IA-Evelyn Miller, 5, Charles City FOUND

[nvfc]

Evelyn was last seen at home around 6 a.m. on July 1, 2005. When she was last seen, Evelyn was wearing light blue flowered shorts and a light blue flowered shirt. She has a mark on the left side of her chest and a scar on her right knee. Evelyn's left bottom tooth is missing.


http://nvfc.us/content/view/387/55/

[lady-eowyn]

There is/was reportedly a press conference at 4...but so far nothing more about it. Discovered missing at 6am...just like Jessica :(

I hope we get more information soon.....I pray she is found safe

[nvfc]

There is/was reportedly a press conference at 4...but so far nothing more about it. Discovered missing at 6am...just like Jessica :(

I hope we get more information soon.....I pray she is found safe
I knew nothing about her til I posted her. Do you have any links, did she go missing from her home? Awful odd scenario, I get the feeling that last seen at six am is more like was noticed missing at six am. I hope I am wrong but school does not have to do with her being up early.

[lady-eowyn]

One article says she was last seen at 2am...

http://www.kwwl.com/Global/story.asp?S=3548240&nav=2IfubhVs

The other says 6am

http://www.whotv.com/Global/story.asp?S=3547524

But neither say anything about the circumstances :(

[kpass]

What a beautiful little girl...I hope & pray she's found.

[nvfc]

Thanks Lady-eowyn


Very little information and I am surprised there is not more on the news, but then again it seems normal. News sources that do not cover stories other than their meal ticket are really starting to tick me off.

There needs to be a full court press to find this little girl!


MAH

[LadyLuck]

Not a lot of information. Wonder why no Amber Alert?

[nvfc]

Not a lot of information. Wonder why no Amber Alert?
No vehicle, no amber. Thats why I say we need another system, many cases do not meet the criteria of an amber alert.

[stlouischili]

I was absolutely shocked that you had to have a vehicle involved to be eligible for an Amber alert.

Evelyn is lovely. I hope they find her. Have you e-mailed this to Nancy Grace's show? I bet she would put it on.

ETA: Never mind. I e-mailed myself. Hopefully, there is a chance it could help.
Also, maybe they will find Evelyn before Nancy Grace's next show.

[Kelly]

Amber Alerts are not just issued because a vehicle is involved. They are issued because it is known that a child is in danger. In other words, someone saw something. The laws pertaining the issuance of these alerts vary by state, so you need to look up the state law in IA to see how it reads.

Kelly

[grapevine]

Amber Alerts are not just issued because a vehicle is involved. They are issued because it is known that a child is in danger. In other words, someone saw something. The laws pertaining the issuance of these alerts vary by state, so you need to look up the state law in IA to see how it reads.

Kelly
I live in Iowa, this post is the first i've heard about this little girl.

[nvfc]

Many states do require a vehicle tag # as well as visually seeing an abduction. The problem is as Kelly pointed out that you have to check with individual states as it does vary between states.

I see this as a problem and it should be uniform between all fifty states.

See below for Iowa criteria.


The following criteria is utilized to determine if an Amber Alert should be issued for the state of Iowa:

1. Law enforcement confirms a child has been abducted.

2. The child is under the age of 18.

3. Law enforcement believes the circumstances surrounding the abduction indicate that the child is in danger of serious bodily harm or death.

4. There is enough descriptive information about the child, abductor, and/or suspect's vehicle to believe an immediate broadcast alert will help.

[Kelly]

Missing Child: Evelyn Miller, Charles City, IA

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http://www.kimt.com

Charles City Child Missing


Megan Strader
MASON CITY,Iowa(KIMT)
Friday, July 1, 2005


A day of searching still has no one with any guesses as to where Evelyn Miller could be.

There are mixed feelings as to how she ended up missing.

Evelyn's mother and her family are in shock over the disappearance of their little girl.

Noel Miller tells KIMT NewsChannel Three, " I came home and at 6:19 I got ready to go to bed and looked over on the sofa where the kids were sleeping and Evelyn wasn't there. And I ran into the bedroom to make sure she wasn't there and she wasn't there and she wasn't so I knocked on all my neighbors doors to help me look for her."

But they didn't find her. And her family just can't see her getting up and leaving in the middle of the night.

"She never does this, she never would have done this...she's missing."

But the Floyd County Sheriff's Office doesn't believe she *was*taken from her apartment.

Sheriff Rick Lynch tells KIMT NewsChannel Three, "At this time it's a search. We believe in the possibility that the child wandered off and we hope that's the case. That's why we have a search and rescue on the ground searching the area."

Regardless of the circumstances surrounding Evelyn's disappearance, her family just wants to be able to hold her again.

"She's a cute little girl I just want her home."

A home that is now the center of a Search and Rescue Mission.





http://www.kwwl.com

July 1, 2005 - Floyd County
Missing Girl

Searchers continues to look for a missing girl in Floyd County. Five-year-old Evelyn Millier was last seen at 2:00a.m. Friday morning at her home north of Charles City.

A statewide Amber Alert has not been issued. Searchers combed the fields and woods near Charles City looking for any trace of Evelyn Miller. But with every step, no luck.

Rick Lynch is the Floyd County Sheriff ans says, "Right now, we have no evidence. We haven't gotten anything in the woods, cricks....or bean fields."

The five year old was last seen in her second floor apartment after answering the door. Her father was asleep. Her mother, Noel, was at work. She discovered Evelyn was missing. "We ran along, checked the grove, checked everything...we knew she wasn't home. My door was open. We knew something bad happened."

The sheriff says no Amber Alert has been issued because it doesn't meet state regulations. There's no suspect and no suspect vehicle. For the family, it's been an anxious wait.

Linda Christie is Evelyn's grandmother and says, "It's very frustrating. Very. Each second goers by, it's just a little bit longer that she's missing."

"She's a smart little girl. Loves to read and she listens to directions very good. It's unusual, they should've had an Amber Alert a long time ago," Evelyn's mother says.

Iowa State Patrol has flown over the area using infra-red detectors, police dogs, and rescuers with ATV's have spread out, but so far, there's no trace of Evelyn.

Evelyn has dark blond hair, hazel eyes and she was last seen wearing a light blue T-shirt and blue shorts with no shoes. Anyone with information should call police.

[CaliKid]

The 2:00- 6:00 thing is strange. How does anyone know she answered the door at 2 a.m. What is it about letting kids sleep on the couch?

[lady-eowyn]

<snip>

Evelyn Celeste Miller was reported missing by her mother, Noel Miller, after she returned home to Quarry Road Apartments from her job at the Nora Springs Care Center at approximately 6:19 a.m.

Miller said she found the family cat in the hallway of the complex and the door to her apartment was ajar. Her fiance, Casey Frederiksen, and her two other children, Gabriel, 2, and Damian, 1, were in the apartment sleeping, but "there was no Evelyn."

Miller said the last people to see her daughter were two friends of Frederiksen who stopped by the apartment at around 2 a.m.


http://www.globegazette.com/articles/2005/07/02/local/doc42c610e5eb1ed400751267.txt



Well, if they were in Aruba these two people would have their butts in jail...I certainly hope they are checking them out. But what doesn't make sense is the fact that the two friends were the last to see Evelyn...where was the fiance? It seems that the fiance should have been the last to see her. I personally do not think this girl just walked out...this sounds like an abduction to me.


ETA...after reading several articles I am guess that maybe it was the two friends who were at the door when she answered it....

[lady-eowyn]

I just checked Floyd Co. for sex offenders...not that many there (compared to where I live anyway) but the majority of them are listed in Charles City:confused:

[mysteriew]

Finally a little bit of info. And it clears up the 2am sighting. Okay, last person to see someone is usually the first suspect right? They aren't saying much about the 2 friends, but I am guessing that since they were friends of the fiance Casey Frederiksen they were more than likely male? I wonder if the finance got up when they came to the apt? I wonder if she got up when they came to the door. Wonder how cooperative the fiance and the 2 friends are being?

[englishleigh]

Oh, no...not another mom's boyfriend/boyfriend's friend case......prayers for Evelyn!! She is precious.

[jblfelines]

Oh, no...not another mom's boyfriend/boyfriend's friend case......prayers for Evelyn!! She is precious.

I am thinking the same thing. Sounds like boyfriend problem again. I sure hope these people are checked out. Why were these friends visiting at 2am?????

[nvfc]

Definately bring in these two people in for questioning. It is the best lead and nothing has seemed right about this since the beginning.

[BldWhtRose]

May be nothing new , but new link, new site to keep up with
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8435641/

[mysteriew]

The mother of a missing 5-year-old Floyd girl claimed Saturday that the youngster had been abducted from her apartment.

"The door was open when I got home from work at 6:19 a.m.," said Noel Miller, 22. "I'm figuring they grabbed her and just walked out with her and didn't close the door behind them.

In a news release Saturday, Floyd County sheriff's officials made no mention of an abduction and related that the search involved a missing or lost child.

But Sheriff Rick Lynch said later in an interview: "This is a very troubling, very puzzling disappearance. We are not classifying it other than the fact that there's a child we can't find.

"We're interviewing everybody we possibly can."

Miller, a nursing assistant at the Nora Springs Care Center, said two men, whom she said she knows, had been to the apartment early Friday.

She said investigators for four hours questioned her fiance, Casey Fredericksen, 26, who lives in the apartment with her two other children. Miller said Fredericksen was asleep and heard nothing.

http://www.dmregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050703/NEWS08/507030328/1001/archive

[mysteriew]

As a massive search resumed on Saturday for 5-year-old Evelyn Miller, 10 investigators from the Department of Criminal Investigation were interviewing anyone connected with the small child, including those living in her apartment building, said Sheriff Rick Lynch.

"We need to rule everyone out," he said at noon Saturday. "Right now, we have no clue what happened to her."

Lynch said unless the girl was found through other means, the search would continue through the weekend.

"We aren't anywhere near considering an end to this search," he said Saturday morning.

http://www.wcfcourier.com/articles/2005/07/03/news/top_story/26454382c4fd393a86257033000ac30c.txt

[kahskye]

What am I missing here? Why is this precious child not making the headlines? I have been watching Fox, CNN and MSNBC waiting to hear about her and all I hear about is Shasta. Believe me, I'm overjoyed that Shasta has been found alive and continue to pray for Dylan. I've watched the Denny's waitress (horay for her!) tell her story for the 10th time, maybe one of these stations could break in for a brief moment about Evelyn and show her picture in case someone has seen her. This little girl, among others, desperately needs to be found.

[nvfc]

What am I missing here? Why is this precious child not making the headlines? I have been watching Fox, CNN and MSNBC waiting to hear about her and all I hear about is Shasta. Believe me, I'm overjoyed that Shasta has been found alive and continue to pray for Dylan. I've watched the Denny's waitress (horay for her!) tell her story for the 10th time, maybe one of these stations could break in for a brief moment about Evelyn and show her picture in case someone has seen her. This little girl, among others, desperately needs to be found. I was surprised, I did actually catch a brief coverage of her, nothing really and I do not know which network, I think MSNBC.

I am shocked too, but then I am not. It is so hard to get the news to pay attention.
I have tried with other kids in local small markets that really have very little substance on their nightly news.

An example. The lead story for the nightly news was about litter close to the courthouse in the downtown. They were like, "stay tuned to see how channel five on your side got results!"

I was pinned to me seat!!!!! HMMM What could they have done? Possibly call a garbage truck.

This is a small time station that did not have time to cover a missing girl in their own backyard.

Garbage a leading story! Go figure.

[CaliKid]

Sadly, I can think of several things, two relating to missing people- Natalee Holloway and Shasta (and Dylan) Groene. The third is the retirement of SCJ O'Connor.

There have been a high number of missing and murdered children this year by sexual predators- Jessica Lunsford, the other girl in Florida (sorry, I can't remember her name) and Jetsetta Gage. It boggles the mind how fast and furious this keeps happening, and little Matal's death discovered yesterday. I mean no disrespect to any child or his/her family, but it's mind-numbing.

[nvfc]

Sarah Lunde

Yes Matel's case is a very sad one. These events do grip and some more than others. I hope they do not have a numbing affect on people.

[nvfc]

I was surprised, I did actually catch a brief coverage of her, nothing really and I do not know which network, I think MSNBC.

I am shocked too, but then I am not. It is so hard to get the news to pay attention.
I have tried with other kids in local small markets that really have very little substance on their nightly news.

An example. The lead story for the nightly news was about litter close to the courthouse in the downtown. They were like, "stay tuned to see how channel five on your side got results!"

I was pinned to me seat!!!!! HMMM What could they have done? Possibly call a garbage truck.

This is a small time station that did not have time to cover a missing girl in their own backyard.

Garbage a leading story! Go figure.

Edited

[mysteriew]

What will it take to get them on the news? Lots of individuals writing, calling and emailing the stations to request that they start including more of this info in their news programs. They broadcast what they think will appeal to the greatest number of people. And they broadcast a variety in order to get the ratings they need. Therefore, it will take a public demand to get them to broadcast more about missing people.
I sent an email to my local news programs asking that when they need a human interest story, that maybe they could highlight one of the missing in my area. I included links to DOE and a couple of other websites. They didn't respond of course, but maybe they will think of my email the next time they need a "filler".

[CaliKid]

Sarah Lunde

Yes Matel's case is a very sad one. These events do grip and some more than others. I hope they do not have a numbing affect on people.
Thank you- Sarah Lunde.

[mysteriew]

Authorities in Floyd County on Sunday asked for more volunteers as they widened the search for a 5-year-old girl who disappeared three days ago while her mother was at work.

Nearly 400 law enforcement officials and volunteers, including two consultants from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children in Alexandria, Va., were in Floyd on Sunday to look for Evelyn Miller.

Noel Miller told police that when she left for work her daughter was asleep in a room with two other children, ages 1 and 2, in an apartment they share with her fiance. Authorities on Sunday said the fiance, Casey Fredericksen , 26, passed a lie-detector test after he was questioned for about four hours.

As of late Sunday, authorities had not classified the disappearance as an abduction, but the girl's mother has said she feared the 5-year-old was kidnapped.

She told The Des Moines Register that two male acquaintances had been at the apartment early Friday morning. She did not identify the men. No arrests have been made, and Miller could not be reached for comment Sunday.

"That's just speculation on the part of a mother who is desperate to find her daughter," family spokesperson Brandi Hoffmann said.

http://desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050704/NEWS08/507040346/1001

[Beyond Belief]

Praying for her safe return.

[lady-eowyn]

I can't believe we are not hearing more about this little girl :(

[dr dona]

I can't believe we are not hearing more about this little girl authorities resumed the search at 7::(
Authorities were to resume the search this AM at 7:30 but the weather at least in Southern Iowa stinks. Searchers have been out on ATV's and on horseback but have found anything yet. Divers have searched a nearby Quarry. Boats and kayaks have trolled the Cedar River. Two consultants have come from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
The Floyd County authorities did contact officials in Des Moines once the child was missing but did not issue an Amber Alert because there is no known suspect or vehicle involved. The last child abducted from her home was taken by a family friend who had visited at her aunt and uncle's house the eveninmg before. I can't remember her name but the abduction took place in Southeastern Iowa around 6-8 years ago. I'd be checking those friends out.
I'm a pediatrician in Iowa and these crimes against children are making me lnuts.
I've spent my entire life devoted to children-kid's are loving , trusting , and terrific. We need to protect them!:innocent:

[englishleigh]

Authorities were to resume the search this AM at 7:30 but the weather at least in Southern Iowa stinks. Searchers have been out on ATV's and on horseback but have found anything yet. Divers have searched a nearby Quarry. Boats and kayaks have trolled the Cedar River. Two consultants have come from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
The Floyd County authorities did contact officials in Des Moines once the child was missing but did not issue an Amber Alert because there is no known suspect or vehicle involved. The last child abducted from her home was taken by a family friend who had visited at her aunt and uncle's house the eveninmg before. I can't remember her name but the abduction took place in Southeastern Iowa around 6-8 years ago. I'd be checking those friends out.
I'm a pediatrician in Iowa and these crimes against children are making me lnuts.
I've spent my entire life devoted to children-kid's are loving , trusting , and terrific. We need to protect them!:innocent:

Thank you so much for the update. Evelyn has been in my prayers and will continue to be. All children are so precious and Evelyn is just adorable!!

[mysteriew]

Authorities were to resume the search this AM at 7:30 but the weather at least in Southern Iowa stinks. Searchers have been out on ATV's and on horseback but have found anything yet. Divers have searched a nearby Quarry. Boats and kayaks have trolled the Cedar River. Two consultants have come from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
The Floyd County authorities did contact officials in Des Moines once the child was missing but did not issue an Amber Alert because there is no known suspect or vehicle involved. The last child abducted from her home was taken by a family friend who had visited at her aunt and uncle's house the eveninmg before. I can't remember her name but the abduction took place in Southeastern Iowa around 6-8 years ago. I'd be checking those friends out.
I'm a pediatrician in Iowa and these crimes against children are making me lnuts.
I've spent my entire life devoted to children-kid's are loving , trusting , and terrific. We need to protect them!:innocent:

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a255/mysteriew/proud/welgroup.gif

I hope you stick around, you sound like you will fit right in with the rest of us.

[Sheromom]

Am I the only person here who thinks it is odd to be having visitors arrive at 2:00 am? Maybe there is not more coverage because they have a good idea of who did this and need to keep it quiet until they have enough to arrest them. It did say their focus was around the home. Grrrrrrrr..................!

[mysteriew]

Am I the only person here who thinks it is odd to be having visitors arrive at 2:00 am? Maybe there is not more coverage because they have a good idea of who did this and need to keep it quiet until they have enough to arrest them. It did say their focus was around the home. Grrrrrrrr..................!

Well they did interview the boyfriend for quite a while I guess, but then he passed the lie detector. Mom was talking about the 2 guys who were there in one of the articles, but then a family friend said something to the effect of you have to remember that this is coming from a distraught mother whose child is missing. I wondered if maybe LE hadn't warned her not to discuss the two men.

[nvfc]

Am I the only person here who thinks it is odd to be having visitors arrive at 2:00 am? Maybe there is not more coverage because they have a good idea of who did this and need to keep it quiet until they have enough to arrest them. It did say their focus was around the home. Grrrrrrrr..................!
No I also find it odd and have since the beginning.

Please visit our site and e-mail her information to anyone anywhere.

http://nvfc.us/content/view/387/55/

[fourboys]

New Details Merge in Missing Girl Case

Anthony Welsch
KIMT - NewsChannel 3
Monday, July 4, 2005

Police have been searching with hundreds of volunteers ever since in hopes of bringing her home. They say they have no idea what happened to the little that night. This morning, they were back in the fields and ditches.

But today there may have been a break in the case. As those volunteers combed the corn fields with no clue in sight--- Police searched an apartment in Charles City that may contain answers as to what exactly happened to little Evelyn Miller.

As it seems with everything, there's two sides to this search story...

Rick Lynch, the Floyd County Sheriff tells KIMT Newschannel 3, "There's 2 operations going on right now. One is the search and rescue part of it. The other is the law enforcement side of it."

And while the search and rescue side doesn't appear to be going anywhere...

"We've already done a five mile radius and now they're pushing out and going farther from that area," Lynch said.

Police may have a lead in the law enforcement side of it.

"We have executed a search warrant at 311 1/2 9th Avenue here in Charles City as part of our investigation," Lynch said.

Police were have been at this home since about 10-o-clock last night.

While they've remained pretty tight lipped about what they've found... any clues could lead to the big break they're looking for.

"We're hoping through the investigation that a little bit here, a little bit there is gonna get the agents in the right direction, he said."

Police don't have anyone in custody yet. They won't say what it is they're looking for inside the home, or how much longer police will search for the girl.

"Right now we're not discussing when are we gonna scale down, when are we gonna call it off, he said"

In fact, the search will continue tomorrow morning. Officials are still looking for volunteers to meet at the Floyd Community Center around 7:30AM. If you want to help you have to be 18 and have identification with you.

http://www.kimt.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=KIMT/MGArticle/IMT_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1031783649313&path=

[Mygirlsadie]

Am I the only person here who thinks it is odd to be having visitors arrive at 2:00 am? Maybe there is not more coverage because they have a good idea of who did this and need to keep it quiet until they have enough to arrest them. It did say their focus was around the home. Grrrrrrrr..................!
Yes Shero it is kind of odd esp. since there is 3 small children. Kids need to be put to bed in their safe warm bed with the front doors locked and no riff raff coming through at 2am to see them sleeping on the couch. I know quite a few who just let their kids sleep where ever they fall. And honestly like what would anyone need to be coming over at 2am for anyway? Again if it wouldnt be for websleuths I would of never even heard about this missing girl. I havent seen anything on the news yet. God Bless her I hope she is found safe and soon poor baby

[mysteriew]

So who's home is it that they are searching? Who lives at that address?

[emma l]

It is the home of the 2 early morning visitors. Just found this. I hope to goodness they have not done anything to her. What is WRONG with people???? :furious:

http://www.globegazette.com/articles/2005/07/05/local/doc42ca1b7f13cc1783406098.txt

FLOYD — As the search continued Monday for 5-year-old Evelyn Miller of rural Floyd, the criminal investigation into the case appeared to be heating up.

Authorities executed a search warrant at 311½ 9th Ave. in Charles City Monday afternoon.

Floyd County Sheriff Rick Lynch said three people live at that residence — Randy Patrie, Dan Slick and Marge Maser.Lynch said Patrie and Slick were apparently the last people to see Evelyn just a few hours before her mother, Noel Miller, discovered she was missing early Friday morning.

The two men are friends of Miller's fiance, Casey Frederiksen, according to Lynch, and said they saw Evelyn asleep on a love seat in the family's apartment when they stopped by to visit Frederiksen at 2 or 2:30 a.m. Friday.

Both men have been interviewed by law enforcement officials. Neither had been taken into custody as of late Monday evening.

The Associated Press reported Sunday that authorities said Frederiksen, 26, passed a lie-detector test after he was questioned for about four hours.

Lynch wouldn't say what the search warrant for the Charles City residence was for or what was found, although investigators could be seen removing several brown bags and a plastic garbage bag of items from the home.

"That's just part of our investigation," Lynch said.

A car also was searched at the Floyd County Courthouse on Monday as part of the investigation, Lynch said. However, he declined to give details about the owner of the vehicle, where it came from or what was found.

Evelyn was not in her family's apartment about two miles south of Floyd on Quarry Road (county road T44) when her mother returned home from her job at the Nora Springs Care Center at about 6:20 a.m. Friday.

Frederiksen has stated he and Miller's two other children, Gabriel, 2, and Damian, 1, were asleep in the apartment when Miller returned home and discovered her daughter was missing.

More than 200 volunteers continued to search for the girl on Monday.

The search has expanded from the 5-mile radius previously established around the apartment complex.

"They are pushing out farther and farther," Lynch said.

Foot patrol, ATVs, horses, kayaks and boats were used again to search ditches, bridges, waterways and fields.

Lynch said the number of searchers was down from the more than 300 people who combed the area Sunday, possibly due to the Fourth of July holiday and fatigue.

"I think people are getting tired," Lynch said.

The last search team for the day went out at 2 p.m. Monday. Lynch said the search would resume at 7:30 a.m. today.

Volunteers who want to join the search are asked to come to the Floyd Community Center. They must be at least 18 years old, have photo identification and wear a brightly colored shirt.

Lynch didn't know how long the search would continue.

"It's really not something you can plan," he said. "It's minute by minute."

But he said the search would continue today even if only 50 volunteers show up.

The FBI, the Iowa Department of Criminal Investigation and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children are assisting with the case, Lynch said.

Candy Peck of Charles City, a friend of the Miller family, said her daughter used to babysit Evelyn.

The little girl was swinging in Peck's hammock swing the evening before she became missing.

"I can't imagine what she (Noel) is going through," Peck said.

Anyone who has any information about the case should contact the Floyd County Sheriff's Department at (641) 228-1821.

Lynch said people should be sure they have specific information before they call because resources are limited and each tip can take half an hour to an hour to verify.

[lady-eowyn]

No Shero...you are not the only one who finds that strange...unless they have a partying/druggie lifestyle I would find it highly unusual.

But I want to know who made the police aware that they were the last ones to see her? Did they volunteer this info? If they did something to the girl and then volunteered that they were at the apartment at 2 it's pretty stupid IMO (but I like stupid criminals...they make the LE job easier) I can't help but wonder if both of them came to the door at 2 (for what ever reason...) and the girl answered the door telling them that stepfather is asleep. The two leave and one of them come back later and takes the girl. Then when she is reported missing the other one tells police that they were there not knowing that the second one had done anything.

[englishleigh]

Frederiksen has stated he and Miller's two other children, Gabriel, 2, and Damian, 1, were asleep in the apartment when Miller returned home and discovered her daughter was missing.

Is Frederikson also Evelyn's father?? Do we know he is not?

[mysteriew]

Frederiksen has stated he and Miller's two other children, Gabriel, 2, and Damian, 1, were asleep in the apartment when Miller returned home and discovered her daughter was missing.

Is Frederikson also Evelyn's father?? Do we know he is not?

Casey Fredericksen is the mother's fiance. Not Evlyn's father.

[nvfc]

I just checked with the Floyd county sheriff's office in Iowa and there is not any additional information to be reported.

For emailing Evelyn's information and photo.
http://nvfc.us/content/view/387/1

[ewwwinteresting]

Just found this thread...thank you for starting it!

My first thought when reading is it sounds like LE knows exactly what happened and his just trying to find the evidence to prove it. Why else would they don't side with caution and go with the media to get this girl's picture out? They are letting the search and rescue continue just in case they are wrong, but imo, I think they know exactly what happened. Poor girl. I am having such a hard time signing in at WS and reading all of this. Every time you turn around there is some rotten human being causing pain and horror to our children!!!

[nvfc]

Just found this thread...thank you for starting it!

My first thought when reading is it sounds like LE knows exactly what happened and his just trying to find the evidence to prove it. Why else would they don't side with caution and go with the media to get this girl's picture out? They are letting the search and rescue continue just in case they are wrong, but imo, I think they know exactly what happened. Poor girl. I am having such a hard time signing in at WS and reading all of this. Every time you turn around there is some rotten human being causing pain and horror to our children!!!

I disagree. I have contacted the Sheriff's office and found them to be very straightforward. Basically everything out there is all there is. Cases are hard to get picked up by local news let alone national.

I pray that a safe outcome is instore for Elizabeth however that house that has been mentioed earlier is a crime scene, what that means we just do not know yet.

[fourboys]

News conference at 3 p.m. regarding disappearance of missing girl

Posted online: Tuesday, July 5, 2005

FLOYD — A news conference will be held at 3 this afternoon at the Floyd Community Center regarding the disappearance of 5-year-old Evelyn Miller in Floyd, according to the Floyd County Sheriff's Department.

Evelyn was reported missing last Friday from the Quarry Road Apartments near Floyd. An intense search has yielded no trace of the little girl.

Authorities executed a search warrant at 311½ 9th Ave. in Charles City Monday afternoon. Randy Patrie, Dan Slick and Marge Maser live at the residence. Patrie and Slick were believed to be the last people to see Evelyn alive.

Evelyn was reported missing at 6:20 a.m. Friday, when her mother, Noel Miller, returned home from her job at the Nora Springs Care Center. She said the apartment door was ajar and Evelyn was gone. Miller's fiancé, Casey Frederiksen, was asleep in the apartment with Miller's two children. He has said did not know Patrie and Slick had been at the apartment, located two mile south of Floyd on Quarry Road.

Hundreds of volunteers combed area fields throughout the holiday weekend, utilizing ground, water and air searches.

Family members have maintained throughout the weekend that Evelyn was abducted and would not have left the apartment building on her own.

http://www.globegazette.com/articles/2005/07/05/latest_news/doc42cada6120c36035924381.txt

[nvfc]

News conference at 3 p.m. regarding disappearance of missing girl

Posted online: Tuesday, July 5, 2005





Patrie and Slick were believed to be the last people to see Evelyn alive.





http://www.globegazette.com/articles/2005/07/05/latest_news/doc42cada6120c36035924381.txt


I do not like how that sentence reads with the last word.

[CaliKid]

No Shero...you are not the only one who finds that strange...unless they have a partying/druggie lifestyle I would find it highly unusual.

But I want to know who made the police aware that they were the last ones to see her? Did they volunteer this info? If they did something to the girl and then volunteered that they were at the apartment at 2 it's pretty stupid IMO (but I like stupid criminals...they make the LE job easier) I can't help but wonder if both of them came to the door at 2 (for what ever reason...) and the girl answered the door telling them that stepfather is asleep. The two leave and one of them come back later and takes the girl. Then when she is reported missing the other one tells police that they were there not knowing that the second one had done anything.
It's my understanding that the two men stopped by at 2 a.m. to visit the mother's fiance. Fiance later passed a polygraph, but I'd bet he was the one who mentioned the two friends.

[KatherineQ]

Little Evelyn Miller joins the ranks of other little preschoolers who no one is watching after - Dannariah Finley, Tamra Keepness, the little girl whose DNA was found on that Lindsay guy family friend . . .and on and on and on. Children who people last see at 2 a.m. wearing street clothes. Sleeping with siblings on couches, and no one really notices exactly when they slip out and away forever.

How many of these poor dear souls are there, who no one is watching at all, who put themselves to "bed", where their bed is a couch or a floor or who knows what, and then they disappear with one of the many visitors who come and go in the night?

Prayers for Evelyn. Prayers for Dannariah, prayers for Tamra, prayers for all the other babies no one really notices until it's too late.

[ewwwinteresting]

I disagree. I have contacted the Sheriff's office and found them to be very straightforward. Basically everything out there is all there is. Cases are hard to get picked up by local news let alone national.

I pray that a safe outcome is instore for Elizabeth however that house that has been mentioed earlier is a crime scene, what that means we just do not know yet.
Just out of curiosity....if the Sheriff's office called a news conference regarding this case, no media would show up? I always thought that in the majority of cases, no media because LE is tightlipped about the case for various reasons.

[lady-eowyn]

It's my understanding that the two men stopped by at 2 a.m. to visit the mother's fiance. Fiance later passed a polygraph, but I'd bet he was the one who mentioned the two friends. That's the most logical scenario for telling us that 2 visitors stopped by...BUT...look at it this way. Speculation = Two visitors stop by, Evelyn answers the door. The fiance gets up, chats with the visitors (or does other stuff, drugs, drinks..whatever) then the visitors leave, the fiance closes the door and goes back to bed. Then wouldn't the fiance be the last one to see her?? I don't see how anyone could witness the friends as being the last ones to see the girl unless they saw her too. Especially if they lived in the same house. I mean I can't imagine the fiance going back to bed and leaving the friends in the living room with the children at 2 am:waitasec: But stranger things have happened.

[emma l]

I was thinking about this as well. Im guessing he went back to bed and left her with them. Otherwise theres no way he could possibly know is there? I guess not everyone is as paranoid about stuff like that as me................

[Usher737]

Little Evelyn Miller joins the ranks of other little preschoolers who no one is watching after - Dannariah Finley, Tamra Keepness, the little girl whose DNA was found on that Lindsay guy family friend . . .and on and on and on. Children who people last see at 2 a.m. wearing street clothes. Sleeping with siblings on couches, and no one really notices exactly when they slip out and away forever.

How many of these poor dear souls are there, who no one is watching at all, who put themselves to "bed", where their bed is a couch or a floor or who knows what, and then they disappear with one of the many visitors who come and go in the night?

Prayers for Evelyn. Prayers for Dannariah, prayers for Tamra, prayers for all the other babies no one really notices until it's too late.

I was thinking the exact same thing! How sad this is. Why can't parents be more responsible and truly take care of their kids. Mothers need to choose their boyfriends carefully and help teach them parenting skills. Strange men should not be staying in a home with kids or be visiting at 2am!

This case reminds me so much of poor Emily Rimel. That was the last one described above.

[nvfc]

Just out of curiosity....if the Sheriff's office called a news conference regarding this case, no media would show up? I always thought that in the majority of cases, no media because LE is tightlipped about the case for various reasons.

I am not sure why this is being held close to the vest, my impression was that there was little more information than was given out.

I am in contact with several LE agencies across the country and I found the sheriff's office in Evelyn's case very professional and courteous over the phone. Sometimes you can call these le agencies and they have no idea as to the person or case that is in their own backyard and this is in small communities.

I have a feeling they suspect foul play but need to investigate the contents of items seized.

I hope Evelyn is safe and echo what KatherineQ stated.

[kahskye]

I just don't get it, the military has now been called in to search for Natalee Holloway, yet this poor precious child has yet to make headline news. Am I missing something? I would think the mother would be begging to be on the news to plead for the return of her daughter.

[nvfc]

I just don't get it, the military has now been called in to search for Natalee Holloway, yet this poor precious child has yet to make headline news. Am I missing something? I would think the mother would be begging to be on the news to plead for the return of her daughter.

Not everyone gets the microphone! It is very unfair. Someone needs to speak out for Evelyn!


Thanks LE for the update below, I am responding above instead of another post.

[lady-eowyn]

Someone asked earlier about Evelyn's father...his name is Andie Christie. He was at a press conf. with her mother Noel.

<snip>

Noel Miller joined Evelyn's father, Andy Christie, at a news conference Tuesday afternoon, addressing both the community and their daughter.

Representatives of agencies involved in the search joined the family, providing updates at the 3 p.m. conference.

"We come to you as a family consumed by grief," said Noel Miller.

"Our family is feeling some strain after a long weekend without her," she said.

"But for Evelyn and for the community that has worked so hard to find her, we have to remain strong."

Addressing a request to describe her daughter, Noel Miller said, "She is a beautiful, happy little girl with a big, bright smile.

"She has two sets of parents who love her very much," said Noel Miller. "She loves Barbie dolls, ‘My Little Pony' and to play dress-up. She is very smart in school and has been looking forward to starting first grade."

http://www.globegazette.com/articles/2005/07/06/local/doc42cb5818077b1564614479.txt

Oh my heart breaks for them....and for this little girl. I hope and pray she is found...

[englishleigh]

Someone asked earlier about Evelyn's father...his name is Andie Christie. He was at a press conf. with her mother Noel.



Thanks, L-E....It was me. I was wondering if the boyfriend was the children's bio father...one news report read as though he was. It certainly sounds as though Evelyn is very loved and missed...still praying hard for her safe return. She is precious.

[Wayne]

I just don't get it, the military has now been called in to search for Natalee Holloway, yet this poor precious child has yet to make headline news. Am I missing something? I would think the mother would be begging to be on the news to plead for the return of her daughter.
I would think the child's mother and father (both) would be begging to be on the news to plead for the return of her daughter. Yet, we hear very little today.

IMO, the media acts in peculiar ways with respect to a missing child.

And YES - someone needs to speak up for the child.

[lady-eowyn]

I would think the child's mother and father (both) would be begging to be on the news to plead for the return of her daughter. Yet, we hear very little today.

IMO, the media acts in peculiar ways with respect to a missing child.

And YES - someone needs to speak up for the child. The mother and father can beg only if the media will listen

[magnum]

Evelyn should also have news coverage. Not much at all on this little girl here.

[nvfc]

I am glad to see this outrage here by members for Evelyn. Since the moment I received this information I posted her here as well as on the NVFC site and she remains on our front page.

I just received informaion on another little girl but does not have the same tragic of Evelyn. Her name is Paris Gambino and she is missing also. Please see new thread started for Paris.

[nvfc]

There is a new photo out of Evelyn. This little girl is oh so adorable.

Please e-mail her photo out to all national news media. Lets get this girl the coverage she needs.

To e-mail just click on the envelope on right and fill out information to e-mail to anyone.

http://nvfc.us/content/view/387/34/

[Beyond Belief]

have they made everyone take lie detector tests including the father?
Is this a house or apartment? Did they recently move? Did this child go after the cat, which was out? Did the live in boyfriend get up and talk to these friends? Were there any absconded child molesters loose, who disappeared in rented cars? Who are they? Why can't i find a child molester list for that area?

[nvfc]

Why can't i find a child molester list for that area?

There are 14 SO in her area. Here is a list.

http://heh.pl/&na

[CaliKid]

Little Evelyn Miller joins the ranks of other little preschoolers who no one is watching after - Dannariah Finley, Tamra Keepness, the little girl whose DNA was found on that Lindsay guy family friend . . .and on and on and on. Children who people last see at 2 a.m. wearing street clothes. Sleeping with siblings on couches, and no one really notices exactly when they slip out and away forever.

How many of these poor dear souls are there, who no one is watching at all, who put themselves to "bed", where their bed is a couch or a floor or who knows what, and then they disappear with one of the many visitors who come and go in the night?

Prayers for Evelyn. Prayers for Dannariah, prayers for Tamra, prayers for all the other babies no one really notices until it's too late.
1. Kids sleeping on the couch.
2. Boyfriend who is not biological father of child.
3. Usually early morning hours are the last time the child was seen.
4. And unfortunately, they almost all end the same two ways- either the child is never seen again or turns up dead.

I hope that is not Evelyn's fate.

[altruist1000]

Nancy Grace Show on Headline Prime is covering Evelyn Miller by her substitute.

[Beyond Belief]

Two offenders in town w/children under 13

Four others in surrounding area.

List does not contain offenders if they were under the age of 20 when they commited the offense.

If they have come up with nothing with the two guys known to have stopped there, they need to be checking whoever is out walking around at all hours of the night in the neighborhood. Usually teenage boys who hang at a "friends" house to the wee hours of the morning. That door must have been left unlocked after the visitors were there.

And every home should be opened up for a search including closets!

[englishleigh]

OMG, this is a beautiful child. I just saw the coverage of Evelyn on Nancy Grace. Evelyn is just a little angel. God, please, bring her home safely!! :(

[Beyond Belief]

OMG, this is a beautiful child. I just saw the coverage of Evelyn on Nancy Grace. Evelyn is just a little angel. God, please, bring her home safely!! :(
Did she have any information to offer? I didn't get to see it?

[englishleigh]

Did she have any information to offer? I didn't get to see it?

There is no new info at all...they have no leads. I saw an interview with an aunt and a clip of her biological dad speaking...he was in anguish.

[Beyond Belief]

I believe that sexual offenders tend to take weekend trips, especially over busy holiday weekends because it is not likely that someone will be checking up on their whereabouts during those busy times. I would check the bus stations and see if any molesters names where on the lists. Also checking molesters alibi"s at least three hours driving distance. I don't think thats what this is, but it doesn't hurt to check.

[Beyond Belief]

There is no new info at all...they have no leads. I saw an interview with an aunt and a clip of her biological dad speaking...he was in anguish.
Is this a father who participates in Evelyn's life? That poor man doesn't know how awful this is going to get.

[englishleigh]

Is this a father who participates in Evelyn's life? That poor man doesn't know how awful this is going to get.


Yes....apparently she is close to both of her parents...it doesn't sound like the mom was ever married to him, but he is married now...it sounds like she is close to him and his wife and also to her mom and the mom's fiance.

[Beyond Belief]

Yes....apparently she is close to both of her parents...it doesn't sound like the mom was ever married to him, but he is married now...it sounds like she is close to him and his wife and also to her mom and the mom's fiance.
That little town only has about 7-8,000 people. It just seems like it had to be someone that was living close or someone who had a visitor for the holiday weekend, living close to her home. I wonder if any neighbors had a sexual offender from out of the area visiting them for the weekend.

She is a very beautiful child. I hope they keep looking especially close by.

[nvfc]

So this house that they confiscated evidence did not render any clues?

To me I think they need to focus on the immeadiate area and go over things and take another look at those that may have passed a polygraph. Someone knows something IMO.

[CaliKid]

So have the two friends who dropped by the apartment been cleared?

[Beyond Belief]

So this house that they confiscated evidence did not render any clues?

To me I think they need to focus on the immeadiate area and go over things and take another look at those that may have passed a polygraph. Someone knows something IMO.
Agree. I think its right under their noses.

[lady-eowyn]

have they made everyone take lie detector tests including the father?
Is this a house or apartment? Did they recently move? Did this child go after the cat, which was out? Did the live in boyfriend get up and talk to these friends? Were there any absconded child molesters loose, who disappeared in rented cars? Who are they? Why can't i find a child molester list for that area?
I believe it was an apartment because the mother said when she came home the door was open and the cat was in the hallway...that says apartment to me

[TisHerself]

I agree it is right under their noses. If the step father was asleep and Evelyn was missing, how does the mother know she opened the door for them or that they were even there? I believe the step father kind of hard for him to make her disappear obviously their was no evidence in apartment and he had 2 babies to take care off.

If those 2 guys where in that apartment at 2 willing to bet the mother is the only one who knew it. She sure blamed them fast enough don't believe the hurt Evelyn though. JMHO

[lady-eowyn]

So have the two friends who dropped by the apartment been cleared?
I'm not sure if they have...but I believe they search their apartment

[Beyond Belief]

I read some information on the town. 2001 and 2002 no murders. 2001 1 rape 2002 none. Just some burglaries. But meth problems..however. Just a nice little town you past through going somewhere else.

[kahskye]

I would think the child's mother and father (both) would be begging to be on the news to plead for the return of her daughter. Yet, we hear very little today.

IMO, the media acts in peculiar ways with respect to a missing child.

And YES - someone needs to speak up for the child.
Sorry, I should'nt have just mentioned the mother w/o first seeing if her biological father was involved in her life. From what I've read, she has alot of family who miss her dearly. I can't imagine the anguish they are going through right now. She's a beautiful little girl and I hope and pray this has a happy ending.

[englishleigh]

Sorry, I should'nt have just mentioned the mother w/o first seeing if her biological father was involved in her life. From what I've read, she has alot of family who miss her dearly. I can't imagine the anguish they are going through right now. She's a beautiful little girl and I hope and pray this has a happy ending.


The dad was on Nancy Grace pleading for her return tonight, or at least a clip of him.

[lady-eowyn]

A criminal investigation into the child's disappearance is also under way.Authorities are tight-lipped about whether they have found anything in their criminal investigation.A house in Charles City was searched. Authorities said Noel Miller's fiancé passed a lie-detector test.No arrests have been made and no suspects have been named.Law enforcement officials have not ruled the possibility that Evelyn may have been abducted and taken out of Floyd County or out of the state.
http://www.theiowachannel.com/news/4691289/detail.html (http://www.theiowachannel.com/news/4691289/detail.html)

[KatherineQ]

Was Nancy Grace any clearer on the details?

The details I've read have been SO FUZZY.

The two men, did they come and go, and the fiance then went back to sleep while Evelyn continued to sleep on the couch?

Or did they come in and then the fiance went back to sleep while the two were still there?

It seems too late to do a fingerprint check on the doorknob, and rule out the known visitors.

[lady-eowyn]

Miller said her daughter loves Barbie dolls and playing dress-up."She's a beautiful, happy little girl, with a big, bright smile," Noel Miller said. "She's 5 years old, who giggles a lot. She's a wonderful big sister to her three little brothers. She has two sets of parents who love her very, very much."

:(

http://www.theomahachannel.com/news/4686200/detail.html

Prayers for Evelyn :blowkiss:

[KatherineQ]

This is helpful.

The two people who came to the apartment weren't "friends", but rather "acquaintances".

There. Clear as mud. That explains that.

http://www.kimt.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=KIMT/MGArticle/IMT_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1031783690316&path=


Prayers for that little girl. It's truly none of my business who those people were, and why they were there, and exactly how often predawn visitors come to that house, and why, but I can't stop being curious.

[KrazyKollector]

I just heard on Fox that she was found in the river. Trying to find confirmation, but I just caught the end of the report. :( :( :(


Anyone else hear anything?

[Kelly]

http://www.globegazette.com

Posted online: Thursday, July 7, 2005 12:47 AM CDT

Evelyn Miller's body found in Cedar River; grandfather says she was murdered
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, Bob Link and Deb Nicklay, Of The Globe Gazette




FLOYD (AP) - After six days of searching in hopes that Evelyn Miller would be found alive, the grandfather of the 5-year-old said her body was discovered in the Cedar River.

Richard Christie, of Des Moines, told KWWL-TV in Waterloo and The Gazette in Cedar Rapids that he learned about 10:30 p.m. Wednesday that his granddaughter's body had been found.

"She was murdered and her body was put in the river," Christie told The Gazette. "She was not drowned."

He said he was told that one person was being held in custody.

In Floyd County, authorities declined to release information regarding the case, but scheduled a news conference for 8 a.m. today.

Family members of Evelyn, who has been missing since Friday morning, were seen leaving the Floyd County Courthouse about 10:50 p.m. Wednesday. They left in a white van and did not speak to the media, according to a Globe Gazette reporter on the scene.

Bill Basler, Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation agent in charge; Scott Brown, assistant attorney general for Iowa; and Floyd County Attorney Marilyn Dettmer also left the courthouse without comment.

News crews from throughout Iowa were on the scene at the courthouse.

The news conference will be in the third-floor courtroom of the courthouse.

Visit the Globe Gazette Web site, www.globe-gazette.com, for the latest developments in the case.

Earlier Wednesday, Evelyn's parents walked up and down the rows of tables at the Floyd Community Center, thanking volunteers who had been searching for their daughter.

Noel Miller and Andy Christie shook hands, hugged and talked to the people who had been out in the hot July sun looking for their Evelyn.

Many of the people wiped tears after talking to the parents of the little girl.

Evelyn Celeste Miller reportedly was last seen at about 2 a.m. Friday in the living room of her mother's apartment, Floyd County Sheriff Rick Lynch said.

When Noel Miller returned from work at 6:20 a.m., Evelyn's siblings, Gabriel, 2, and Damian, 1, and Miller's fiance, Casey Frederiksen, were sleeping, but Evelyn was missing.

Richard Eisenmenger of Charles City helped in the search all six days. He was one of the people Christie shook hands with Wednesday afternoon.

He said little, but looked the father in the eye and nodded.

John Podgorniak of Northwood was taking a break when the parents entered the community center.

Podgorniak had been out with a morning crew, spending four hours while covering a two-mile area. He planned to go out with a second crew later in the day.

"Most of the area was thick," he said. "Really tall grass. The rest was knee and waist high."

Little news came out of a mid-afternoon news conference.

[Bobbisangel]

No vehicle, no amber. Thats why I say we need another system, many cases do not meet the criteria of an amber alert.


I don't understand why they have to have a vehicle description before they will put out an Amber alert. A person could take a child and change vehicles a mile down the road. They could at least get the kid's picture and description out there. People can be looking for the child even if the vehicle is unknown.

This reminds me of Riley Fox. Vanished into the night. It is unbelievable the number of children who have vanished from their own homes. I hope this little one is found safe.

[SewingDeb]

This is so sad. I was hoping someone was holding her somewhere.

[KrazyKollector]

http://www.globegazette.com (http://www.globegazette.com/)

Posted online: Thursday, July 7, 2005 12:47 AM CDT

Evelyn Miller's body found in Cedar River; grandfather says she was murdered
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, Bob Link and Deb Nicklay, Of The Globe Gazette




FLOYD (AP) - After six days of searching in hopes that Evelyn Miller would be found alive, the grandfather of the 5-year-old said her body was discovered in the Cedar River.

Richard Christie, of Des Moines, told KWWL-TV in Waterloo and The Gazette in Cedar Rapids that he learned about 10:30 p.m. Wednesday that his granddaughter's body had been found.

"She was murdered and her body was put in the river," Christie told The Gazette. "She was not drowned."

He said he was told that one person was being held in custody.

In Floyd County, authorities declined to release information regarding the case, but scheduled a news conference for 8 a.m. today.

Family members of Evelyn, who has been missing since Friday morning, were seen leaving the Floyd County Courthouse about 10:50 p.m. Wednesday. They left in a white van and did not speak to the media, according to a Globe Gazette reporter on the scene.

Bill Basler, Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation agent in charge; Scott Brown, assistant attorney general for Iowa; and Floyd County Attorney Marilyn Dettmer also left the courthouse without comment.

News crews from throughout Iowa were on the scene at the courthouse.

The news conference will be in the third-floor courtroom of the courthouse.

Visit the Globe Gazette Web site, www.globe-gazette.com (http://www.globe-gazette.com/), for the latest developments in the case.

Earlier Wednesday, Evelyn's parents walked up and down the rows of tables at the Floyd Community Center, thanking volunteers who had been searching for their daughter.

Noel Miller and Andy Christie shook hands, hugged and talked to the people who had been out in the hot July sun looking for their Evelyn.

Many of the people wiped tears after talking to the parents of the little girl.

Evelyn Celeste Miller reportedly was last seen at about 2 a.m. Friday in the living room of her mother's apartment, Floyd County Sheriff Rick Lynch said.

When Noel Miller returned from work at 6:20 a.m., Evelyn's siblings, Gabriel, 2, and Damian, 1, and Miller's fiance, Casey Frederiksen, were sleeping, but Evelyn was missing.

Richard Eisenmenger of Charles City helped in the search all six days. He was one of the people Christie shook hands with Wednesday afternoon.

He said little, but looked the father in the eye and nodded.

John Podgorniak of Northwood was taking a break when the parents entered the community center.

Podgorniak had been out with a morning crew, spending four hours while covering a two-mile area. He planned to go out with a second crew later in the day.

"Most of the area was thick," he said. "Really tall grass. The rest was knee and waist high."

Little news came out of a mid-afternoon news conference.
Thank you for finding that Kelly. My heart is just broken for that family. I hope they have the DP in Iowa. I am glad they have a suspect in custody and wonder if it's either of the two that were at the house at 2 a.m.

I was so hoping that I had heard wrong. :( :( :(

[Kelly]

I wish the grandpa was wrong, too. Such a beautiful child. May she rest in peace, safe in the arms of our Lord.

Kelly

[Amster]

So sad. I've been hoping against hope that she would be found alive. Bless her....

[Bobbisangel]

I just don't get it, the military has now been called in to search for Natalee Holloway, yet this poor precious child has yet to make headline news. Am I missing something? I would think the mother would be begging to be on the news to plead for the return of her daughter.


It seems to take the parents being very aggressive with the media to get the attention that they need to get the child's face and info out there. Remember Sharon Rocha and the media.....now Natalee's mom, Beth, even though she is being criticized for everything she does....several other parents.

From what I understand this town has a population of around 500. The parents would probably need to go to the nearest large city and hit the media there. Some parents just aren't the aggressive type or they don't know that there are things that they can do or get done themselves.

I heard the aunt, Brandee, talk today. Her brother is the father of all three kids. It also sounded to me like the 2 a.m. guys told the police that they were at the apt....the little girl answered the door when they knocked. It didn't sound like she woke up her mom's boyfriend who was sleeping in a bedroom.

It sounds to me like this is a one bedroom apt and that the kids sleep on a sleeper couch in the frontroom. Could be way off base there though. Just because kids end up asleep on the couch doesn't mean the parents are bad parents. It also doesn't mean that is why some kids end up missing. We are all aware of the many children who had been tucked into their own beds in their pj's in
their own rooms at bedtime and were gone in the morning. My guess would be that more children have gone missing from their own bedrooms than from a couch in a frontroom. My kids and grandkids always slept in PJ's but if a child falls asleep in their clothes it doesn't mean the parents are bad parents. Kids tend to grow and flourish without pj's every night even though we might think it is ucky.

It doesn't sound like this little girl wandered off somewhere. This case reminds me of the Riley Fox case. I hope they find out something soon. The parents must be going crazy with worry.

[Beyond Belief]

When will this end?


God help little Evelyn's family.

[Bobbisangel]

1. Kids sleeping on the couch.
2. Boyfriend who is not biological father of child.
3. Usually early morning hours are the last time the child was seen.
4. And unfortunately, they almost all end the same two ways- either the child is never seen again or turns up dead.

I hope that is not Evelyn's fate.


What about.....

1. Kids sleeping in their own beds in their own rooms....Elizabeth Smart, Polly
Klass, Jessie Lunsford, and many more. All older kids and more difficult to
handle.

2. Parent...parents or grandparents at home

3. Last seen after going to bed and house settling down for the night.

4. Never seen again and later found dead with the exception of Elizabeth
Smart.

[magnum]

I have kept hope since day one including Evelyn in my prayers at night. This is such a tragic ending that is becomming all too familiar.

Rest in peace Evelyn, you are among other little angels now.

[lady-eowyn]

Oh no...no no no no no!!! :(

Oh God I'm just sick over this....this is getting to be too much to take. The list just keeps getting longer and longer and longer...and all too often it's child molestors who already have a record...and I'm not so sure that they won't find out that a child molestor did it in this case. :behindbar And I don't know what's worse, to find out a sex offender did it or a family member. Poor little Evelyn...what an angel...now a true angel in heaven with Jessie and the rest.

About sleeping on the couch...there have been times when mine were younger that they fell asleep on the couch and I just left there there...I don't think that should be held against the parents. I do hope they find out who did this...POS that they are.

[kahskye]

Well, this wasn't the news I wanted to read while I drank my morning coffee. I came on here first thing so wanting to read something positive. I am so upset to read that Evelyn's been found in a river. I do hope they find who murdered her.

God must have a special section in hell for those who lay their dirty hands on an innocent child and abuse that child in ways I don't even want to let my mind go to. Then, to take that child's life w/ no remorse, has to be the lowest of low. Those murderers will suffer in agony for the rest of their lives, if not by our legal system, but by God's.

[LadyLuck]

Sure wish this had a different ending. My heart breaks again. Why oh why, so manychildren.

[Gabby]

Sure wish this had a different ending. My heart breaks again. Why oh why, so manychildren.



Children are the most easily abducted...the most easily murdered because they are not large enough to make a difference when they fight back... also children are the most trusting....

[lady-eowyn]

One report says they have a one person in custody..of course it's the grandfather who relayed the info the meda so whether it is true or not I haven't seen verified.

Floyd County officials haven't confirmed that her body has been found, but Evelyn's grandfather tells us the body was found late last night in the Cedar River. He also tells us police have at least one person in custody in connection with Evelyn's murder. http://www.whotv.com/Global/story.asp?S=3565135

ETA...the info about someone being in custody is not accurate...please see my post below with info from the press conf.

[nvfc]

Oh no...no no no no no!!! :(

Oh God I'm just sick over this....this is getting to be too much to take. The list just keeps getting longer and longer and longer...and all too often it's child molestors who already have a record...and I'm not so sure that they won't find out that a child molestor did it in this case. :behindbar And I don't know what's worse, to find out a sex offender did it or a family member. Poor little Evelyn...what an angel...now a true angel in heaven with Jessie and the rest.

About sleeping on the couch...there have been times when mine were younger that they fell asleep on the couch and I just left there there...I don't think that should be held against the parents. I do hope they find out who did this...POS that they are. I think I can answer that. To me it is much worse when it is a family member. Sex offenders are sick and depraved and family members are supposed to do everything possible to protect their children from sex offenders. When the family itself turns into the sick and depraved, it becomes much worse for me.

One of the last things I told myself last night was to again call the Floyd County sheriff's office first thing this morning to get further information about Evelyn. Sadly this is not necessary.

I am beyond words, mixed with anger and sadness. How can these things happen to Matel and now Evelyn continue to happen. I hope the guilty parties never see daylight again.

[lady-eowyn]

Press conference at 8 this morning for anyone who is in the area

[soccermom2]

I just logged in to see if there was any news on Evelyn....this is not what I had hoped the outcome would be:sick: . Someone posted earlier that they hoped Iowa had the death penalty, unfortunately we don't. I moved to Iowa from the west coast several years ago because I wanted a safer place to raise my kids. In the past month alone their have been 3 attempts at kidnapping in the southern portion of Iowa...now this. What is this world coming to?

[KrazyKollector]

If someone hears or sees the news conference that the prosecutor is having at 8 a.m. there, will you please post what they say?

I am glad they have someone in custody but this is just way too sad. I concur with the posters who say these child molesters/killers either need to just be put down like the sick vermin they are or shipped off to an island where they can all live out their miserable existences with each other.

[lady-eowyn]

Press conf on now...I missed the first bit of it, but this is what I caught

no arrests made contrary to earlier reports
LE diverted to investigation from SAR
requesting the public cooperate by providing info relevant to case

A friend of Evelyn's aunt Brandy is speaking - Mary Newbower? (sp-phonetic)

Was with aunt when family was notified
Family is in despair
Evelyn beautiful 5 yr old
Smart, happy giggly and loved deeply
Evelyn was flower girl in Brandy's wedding (aunts wedding)
Evelyn played dress up in that dress ever since
Danced with Evelyn at wedding
Family expresses sincere thanks to all involved

News reporter:

considering this a murder
wait for autopsy to determine cause of death
again, NO arrest made (the grandfather had stated someone was in custody and the press ran with it it looks like)

That's pretty much it :(

[englishleigh]

NOOOOOOOO!! I was so praying this little angel would be found safe. She is in Jesus' loving arms now, and I'm glad they have someone in custody. I'm anxious to know who.

God be with Evelyn's family.

[lady-eowyn]

NOOOOOOOO!! I was so praying this little angel would be found safe. She is in Jesus' loving arms now, and I'm glad they have someone in custody. I'm anxious to know who.

God be with Evelyn's family.
english..actually they don't have anyone in custody. That was misinformation that had been given to the press from the grandfather. In the presser this morning they confirmed that nobody had been arrested. But a criminal investigation is ongoing.

[nvfc]

I am sure that it will not be long til they have someone in custody. This little girl was so precious and how someone could murder a 5 year old is beyond sick. They do not have any rights, they forfieted them when they did this to Evelyn.

http://nvfc.us/content/view/387/1/

[Alice253]

http://www.whotv.com/Global/story.asp?S=3565135

This is horrible...rest with Jesus sweet baby girl.

"Charles City, July 7th, 2005- The search for five-year-old Evelyn Miller, missing since Friday, is now over.

At a news conference this morning, Floyd County Attorney Marilyn Dettmer revealed the body of a young female had been found last night around 10:30, in the Cedar River, two miles north of Charles City. The body has not been identified as Evelyn Miller, but officials believe it is her."

ETA: Sorry ... didn't see the previous post with this link.

[Mygirlsadie]

Press conf on now...I missed the first bit of it, but this is what I caught

no arrests made contrary to earlier reports
LE diverted to investigation from SAR
requesting the public cooperate by providing info relevant to case

A friend of Evelyn's aunt Brandy is speaking - Mary Newbower? (sp-phonetic)

Was with aunt when family was notified
Family is in despair
Evelyn beautiful 5 yr old
Smart, happy giggly and loved deeply
Evelyn was flower girl in Brandy's wedding (aunts wedding)
Evelyn played dress up in that dress ever since
Danced with Evelyn at wedding
Family expresses sincere thanks to all involved

News reporter:

considering this a murder
wait for autopsy to determine cause of death
again, NO arrest made (the grandfather had stated someone was in custody and the press ran with it it looks like)

That's pretty much it :(
Oh my God I am just completely sad. I logged on WS just to check out whats going on with the search for little Evelyn. What a crappy summer so far all these little kids getting murdered molested kidnapped its almost enough to make you go in a sort of depression my own kids are barely allowed outside to play anymore i'm getting paranoid with all this. What kind of pigs are these who can hurt little ones? They are defensless around big people...ugh this is not the ending I was hoping for but I should of figured it would end like this. This has got to stop. Heaven just recieved a new beautiful little angel. :sick:

[MsPooh]

Oh my God I am just completely sad. I logged on WS just to check out whats going on with the search for little Evelyn. What a crappy summer so far all these little kids getting murdered molested kidnapped its almost enough to make you go in a sort of depression my own kids are barely allowed outside to play anymore i'm getting paranoid with all this. What kind of pigs are these who can hurt little ones? They are defensless around big people...ugh this is not the ending I was hoping for but I should of figured it would end like this. This has got to stop. Heaven just recieved a new beautiful little angel. :sick:
I am with ya there,my kids are only allowed to play in the fenced in back yard, and they are older..they should be able to ride their bikes ,but nope... there the brand new bikes sit in the garage with nary a scuff on the tires "they got them for Christmas".These sick individuals need to be shot on the spot..first offence that way there will never be a chance that they will harm again.I think the media feeds the freaks too, seems they feed off attention, and THIS they choose to be their claim to fame.:loser:

[RPPaolin]

This is horrible! Horrible! How many more babies do we need to lose to predators until "SOMEBODY" wakes up and realized these creeps need to be exterminated......not rehabilitated. pftttt......

I cant take it anymore!

[kpass]

So so very sad...I'm sick right now. WHEN will this stop? Something HAS to be done!!!!!!

[kk's mom]

This really needs to stop. The officials we vote into office need to step up NOW and do something about htis. Who would want to harm a child? I don't understand it. This child did nothing to this person. Nothing. And she's trown away like garbage?

It seems like it's everyday a child is taken and they are either found alive, traumatized by what happened to them, or they are found dead.

I can't take it anymore. Enough is Enough.

[miimaa]

If it were at all possible I would have a GPS tracking device implanted in my kid. Like the on-star thing in cars... and you can get little tracking chips in your pets. You'd know where that kid was right now. The kid could have it taken out when they reached 18. Some people I'm sure will think this idea is an infringement upon freedom but I'd rather have the ability to pinpoint that kid's location in a minute.

[Mygirlsadie]

If it were at all possible I would have a GPS tracking device implanted in my kid. Like the on-star thing in cars... and you can get little tracking chips in your pets. You'd know where that kid was right now. The kid could have it taken out when they reached 18. Some people I'm sure will think this idea is an infringement upon freedom but I'd rather have the ability to pinpoint that kid's location in a minute.
If it worked that way I would have one put in all of my kids in a second..oh yes!!
However I don't think it works like that..our dog has a chip and the chip is basically useless unless someone takes him to a vet. and has that area scanned then our information pops up so they can contact us. If someone is dognapping my dog (lol) they most likely arent going to take her somewhere to have her scanned to see where she belongs too.

[Brains & NoBull]

Prayers and tears for little Evelyn. :(

SOMEbody has to do SOMEthing to protect this nation's children NOW! :banghead:

[BaltoMom]

I hate having a suspicious mind, but last night on Nancy Grace they showed a clip of an interview with Evelyn's mother. She kept referring to Evelyn in the PAST tense. "She was a good girl ..." "She was really smart ..." Once, she caught herself and changed it to "is," but she said it enough times that my alarm bells went off. It was weird. Keep in mind that this is when she was still missing, and by what I know, she was missing for less than a day at that point.

Sandy

[CaliMom]

If it were at all possible I would have a GPS tracking device implanted in my kid. Like the on-star thing in cars... and you can get little tracking chips in your pets. You'd know where that kid was right now. The kid could have it taken out when they reached 18. Some people I'm sure will think this idea is an infringement upon freedom but I'd rather have the ability to pinpoint that kid's location in a minute.

In light of SO many recent abductions and murders, I have been looking into this for my son. I have found some products that are out there....only thing is they are a bit bulky and some children might not want to have it on all the time. http://www.brickhousesecurity.com/wf200.html

I can't stand this anymore. It is time for action, too many children are being killed by the predators amongst us, who should have never been released from prior offenses. This seems to be the case too much lately.

[kate312]

Very sad, just like the Riley Fox case in IL.

[Brains & NoBull]

Very sad, just like the Riley Fox case in IL.
Little Riley Fox came to my mind as well. :(

These cases are happening entirely too often. When will we learn that we have monsters among us? It is time to change the laws to protect society, not to continue to protect the criminal.

[lady-eowyn]

You know, I was thinking the Evelyn even LOOKED a bit like Riley Fox...

For those who are fed up with our laws and predators hurting our children...go check out the thread in the Lunsford from...it's titled Million Mama March...there are some of us who are trying to organize a campaign to fight for changes...we are just throwing around ideas right now, but are very serious.

[englishleigh]

I hate having a suspicious mind, but last night on Nancy Grace they showed a clip of an interview with Evelyn's mother. She kept referring to Evelyn in the PAST tense. "She was a good girl ..." "She was really smart ..." Once, she caught herself and changed it to "is," but she said it enough times that my alarm bells went off. It was weird. Keep in mind that this is when she was still missing, and by what I know, she was missing for less than a day at that point.

Sandy

Sandy, I sure hope you are wrong. LE has really played this one close to the vest, though. :(

[lady-eowyn]

I hate having a suspicious mind, but last night on Nancy Grace they showed a clip of an interview with Evelyn's mother. She kept referring to Evelyn in the PAST tense. "She was a good girl ..." "She was really smart ..." Once, she caught herself and changed it to "is," but she said it enough times that my alarm bells went off. It was weird. Keep in mind that this is when she was still missing, and by what I know, she was missing for less than a day at that point.

Sandy
I think people have question the tense of words in other cases...not sure that it necessarily means anything. Think about it...with all that has happened with missing kids this year alone a parent subconsciously has to think that they may never see their child again when they go missing.

[joys4world]

I hate having a suspicious mind, but last night on Nancy Grace they showed a clip of an interview with Evelyn's mother. She kept referring to Evelyn in the PAST tense. "She was a good girl ..." "She was really smart ..." Once, she caught herself and changed it to "is," but she said it enough times that my alarm bells went off. It was weird. Keep in mind that this is when she was still missing, and by what I know, she was missing for less than a day at that point.

Sandy
I had noticed that too and my bells went off also. I hate to say it but every time I hear a boyfriend/fiance' they are always my first "suspect".

What makes me mad is last night on the Nancy Grace show was the first I had heard about this poor little girl. She had already been missing five? days.

So sad for her family.

[PrayersForMaura]

I think I can answer that. To me it is much worse when it is a family member. Sex offenders are sick and depraved and family members are supposed to do everything possible to protect their children from sex offenders. When the family itself turns into the sick and depraved, it becomes much worse for me.

One of the last things I told myself last night was to again call the Floyd County sheriff's office first thing this morning to get further information about Evelyn. Sadly this is not necessary.

I am beyond words, mixed with anger and sadness. How can these things happen to Matel and now Evelyn continue to happen. I hope the guilty parties never see daylight again.
I just found out from a friend today whose friend is a victim's advocate and writes books on these cases ... the perpetrators of these sexual crimes are given a lesser sentence in some states if they are RELATED to the child ... I guess as if they are proprty of the family!!
How ridiculous are those laws!

Our country has a judicial system that sets a term of so many years to child molestors and pedophiles ... and when they sever their time, they are free to go under the court of the law and the sentencing they received.

In my opinion, the terms needs to be stricter!!
Not 5 years for a molsetation or a rape... those crimes are just as evil as murder. Those crimes are violations of people's rights to not be touched or handled...

I'm so disgusted right now!

[Brains & NoBull]

In my opinion, the terms needs to be stricter!!
Not 5 years for a molsetation or a rape... those crimes are just as evil as murder. Those crimes are violations of people's rights to not be touched or handled...
Not to mention that although these crimes do not kill one on the outside, they do kill one on the inside.

I firmly believe that child predators are hard wired to be that way. No amount of touchy-feely emotional coddling will rehabilitate them. Eliminate these scumbags from the gene pool the first time! :furious:

When will law makers realize that we must protect our children?

[dr dona]

This is horrible! Horrible! How many more babies do we need to lose to predators until "SOMEBODY" wakes up and realized these creeps need to be exterminated......not rehabilitated. pftttt......

I cant take it anymore!
This is horrible- besides being a country that allows sexual predators to roam our streets without effective monitoring; we're also a society that places our children at risk every day. This mom was working a late night job. 2 men with past criminal records- one imprisoned for robbery for 5 years were in this home late at night. Mom and her fiance are probably trusting people. Things like this don't happen in small town Iowa! Sad to say they do!
Risks- nonadequate day care for working moms
drug and alcohol use- the Groene case
know who is in your home around your kids
Lock your doors and pray a sexual predator isn't your neighbor!
Electronic monitoring of predators may be helpful
Porno on the web- My husband gets indecent proposals by e-mail every day. you should have seen the web sites I got when I was looking for "Laura Ashley" bedding. My partner's daughter got into filth by looking under Dr Seuss on-line.
We do all we can to protect our children but sometimes it's just not enough!
I will pray for Evely, Shasta, Natalie and every other missing and murdered child.

[Rocky]

If it were at all possible I would have a GPS tracking device implanted in my kid. Like the on-star thing in cars... and you can get little tracking chips in your pets. You'd know where that kid was right now. The kid could have it taken out when they reached 18. Some people I'm sure will think this idea is an infringement upon freedom but I'd rather have the ability to pinpoint that kid's location in a minute.

most cell phones have GPS tracking, go to menu options and see if yours doesn't have it, turn it on and give it to the kids, phones are cheap now, 10-20 bucks each and can be located pretty easily...

plus they can give you a call to see if it's OK to help the creepy dude find his puppy...

[nvfc]

most cell phones have GPS tracking, go to menu options and see if yours doesn't have it, turn it on and give it to the kids, phones are cheap now, 10-20 bucks each and can be located pretty easily...

plus they can give you a call to see if it's OK to help the creepy dude find his puppy... Thats fine and dandy but not very logical for abductions.
If a child is abducted and they have a phone that will be the first thing thrown out by a perp. Yes a phone is good if a child is lost like the boyscout in the woods and situations like this but not for child abductions

[snoopy]

My friend asked me this question, and before I give her my answer, I'd like to hear from any of you.

With all the news of Jessica, Shasta, and now Evelyn (and many more heard and unheard), my friend asked me if she should report her dad somehow. He molested her when she was little, though she doesn't remember a lot of the details, thankfully. This was about 20-25 years ago. She speaks to him now occasionally after all these years, and feels he is a different person, but worries some because his wife's son has a little girl. She would like to give a warning, though it would have to be anonymously. She worries that if this was a one time thing and his life has truly changed, would she be destroying a family by this news of the past?

Your thoughts please!

[PrayersForMaura]

My friend asked me this question, and before I give her my answer, I'd like to hear from any of you.

With all the news of Jessica, Shasta, and now Evelyn (and many more heard and unheard), my friend asked me if she should report her dad somehow. He molested her when she was little, though she doesn't remember a lot of the details, thankfully. This was about 20-25 years ago. She speaks to him now occasionally after all these years, and feels he is a different person, but worries some because his wife's son has a little girl. She would like to give a warning, though it would have to be anonymously. She worries that if this was a one time thing and his life has truly changed, would she be destroying a family by this news of the past?

Your thoughts please!
Hi snoopy. I love your name!
I think your friend is being too kind and too enabling for what she was put through. She was never given the choice of her life being destroyed when her father chose to do what he did.

I saw a movie based on a true story very similar to your friend's story... and the adult daughter realized that her niece was now being molested by her father (the little girl's grandfather).
Once an offender, always an offender.
She shouldn't feel bad. HE should feel bad for what he did.

I think she should report it and at least have him listed in the directory as a sex offender. You never know what he's done in the years after he was done with your friend :(
That's my :twocents:

PS ... today, I heard that if a male child is abused -- especially sexually -- and never get help, they usually grow up to be these monsters.

We give pity on these children when they are molested but want to crucify them when they become adults and commit these same awful crimes that were perpetrated on them.

I want to reiterate that I have no pity on those who molest. Just because it happens to someone when they're young doesn't excuse someone from doing it to someone else later in life.

Kids who are abused sexually and mentally need counseling so that they don't become the monsters who violated them.

I don't think any of us choses to be bad without something wrong inside our minds. Our memories. Something we've seen or experienced in the past.

It's just awful that these crimes keep happening ... and are happening to someone else right now. :(

[lady-eowyn]

I think she should report it and at least have him listed in the directory as a sex offender. You never know what he's done in the years after he was done with your friend :( I agree with reporting it too...but one has to be convicted before they are required to register as a sex offender. Some states have a statute of limitations on these crimes. First think I would do is contact the DA's office in the state it took place and ask them what the statute of limitations are. If they are expired then she could ask them for advice on what to do. At anyrate that little girl that is living there now needs to be protected. She shouldn't worry about destroying a family...it's that little girls life being destroyed that should be of concern

[concernedperson]

Report it snoopy. This family is already destroyed. Cyclical abuse of every generation is cause for alarm and the breeding of new molesters. If we know than it is obligation to report it and stop it, if possible. JMO.

[CaliKid]

Snoopy, if someone doesn't report it and this man molests that child, your friend will feel guilty the rest of her life.

[CaliKid]

What about.....

1. Kids sleeping in their own beds in their own rooms....Elizabeth Smart, Polly
Klass, Jessie Lunsford, and many more. All older kids and more difficult to
handle.

2. Parent...parents or grandparents at home

3. Last seen after going to bed and house settling down for the night.

4. Never seen again and later found dead with the exception of Elizabeth
Smart.
I agree, it happens. There are many ways kids go missing. Asleep in their rooms or living rooms, going to the park or swimming pool, walking to or from school or the bus. Far too many of them, taken to be used and discarded.

I don't get the "more difficult to handle" unless you're talking about a perp molesting an older child and killing right away to shut him or her up. This isn't always the case (poor Jessica Lunsford).

[Maddy's Mom]

Prayers for little Evelyn. Her story is almost identical to Riley Fox's. Riley was 3 years old, sleeping on her couch, daddy was looking after her. In the morning, the front door was open and there was no Riley. She was found later that day in a creek a few miles from her home. In the picture I have seen of Evelyn, she looks like Riley a little bit....those chubby cheeks. Riley lived in Illinois, Evelyn lived in the next stated over in Iowa.

Riley's killer is still at large.

[nvfc]

I just found out from a friend today whose friend is a victim's advocate and writes books on these cases ... the perpetrators of these sexual crimes are given a lesser sentence in some states if they are RELATED to the child ... I guess as if they are proprty of the family!!
How ridiculous are those laws!

Our country has a judicial system that sets a term of so many years to child molestors and pedophiles ... and when they sever their time, they are free to go under the court of the law and the sentencing they received.

In my opinion, the terms needs to be stricter!!
Not 5 years for a molsetation or a rape... those crimes are just as evil as murder. Those crimes are violations of people's rights to not be touched or handled...

I'm so disgusted right now!

@prayersformaura So very true, that is one of the reasons I got behind The Baby Brianna Bill because it calls for life behind bars for anyone killing a child under twelve years old. Baby Brianna died at 5 months old at the hands of family members.

http://www.nvfc.us/blog/?p=2

[snoopy]

Thank you all. You have convinced me of what I should tell her all along, but needed some extra reassurance. I wouldn't be able to live with myself should something happen to this little girl knowing what I know. God forbid we have to start a forum about her or another because of my friend's father.

[jat]

My friend asked me this question, and before I give her my answer, I'd like to hear from any of you.

With all the news of Jessica, Shasta, and now Evelyn (and many more heard and unheard), my friend asked me if she should report her dad somehow. He molested her when she was little, though she doesn't remember a lot of the details, thankfully. This was about 20-25 years ago. She speaks to him now occasionally after all these years, and feels he is a different person, but worries some because his wife's son has a little girl. She would like to give a warning, though it would have to be anonymously. She worries that if this was a one time thing and his life has truly changed, would she be destroying a family by this news of the past?

Your thoughts please!

Absolutely, your friend needs to report him! For some reason, our society makes us feel like we are wrong for "rocking the boat" when everything seems fine now, but things may not be fine underneath! These people DO NOT change!!!

[CA Butterfly]

I just heard this on my local news....


God Bless this little sweetpea.... she did not deserve this...


This is just terrible..and this killer needs to be caught....


(Click below)

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2005-07-07-iowa-girlfound_x.htm

[Bobbisangel]

I agree, it happens. There are many ways kids go missing. Asleep in their rooms or living rooms, going to the park or swimming pool, walking to or from school or the bus. Far too many of them, taken to be used and discarded.

I don't get the "more difficult to handle" unless you're talking about a perp molesting an older child and killing right away to shut him or her up. This isn't always the case (poor Jessica Lunsford).



No, I'm talking about an older child being more difficult to get out of the house. They are bigger and more inclined to kick or yell yet these peds go right into their rooms and take them without any fear of being caught at all.

[soccermom2]

This was in our local (Iowa) paper today:
Autopsy Completed On Floyd Girl Found Dead

The state medical examiner has completed an autopsy on the body of Evelyn Miller.

The examiner is not saying how the 5-year-old girl died because the information is still part of a criminal investigation.

Evelyn's body was discovered in Cedar River at about 7:40 p.m. Wednesday.

Evelyn was last seen asleep in her family's apartment by two acquaintances of her mother's fiancé at about 2 a.m. last Friday.

Marilyn Dettmer, Floyd County's attorney, said no suspects are in custody.

The criminal investigation continues. Law enforcement officials searched the river on boats for any other traces of physical evidence and authorities also sealed off Rotary Park Road, which leads to the spot where the child's body was found.

Earlier this week, two men were questioned by authorities and a search of their residence was conducted, however authorities have not called them suspects.

Dettmer said 1,300 volunteers gave about 9,000 hours of their time to help in the search.

Evelyn would have turned 6 years old on Saturday.

A memorial fund has been set up. Those interested in contributing can do so at:

First Security Bank & Trust

809 Clark St.

P.O. Box 577

Charles City, IA 50616

[mysteriew]

Dettmer says, "The autopsy will be conducted at the state medical examiner's office in Ankeny. When the results of that examination become available we will be reviewing them in light of all the facts we have relevant to this investigation."

Dettmer says they will release those results as soon as the autopsy is complete.
http://www.kimt.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=KIMT/MGArticle/IMT_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1031783715971&path=

[mysteriew]

Dettmer would not say what led searchers to find the girl's body in that location. She would not comment on the condition of the body or whether foul play contributed to the girl's death.

"We'll be able to make a better effort to address that question once we have the autopsy results," Dettmer said.

No arrests had been made as of Thursday evening, but investigators continued to look for clues near the Cedar River, and family members were called throughout the day to provide additional information, said Mary Neubauer, the family's spokeswoman.

http://www.dmregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050708/NEWS01/507080356/1001&lead=1

[mysteriew]

Television and radio stations and newspapers in at least 43 states, Washington, D.C., and the United Kingdom, published Associated Press wire stories or generated their own versions about the disappearance of 5-year-old Evelyn Miller. CNN dedicated 30 minutes to the case.

However, the young Iowa girl's disappearance does fit the profile that interests the public --- and the media, according to a Wartburg College professor. Authorities on Thursday confirmed a body believed to be that of Evelyn Miller was recovered in a remote area of the Cedar River.

"Small children, particularly young girls who are missing, capture attention because young children are so vulnerable and defenseless," said Jeff Stein, assistant professor of electronic media.

People instinctively want to protect children, Stein said.

Early interest in the case can be attributed to the element of the unknown.

http://www.wcfcourier.com/articles/2005/07/08/news/top_story/doc42ceb6df260d8038947981.txt

[Casshew]

http://images.usatoday.com/news/_photos/2005/07/07/evelynmiller.jpg
She is such a sweet little girl... the police need to get her some justice now

[mysteriew]

Even though Marilyn Dettmer, Floyd County's attorney, has not yet said that it is a homicide case, there are indications that authorities are treating it as a murder investigation.

The state medical examiner has completed an autopsy on the body of Evelyn Miller.

The examiner is not saying how the 5-year-old girl died because the information is still part of a criminal investigation.

Evelyn's body was discovered.

Evelyn would have turned 6 years old on Saturday.

http://www.theiowachannel.com/news/4699786/detail.html

Sleep softly in God's arm's and wake with remembrances of pleasant dreams. Today you would have been 6.

[nvfc]

I encourage everyone here at WS that has followed Evelyn's case since it started to please leave a comment for Evelyn.


http://nvfc.us/blog/?p=6

[nvfc]

I encourage everyone here at WS that has followed Evelyn's case since it started to please leave a comment for Evelyn.


http://nvfc.us/blog/?p=6

[mysteriew]

Floyd County officials said late Friday afternoon that they have issued several search warrants in the death of a 5-year-old girl.

Marilyn Dettmer, Floyd County's attorney, issued a statement saying that several search warrants were issued but she did not elaborate.

Detter also said in the statement that the state medical examiner is not finished with the autopsy of the body. The results have yet to be released.

Officials have not yet labelled the case a homicide, but they are calling it a crime.

http://www.theiowachannel.com/news/4701541/detail.html

[mysteriew]

http://www.siouxcityjournal.com/articles/2005/07/10/news/iowa/dc6c1cb5536d41f08625703a000f9fc9.txt

Randy Patrie and Dan Slick, who share an apartment in Charles City, said they went to police after hearing that Evelyn had disappeared.

While police say the two men are not suspects, Patrie and Slick said police are treating them as if they are.


"They tell us that we're not suspects," Patrie said Friday. "Yet they asked us some real sick and pathetic questions. They're talking like Dan and I are guilty, like they're just waiting for the evidence. I'm sick of this."

Police searched their apartment last Monday.

Patrie said neither he nor Slick had anything to do with Evelyn Miller's disappearance or her death.

"We have done nothing but cooperated," he said. "Anytime they (authorities) wanted to talk, we've talked."

Patrie said he met Evelyn's mother about a dozen times and Frederiksen four or five times.

Slick said his 2-year-old daughter lives in the same apartment as Miller and played with Evelyn.

They said they had been out drinking that night and noticed a television was on at Miller's apartment about 2 a.m.

Patrie said they decided to stop and see Frederiksen. When they knocked, Evelyn answered the door, he said.

"She opened it right away. We asked if Casey was up, or if he was asleep. She said he was sleeping."

Patrie said that he and Slick decided to leave and went home.

"When we left, that little girl was safe," Patrie said.

He said he learned later that morning from his mother that Evelyn was missing.

"When we heard that, we went to the police," Patrie said. "If we hadn't, they might not even know we were there."

http://www.siouxcityjournal.com/articles/2005/07/10/news/iowa/dc6c1cb5536d41f08625703a000f9fc9.txt

[MistyM]

Done. I'm actually crying and I'm no softie. :(

[melanief]

it's absolutley sickening to see the amount of energy we put into reporting the things that happen to our children compared to the amount of energy we spend keeping them safe. But until we start to show initiative ourselves our government will not be doing much to stop it. It's been eating at me lately that we as the actual parents, family members, friends and just plain tired witnesses to the horrors our precious children are being subjected to need to stand up and starting working to end it. Databases that receive grant funding containing the contact information of those willing and able to volunteer knowledge and services of all types needed when children disappear that are there to really get people out in force when a child disappears, on a level higher and more in depth that what a police force with limited resources can do. A national movement calling for people to simply BE MORE AWARE and pledge to take a more active roll in caring not just for those children you know but ALL children. If you hear a child scream, will you lock your doors and pretend you don't hear it? NO. If you see a child alone in a park or on a street will you walk away and tell yourself someone else will take care of it? NO. Take all children to your heart as you would your own and simply work together as a group to stop what is happening.

also, i know that many cell phones even without service can still dial 911 so long as they are charged. With the wireless phone business booming as it is there must be millions of phones out there simply being thrown away. why not hold a national drive backed by the wireless companies to distribute them to parents to give to their children? If they are simply going to go to waste, it's worth it if it saves one child.

[Kelly]

You can sign a guestbook here to express your sympathy to Evelyn's family:

Link To Guestbook (http://www.legacy.com/globegazette/Guestbook.asp?Page=Guestbook&PersonID=14469627)

Thank you.

Kelly

[Beyond Belief]

thanks kelly.

[magnum]

Done. I'm actually crying and I'm no softie. :(



@ MistyM Thank you for your kind comments.

[mysteriew]

Foul play has been confirmed in the death of 5-year-old Evelyn Miller, who was reported missing July 1 and whose body was found last week in the Cedar River, officials said Monday.

http://www.dmregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050711/NEWS01/507110341/1001&lead=1

[surf_moon_stars]

mysteriewFoul play has been confirmed in the death of 5-year-old Evelyn Miller, who was reported missing July 1 and whose body was found last week in the Cedar River, officials said Monday.

http://www.dmregister.com/apps/pbcs...341/1001&lead=1 (http://www.dmregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050711/NEWS01/507110341/1001&lead=1)Thank you for the update mysteriew

I am very saddned by this story, and so sad to know that DHS had been around so close to the time of her disappearence.



That concerns me, if the front door could be popped open with a screwdriver, than anyone living or visiting that building could have seen the mom or fiance doing this to unlock a door. :(

I am in shock right now reading this information, and can not understand for the life of me why her mother could work at Kmart, and yet not bother buying a new lock for their front door, unless Kmart does not sell doorhandles there. :waitasec: That is JMO, as each store does not always stock the same items.




I am going to check my local Kmart today, as I will be out shopping today and will see if ours does stock door handles.

Either way, if they do not sell them there, What the heck.....the basic cost of a front door handle could be about $20.00 or so.




If that money could have not been scraped together to be spent for the safety of (3) young children living there, then that causes my BIGGEST red flag of all, there was no concern for safety of the children if a new lock for the front door was not purchased immediately upon being broken.. :doh:


What upsets me more is the fiance was asleep in the other room, and a five-year old girl is or sleeps on the couch, and answering a door at 2 or so in the morning.

This is is something a FIVE YEAR old or any young child should be told to NEVER do, is to NOT openi any door at any time without mom or dad or guardian present. :banghead:


Someone may have walked in and taken her, but when a little girl is answering doors, let alone, up at that time or woken up at that time to have to answer a door is not my idea of looking out for yout little ones.




I am going to read up more on this case, and post back soon.

Thank you for providing updated information, it is very appreciated.

[magnum]

I encourage everyone here at WS that has followed Evelyn's case since it started to please leave a comment for Evelyn.


http://nvfc.us/blog/?p=6

Thank you NVFC for providing an area where we can voice our concerns as well as leave comments for Evelyn.

[angarella]

Foul play has been confirmed in the death of 5-year-old Evelyn Miller, who was reported missing July 1 and whose body was found last week in the Cedar River, officials said Monday.

http://www.dmregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050711/NEWS01/507110341/1001&lead=1
Am I just being really slow today? The above article has the grandmother saying that DHS had been involved with this family and they suspected Evelyn had been abused. But then she goes on to say how Evelyn's mother and fiance tried to show Evelyn how much they loved her, but she still seemed sad?????????? Well of course she was sad if there was abuse and/or neglect going on. Maybe I misunderstood the article. Help?

TIA

[kahskye]

Am I just being really slow today? The above article has the grandmother saying that DHS had been involved with this family and they suspected Evelyn had been abused. But then she goes on to say how Evelyn's mother and fiance tried to show Evelyn how much they loved her, but she still seemed sad?????????? Well of course she was sad if there was abuse and/or neglect going on. Maybe I misunderstood the article. Help?

TIA
This article is a little confusing, or I'm just tired from all the yardwork I did today. I guess if I suspected abuse, I would have made darn sure someone was looking into it. I'm not pointing fingers, but has this fiancee been questioned? I don't even let my 9 yr old answer the door, much less a 5 yr old! I also think that's being pretty irresponsible not to replace a broken lock. The children's safety should come first!

Reading this really caused me to tear up:

"Evelyn spent alternate weekends and holidays with her father, Andy, and stepmother, Lindsey, in Waterloo, and loved to come to Windsor Heights to see her paternal grandparents. They played dress up, baked cakes and visited Adventureland together. They had been plotting to surprise the girl with a big trunk filled with dresses, heels, beads and boas for Christmas."

It seems like Evelyn had some stablilty on her father's side (David Weston) and was dearly loved. I actually teared up reading how Evelyn called her stepmother's, father "Grandpa No Dog" because his wife wouldn't allow him to have a dog.

The Christies have suspected she'd been abducted and sexually assaulted.
I think they may know more than the public is being told being they intend to circulate petitions calling for new national laws for sexual predators at Evelyn's visitation and funeral.

What a beautiful little girl she was. I bet the angels are all fighting over who gets to take care of her.

[mysteriew]

It did not surprise 5-year-old Evelyn Miller's grandparents when authorities confirmed Monday that foul play was involved in the girl's disappearance and death.

For weeks before the Floyd girl's body was found Wednesday in the Cedar River, Linda and Richard Christie had suspected Evelyn might be in danger - because more than a dozen complaints of abuse or neglect had been made to child welfare officials with the Department of Human Services.

No one has been charged in the girl's death.

The Christies, who live in Windsor Heights, said they never called the state agency, but knew that other relatives, friends and school officials had reported concerns about Evelyn's home life.

Their son, Andy Christie of Waterloo, who is Evelyn's father, was notified about the complaints.

http://www.dmregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050712/NEWS01/507120381/1001&lead=1

[magnum]

I encourage everyone here at WS that has followed Evelyn's case since it started to please leave a comment for Evelyn.


http://nvfc.us/blog/?p=6
Bumping for Evelyn. I hope that there is a thorough investigation into the inner family because something does not site right that the DHS was involved and the Grandparents had concerns.

[madgallico]

More than a dozen complaints :furious: Do we know who the complaints were aimed at? The mother, the mother's boyfriend, or both?

I read that the fiance passed the polygraph. Okay, there are some people who are guilty but still do pass & some who are innocent but fail it.
I hate even thinking this way. What if he woke up & was furious that little Evelyn had opened the door. He became enraged & killed her.

I hope this is not the case, but someone did murder this innocent child. It just seems to be a common occurrence with parents & boyfriends taking children's lives. :(

Between sexual deviants & physically abusive adults, some children never have a chance to live the lives they are entitled to.

[PrayersForMaura]

More than a dozen complaints :furious: Do we know who the complaints were aimed at? The mother, the mother's boyfriend, or both?

I read that the fiance passed the polygraph. Okay, there are some people who are guilty but still do pass & some who are innocent but fail it.
I hate even thinking this way. What if he woke up & was furious that little Evelyn had opened the door. He became enraged & killed her.

I hope this is not the case, but someone did murder this innocent child. It just seems to be a common occurrence with parents & boyfriends taking children's lives. :(

Between sexual deviants & physically abusive adults, some children never have a chance to live the lives they are entitled to.
Yes, I agree and it's a damn shame.

Off topic, but the picture of your baby is so beautiful. I am sorry for your loss :(

[mysteriew]

Using authority granted to him after the beating death of a Spirit Lake toddler, Gov. Tom Vilsack said Tuesday he will review records of state child welfare workers' involvement with the family of Evelyn Miller, the 5-year-old girl who was found in the Cedar River six days after she disappeared from her mother's apartment in Floyd.

In the wake of criticism from Evelyn's grandparents about the Department of Human Services, which they say had received about 12 reports from people concerned about Evelyn's home life, Vilsack spoke passionately about not jumping to any conclusions.

http://desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050713/NEWS01/507130356/1001/NEWS

[dr dona]

[QUOTE=mysteriew]Using authority granted to him after the beating death of a Spirit Lake toddler, Gov. Tom Vilsack said Tuesday he will review records of state child welfare workers' involvement with the family of Evelyn Miller, the 5-year-old girl who was found in the Cedar River six days after she disappeared from her mother's apartment in Floyd.

In the wake of criticism from Evelyn's grandparents about the Department of Human Services, which they say had received about 12 reports from people concerned about Evelyn's home life, Vilsack spoke passionately about not jumping to any conclusions.

http://desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article

We never jump to conclusions in Iowa until the kids are dead! Our Republican dominated legislature need to stop stalling with social service budgets and raise the cigarette tax. Our DHS caseworkers are overloaded and many are inexperienced. Due to cuts in State funding U of I had to close alot of High Risk children's Clinics! The legislators yak and yak and do nothing but finger-point! Than when a child dies in a ?abusive home everyone goes nuts. We need solutions for the children of Iowa not political rhetoric!
Dr Dona- po'ed Pediatrician!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[vanillasky]

Thank you everyone for all the articles about this case... there hasn't been much in the news about it unfortunately. I hope the person (s) involved are brought to justice soon. :(

That just made me tear up too.... the part where she called him Grandpa No Dog. :(

[BaltoMom]

I said it in another thread, but I'm telling you there was something creepy about Evelyn's mother referring to the child in the past tense -- the night BEFORE her body was discovered. "Evelyn was a happy girl," "Evelyn loved school..." stuff like that. It was repeated several times, not just one slip. Someone else said that stuff like that happens, but there was something about the way she said it that made me think that she (the mom) already knew that Evelyn was dead.

Sandy

[mysteriew]

It's the day her father is calling the hardest so far. Funeral services for five-year-old Evelyn Miller wrapped up a little after noon today, in Charles City.

The search for Evelyn Miller brought an entire community together, and today that same community is united in grief.

People began arriving as early as 9:30 this morning, overflowing the sanctuary and the surrounding hallways. Inside displays were set up with some of Evelyn's favorite toys, candy and pictures. In the sanctuary, nearly 3 dozen bouquets of flowers lined the alter.

We should mention the Department of Human Services confirmed to us this morning that there is an open child neglect assessment involving the Evelyn Miller case. The DHS says, that means there were allegations brought and that they were credible enough to investigate. If the allegation are proven true, they would constitute neglect. The assessment must be completed in the next twenty days and after that it will be public record.

http://www.whotv.com/Global/story.asp?S=3593489&nav=LotCc86v

[nvfc]

We should mention the Department of Human Services confirmed to us this morning that there is an open child neglect assessment involving the Evelyn Miller case. The DHS says, that means there were allegations brought and that they were credible enough to investigate. If the allegation are proven true, they would constitute neglect. The assessment must be completed in the next twenty days and after that it will be public record.

http://www.whotv.com/Global/story.asp?S=3593489&nav=LotCc86v

Vilsack reviews DHS records
By Dan Gearino

DES MOINES n Gov. Tom Vilsack said Thursday that there was no way the Iowa Department of Human Services could have predicted or prevented the murder of 5-year-old Evelyn Miller of Floyd, a conclusion he reached after reviewing the file of the department's response to warnings about the girl's safety.

"I did not find anything in the file that suggested or indicated to me that this child was at risk of being abducted or harmed in any way," Vilsack said at a news conference.

Evelyn's body was found last Wednesday in the Cedar River, nearly a week after she was reported missing by her mother. Nobody has been arrested and there are few details available about the investigation or the circumstances of her death.

The Department of Human Services, or DHS, came under scrutiny this week when Evelyn's paternal grandparents said the agency had been warned about her safety a dozen times. The said DHS was negligent for not taking greater action.

DHS Director Kevin Concannon launched an investigation Monday into his office's contact with the girl and her family. Vilsack said Tuesday he would conduct his own review.

Vilsack said calls to the agency about Evelyn stretch back four years, though he declined to say how many calls were made or who made them, other than to say some were made anonymously.

He said all but one of the calls did not appear serious enough for a DHS employee to conduct an investigation. And in that one investigation, the agency found no evidence of abuse or neglect.

http://www.globegazette.com/articles/ (http://www.globegazette.com/articles/)2005/07/14/latest_news/doc42d6cac55fc24444704965.txt

[englishleigh]

That was one precious, darling little angel. Any one of us would have loved to have been able to take care of little Evelyn. It makes me sick that there might have been neglect of her going on which may have led to her death. :furious: :furious: :furious:

[Bobbisangel]

If the family was aware of neglect or abuse why didn't one of them step in and take Evelyn out of the home. She had a bio father that was involved in her life. It sounds like he was aware that things could have been better for the little girl. I think it was his parents that said the mother had been reported several times.

When my oldest grandaughter was about 4 yrs my daughter was doing a lot of running around and going to the bars. I told her that I would gladly keep my grandaughter when I wasn't working in the evenings and she could go out then but on the evenings that I worked I thought she should stay at home with her daughter instead of leaving her with babysitters. She was in that phase of being single and didn't pay any attention to me. I warned her that I was going to take my grandaughter if she kept on leaving her with babysitters. I did end up taking her one evening. I left a message that I would pick up her clothes, etc, the next day. My daughter and I sat down the next day and I told her that I expected her to pay child support and to buy my grandaughter's clothing. I worked two evenings a week and I told her that she could babysit at my place on those nights. My daughter and I have always been really close and so there was no fighting over my grandaughter. My daughter knew that I had my grandaughter's best interest at heart and when my daughter was ready to settle down her daughter could move back in with her. We co-parented my grandaughter and it worked really well. I didn't worrry about my grandaughter and my daughter got the running around out of her system. I don't normally interfer in my adult kids lives but when it comes to the grandchildren there are times when you have to put them first.
If my daughter had fought me I would have taken her to court. I had to make sure that my grandaughter was safe and felt secure. My grandaughter is almost 20 yrs now and is one of the sweetest, responsible kids that I know. I wish Evelyn's grandparents or father had done that for her. Such a little sweetie and such a shame. I hope they catch whoever took her little life.

[madgallico]

Off topic, but the picture of your baby is so beautiful. I am sorry for your loss :(

Thank you PrayersForMaura. I thought this was an appropriate board to display this picture. Jared was my nephew who lived with me on & off for most of his short life.
He was with his parents when he died of child abuse.
Jared will always be my angel.

[nvfc]

I thought this was an appropriate board to display this picture. Jared was my nephew who lived with me on & off for most of his short life.
He was with his parents when he died of child abuse.
Jared will always be my angel.
What a beautiful boy! I saw his picture the other day and it made me go in and hug my son. He will be ten months on July 17. I thought to myself, how does a baby that looks so healthy die in their first years of life.

I had no idea it was from child abuse until your post. I, along with others from the NVFC have devoted July 2005 to child abuse victims from New Mexico. There have been eight children that have died by abuse from their family members since 2001.

What happened to Brianna Lopez is here. (http://nvfc.us/blog/?p=2)

What happened to Uriah Vasquez-Ordeñez is here. (http://nvfc.us/blog/?p=5)

What happened to Evelyn Miller is here. (http://nvfc.us/blog/?p=6)

What happened to Matal Sanchez is here. (http://nvfc.us/blog/?p=8)

This problem is so great that there is absolutely no way that it can be covered in July. It is truly an epidemic that is plagueing our society and needs to stop.

[SewingDeb]

Thank you PrayersForMaura. I thought this was an appropriate board to display this picture. Jared was my nephew who lived with me on & off for most of his short life.
He was with his parents when he died of child abuse.
Jared will always be my angel.

Awww...that is so sad. It must have broken your heart. Bless you for giving him the love that you did during his short life.

[mysteriew]

About 500 people gathered for the funeral Thursday of Evelyn Celeste Miller, many expressing anger and guilt over the 5-year-old's death.

"I was not there to protect you from harm," said Andy Christie, 25, of Waterloo, reading from a letter he wrote to his daughter. "I could never have imagined something so terrible could have ever happened to you. And I pray that you can forgive me for these failings."

A pale blue marble urn carved with angels will hold Evelyn's ashes, but it sat empty at the altar Thursday because her body has not been released as the criminal investigation continues.

No arrests have been made, and authorities in Floyd County have declined to answer questions about the case, saying only that their priority is to protect the integrity of the investigation.

http://www.dmregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050714/NEWS/50714009/1001&lead=1

[PrayersForMaura]

Thank you PrayersForMaura. I thought this was an appropriate board to display this picture. Jared was my nephew who lived with me on & off for most of his short life.
He was with his parents when he died of child abuse.
Jared will always be my angel.
That is very sad and I am so sorry!!! :(
I can see why you are drawn to this case.

There was child abuse in my family, too. No one died from it
but it has deeply affected my relatives in many ways.

I wish some parents weren't so angry and desperate to take things out on their children. :(

Bless your heart ...

[mysteriew]

Two men who were among the last to see Evelyn Miller alive said Thursday the heat from both residents and police in the investigation of her murder has been overpowering.

Slick said investigators questioned him again Wednesday. Both men said they have turned over clothing and DNA samples and readily cooperated with authorities.

"They're dead set that Randy did this," Slick said. "I don't think he did it. I think the cops got something stuck in their head and they need someone to blame, is what I think."

Patrie said his lie detector test "probably made me look like a liar" because he didn't want to tell police that after he and Slick left Evelyn's apartment, he dropped off Slick at their apartment and went to visit a friend who is a convicted felon.

Patrie went off probation on a burglary conviction July 1, the day Evelyn disappeared, but his friend was still on probation and could get in trouble for being in contact with him, he said.

The friend wasn't home, "so I know my timeline isn't all that credible," he said.

Noel Miller and her fiance, Casey Frederiksen, were not available for comment Thursday after Evelyn's funeral.

According to Evelyn's grandparents, the Department of Human Services received 12 complaints from friends, relatives and school officials concerned about Evelyn's home life. Linda and Richard Christie believe child welfare workers should have done more to protect Evelyn.

But Gov. Tom Vilsack said Thursday that after reviewing child welfare workers' involvement with Evelyn and her family, he found no indication that the girl was in danger.

http://www.dmregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050715/NEWS01/507150418/1001&lead=1

[mysteriew]

Vilsack said calls to the agency about Evelyn stretch back four years, though he declined to say how many calls were made or who made them, other than to say some were made anonymously.

He said all but one of the calls did not appear serious enough for a DHS employee to conduct an investigation. And in that one investigation, the agency found no evidence of abuse or neglect.

While Vilsack declined to give specifics about the calls, he outlined a hypothetical situation of how a call might not lead to a thorough investigation. He said the agency may receive a report that a child has marks on his body from abuse, but if no marks are found when a DHS employee meets with the child, and no other evidence of abuse is found, the investigation would probably not go further.
http://www.wcfcourier.com/articles/2005/07/15/news/regional/bd71c50422e8e5918625703f004e07f2.txt

[concernedperson]

Some of these children continue to slip through the cracks and it is so maddening.

[vanillasky]

What a shame, they say they found no evidence of neglect or abuse, yet 12 different complaints.... doesn't make sense.... obviously if there are 12 complaints there is definitely something happening that shouldn't be. :( That is a good point someone made about her referring to her in the past tense before she was ever found... could be completely innocent, but maybe not... would like to know more about these complaints to Child Protective Services before I draw any more conclusions....

[Maddy's Mom]

Has anyone heard any updates? Any suspects? Thanks

[SewingDeb]

You can sign a guestbook here to express your sympathy to Evelyn's family:

Link To Guestbook (http://www.legacy.com/globegazette/Guestbook.asp?Page=Guestbook&PersonID=14469627)

Thank you.

Kelly
Hi Kelly,
Your link takes me to the guestbook, but I don't find a place to type in my condolence message. How do I do that?

Thanks!

[soccermom2]

In todays local paper:

Evelyn Miller Update

Authorities in Floyd County are looking at the Iowa Sex Offender Registry in hopes that it will provide clues into the death of the 5 year old. Evelyn Miller disappeared from her Floyd home July 1. Her body was discovered July 6 along the Cedar River north of Charles City. The Floyd County Attorney said police are looking at the registry and have found five sex offenders who live in the county. The attorney said one registered sex offender lives next to Evelyn's grandmother in Charles City. There are no suspect or arrests in the case.

[cynara]

I haven't heard anything about a suspect yet. The autopsy is done, but no cause of death has even been given. Evelyn's case is written up nearly every day in the Waterloo Courier, maybe DM Register, and is on KWWL news, but nothing new.

This is all the more irritating because one way or another, we have a 'very dangerous' person lurking here among the 'merely dangerous' and none of us has been given the necessary information for keeping our kids safe. It could be anyone.

[Jeana (DP)]

it's absolutley sickening to see the amount of energy we put into reporting the things that happen to our children compared to the amount of energy we spend keeping them safe. But until we start to show initiative ourselves our government will not be doing much to stop it. It's been eating at me lately that we as the actual parents, family members, friends and just plain tired witnesses to the horrors our precious children are being subjected to need to stand up and starting working to end it. Databases that receive grant funding containing the contact information of those willing and able to volunteer knowledge and services of all types needed when children disappear that are there to really get people out in force when a child disappears, on a level higher and more in depth that what a police force with limited resources can do. A national movement calling for people to simply BE MORE AWARE and pledge to take a more active roll in caring not just for those children you know but ALL children. If you hear a child scream, will you lock your doors and pretend you don't hear it? NO. If you see a child alone in a park or on a street will you walk away and tell yourself someone else will take care of it? NO. Take all children to your heart as you would your own and simply work together as a group to stop what is happening.

also, i know that many cell phones even without service can still dial 911 so long as they are charged. With the wireless phone business booming as it is there must be millions of phones out there simply being thrown away. why not hold a national drive backed by the wireless companies to distribute them to parents to give to their children? If they are simply going to go to waste, it's worth it if it saves one child.


This is the best post I've ever seen. :woohoo:

[Jeana (DP)]

Hi Kelly,
Your link takes me to the guestbook, but I don't find a place to type in my condolence message. How do I do that?

Thanks!


Try this link darlin:

http://www.legacy.com/globegazette/Guestbook.asp?Page=Entry&PersonID=14469627

[Bobbisangel]

If nothing pans out with the registered sex offenders then maybe LE should look closer to home. Or turn that apt place upside down. Someone murdered that little girl darn it.

[Beyond Belief]

I think this is someone they know who also has a habit of showing up there in the middle of the night. Those two others didn't pan out, but if just acquaintances stop by in the middle of the night, then so do other people, like friends, who know the Mom isn't there.

Was this a sexual assault or just plain murder?

[mysteriew]

In todays local paper:

Evelyn Miller Update

Authorities in Floyd County are looking at the Iowa Sex Offender Registry in hopes that it will provide clues into the death of the 5 year old. Evelyn Miller disappeared from her Floyd home July 1. Her body was discovered July 6 along the Cedar River north of Charles City. The Floyd County Attorney said police are looking at the registry and have found five sex offenders who live in the county. The attorney said one registered sex offender lives next to Evelyn's grandmother in Charles City. There are no suspect or arrests in the case.


They are just now looking at sex offenders? Usually the sex offenders are checked out right in the beginning. Along with family and visitors to the home, sex offenders are on the priority list for investigation.

[indicajane]

Those twelve complaints about the abuse were made by the father and the in-laws weren't they? Or did I read that wrong. When I left my husband, after he told me he was going to bury me in the desert, he called child protective services on me, and had several of his friends do the same. He told me point blank on the phone he was doing it to hurt me as I have never in anyway been neglectful towards my children. While it is true that far too often children slip through the cracks, occasionally one has to look at who is making these allegations..which in this case seems to be mainly the paternal side of this poor little girl.

I'm certainly not making any assumptions into this particular case, merely pointing out that what you hear may not always be what is fact.

[Beyond Belief]

This is starting to stink. Has everyone around her and in the apartment complex been given lie detector tests?

[lostfaith]

Those twelve complaints about the abuse were made by the father and the in-laws weren't they? Or did I read that wrong. When I left my husband, after he told me he was going to bury me in the desert, he called child protective services on me, and had several of his friends do the same. He told me point blank on the phone he was doing it to hurt me as I have never in anyway been neglectful towards my children. While it is true that far too often children slip through the cracks, occasionally one has to look at who is making these allegations..which in this case seems to be mainly the paternal side of this poor little girl.

I'm certainly not making any assumptions into this particular case, merely pointing out that what you hear may not always be what is fact.

I agree with you completely!

[mysteriew]

Even though a month has passed since the body of 5-year-old Evelyn Miller was found in northern Iowa, authorities still refuse to release details of her death or whether they have a suspect.

Floyd County Attorney Marilyn Dettmer said investigators await forensic test results from the state crime laboratory that could help lead to an arrest.

"When you ask about a test, there are numerous tests," said Gene Meyer, head of the Division of Criminal Investigation. "Some have been concluded. Some are in the process. This case is a top priority. But, there are a lot of forensic tests to conduct."

http://www.qctimes.net/articles/2005/07/31/news/state/doc42ec553b64a4e660345245.txt

[lostfaith]

I hope they come up with something soon. She looked like such a sweet little girl, poor thing.

[mysteriew]

The state Department of Human Services finished the child abuse assessment it launched as soon as 5-year-old Evelyn Miller went missing a month ago, but no information was released to the public Monday, the day of the agency's deadline.

The prosecutor in the case, Floyd County Attorney Marilyn Dettmer, likely will ask the agency to withhold its findings until the criminal case ends, Munns said.
http://www.dmregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050801/NEWS01/50801007/1001

[Bobbisangel]

Thank you PrayersForMaura. I thought this was an appropriate board to display this picture. Jared was my nephew who lived with me on & off for most of his short life.
He was with his parents when he died of child abuse.
Jared will always be my angel.



What a beautiful baby boy. Are his parents in prison for causing his death? That is just so sad. Why was he given back to his parents?

[Bobbisangel]

The state Department of Human Services finished the child abuse assessment it launched as soon as 5-year-old Evelyn Miller went missing a month ago, but no information was released to the public Monday, the day of the agency's deadline.

The prosecutor in the case, Floyd County Attorney Marilyn Dettmer, likely will ask the agency to withhold its findings until the criminal case ends, Munns said.
http://www.dmregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050801/NEWS01/50801007/1001


If they did find proof of abuse you can bet it will never be released now because it sounds like they have been getting calls for quite awhile. It would look bad for them if that little girl has been being abused in any way...it was reported and they just messed around until she was dead. They will cover their butts.

I remember reading something that the grandparents wrote that said that they were aware of alleged child abuse or of child abuse but they didn't call Child Protective Services because others had already called. I don't think it was the dad who called either. I still don't understand why he didn't step in and take Evelyn if he thought she was being abused in any way.

[mysteriew]

An emotional Noel Miller said she wants answers to how her daughter died.

Late this morning, Floyd County attorney Marilyn Dettmer held a news conference to update the case.

She said she would not release how Miller died until a murder trial happens, and is still not ready to name suspects.

Noel Miller said not being kept in the loop is very hard, and she misses her little girl.

We'll hear more from Noel Miller and from county attorney Dettmer tonight on the KWWL News at five and six.
http://www.kwwl.com/Global/story.asp?S=3682946&nav=2IfucxUx

[lostfaith]

Sorry if these have been posted already. She was such a beautiful little girl!

http://www.kcrg.com/article.aspx?art_id=97520&cat_id=123

http://www.kimt.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=KIMT/MGArticle/IMT_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1031784414415&path=

http://www.crgazette.com/2005/08/06/Home/evelyn.htm

http://www.wcfcourier.com/articles/2005/08/05/news/regional/ed73543f581bd3c686257054004de2f1.txt

[Maddy's Mom]

Thanks for posting those, LostFaith. I try to check for updates on Evelyn's case but they are so few and far between.

[SewingDeb]

I'll second that. I had wondered if any progress had been made. Thanks for the links.

[Bobbisangel]

I'll second that. I had wondered if any progress had been made. Thanks for the links.



I've been waiting for something to happen in this case too. Such a sweet little girl. I sure hope that they find out who did this.

[SewingDeb]

I've been waiting for something to happen in this case too. Such a sweet little girl. I sure hope that they find out who did this.

Me, too. I hope this doesn't end up being a cold case. The lily blooming really touched me.

[Beyond Belief]

I have a difficult time understanding how a community can lose their focus when something this horrible happens. Whoever did this, is still out there. Nobody in that community is safe. They need to start using the surviellance cameras located in the gas stations, covenience store, etc. more and tracking down everyone who was out during those hours of the night, if only to ask if they saw anything out of the ordinary. People are seeing these things happen right under their noses and not even realizing it.

[mysteriew]

A prosecutor vowed Friday not to give up her search for Evelyn Miller's killer.

Meanwhile, it's been a stormy summer for the 5-year-old Floyd girl's mother and her fiance.

They have been in court, most recently on Friday, over allegations that their poor parenting placed their two sons in danger. They have faced complaints from neighbors who called police about a loud party and about alleged abuse of a dog. Authorities also were contacted after a confrontation between Noel Miller and a friend who handed her computer hard drive over to investigators.
http://www.dmregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050827/NEWS01/508270342/1001&lead=1

[Bobbisangel]

A friend handed over the mother's computer hard drive to LE. I wonder why.
Does she think there will be something on it to do with the murder? That is interesting.

You know what really ticks me off? People called in reports on the mom and her boyfriend when Evelyn was alive too and CPS just pooh poohed the calls. Now that Evelyn is dead they have decided that maybe they should remove the little boys from the home...maybe they have them back by now...but it sounds like they have taken action....a little to late for Evelyn though.

I wonder how the boyfriend proves that he was home that night that Evelyn disappeared? There was only him and the kids.

[mysteriew]

The grandparents of 5-year-old Evelyn Miller, who was killed in July, are criticizing the Floyd County attorney’s office for withholding findings of an Iowa Department of Human Services investigation into the crime.

Details about how and when she was killed have not been released.

Her grandparents, Richard and Linda Christie, of Des Moines, wrote an e-mail to Floyd County Attorney Marilyn Dettmer this week asking why the file wasn’t released.

‘‘The only justifiable reason for the full DHS file not being released is, if there is a person of interest or possible suspect involved in the reports, in which case, the particular portions of the case could be withheld,’’ the couple wrote.

They have challenged the county attorney to say why they’ve sealed the records or disclose the information.

‘‘We would like for the DHS reports concerning Evelyn Miller to be unsealed unless you can justify the need for them being sealed,’’ the Christies said.

Dettmer did not respond directly to the family members’ e-mail, but said the files would not be made available at this point in the investigation.
http://www.dmregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050902/NEWS01/50902008/1001

[SpongeBathHotPants]

:mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad: :mad::mad:
Stories like this not only make me sick but my heart actually aches. There are people out there, myself included, who would do anything to have a child of their own but are unable to. These people need a special punishment, one that I can't even dream up because with every story like this it makes the loss I feel even deeper. I know that is selfish but all I could think when I saw her picture was how much I would have loved that little girl. I hope the demonic creature that did this rots in hell.
:mad::mad::mad::mad:

[mysteriew]

Law officers Friday searched the home of the mother of Evelyn Miller, the 5-year-old girl slain in July after being snatched from her apartment.

Floyd County Attorney Marilyn Dettmer said authorities obtained a warrant to search the Charles City home of Noel Miller and her fiance, Casey Fredericksen. Officers with the FBI and Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation joined local authorities in the search.

Dettmer said only that the search was part of the investigation into Evelyn's slaying.

Gene Meyer, head of the DCI, said authorities would not disclose the probable cause for the search warrant. Court documents pertaining to earlier searches in the case have been sealed. Meyer said no arrest warrants had been issued.

Noel Miller and Fredericksen moved from their Floyd apartment to Charles City after the death. That apartment and the home of two acquaintances — men who said they visited the Miller-Fredericksen apartment and saw Evelyn at 2 a.m. July 1 — were searched earlier.
http://www.dmregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050903/NEWS01/509030324/1001

[Beyond Belief]

Thanks for the update. I think about this little one alot.

[Bobbisangel]

I check back here quite often to see if any suspects have been found or arrested. Did LE have a warrent for Evelyn's old apt or for the apt that her mother is now living in? That wasn't real clear. It sounds like they are looking at the mother and her boyfriend.

If they searched the new apt then they must be looking for something that shouldn't be there like a piece of clothing that Evelyn was wearing that night or something like that. I can't think of any other reason to search the new apt. Anybody?

The mom was working that night. That leaves the boyfriend. I wonder what kind of abuse was reported....neglect or physical abuse?

[mysteriew]

The way I understood the article, the new search warrant is for the new apt. Now what the evidence they are looking for is not being discussed. Nor are they discussing the probable cause for the warrant. But presumably whatever evidence they are looking for is something they would have moved with them.

[Bobbisangel]

The way I understood the article, the new search warrant is for the new apt. Now what the evidence they are looking for is not being discussed. Nor are they discussing the probable cause for the warrant. But presumably whatever evidence they are looking for is something they would have moved with them.


That is interesting. The mom was at work that night....those guys stopped by and it was my understanding that Evelyn was at home when they were there. That leaves the boyfriend. I just want them to find the killer so there will be justice for Evelyn.

[richard christie]

:) A Federal Grand Jury in Cedar Rapids has called our son, Jeremiah (Evelyn's paternal uncle) to testify today. Reports and links at http://evelynmillermemories.blogspot.com/

[Alice253]

Thank you, Mr. Chrisite, for posting the link to your blog. Evey was a beautiful little girl and it breaks my heart that someone could hurt her. Welcome to WS, and please keep us updated. I will check your blog often, as well.

[mysteriew]

http://www.qctimes.net/articles/2005/09/11/news/state/doc4323a31396651919950412.txt

[Usher737]

I find it very interesting that the mother gave a friend the hard drive of the computer and freaked out when she learned that LE had it. Maybe her or the boyfriend reseached some kind of incriminating evidence.

[mysteriew]

I find it very interesting that the mother gave a friend the hard drive of the computer and freaked out when she learned that LE had it. Maybe her or the boyfriend reseached some kind of incriminating evidence.

My thought was that someone in the house may have been into child porn and didn't want LE to find out?

[Usher737]

That is very possible as well. However, if the boyfriend is into that then why not turn him in?

[Beyond Belief]

there may have been photos on there of a nature they didn't want revealed, not necessarily porn, but perhaps personal photos revealing drug use or seductive personal photos. just personal things they would rather keep hush hush.

[mysteriew]

More than two months after someone killed Evelyn Miller and dumped her body in the Cedar River, investigators are focused again on the apartment complex where her mother and fiancee' lived when she disappeared.

Gene Meyer, the director for the Division of Criminal Investigation, says new information led investigators to back the apartment complex where they searched the building, garages, and two cars. Investigators with the DCI and the Floyd County Sheriff's Office searched this apartment complex, where Evelyn lived with her two younger brothers, her mother, Noel Miller, and Noel's fiancee', Casey Fredricksen.

According the the Charles City Press, investigators spent three hours at the apartment. Agents focused on a double garage where they examined clothing, blankets, pillows and a tent. The DCI crime investigation unit also took swabs from a carpet found inside of the garage.

"There are agents working there everyday and then, from time to time, we have our forensic experts from the crime lab come up to look for physical evidence and that's an ongoing process," Meyer says.

In another garage, investigators took pictures of a dark-colored Toyota Supra and examined hunting clothes. Agents also photographed a black, late 90's model Chevy Monte Carlo.
http://www.kwwl.com/Global/story.asp?S=3854915

[Beyond Belief]

Has there been any updates on this case? I can't believe there are no leads.

[dr dona]

I live in Iowa. Nothing in the paper or on the news.

[Bobbisangel]

I live in Iowa. Nothing in the paper or on the news.


Please keep us posted if you hear anything. This case is just a heart breaker.
Someone took that little girl from her home and murdered her. It's hard to believe that there was no evidence anywhere. I hope this case isn't going cold. This little girl deserves justice.

[mysteriew]

A man who considers himself a parent of 5-year-old Evelyn Miller, the Floyd County girl whose July murder remains unsolved, tried to kill himself Wednesday night, friends said.

Casey Frederiksen and his fiance, Noel Miller, who is Evelyn's mother, have faced pressure and scrutiny lately: from state investigators, from federal prosecutors, from state social services workers, from Evelyn's relatives and from people on the street.
http://www.dmregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050922/NEWS/50922008/1001

[mysteriew]

A newspaper said the fiance of Evelyn Miller's mother was rushed to a hospital Wednesday night after he apparently cut his wrists.

The Charles City Press reported that Casey Frederiksen was carried from his back yard on a stretcher. His bandaged wrists were restrained behind his back.
http://www.theiowachannel.com/news/5007484/detail.html

[Beyond Belief]

Wasn't he given and didn't he pass a lie detector test? I wonder what provoked an action like this.

[mysteriew]

Wasn't he given and didn't he pass a lie detector test? I wonder what provoked an action like this.

Yes, but don't forget the computer hard drive and the search warrant for the computers. I think there is something there.

[Beyond Belief]

This child was not sexually assaulted, was she?

[SewingDeb]

This child was not sexually assaulted, was she?

I don't believe they have told the public if she was or not. Unless I missed something. I have been assuming that was probably the case since so many are, but I could be wrong.

[Beyond Belief]

I don't remember reading it either. I have been following this case. That poor little angel.

[mic730]

Possibly this would be good case to spot light this month.

[Bobbisangel]

The hard drive has something on it that Noel and her boyfriend didn't want anyone to see...that's for sure. LE must be onto something as they are focusing on the garage for some reason.

On the grandparents blog it says that the boyfriend tried to commit suicide recently. Makes a person wonder. I won't be surprised if some arrests don't happen pretty soon. It sounds like he will be one of the people arrested.

[mysteriew]

A man who considers himself a parent of 5-year-old Evelyn Miller, the Floyd County girl whose July slaying remains unsolved, was hospitalized Wednesday night after he reportedly cut his own wrists.

Frederiksen and Noel Miller have faced pressure and scrutiny lately from numerous sources: state investigators, federal prosecutors, state social services workers, Evelyn's relatives, and townspeople.

Investigators on Sept. 2 searched Frederiksen and Miller's new home in Charles City. On Sept. 14, they revisited the apartment complex in Floyd.

In early September, federal prosecutors convened a grand jury to hear testimony about possible criminal activity involving a computer from Frederiksen and Miller's apartment.

Frederiksen and Miller also have been in court multiple times over custody of their toddlers, Gabriel and Damian, who are currently in foster care.

The couple have experienced problems with neighbors and plan to move to New Hampton soon.
http://www.dmregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050923/NEWS01/509230360/1001/archive

[CaliKid]

The suicide attempt might just be from the stress due to Evelyn's kidnapping and death. However, it does seem a bit suspicious given the interest LE is showing in the recent investigation. Makes you go "hmmmm".

[Bobbisangel]

Greta spoke with a reporter from Evelyn's town tonight. The reporter said that LE has done a search on both the apt that Evelyn had lived in and the new apt her mom, etc is now living in. She also said that there is no hint that the police think the mom and her boyfriend are involved in Evelyn's death.

The mom and her boyfriend were on video on the show and they talked about how hard it is living in the town because people treat them like they are guilty of Evelyn's death. He said that people see them and they pull their children away as if they might do something to harm them.

The reporter also said that the boyfriend took a lie detector test right at the beginning and passed it. I know that the boyfriend has said all along how much he loved Evelyn. I hope he is really sincere. Their behavior before and after Evelyn's death would make a person question. I still wonder about the hard drive. It may be totally innocent...like pictures of them nude or something like that...and they may not have wanted LE to see them...it's hard to say though.

I just want whoever murdered this sweet little girl to be caught.

[mysteriew]

The fiance of Evelyn Miller's mother pleaded not guilty Friday to federal charges of possessing child pornography. 26-year-old Casey Frederiksen was arrested by U.S. Postal inspectors Thursday night in New Hampton. He entered a plea in U.S. District Court in Cedar Rapids on a single charge.

Floyd County Attorney Marily Dettmer issued a statement Friday saying "the child pornography case and the murder investigation are two completely separate cases." However, Dettmer added there is some overlap because some of the facts and the people involved are connected.
http://www.kcrg.com/article.aspx?art_id=97912&cat_id=123

[mysteriew]

A man close to the Evelyn Miller murder case has been charged with possessing child pornography. Casey Frederiksen is engaged to Evelyn Miller’s mother. After a grand jury hearing, he is now facing the federal charge.

Friday Frederiksen’s sister, Brandi Hoffman, issued this statement to the media.

http://www.kcrg.com/article.aspx?art_id=97913&cat_id=123

[concernedperson]

Another family in denial. So sad. How does this help the children/victims? Do they think it will go away? Makes my heart break.