TX - Jonathan Foster, 12, Houston, 24 Dec 2010 - #3

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Jonathan Foster, age 12, was last seen in the area of N. Shepherd & 43rd on December 24, 2010 @ about 1:45 p.m. Jonathan has a very visible overbite. He was last known to be wearing a tan colored t-shirt with musical notes and a guitar printed on it. He was also wearing blue jeans and black & white tennis shoes with a red stripe. Jonathan has strawberry blonde hair and blue eyes. He is 4'7" tall and weighs about 85 pounds.

If you have seen Jonathan, have information … or know of his whereabouts, please contact the Houston Police Department @ (713) 731-5223 – or Texas EquuSearch @ (281) 309-9500.


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"The body was so burned that the person who found it thought it was charred debris.

The Harris County Institute of Forensic Science could not tell the gender of the body Tuesday. Only DNA evidence can help them determine the gender and identity of the child.

A surveillance camera from a business overlooking the ditch where the body was found could bring clues as well, officials said."

http://www.39online.com/news/local/kiah-missing-boy-and-burned-body-story,0,2652951.story
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A. I'm thoroughly disgusted and angry.
B. How long would it take to burn a body to the point that it would appear to be charred debris?
C. I'm praying this surveillance camera gives us a suspect....and a conviction.
 
Hi Everyone! I just found this story today, and I am a bit behind. Can someone please summarize what we know or what is going on real quick? I am confused. :waitasec:
 
It appears that the body was found in some sort of run off ditch, is this correct? Is it possible (for those familiar with the area) that the body was deposited somewhere else and washed down to that location? IIRC there have been rains in recent days, correct?
 
Last known witness to see Jonathan (other than AD and SD) was 1-2 days prior to reported phone calls and abduction, according to a neighbor where AD lived.
 
"The body was so burned that the person who found it thought it was charred debris.

The Harris County Institute of Forensic Science could not tell the gender of the body Tuesday. Only DNA evidence can help them determine the gender and identity of the child.

A surveillance camera from a business overlooking the ditch where the body was found could bring clues as well, officials said."

http://www.39online.com/news/local/kiah-missing-boy-and-burned-body-story,0,2652951.story

Surveillance camera :) Thank you Jesus!
 
Hi Everyone! I just found this story today, and I am a bit behind. Can someone please summarize what we know or what is going on real quick? I am confused. :waitasec:

I think we are all confused because statements were made that were false so even if reported some (ME) are still not sure what end is up except for JF is still missing.
 
Need to clarify: Body found: Was it stated this was along a TOLL ROAD?
Do the ticket booths on that road have video?
 
Jonathan has redish blonde hair, descrption says red, but looks blonde in photos
 
"The body was so burned that the person who found it thought it was charred debris...(snipped)...

Then accurately measuring the length of the remains would be even more difficult (ie, 36 inches).
 
It appears that the body was found in some sort of run off ditch, is this correct? Is it possible (for those familiar with the area) that the body was deposited somewhere else and washed down to that location? IIRC there have been rains in recent days, correct?

I would think this is highly unlikely. Those ditches are not that deep, and I don't recall much news about flooding.
 
Great thread to get caught up on the latest info.

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water run off questions..
Here is 1 pic from yahoo
http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/Top-S...licid_ap_org14d246ededf64d03beea5d2c57e5105a/

burned body was found in a ditch along the 1500 block of Schilder near the intersection of the 9900 block of East Hardy Street

2nd pic of the location pic 1 on the left side of the screen kinda up a little bit
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/chronicle/7356276.html

Not a deep ditch and doesn't look like it's been wet recently either...

I'm actually surprised they call it a ditch
around here ditches are weed filled fall offs about 3 feet down off the edge of the road
 
I wonder if the lady with the raspy voice on the phone could have come over to the moms house with the SD?Just thinking out loud.Sorry.
 
Then accurately measuring the length of the remains would be even more difficult (ie, 36 inches).

the investigator may have measured the femur to deduce the approximate height of the child to be about 3 feet tall.
 
It appears that the body was found in some sort of run off ditch, is this correct? Is it possible (for those familiar with the area) that the body was deposited somewhere else and washed down to that location? IIRC there have been rains in recent days, correct?

Not likely with the type of ditch that it is, and the types of rain that we had here. We had rain, but no floods, mostly wind. The area where the body was found is all semi-industrial buildings, the type of place that would be completely empty at all but business hours. Because Christmas was on a weekend, it's possible (though I have heard no mention of it yet) that the body was there on the weekend, no one worked on Monday for Christmas break, and they only found the body today because people were going back to work. Many of the businesses like these around here take a weekday off on Monday if a holiday falls on a weekend. Likely the person who dumped the body thought that the cameras wouldn't "see" that far. Let's hope they were wrong!!

Someone was mentioning something about finding woods, but if you had a recently burned body in your car, I'd suspect that no matter what you "planned" you'd change your mind when you realize that the smell that had to be coming from the body was going to stay in your car.

In that area, I suspect he or she would have to drive a good bit to find any woods where you could be as unnoticed going into them as you would be in that sort of semi-industrial area.

When I saw the area where the unidentified body was found, I was not surprised. I live in a similar area and after 7 at night, it's like being in the middle of the country - there's no one out here. People dump LESS horrible things here all the time for that very reason. That area looks even less populated. All in all it's just horrible. A ditch, for heaven's sakes - as if it weren't bad enough to kill, burn, and discard someone??
 
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