CA CA - Jeanine Sanchez Harms, 42, Los Gatos, 27 July 2001

I would withhold judgement on this. The chain of evidence is kind of shaky. I'm not buying this just yet
 
Holy Cow, I used to live about a block away from where the lady found that rug. Creepy.
 
Maybe before the Peterson case, the prosecutors wouldn't even have attempted to try this person for murder. I think that its good that they're at least giving it a try! Too many times, they have a suspect that they let go because the DA won't attempt to prosecute them.
 
http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_15601597?nclick_check=1

Updated: 07/25/2010 09:06:15 PM PDT

snipped:

...Police said she was murdered and buried somewhere, but few clues were left behind to guide them. No body. No blood. No DNA linked to either man she saw that night.

Now, nine years later, dozens of lives remain on hold or forever altered by what happened that night, July 27, 2001. Her parents, Jess and Georgette Sanchez of Campbell, think of her every day and dream of the day they can bring her home, dead or alive. Her family and friends shed anniversary tears on her birthday, her favorite holidays, on that dreaded day when she vanished from their lives...

http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/h/harms_jeanine.html


http://town.los-gatos.ca.us/documents/Police/HarmsAffadavit.pdf
Case affidavit naming Maurice Nasmeh

From first link:

Nasmeh was arrested in December 2004. During his preliminary hearing, however, it was revealed that the technician who tested the fibers had failed proficiency tests in fiber analysis.

Charges against Nasmeh were dismissed in June 2007. At a news conference, he accused police of wrongly identifying him as a suspect and then working to make the evidence fit.

Prayers for Jeanine's family, they still think of her day and night and long for her return.

ETA: Private member (Parking Lot) thread with 5 or so posts discussing Jeanine's case.
http://www.websleuths.com/forums/showthread.php?t=36729&highlight=jeanine+harms
 
This is so sad. Now these parents have lost TWO children to violence.
 
Woman's Clothes, Hair Found in Maurice Nasmeh's Home
The family found the items while cleaning out house following his death.

By LORI PREUITT
Updated 9:26 PM PST, Thu, Feb 24, 2011

There is a new and bizarre twist in the Jeanine Harms' missing person case out of the South Bay.

Although presumed dead, Harms' body has never been found since her disappearance nearly a decade ago. The prime suspect was shot and killed earlier this year by Harms' brother who turned the gun on himself minutes later.

The San Jose Mercury News is reporting that the family of now deceased Maurice Nasmeh has turned over several items to Los Gatos police that may be connected to the case. The items included female clothes and shoes, and a lock of human hair found in the suspect home.


more here

http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/loca...-Found-in-Maurice-Nasmehs-Home-116883633.html
 
Aug 24, 2011


<<The mystery of the location of Harm's body remains. Los Gatos Police Chief Scott Seaman choked up as he made a new plea to anyone who might know where her body is to come forward.

He said there is no better time than now to bring real closure to Jeanine's family.

Jeanine Harm's father Jess Sanchez said, "For us this is the end until we find her remains. What happened happened and we have to live with that.">>


 
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I feel compelled to post Jeanine's photos from Charley Project.



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Harms, circa 2001
  • Missing Since 07/27/2001
  • Missing From Los Gatos, California
  • Classification Endangered Missing
  • Sex Female
  • Race Hispanic
  • Date of Birth 06/10/1959 (64)
  • Age 42 years old
  • Height and Weight 5'5, 118 pounds

  • Clothing/Jewelry Description A light blue floral-print cotton dress, black high-heeled sandals, hoop earrings, silver bracelets, silver rings, and a silver analog watch with an expandable metallic band and a round face

  • Associated Vehicle(s) Black 2000 Ford Mustang with silver stripes (accounted for), 2000 Jeep Grand Cherokee (accounted for)

  • Distinguishing Characteristics Hispanic female. Brown hair, brown eyes. Harms has a burn scar on the center of her right inner thigh. Her ears are pierced and she wears contact lenses. Harms may use her maiden name, Sanchez, and some agencies give her last name as "Harms-Sanchez."

Details of Disappearance​

Harms met her friends at Bucca di Beppo's in the Pruneyard Shopping Center in Campbell, California on July 27, 2001. She said that she had a date at 7:00 p.m. and was just passing time until then.

Harms and her date went to Court's Lounge with a group of people during the evening. They returned to Rock Bottom Brewery in the shopping center later and smoked marijuana in the parking lot with Maurice Xavier Nasmeh (pronounced "NESS-muh") and a friend of Nasmeh's.

A photograph of Nasmeh is posted with this case summary. He was an architect from San Jose, California. Harms went to her home with him later that evening. He told authorities that he followed her to her residence on Chirco Drive in Los Gatos. Harms was driving her black 2000 Ford Mustang with silver stripes.

Nasmeh stated he left Harms's home between approximately 12:30 and 1:00 a.m. He said that she was drowsing on her sofa at the time and he didn't notice unusual activity around the residence. She has never been heard from again.

Harms's friends and family became concerned when they failed to reach her over the following weekend. Her cellular phone had been turned off. Her loved ones said it is uncharacteristic of Harms to not contact anyone regarding her plans. The authorities were summoned to her home to file a missing person's report on July 30.

A neighbor of Harms told authorities that he heard a "loud, percussive sound" in the vicinity of her apartment after midnight the day she disappeared. He said he saw a bald man, about 40 years old and with a mustache, drive away from the apartment afterwards.

There was no sign of a struggle inside Harms's residence. Her car was parked outside, but her cellular phone, a brightly colored Nokia model, her purse, which is described as black in color with a short handle, and her keys were missing.

A red and blue Persian-style five foot by seven foot area rug with white fringe, slipcover and cushions from her sofa were also missing. Photographs of items similar to the ones missing from Harms's apartment are posted with this case summary. The couch cushions that are missing are approximately 22 inches square and 6 inches thick.

In December 2004, three and a half years after Harms vanished, police arrested Nasmeh and charged him with her murder. He had been a suspect in the case since the onset of the investigation, but had hired an attorney and refused to cooperate.

Investigators say they got a break when a woman came forward and said she had found Harms's Persian rug rolled up in a dumpster at a construction site half a mile from Nasmeh's home. (The other missing items have not been located.)

The county crime lab found fibers from the rug in Harms's apartment and in the bed of Nasmeh's 2000 Jeep Grand Cherokee. Fibers from a crafts rug Harms was making were also in Nasmeh's car. He also matched the description of the man seen driving away from her apartment the day she disappeared.

In June 2007, a judge dismissed the case against Nasmeh because, he ruled, prosecutors had violated his right to a speedy trial.

Nasmeh had been incarcerated since his 2004 arrest and had yet to be tried for Harms's murder. He had a right to demand a trial within 60 days and he did so, but the prosecution was not ready because they needed to retest some of their evidence. (The technician who testified at Nasmeh's preliminary hearing had failed proficiency tests in fiber analysis.)

Prosecutors stated they planned to refile the case, but Nasmeh remained free without charges for the next three and a half years.

In January 2011, Harms's brother, Wayne Sanchez, confronted him in a San Jose shopping center and accused him of murdering his sister. Sanchez shot Nasmeh to death in the parking lot and then took his own life.

In August 2011, seven months after Nasmeh's murder, prosecutors announced the forensic tests were finally done and the results proved their theory that Nasmeh had murdered Harms. Investigators now consider the case closed, except for the possibility of recovering her body.

Harms was employed at the Amdahl Corporation in Sunnyvale, California in 2001. She is described as a responsible and dependable individual. Her family believes that foul play was involved in Harms's disappearance. She was in the process of a divorce in 2001, but it was described as amicable and Harms and her estranged husband remained friends.

Foul play is suspected in her case due to the circumstances involved.

Investigating Agency​

  • Los Gatos Police Department 408-354-8600

Source Information​

Updated 6 times since October 12, 2004. Last updated July 6, 2018; two pictures added.
 

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