Documents Detail Fla. Abduction Case (Jessica probably alive

[wakeme2008]

April 8, 2005
Documents Detail Fla. Abduction Case
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Filed at 9:02 a.m. ET

HOMOSASSA, Fla. (AP) -- A 9-year-old girl who was abducted from her bed and allegedly slain by a sex offender might have been alive when officers questioned residents at the mobile home where the suspect lived, according to court documents.

John Evander Couey, 46, who pleaded not guilty to murder Wednesday, had been staying off and on at the mobile home of his half sister, Dorothy Marie Dixon, about 150 yards from Jessica Lunsford's home.

``Couey's timeline of events after he kidnapped Jessica Lunsford leaves open the possibility she was alive and in the house at the time of the first and possibly the second interview,'' the document released Thursday said.

Citrus County sheriff's deputies stopped twice at the sister's mobile home while canvassing the girl's neighborhood after she was reported missing Feb. 24. At the first interview, shortly after Jessica was reported missing, the deputies spoke to Couey's niece and her boyfriend.

... more at AP

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Girl-Slain.html?pagewanted=print&position=


IMHO Couey relative had to have known and should go down.....

[RaleighNCDUer]

1. That's what it sounds like. n/t

[rodeodance]

2. I had not heard that he had said that she was alive at the time he

buried her. oh my--how said.


......Investigators say Couey took her from her bedroom on February 23.

A preliminary medical examiner's report last month said Jessica died from asphyxiation after being sexually assaulted.

Sources have told CNN that investigators are still trying to confirm the burial information and other statements Couey made to police, and are awaiting results of the full autopsy, expected in about a month.