...

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Expert testifies that cadaver dog gave signals about toddler in D'Andre Lane's car, house

Expert testifies that cadaver dog gave signals about toddler in D'Andre Lane's car, house 4 October 2012 Detroit Free Press Staff Writers Tammy Stables Battaglia and Melanie Scott Dorsey A cadaver dog with what handlers call near-perfect accuracy passed 30 cars in an impound lot before alerting on a silver Mercury Grand Marquis driven...

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