GUILTY FL - Heather Strong, 26, abducted & murdered, Reddick, 15 Feb 2009

Deputies Fear Remains Are Missing Marion Woman

MCINTOSH, Fla. -- A local woman reported missing Thursday morning is now feared dead.

Marion County sheriff's deputies believe human remains they discovered in Orange Lake Thursday afternoon could be 26-year-old Heather Strong.

Strong was last seen Feb. 15, leaving her job at the Petro truck stop.

No one has been arrested in connection with Strong's disappearance, but her ex-boyfriend, Joshua Fulgham, has been arrested and charged with credit card and petty theft.

Deputies said the human remains were found in the yard of Fulgham's girlfriend.

http://www.wesh.com/cnn-news/18968461/detail.html

Orlando Sentinel says it is her husband, they married in Dec '08 (been together 11 years) and were already separated.

I just found the article saying he was her husband.

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news...r-strong-remains-found-031909,0,4649537.story

http://www.wesh.com/news/18968461/detail.html

19 Feb 09

Human remains found in a back yard have been identified as a missing Marion County woman.


Heather Strong, 26, was last seen Feb. 15, leaving her job at the Petro truck stop in Citra.

more at link

http://www.wesh.com/news/18968461/detail.html

MACINTOSH, Fla. -- Human remains found in a back yard have been identified as a missing Marion County woman.

Heather Strong, 26, was last seen Feb. 15, leaving her job at the Petro truck stop in Citra.

No one has been arrested in connection with Strong's disappearance, but her ex-boyfriend, Joshua Fulgham, has been arrested and charged with credit card and petty theft.

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I think this story says it all plain and simple. I think he is guilty why else would he be out spending her money. Why not help and find the person who did this to his ex wife? He knows who done it.

Investigators have arrested Fulgham on fraud charges. He's accused of charging hundreds of dollars on Strong's debit card since her disappearance.
Police said he's not answering questions but his girlfriend is cooperating

I think this is moms myspace http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewProfile&friendID=412874191

laura08 said:

I think this story says it all plain and simple. I think he is guilty why else would he be out spending her money. Why not help and find the person who did this to his ex wife? He knows who done it.

Investigators have arrested Fulgham on fraud charges. He's accused of charging hundreds of dollars on Strong's debit card since her disappearance.
Police said he's not answering questions but his girlfriend is cooperating

I think this is moms myspace http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewProfile&friendID=412874191

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So sad! Look at the pic, I guess those are her kids. Bless their heart, I wonder where they are living.

http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/ind...874191&imageUserID=374659878&imageID=12252136

http://helpfindthemissing.org/forum/showthread.php?t=12043

Strong and Fulgham got married about three months ago. But they were separated already, and she reportedly was dating a another man, whom the Sheriff’s Office declined to identify.

After the report of a possible missing person, Deputy Beth Billings interviewed the boyfriend, who had been living with Heather Strong in another residences. He told Billings the last time he saw her was 3:30 p.m. on Feb. 15. A few days later, he said, Fulgham called and told him they were back together and he needed to move out.

Fulgham said he packed his belongings and moved out and never contacted his girlfriend.

The deputy then contacted Fulgham. He reportedly told her that he had received a call from his wife on Feb. 15 to meet her at her job. At the Petro station, Fulgham said she told him she needed time to clear her head and asked him to take the children.

He reportedly told the deputy his wife had two suitcases and that he didn't know where she was going or when she would return, but that she may be in the company of an older man. Blair said the Sheriff's Office interviewed that older man and Heather Strong apparently had not been with him.

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not so much of a shock. His pic is creepy!

http://www.wftv.com/news/18966569/detail.html

MARION COUNTY, Fla. -- The Marion County Sherriff's Office believes human remains that were found behind a home may be those of missing 26-year-old Heather Strong. Heather Strong's husband was arrested, but not charged in connection with her disappearance

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I browsed her myspace page and she seemed like a good loving mom. She even had a short video of her daughter blowing out her 8th birthday candle. On the side it said she thanked Ben for helping her leave Joshg, wonder if Ben was a close friend who he was. I hope her kids are with other family members, they haven't said where they are, but she was reported missing by a family member so I think they may have the kids now. I don' get a good vibe looking at his picture.

http://www.wesh.com/news/19005982/detail.html

Investigators charged Joshua Fulghum and Emilia Carr with the kidnapping and murder of Heather Strong, 26

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Lovejac said:

http://www.wesh.com/news/19005982/detail.html

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I hope she passed quickly, and did not suffer. He had pulled a gun on her before, he should have been put away then. I pray for her babys and family.

laura08 said:

I hope she passed quickly, and did not suffer. He had pulled a gun on her before, he should have been put away then. I pray for her babys and family.

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I found this she had to have known they were going to harm her.
Marion County sheriff's investigators say Heather Strong died inside a storage trailer near McIntosh on Feb. 15. Her killers tied her with duct tape to an office chair and suffocated her with a plastic bag over her head. After there plans of breaking her neck didn't work. so They suffocated her. Rip Heather.
http://www.ocala.com/article/20090325/ARTICLES/903249974/1402

Here is another thread for Heather, it might have some additional articles to read for those interested. It's located in the Missing/Located Forum Discussion.

http://www.websleuths.com/forums/showthread.php?t=81692

http://www.gainesville.com/article/20090410/ARTICLES/904101009/1002?Title=Two-indicted-in-murder-on-Cotra-woman

Friday, April 10, 2009

Marion County resident Joshua Fulgham, 27, and his girlfriend, Emilia Carr, 24, were both charged with first-degree murder and kidnapping.

"It is evident from the physical evidence and from the statements taken in this case that Heather Strong suffered tremendously before she died. And because of that, both defendants will pay," said prosecutor Rock Hooker.

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my god may they rot in hell...

http://www.gainesville.com/article/20101208/articles/101209547&tc=yahoo

"State Attorney Brad King told a panel of jurors Wednesday afternoon that it has a formidable task ahead now that it has found Emilia Carr guilty of first-degree murder. That task: recommend either a death sentence, which the state is seeking, or life in prison, the only other alternative.

The state will argue that three aggravating circumstances apply in Carr’s case. She is the first woman since serial killer Aileen Wuornos in the early 1990s against whom Marion County prosecutor have sought the state’s maximum penalty.

Those aggravators include: that the murder of Citra resident Heather Strong occurred during the commission of the separate felony offense of kidnapping; that the crime was cold, calculated and premeditated; and that it was heinous, atrocious and cruel."

http://www.gainesville.com/article/20101210/articles/101219972&tc=yahoo?p=2&tc=pg

"A jury has voted 7-5 to recommend that Emilia Carr be put to death for the murder of Heather Strong.

Circuit Judge Willard Pope will have the final say. By law he is required to give the jury’s recommendation “great weight.”"

(heather strong, the victim)

Carr jury votes 7-5 to recommend death penalty

December 10, 2010

A jury has voted 7-5 to recommend that Emilia Carr be put to death for the murder of Heather Strong.


Circuit Judge Willard Pope will have the final say. By law he is required to give the jury’s recommendation “great weight.”


Jurors deliberated about two hours. They spent the morning listening to closing arguments from lawyers for the prosecution and the defense.


State Attorney Brad King told jurors not to let their "sympathy intrude on [their] decision."


He reminded them of the gruesome fashion in which Strong, 26, was killed: by an attempted breaking of the neck, then by suffocation.


Using a roll of duct tape to illustrate his point, King wrapped the end of a cart several times to suggest the torment the victim felt as she was bound to a computer chair in a storage trailer the day she was murdered.


He asserts the crime was heinous, atrocious and cruel as well as cold, calculated and premeditated, which are aggravating factors the jury is allowed to consider.


Addressing the jury from the lectern where she had taped a photo of Carr, defense lawyer Candace Hawthorne frequently invoked the name of Joshua Fulgham, Carr's co-defendant, whom she solely blames for the murder.


"What Joshua Fulgham did was horrible. Emilia was not there," she argued.


Because the jury has already found Carr guilty of first-degree murder and kidnapping, however, the attorney pleaded for the panel to spare her client's life.


"This person does not need to be killed. This person does not need to be put to death," she said.

The 12-member jury must reach a majority vote if it advises a death sentence: that is, at least seven jurors.


It must find the aggravating circumstances outweigh the mitigators: that Carr was only 24 when the murder occurred, her lack of criminal history and a troubled past marred by sexual abuse in her family.


This is Pope's first murder trial at which the death penalty is a possible sentence.

http://www.ocala.com/article/20101210/articles/101219994&tc=yahoo?p=1&tc=pg



Emilia Carr talks with investigator Roger Chilton as jury selection begins in her murder trial at the Marion County Judicial Center in Ocala on Monday November 29, 2010

http://www.ocala.com/article/20110222/ARTICLES/110229929

The imposition of the death penalty by Circuit Judge Willard Pope — his first — came two months after a jury recommended, by a 7-5 vote, that Emilia Carr, 26, receive death for the 2009 crime.

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http://www.ocala.com/article/20120425/ARTICLES/120429808

A judge on Wednesday followed the jury's recommendation and sentenced Joshua Fulgham to two consecutive life terms in prison for kidnapping and murdering his estranged wife, Heather Strong.

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