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I-595 ramps to southbound I-95 shut temporarily for event seeking tips on Broward girl's killer
[size=-1]Herald Staff Report[/size]
Florida Highway Patrol troopers are closing both southbound ramps from Interstate 595 to southbound Interstate 95 for about an hour this morning to make way for a 10 a.m. event meant to publicize the search for the killer of a missing Broward girl.
The ramps are expected to shut down after 9:30 a.m., and to re-open around 10:45 a.m., FHP Lt. William Ferrell said.
''There's no way we can do it safely without having to shut the ramps down,'' Ferrell said.
As many as 40 to 50 people, including the host of America's Most Wanted and Broward Sheriff's Office deputies, will attend the press conference for those interested in finding the killer of Marissa Karp, who would be 21 today.
Marissa was killed and found in a Collier County canal when she was 17.
A billboard, donated by Clear Channel Outdoor Inc., will be unveiled this morning at the 595/95 interchange, announcing a $100,000 reward distributed via a private donor, as advertised by America's Most Wanted.
On Aug. 19, 2002, an airboat operator spotted a garbage bag on the embankment of the L-28 canal in Collier County along Alligator Alley just north of the Broward County line. Inside was the remains of a small female, a teenager. She had been shot.
It took took more than a month to identify the victim as Marissa, and to determine she had been living as a runaway in a tiny efficiency on Ninth Court in Hallandale Beach.
Neighbors said they had seen her the weekend before the body was discovered.
Marissa had run away from a Department of Children & Families building in Pompano Beach.
She was on the Department of Children and Families' list of 393 missing Florida children and had spent several years in and out of DCF's care.
Her problems began soon after her mother's death in 1996. Her father, Gary Karp, remarried, and the family relations were strained. Marissa began breaking curfew and smoking. She was sent to DCF, to her grandmother's home, and back to DCF, until she was placed in a Broward youth shelter, The Leaf.
More: http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/13340707.htm?source=rss&channel=miamiherald_news
:clap: What a great idea ... I wish they could do this for more missing people
[size=-1]Herald Staff Report[/size]
Florida Highway Patrol troopers are closing both southbound ramps from Interstate 595 to southbound Interstate 95 for about an hour this morning to make way for a 10 a.m. event meant to publicize the search for the killer of a missing Broward girl.
The ramps are expected to shut down after 9:30 a.m., and to re-open around 10:45 a.m., FHP Lt. William Ferrell said.
''There's no way we can do it safely without having to shut the ramps down,'' Ferrell said.
As many as 40 to 50 people, including the host of America's Most Wanted and Broward Sheriff's Office deputies, will attend the press conference for those interested in finding the killer of Marissa Karp, who would be 21 today.
Marissa was killed and found in a Collier County canal when she was 17.
A billboard, donated by Clear Channel Outdoor Inc., will be unveiled this morning at the 595/95 interchange, announcing a $100,000 reward distributed via a private donor, as advertised by America's Most Wanted.
On Aug. 19, 2002, an airboat operator spotted a garbage bag on the embankment of the L-28 canal in Collier County along Alligator Alley just north of the Broward County line. Inside was the remains of a small female, a teenager. She had been shot.
It took took more than a month to identify the victim as Marissa, and to determine she had been living as a runaway in a tiny efficiency on Ninth Court in Hallandale Beach.
Neighbors said they had seen her the weekend before the body was discovered.
Marissa had run away from a Department of Children & Families building in Pompano Beach.
She was on the Department of Children and Families' list of 393 missing Florida children and had spent several years in and out of DCF's care.
Her problems began soon after her mother's death in 1996. Her father, Gary Karp, remarried, and the family relations were strained. Marissa began breaking curfew and smoking. She was sent to DCF, to her grandmother's home, and back to DCF, until she was placed in a Broward youth shelter, The Leaf.
More: http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/13340707.htm?source=rss&channel=miamiherald_news
:clap: What a great idea ... I wish they could do this for more missing people
